Tony Clayton-Leapreviews the best of Madrid, London and New York
MADRID
Culture Festival
The art of Madrid is opened up for all to see during Las Noches Blancas (white nights), when hundreds of venues and participants engage publicly with the city's art. September 13th. www.esmadrid.com/en.
Rock
Coldplay (below) bring their hugely-successful new album (Viva La Vida or Death and all his Friends) and stage show to Spain. September 7th. Palacio de Deportes de la Comunidad de Madrid. www.coldplay.com.
Theatre
Well-known playwright and theatre director Tomaz Pandur reimagines the plays Dangerous Liaisons and Quartet in a new work titled Barroco. September 10th to 27th. Teatro Fernán Gómez. www.esmadrid.com/teatrofernangomez.
LONDON
Music Theatre
Former Kinks frontman, Ray Davies, makes his theatrical debut in Come Dancing at the Ilford Palais, a musical about one of the East End's most popular venues of the 1950s. September 13th to October 25th. Theatre Royal, Stratford. www.stratfordeast.com. Portraits
Sporting Lives: Contemporary Portraits of Athletes and Olympians is timed to coincide with the formal handover of the Olympic flag to London. Until December 31st. National Portrait Gallery, St Martin's Place. www.npg.org.uk.
NEW YORK
Book Festival
The third Brooklyn Book Festival takes place in the New York neighbourhood in the Borough Hall and Plaza, and features collectors, readers and speakers. September 14th. www.brooklynbook.festival.org.
Exhibition
Dali: Painting and Film features the surrealist's collaborations with film-makers such as Luis Buñuel, Alfred Hitchcock and Walt Disney. MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street. Until September 15th. www.moma.org.