Top Dance: Festival Ballet

Last chance to see English National Ballet’s newest mixed bill, showcasing a world premiere from the director Wayne Eagling

Top Five Galleries: Heroes and Racists

Keith Coventry shows works from across his career, which play with our expectations. Nothing is simply black and white

Top Five Museums: Richard Rogers & Architects

An examination of the work of the prominent architect, looking at buildings including the Welsh National Assembly

Top Five Opera: The Rake’s Progress

Every Robert LePage show is an event, and there are high expectations for his glitzy take on Stravinsky’s morality tale

Top Five for Kids: High School Musical

All the original catchy singalong tunes and some funky dance moves that the kids can copy, at the Hammersmith Apollo

Top Five Jazz: Honest Jon’s Chop-Up

A celebration of one of Britain’s sparkiest indie labels, with a kaleidoscopic line-up featuring Tony Allen and Damon Albarn

Top Five Gigs: The Mighty Boosh Festival

Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt curate a day of bands that features the Charlatans, Gary Numan and White Denim

Top Five Events: Cannizaro Park Festival

This year’s festivities kick off with a gig by comic Jimmy Carr, plus a packed programme of comedy, jazz, theatre and opera

BRASS 2008 promises musical blow-out

Here's a music festival that stands out among this summer's Identikit events, says Richard Morrison

Top Five Theatre: The Front Line

Che Walker’s panoramic new black comedy set in Camden on a Saturday night. Matthew Dunster directs at Shakespeare’s Globe

Top Five Classical: City of London Festival

Highlights include the violinist Nicola Benedetti performing Debussy, Prokofiev and Brahms, and Valery Gergiev

Top Films in Rep: Alex Cox

A short season paying tribute to the maverick British film-maker, with Repo Man and Sid and Nancy returning to the big screen

Top Five Comedy: Reaching for the Stars Benefit

Sean Lock, Lee Mack, Stewart Lee, Omid Djalili and Stephen K. Amos raise funds for children’s activities, at The Place

Top Five Clubs: Wonky Pop

Sparkly alternative pop fun with live turns by the splendid Norwegian chanteuse Annie and fizz-bomb teen band the Clik Clik

Top Five Theatre: On the Rocks

Ed Stoppard and Tracy Ann Oberman star as D. H. Lawrence and his wife Frieda in Amy Rosenthal’s new comedy

Top Five Comedy: Andrew Maxwell

The Irish comic returns with the show that earned him a 2007 if.comedy award nomination, at the Soho Theatre

Top Five Galleries: Boucher & Chardin

A collection of paintings from the French painters, showing their artistic response to fashion in the mid-1700s

Top Five Events: First Thursdays

Monthly late events programme at more than 100 contemporary art galleries and popular museums across East London

Top Five Opera: The Magic Flute

Simon Callow turns director to tackle Mozart’s cryptic masterpiece, while the hugely underrated Jane Glover conducts

Top Five for Kids: Charlie and Lola

An entertaining mix of music and puppetry, this is the first stage appearance for the popular TV brother and sister