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The latter are a very fine collection, kicking off with Touretteshero's Backstage In Biscuit Land (Tue), with subsequent nights featuring Chris Thorpe's Confirmation (Wed); Coney's Early Days Of A Better Nation (Fri); and Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe's heart-wrenching Every Brilliant Thing (9 May).
Bush Theatre, W12, to 13 Jun MC It's a good week in Wales, where Gary Owen's Iphigenia In Splott opens at the Sherman, Cardiff (Fri to 16 May); Alun Saunders's A Good Clean Heart continues (The Other Room at Porter's, Cardiff, to 16 May); and, in Merthyr, National Theatre Wales brings Brecht's Mother Courage And Her Children to the valleys.
Amstelveenseweg 158-160, +31 20 675 5000, restaurantblauw.nl, mains around €25. Open Mon-Thurs 6pm-10.30pm, Fri 6pm-11pm, Sat 5pm-11pm, Sun 5pm-10.30pm Vicky Hampton is the Amsterdam Foodie.
Hugo de Grootplein 7, 9-11, +31 20 486 8408, razmataz.nl, mains around €20. Open Mon-Thurs 8.30am-1am 8.30am-1amm-3am, Sat 9am-3am, Sun 9am-1am District V comes into its own on a warm summer's evening, when its terrace Frils the entire south-east corner of a leafy square in the south of De Pijp.
Open Mon - Fri 12pm-6pm, 12pm-4pm Locatedated in the old fishermen's neighbourhood of la Barceloneta, this is the best place to go for vermouth on weekends.
'Written on Skin' (020-7304 4000) Mon and Fri (returns only); 'The Siege of Calais', Exeter Northcott (01392 493493) Fri, then touring Critic's Choice Ian Page and the Classical Opera Company present the UK premiere of Telemann's 1726 opera Orpheus as part of the London Handel Festival at St George's Church, Hanover Square (Monday).
Open Mon-Fri 4pm-2am, Sat-Sun 2pm-2AllAll of the beer served at JB's is brewed within a 100-mile radius of Philadelphia.
Peperstraat 23-25, +31 20 779 7450, restaurantgreetje.nl, mains around €25. Open Tues-Fri, Sun 6pm-10pm, Sat 6pm-11pm Off the beaten track, this fish restaurant is something of an Amsterdam institution, despite its location by an out-of-town roundabout, next to the RAI convention centre.
Open Mon-Fri noon-2pm, 6.30pm-10pm, Sat 6.30pm-10pm 6.30pm-10pm While Dutchht not have the greatest reputation, Greetje takes old-fashioned cuisines and might them inot somethave the country can – and should – be proud of.
Open Mon-Fri 8.30am-4.30pm, Sat-Sun 9.30am-5.30pm Created on the site of a 1920s dance hall, this exhibition space has a great cafe, run by chefs Anna Trattles and Alice Quillet, who are English and Anglo-French respectively and serve one of the best weekend brunches in the city, including a great fry-up, kippers, kedgeree, pancakes and porridge.
4-6 Grey Street, St Kilda, open Mon-Tue 5-9pm, Thu 5-10pm, Fri-Sat noon-3pm and 5-10pm, Sunoon-3pmpm and 5-9pm.
