8 June - 27 July.
A selection of large-scale recent drawings by the German artist Albert Oehlen. Oehlen uses charcoal as his only tool applying it vigorously, sometimes doubling on his trace, smudging the medium, or com...
24 May - 22 July.
Open Studio marks the end of the first cycle of the programme dedicated to resident artists at MACRO. On show are works by Carola Bonfili, Graham Hudson, Luigi Presicce and Ishmael Randall Weeks create...
31 May - 25 July.
Photographs by Laura Cusano keep alive the memory of the Sabra and Shatila massacre. Cusano, who is a photographer and an anthropologist, travelled to Lebanon as part of a project created by the late j...
29 June-15 July.
This famous arts festival in the beautiful Umbrian town of Spoleto promises to deliver the goods with a rich programme of opera, music, drama, dance and art. Continuing under the direction of Giorgio Fe...
23 June-28 July.
In 1963 Lelia Caetani and her husband Hubert Howard founded a chamber music festival in the Castle of Sermoneta in memory of the musician Roffredo Caetani. They invited young musicians from across the g...
16 May-15 July.
This top class festival celebrating its 23rd edition is longer and more articulated this year. The main section of the festival on the theme Nobilissima visione offers a rich calendar of opera, concerts,...
Arts in English This Ostia-based company produces popular song and dance shows. www.artsinenglish.it English Theatre of Rome Rome’s busiest English theatre stages diverse productions near Piazza Navona. www.rometh...
19 June-9 Sept.
Explora organises Stamping, a workshop for kids from three to 12. They use recycled paper sheets, tempera, objects of various forms and materials to experiment with copyright fingerprints. Tue-Sun 10.00,...
Six shores sharing one ocean, one sky with one language of survival and music.
Also at this event: the Summer Collection of fashion designer Iris Bachar.
Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
Until 31 May. The highs and lows of the acclaimed filmmaker's professional and personal life. Polanski describes his childhood in Warsaw, his glittering film career and his Academy Award...
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Until 31 May.
A nine-year-old amateur inventor, Francophile and pacifist searches New York City for the lock that matches a mysterious key left behind by his father, who died in th...
Until 31 May. Cosmopolis. Riding across Manhattan in a stretch limo in order to get a haircut, a 28-year-old billionaire asset manager's day devolves into an odyssey with a cast of characters that start to tear his world...
OUTSIDE THE BOX
Why our children need REAL FOOD, not food products
by Jeannie Marshall
A lively and eye-opening look at the way packaged and fast foods are marketed to our kids - and why rediscovering food cul...
12 - 17 June.
The Rome Savoyards present What the Butler Saw, a farce by Joe Orton. When the wife of Dr Prentice interrupts his attempts at seducing his prospective secretary, he doesn