Dance

Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan
Sadler’s Wells’s digital stage season continues with the Facebook premiere of Moon Water by Cloud Gate’s founder choreographer, Lin Hwai-min. Set to music from Bach’s solo cello suites, this 1998 work asks its dancers to aspire to a state where “energy flows like water, while the spirit shines like the moon”. Its meditative calm and elusive beauty are qualities to sustain us in such difficult times; its ending feels like a dream. Until Friday at sadlerswell.com Sarah Crompton

Film

The County
For anyone who enjoyed last year’s Woman at War, this stirring Icelandic drama (from Rams director Grímur Hákonarson) about a widowed farmer tackling injustice in her community should offer similar rewards. On Curzon Home Cinema from Friday. Guy Lodge

Music

The 1975: Notes on a Conditional Form
Opening with a Greta Thunberg speech and taking emo, two-step, pensive electronica, gentle brass, indie rock and most points between, the 1975’s delayed fourth album finally lands. Out on Friday. Kitty Empire

Music Life: Why Didn’t I Think of That?
Ella Eyre hosts this BBC World Service series, which delves deep into artists’ concerns. How do you wrangle your label, choose a co-writer, see eye-to-eye with a producer? This week’s guests are strong: Mahalia, MNEK and Hamzaa. BBC World Service, Saturday, 12 midday. KE

Theatre

The Understudy
Sheila Atim, Stephen Fry and Russell Tovey are among the cast in a new radio play by Henry Filloux-Bennett based on David Nicholls’s novel. Produced by Huddersfield’s Lawrence Batley theatre and directed by Giles Croft, The Understudy, for which listeners buy tickets to raise money for the theatre industry, will be released in two parts at 7.30pm on Wednesdays 20 and 27 May. understudyplay.com Susannah Clapp

Constellation Street
Can anyone break free from the past? First presented in 2016 by Cardiff’s celebrated pub theatre the Other Room, Matthew Bulgo’s interconnected 20-minute monologues about four lost souls are now available in four instalments, to be savoured separately or at one sitting. Presented by National Theatre Wales and the Sherman theatre with BBC Cymru Wales and BBC Arts, and described by them as “unflinching, funny and humane”. Until 30 May at nationaltheatrewales.org Clare Brennan

Classical

Shanghai Symphony Orchestra
As China begins to reopen public venues, the Shanghai Symphony Orchestra, with conductor Zhang Jiemen, will hold its first larger-scale concert in front of a reduced live audience, performing works by Bartók, Barber and Piazzolla. Saturday, 12.30pm UK time at shsymphony.com Fiona Maddocks

Art

David Maljkovic: Scene for a New Heritage Trilogy
Metro Pictures, the New York gallery that represents Cindy Sherman, holds a weekly mini film festival: next up is David Maljkovic’s haunting breakout trilogy featuring a group of “heritage-seekers” trying to understand the purpose of eastern Europe political monuments in a desolate 2045 – devastating, and brilliantly shot. Streaming Fri-Sun at Metro’s Vimeo page. Laura Cumming

The Art of Japanese Life
James Fox’s beautiful series concludes with an examination of minimalism in Japanese domestic life, from the moving screen to the painted scroll: an inspiration to us all. Thursday, BBC Four, 1am. LC

Comedy

I Love Everything
Veteran US standup comedian Patton Oswalt returns to the small screen with a new hour-long comedy special about facing existential dread at diner-style restaurant chain Denny’s, turning 50, finding love, and the ups and downs of buying a house. Premiering on Netflix on Tuesday. Kadish Morris