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US actress Scarlett Johansson

Scarlett Johansson, Catherine Zeta-Jones join Hollywood lineup on Broadway

Lately it seems the New York theater world cannot stage a show without Hollywood stars attached, and the trend continues as this season's new plays and musicals launch. Certainly Jude Law's marquee value helps keep Hamlet alive and it signals a big name can fill the house.

Composition in White, Black and Red (1936) Piet Mondrian

Great Works: Composition in White, Black and Red (1936) Piet Mondrian

People have tried to get computers to compose music, and with some success, especially if the music's form is relatively formulaic. You can program music "in the style of Mozart". It won't be much good, but it can yield something plausible, something Mozart might just have done on an off-day.

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FIVE BEST EXHIBITIONS

The Sacred Made Real (National Gallery, London)
Spanish painting and sculpture from the 17th century: super-real images of Christ and his saints, with glinting tears and rivers of blood. Spellbinding. (020-7747 2885) to 24 Jan

Anish Kapoor (Royal Academy, London)
The master of illusionistic sculptures, with concaves and convexes, reflections and voids and saturated colours. Can you refrain from saying “spirituality”? (020 7300 8000) to 11 Dec

Tim Head: Raw Material (Huddersfield Art Gallery)
We’re living in a scanned and pixelated world: these new projection works explore digital technology and the experience it creates. (01484 221964) 21 Nov to 9 Jan

Joyous Machines (Tate Liverpool)
Curated by Michael Landy, the works of Jean Tinguely, master of the meaningless machine: juddering, convulsive, hysterical engines. (0151 702 7400) to 10 Jan

Ana Maria Pacheco (Mascalls Gallery, Tonbridge)
Tableaux of her polychrome wooden effigies: sinister, sadistic, gleeful and alarmingly alive. (01892 839039) to 19 Dec

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