Summary: Conor McPherson's new play The Night Alive at the Donmar Warehouse; Before Midnight with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy; Memory Palace, an exhibition at the V&A of artists' work inspired by a novella by Hari Kunzru; Phil Spector, a television film by David Mamet with Al Pacino and Helen Mirren; and Evie Wyld's novel All the Birds, Singing. Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Bidisha, Patrick Gale and Stephanie Merritt.
