Arts Ahead 20-26 July on londonist

It's all a bit dance-heavy for London's cultural calendar this week.

And I could hardly find any decent art openings at all in London during the next seven days. (Feel free to argue in the comments if you know better.)

Well, I suppose that's the height of summer for you. Everything that's long running continues running until the big change around of September. So if you spot a change in the weather and want to head inside to a big blockbuster art gallery, you probably won't be seeing something brand new this week.

For me, it's Danton's Death at the National on Thursday. The joy of seeing the yummy Toby Stephens again (I've seen him in A Dolls House and The Real Thing, as well as other things), increased by the fact that Taylor James (JC's school mate) is also in the show. Fingers crossed it's a good one.

Off the beaten track (and my weekly Arts Ahead column is supposed to be firmly "on the beaten track", just to be clear), I am getting a bit fluttery about the possibility of seeing this at the weekend. Shall I go ahead and book tickets? Shall I?

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Image from Over The Edge at the Barbican

Spotted: Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki

When: last night
Where: in the interval of A Doll's House at the Donmar Warehouse

It's like buses, right? I don't see anyone famous for months, and then three come along IN ONE DAY. It's nuts. That's what you get for hanging around theatreland on a Saturday, rather than being in the flat ignoring the Grand Prix, I guess.

But WHO, WHO, WHO I hear you cry, ARE THESE TWO?

Let me put you out of your misery. Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki are none other than Penny and Leonard from favourite guilty-pleasure channel4 telly programme The Big Bang Theory. OMG. OMFG. I.KNOW. Etc.

That's Johnny Galecki, who I also had a crush on when it was the 90s and I used to watch Rosanne every Friday in the hope that he'd be on as David, Darlene's long-suffering boyfriend.

Crazy.

I went to the bar in the interval, and saw a really pretty blonde girl standing there on her own. "My goodness," I thought, "I know her. Oh, no, I don't. It's just that she looks just like Penny from the... oh, it is Penny from The Big Bang Theory. " When I realised she was waiting for someone, I did momentarily think it might be...

Then David/Leonard/Johnny walked round the corner, and I couldn't believe it. Odd who makes you feel starstruck.

They were being nice and quiet and reserved. No shouty American TV stars here: it's the Donmar afterall. Johnny was wearing a ma-hoosive blingtastic white watch though; that was screaming American TV star, even if the rest of him wasn't.

And seemed quite loved-up in a nice, stealing-quick-kisses-in-public kind of way.

Oh, did I not mention they're a couple?