Things to do in London this weekend
There are plenty of things to do this weekend in London and we've rounded up the best of what's on offer across the capital
HADESTOWN
Lyric Theatre 13 Feb 2024 to 28 Sep 2025
New production photography has been released for the multi award-winning Hadestown.
Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
Cambridge Theatre 30 Sep 2024 to 15 Dec 2025
Extends monthly run at the Cambridge Theatre until December 2025!
OLIVER!
Gielgud Theatre 14 Dec 2024 to 28 Sep 2025
Full cast announced for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Lionel Bart’s irresistible musical masterpiece.
Being Human - at Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection 1 Jan 2025 to 1 Jan 2026
The permanent exhibition that explores health, identity, and the human condition, with over 50 artworks and objects that interrogates our health anxieties in a changing world.
Leigh Bowery!
Tate Modern 27 Feb 2025 to 31 Aug 2025
A celebration of the boundary-pushing career of artist Leigh Bowery.
Helen Oxenbury: Illustrating the Land of Childhood
Burgh House 5 Mar 2025 to 14 Dec 2025
Burgh House presents the first-ever solo exhibition – Helen Oxenbury, celebrating the artist, illustrator and author.
Plied & Prejudice Extended Run!
The Vaults 13 Mar 2025 to 8 Aug 2025
A side-splitting parody of Jane Austen’s classic novel, at Darcy’s Booziest ball. Now Extended until August!
Zines Forever! DIY Publishing and Disability Justice - at the Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection 14 Mar 2025 to 14 Sep 2025
This exhibition at the Wellcome Centre explores how zines have amplified disabled voices and fostered disability justice.
Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur
The Wallace Collection 28 Mar 2025 to 26 Oct 2025
In 2025, the Wallace Collection will hold a major exhibition featuring over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry.
Pirates
National Maritime Museum 29 Mar 2025 to 4 Jan 2026
Explore the myth & discover the truth for a major new exhibition coming to the National Maritime Museum in March 2025.
Discovering Dürer
Fitzwilliam Museum 1 Apr 2025 to 3 Aug 2025
Discover the depth and drama in the works of one of Europe’s most ambitious and acclaimed pioneers of print Albrecht Dürer.
Giuseppe Penone: Thoughts in the Roots
Serpentine South 3 Apr 2025 to 7 Sep 2025
Serpentine presents the most comprehensive institutional exhibition of Giuseppe Penone’s practice.
Starlight Express
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre 16 Apr 2025 to 1 Mar 2026
Starlight Express was delighted to win at the Olivier Awards 2025!
1880 THAT: Christine Sun Kim and Thomas Mader - at Wellcome Collection
Wellcome Collection 17 Apr 2025 to 16 Nov 2025
An innovative, curated exhibition on deafness, the importance of language, and language as home, '1880 THAT' refers to the conference of the same year which sidelined sign language in schools.
2125 &The Pits
Somerset House 25 Apr 2025 to 31 Aug 2025
Somerset House Studios new outdoor commission and G31 installation: Sophia Al-Maria & Lydia Ourahmane: 2125 &The Pits.
GIANT
Harold Pinter Theatre 26 Apr 2025 to 2 Aug 2025
Following a sell-out run at the Royal Court, the play everyone is talking about is transferring to the West End.
Hiroshige: artist of the open road
The British Museum 1 May 2025 to 7 Sep 2025
Join Japanese artist Hiroshige on a lyrical journey through Edo Japan at the British Museum.
OF THE OAK
Kew Gardens 3 May 2025 to 28 Sep 2025
Experience Of the Oak, a one-of-a-kind. outdoor immersive art installation at Kew Gardens.
![L: Alberto Giacometti, Femme debout [Standing Woman], 1957, Fondation Giacometti © Succession Alberto Giacometti / Adagp, Paris 2025
R: Huma Bhabha, Mask of Dimitrios, 2019. Image credit: Daniel Perez. Courtesy of the artist and David Zwirner Gall](https://www.culturecalling.com/images/uploads/header_images/_424x240/79ba4696-2da2-c631-dbc9-35c93a394225_%282%29742.png)
Giacometti x Huma Bhabha
Barbican Centre 8 May 2025 to 10 Aug 2025
A major new exhibition by artist Huma Bhabha, the first in a series of three exhibitions in collaboration with Fondation Giacometti.
Mrs. Warren’s Profession
Garrick Theatre 10 May 2025 to 16 Aug 2025
Mother and daughter duo Imelda Staunton and Bessie Carter team up for a West End sensation!