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26 February 2025 to 15 March 2025London

Son of a Bitch

She loved being a Mum… until he got a personality.

31 December 2024London

New Year’s Eve with Gilles Peterson - at The Standard

The classy Central London hotel hosts Britain's most beloved DJ and curator Gilles Peterson for an exceedingly classy…

31 December 2024London

The Big Disco with Norman Jay MBE - at Brixton Jamm

UK disco extraordinaire Norman Jay MBE brings a big one for Brixton Jamm. Funk, soul, and disco classics, mixed on…

31 December 2024London

Rhythm Section does NYE 2024 - at Corsica Studios

Our favourite label in London takes to the great Elephant and Castle venue for an intimate evening of great dance tracks…

31 December 2024London

The South London Soul Train NYE - at Peckham Levels

Peckham's old abandoned multi-story carpark becomes a festival for funk and soul this New Years, with two live bands and…

31 December 2024London

Fever105’s Midnight Funk - at the Lafayette

The two biggest and best names in modern disco come together for an absolutely huge New Years Eve, perhaps enough to…

10 January 2025 to 11 January 2025London

Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana

Experience a festive classic with a Cuban twist as Carlos Acosta’s Nutcracker in Havana lights up the New Victoria…

Alex Crandon, Jake Poolman, Adam Craig in Dick Whittington at Corn Exchange Newbury (Rich Lakos)

29 November 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Dick Whittington

Harry Potter and Hobbit stars to lead in Corn Exchange Newbury pantomime!

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 – 1901), The Clown Cha-U-Kao, 1895, oil on canvas, 75 x 55cm, Image: Oskar Reinhart Collection «Am Römerholz», Winterthur

14 February 2025 to 26 May 2025London

The Griffin Catalyst Exhibition: Goya to Impressionism

The first ever exhibition of the Oskar Reinhart Collection ‘Am Römerholz’ to be staged outside of Winterthur,…

28 April 2025London

We Aren’t Kids Anymore

A dynamic and thoughtful musical exploration which taps into the profound feeling of never truly growing up.

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22 November 2024 to 2 February 2025London

The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical

The mythical adventure musical explodes onto the stage at The Other Palace for its London premiere.

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17 December 2024London

NOVA Live: RBO’s The Nutcracker

Experience the magic of Christmas with The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker, live-streamed to NOVA Cinema.

Artists of National Ballet of Japan in Act 2 of Giselle ©Takashi Shikama

24 July 2025 to 27 July 2025London

The National Ballet of Japan Giselle

The National Ballet of Japan comes to Covent Garden, making its Royal Opera House debut.

L-R: Ms. Dynamite, by Gemma Booth, May 2001, ©Gemma Booth; ANDRÉ 3000, by James Dimmock, December 2000, ©James Dimmock.

20 February 2025 to 18 May 2025London

The Face Magazine: Culture Shift

Iconic portraits from the pages of trail-blazing magazine, The Face celebrated in a major exhibition at the NPG.

9 December 2024 to 23 December 2024London

Sinfonia Smith Square Christmas Festival

Sinfonia Smith Square presents a thrilling Christmas Festival programme at their iconic central London venue.

Jan Fabre The Freefaller (of Art), 2024 Carrara white marble, 115 x 105 x 71 cm

29 November 2024 to 25 January 2025London

Songs of the Gypsies (A Tribute to Django Reinhardt and Django Gennaro Fabre)

A new solo show by worldwide known Belgian artist Jan Fabre at the Mucciaccia Gallery.

14 December 2024London

A Very Noughties Christmas: Lemar to Headline Festive Throwback Special - at Boxpark Wembley

A festive shubs for the 00’s party people, Wembley's Boxpark is hosting UK’s most iconic acts from the decade,…

16 January 2025 to 22 February 2025London

AN INTERROGATION

Following a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2023, the award-winning An Interrogation comes to Hampstead…

Installation photograph of ‘Convergence’ at Miart Gallery. Courtesy of Miart Gallery. 

27 November 2024 to 25 January 2025London

CONVERGENCE

Miart Gallery London presents ‘CONVERGENCE’ featuring the works of Lars Beusker and Italian Painter Giusy Rampini.

14 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

Copla: A Spanish Cabaret

Captivating and clever, musical Copla: A Spanish Cabaret comes to The Other Palace in January 2025.

13 February 2025 to 1 March 2025London

Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle

Edinburgh Comedy Award-Winner Jordan Brookes Brings Hilarious and Darkly Honest Show Fontanelle to Soho Theatre!

27 December 2024 to 4 January 2025London

These Gays! They’re Trying To…

Check in to Brooklyn Rep's newest gay-basement comedy, a post-panto melodrama with cults, colonics and and Björk.

2 December 2024 to 8 February 2025London

The Little Foxes

A story of greed, ambition and a family on the edge.

15 December 2024London

Christmas Jazz Lunch - A Festive Roast with Live Jazz

Get into the Christmas spirit the right way, with some live jazz at a comfy 'living room' with a roast dinner included…

Groove Armada Fabric poster culture calling

13 December 2024London

Groove Armada and friends - at fabric

Big beat masters and Sultans of Disco Groove Armada take to the best club in London, for a night they themselves are…

6 December 2024London

Conducta and mixtress - at Phonox

The famed UK DJ takes residency at the horse-powered Phonox, and on his second outing, is accompanied by one of the most…

The King's Singers © Frances Marshall

4 December 2024 to 31 December 2024London

Christmas Season at Wigmore Hall

Wigmore Hall’s 2024 Christmas Season features eight leading choral and vocal ensembles performing a variety of music…

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15 November 2024 to 22 December 2024London

Between The Bridges Electric Winter!

Crowd Favourite Electric Winter Returns to Between The Bridges For The Winter Season at London's most exciting free…

Takashi Murakami Rakuchū-Rakugai-zu Byōbu: Iwasa Matabei RIP, 2023–24 (detail)
Acrylic and gold leaf on canvas mounted on wood panel, in 2 parts Photo: Joshua White
Courtesy Gagosian.

10 December 2024 to 8 March 2025London

Japanese Art History à la Takashi Murakami

Gagosian presents an exhibition of new paintings by Murakami at Grosvenor Hill gallery in London.

3 December 2024 to 9 December 2024London

A Trojan Woman

The original anti-war play updated to current day in a one-hour, one-woman retelling.

Left to right: Ralph Ball, ’Foundation & Elevation, 2024;  Rachel Ruiyi Yang, ’The Restaurant’, 2024

5 December 2024 to 25 January 2025London

Soil, Toil & Table

A new exhibition exploring food, culture and sustainability.

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22 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

London Art Fair 2025

Explore an exceptional line-up of Modern and Contemporary Art galleries from across the globe from 22-26 January 2025.

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23 November 2024 to 12 January 2025London

ES DEVLIN - FACE TO FACE: 50 ENCOUNTERS WITH STRANGERS

Es Devlin to open new immersive exhibition that brings Devlin’s studio to life at Somerset House.

The simple life and death image of ShayShay and Fizz Sinclair

27 November 2024 to 7 December 2024London

The Simple Life & Death

The ultimate Paris Hilton parody with a night of mysterious murders. Who will wind up dead and who will be s'living?

First look production images, written and starring Ted Lasso star Nick Mohammed

16 November 2024 to 31 December 2024London

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (ISH)

Join Nick Mohammed as his critically acclaimed alter-ego Mr. Swallow for an all-singing, all-dancing festive classic.

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15 December 2024London

Step Into Christmas

Step Into Christmas for the most magical show of the year!

HortusPoeticus Tablescape Flower Festival Autumn 24 - Janne Ford Photography

30 November 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Christmas at Strawberry Hill House

Already a feast for the eyes, Strawberry Hill House will have an extra sense of magic this Christmas.

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27 November 2024 to 10 January 2025London

Lynne Drexler The Sixties

White Cube presents an exhibition dedicated to the late American artist Lynne Drexler (1928–99).

18 February 2025 to 9 March 2025London

Miss-I-Doll

The world premiere of musical comedy Miss-I-Doll brings a dose of reality to The Other Palace.

13 December 2024 to 20 December 2024London

Christmas in Exeter Street

37 characters, 7 animals and 10 instruments – all under one roof! Christmas in Exeter Street is the perfect festive…

16 January 2025 to 8 February 2025London

Canned Goods

An edge-of-your seat thriller exploring ‘fake news’ and how those in power bend the truth for their own agenda.

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6 December 2024 to 2 February 2025London

The Snowy Day

One winter morning, Peter woke up and looked out the window. Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as…

22 January 2025 to 1 March 2025London

The Gift

A comedy about the extraordinary lengths one man is prepared to go to in order to unmask the anonymous sender of a…

Brodsky Quartet

23 January 2025 to 12 March 2025London

The Classical Music Series at JW3

The acclaimed Brodsky Quartet join JW3‘s gripping Classical Music Series as it bursts into the New Year in January 2025.

16 December 2024 to 23 December 2024London

Mr Charles Dickens presents A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol brings Dickens’s authentic story telling back to Greenwich.

14 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

Looking For Giants

Sexuality, subjectivity and the female gaze: Looking For Giants comes to London.

13 December 2024London

Fat White Family - at Colour Factory

Equal parts influential and revolting, 2010s post-punk outfit are bringing punk back to its vile roots, performing an…

Duchamp & Sons, Filming Alone Together performance with Seth Pimlott, 2018. Photo: Renee Odjidja

5 February 2025 to 5 May 2025London

15 Years of Duchamp & Sons

An original exhibition curated by Whitechapel Gallery’s youth collective Duchamp & Sons.

14 December 2024 to 24 December 2024London

There’s a Monster in your Christmas Show

Tom Fletcher’s There’s a Monster in Your Show gets a festive twist this Christmas 2024 with a specially written…

12 December 2024London

Mungos Hi Fi and Tippa Irie - at Phonox

Two and a half decades of bringing their frankly inhumanly powerful soundsystem from Scotland to the world, now bringing…

7 December 2024London

Deptford Northern Soul Club Christmas Special - at Peckham Audio

One of the best parties in London is back in South East London for another night of shelling out the big Northern Soul…

6 December 2024London

Digable Planets - at KOKO

Jazz-rap extraordinaires Digable Planets have been rocking it for over 30 years, with wholesome raps over addictive…

14 November 2024 to 1 February 2025London

‘The Seer, The Seen’, by Sang Woo Kim - at Herald Street

Sang Woo Kim's cacophony of detailed self-portraits position his eyes as his artistic motif, putting cultural identity,…

8 November 2024 to 12 January 2025London

‘Inner Heat’, by Laila Majid and Louis Blue Newby - Goldsmiths CCA

A collaborative work at the Goldsmiths CCA that reinvents and reinterprets commonplace cultural materials, twisting our…

26 November 2024 to 21 December 2024London

Lies Where It Falls

A deeply human true story about the healing power of theatre.

Photo: Grayson Perry ©️ Richard Ansett, shot exclusively for the Wallace Collection, London
Grayson Perry and Untitled Drawing, 2024, 42 x 30 cm, 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in © Grayson Perry. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

28 March 2025 to 26 October 2025London

Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur

In 2025, the Wallace Collection will hold a major exhibition featuring over 40 new works by Sir Grayson Perry.

4 February 2025 to 26 April 2025London

Unicorn

Mike Bartlett's explicit, funny and provocative new play starring Nicola Walker, Stephen Mangan and Erin Doherty.

6 December 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Christmas Comes to Moominvalley

Celebrate the 80th anniversary of global phenomenon The Moomins this Christmas!

7 December 2024 to 7 December 2024London

The Overtones

Party on this Christmas with the highly anticipated Good Times Christmas Tour!

Joan Snyder Painting at the Pond, 2024 Oil, acrylic, paper mache, burlap, rosebuds, rose petals, straw, paper and ink on canvas

28 November 2024 to 5 February 2025London

Joan Snyder Body & Soul

Joan Snyder’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, Thaddaeus Ropac London.

Citra Sasmita, Act One (detail), 2024, from Into Eternal Land, The Curve, Barbican, 2025 © Citra Sasmita

30 January 2025 to 20 April 2025London

Citra Sasmita: Into Eternal Land

The Indonesian artist transforms The Curve in her first solo UK exhibition.

23 November 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Christmas at London Transport Museum

All aboard for festive fun! With special family activities and the chance to meet Father Christmas!

3 December 2024 to 22 December 2024London

BILL

A riotous musical comedy about 70 years of conspiracy, aliens, americana and BILL. The man who made America suck first.

27 November 2024 to 2 February 2025London

Keeping Time: Clocks by Boulle

Experience the art and science of timekeeping in the Wallace Collection free display this autumn.

30 November 2024 to 31 December 2024London

Aladdin Christmas Panto

Your wish is granted! Join us for a magic carpet ride like no other, as Aladdin takes to the skies of Watford!

19 December 2024 to 31 December 2024London

Cinderella at Centenary Theatre

Everyone’s favourite classic tale told by an incredible cast for Berkhamsted’s first ever Professional Pantomime!

Photo credits: Csilla Horváth and Mark Douet

30 November 2024 to 5 January 2025London

ROBIN HOOD & THE CHRISTMAS HEIST

Join Robin Hood and his Merry Band for a spectacular festive heist Christmas!

23 November 2024 to 20 January 2025London

Mars in the Painted Hall

Out-of-this-world installation Mars lands at the Old Royal Naval College in November.

29 November 2024 to 18 December 2024London

Twelfth Night at National Youth Theatre

Shakespeare’s hilarious and heartbreaking classic adapted for the NYT REP Company by Ellen McDougall.

21 October 2024 to 11 January 2025London

BARCELONA

LILY COLLINS (Emily in Paris) & ÁLVARO MORTE (Money Heist) star in BESS WOHL's explosive two-hander, BARCELONA.

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14 December 2024London

Handel: Messiah

The power, the majesty, the tenderness, the hope, the pain, the comfort and the glory of Handel’s magnum opus! As…

Looking down at the Royal Choral Society performing at The Royal Albert Hall. A sign made up of Christmas lights behind them reads: Christmas at the Royal Albert Hall

9 December 2024 to 9 December 2024London

Christmas with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall - 9th December

Join the Royal Choral Society in the grandest of venues for a concert of festive songs, carols old and new and, of…

14 November 2024 to 1 February 2025London

Markus Lüpertz - Pierre Puvis de Chavannes - at Michael Werner Gallery

The German ‘painting prince’ takes on works from ‘the painter of France’ through exercises of homage,…

12 December 2024 to 24 December 2024London

Carol Services at All Souls’, Langham Place

10 opportunities to sing Christmas carols in the congregation of All Souls', a thriving Christian community in the heart…

Christmas carol service at St Paul’s Cathedral in London

12 December 2024 to 12 December 2024London

Christmas Carol Service at St Paul’s Cathedral

Enter the ballot for a chance to be there at the amazing Christmas carol service at St Paul’s Cathedral, with the…

With a Christmas tree partially blocking the view on the right of the image, we see four singers of the Abbey Choir at Westminster Abbey in their white robes with red vestments, singig and holding hymn sheets

1 December 2024 to 25 December 2024London

Advent & Christmas Services at Westminster Abbey

Step inside the glorious Westminster Abbey FOR FREE for these special Christmas services, with anthems and carols sung…

8 December 2024 to 5 January 2025London

JW3 GOLDIE FROCKS and the BEAR MITZVAH!

JW3 brings the world of Traditional Pantomime and the new Tradition of Jewish Pantomime to everyone!

25 March 2025 to 29 March 2025London

Kim’s Convenience on Tour!

Everyone’s favourite convenience store packs up shop to hit the road as Kim’s Convenience goes on a UK tour.

Carol singers in the stage are of St Martin-in-the-Fields church in Trafalgar Square

1 December 2024 to 24 December 2024London

Carols for Christmas at St Martin-in-the-Fields

The community of St Martin-in-the-Fields present you with lots of different FREE occasions to hear carols this Christmas…

20 November 2024 to 23 December 2024London

Viola’s Room: A Christmas Tale

An audio-driven journey through a moonlit fever dream.

30 January 2025 to 22 February 2025London

Antigone [on strike]

A modern reimagining of Sophocles’ tragedy inspired by true stories of the so-called ‘ISIS Brides’.

10 December 2024 to 10 January 2025London

Dead Hard

A drag Die Hard parody pantomime turning the iconic Christmas film on its head!

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Crumple Zone

12 November 2024 to 6 December 2024London

‘Crumple Zone’, by Conor Ackhurst - at Soft Commodity

Conor Ackhurst invites us to mull on the immediate moments prior to disaster via sculpture and installation at Soft…

The congregation at St James Church in Piccadilly sing carols by candlelight

22 December 2024 to 22 December 2024London

Carols for All at St James’s Church, Piccadilly

A superb lunchtime carol concert, with support from St James’s Singing Scholars and top class trumpeters, with…

Hundreds of carol singers holding candles illuminate Union Chapel in Islington for its Carols by Candlelight concert

22 December 2024 to 22 December 2024London

Carols by Candlelight at Union Chapel

The stunning Union Chapel in Islington will once again be illuminated by the candlelight of hundreds of carol singers -…

A cartoon rendering of the Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall at Christmas; the rectangular building is glowing gold against a dark blue night sky while round snowballs fall and Santa’s sleigh flies through the sky in the top-left of the image. The central caption reads: Festive Concerts at the Southbank Centre

14 December 2024 to 15 December 2024London

Christmas Classics at The Southbank Centre

Hurry up and grab some of the last remaining tickets for Christmas Classics at the Southbank Centre, where you can sing…

A cartoon depiction of carol singers singing under the light of a gas lamp in Cecil Court on a snowy night

4 December 2024 to 4 December 2024London

Carol Singing in Cecil Court

Join Hesperos Choir in Charing Cross Road’s charming Cecil Court for an evening of carol singing, with mince pies and…

A choir master in a blue dress conducts several singers from Hesperos Choir singing in front of the organ in a beautiful church.

7 December 2024 to 7 December 2024London

Christmas by Candlelight with Hesperos Choir

An intimate evening with Hesperos Choir, accompanied by talented folk musicians, performing classical Christmas songs as…

23 November 2024 to 22 December 2024London

The Spirit of Christmas

A theatrical Christmas adventure exploring meaning and magic at Eltham Palace in the Borough of Greenwich, London.

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19 November 2024 to 31 December 2024London

Odd and the Frost Giants

Embark on an epic adventure full of Norse myths and magical beasts.

13 June 2025 to 14 June 2025London

JEFF DUNHAM: ARTIFICAL INTELLIGENCE

Global comedy superstar and ventriloquist, Jeff Dunham, is bringing his cast of colourful characters to two UK arenas in…

23 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

London Independent Film Festival’s 5th Anniversary

SohoLIFF celebrates its 5th birthday in style with participants including Mark Rylance, Riz Ahmed, Toyah Wilcox and Phil…

Image: Jeff Wall, The Thinker, 1986. © Jeff Wall. Courtesy White Cube

22 November 2024 to 12 January 2025London

Jeff Wall: Life in Pictures

White Cube presents a comprehensive solo exhibition of over 30 key works by Jeff Wall at Bermondsey in November 2024.

10 January 2025 to 22 February 2025London

The Lonely Londoners

The critically acclaimed adaptation of Sam Selvon’s iconic novel comes to London.

Frederic Leighton, Bay of Cadiz - Moonlight, c. 1866 © The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

16 November 2024 to 27 April 2025London

Leighton and Landscape: Impressions from Nature

The first exhibition devoted to landscape sketches made by Frederic, Lord Leighton (1830-1896) to go on display, this…

MATTHEW BOURNE'S SWAN LAKE. Rehearsals. Nicole Kabera and Jackson Fisch. Photo by Johan Persson

3 December 2024 to 26 January 2025London

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake

The Next Generation returns to Sadlers Wells Theatre for 30th anniversary tour.

28 November 2024 to 11 January 2025London

A Very Naughty Christmas

Direct from down under an adults only spectacular, sexy, silly, naughty and hilarious take on Christmas!

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6 December 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Sleeping Beauty

There’s only 2 months to go until Woking’s panto opens – oh yes there is!

The Longest Time’, by Jack Otway and Zach Zono – at Hurst Contemporary

7 November 2024 to 7 January 2025London

‘The Longest Time’, by Jack Otway and Zach Zono – at Hurst Contemporary

A collaborative exhibition from two exciting young artists, exploring strained relationships of nostalgia and immediacy,…

9 November 2014 to 14 December 2024London

‘A Trebuchet and a V’, by Benjamin Anderson and Marina Moro - at Worse, New Cross

The secretive, Utah-born, London based artist presents an anticipated showing at Worse, New Cross, in collaboration with…