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20 December 2024 to 26 January 2025London

The Nutcracker

A magical, musical quest for the whole family.

8 March 2025 to 9 March 2025London

The Detective Dog

Tiny and Tall Productions takes Julia Donaldson and Sara Ogilvie’s beloved children’s book The Detective Dog on UK tour.

27 January 2025 to 8 February 2025London

Amy Gledhill: Make Me Look Fit on the Poster

Hilarious award-winning show about self-confidence, romance and bin bags!!

27 January 2025 to 1 February 2025London

& JULIET

There is life after Romeo!

24 January 2025 to 2 March 2025London

Hélène de Beauvoir: The Woman Destroyed

Amar Gallery presents the first ever solo presentation of Hélène de Beauvoir’s artworks in the United Kingdom.

Hardeep Pandhal, Vandals and Thugs: Charmed by Gorgoroth 13, 2021, Indian ink on paper, 56 x 76 cm, courtesy the artist.

13 February 2025 to 13 April 2025London

Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World

Hardeep Pandhal: Inner World will be the artist’s first solo exhibition in a London public gallery.

Max-Harwood-The-Lightning-Thief-The-Other-Palace-Photo-Credit-Manuel-Harlan

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.

11 February 2025 to 22 February 2025London

855-FOR-TRUTH

I don’t want it to be true, but look at the weather… It was torrents yesterday and now it’s too hot to think.

3 July 2025London

50 CENT, DAVIDO AND MARY J. BLIGE LIVE!

Three global icons of Rap, R&B and Afrobeats visit London for a massive summer show on 3rd July 2025.

11 March 2025 to 22 March 2025London

The Mosinee Project

Paranoia and politics collide in this stranger than fiction Cold War drama.

Image: Carlo Carrà, Atmospheric Swirls – A Bursting Shell, 1914, Estorick Collection

15 January 2025 to 11 May 2025London

Breaking Lines

The Estorick Collection starts 2025 by exploring the revolutionary world of experimental poetry.

28 February 2025 to 16 March 2025London

Too Many Books

A thought-provoking, debut play that explores the complexities of international adoption.

31 March 2025London

Brazilian Star Seu Jorge Returns To London In 2025

Celebrated musician and actor to make first UK appearance in 6 years at The Roundhouse, London in March 2025.

A Good House - Guy J Sanders

11 January 2025 to 8 February 2025London

A Good House

A thrilling new satire about a couple who discover the limits of good neighbourliness and what is required to fit in.

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9 February 2025 to 2 March 2025London

Der Ring des Nibelugen – Richard Wagner

Experience Wagner epic Ring Cycle up close in an intimate venue with an orchestra of 22.

28 January 2025 to 2 February 2025London

Posh Girls

Don't let the tuck boxes and the tartan kilts fool you....

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12 December 2024 to 31 December 2024London

The Fir Tree

A playful re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s festive tale for all the family.

Jack Baldwin and Laurence Pears in Hold On To Your Butts. Credit Mark Senior

10 December 2024 to 4 January 2025London

HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS!

This Christmas, you are invited to HOLD ON TO YOUR BUTTS! A must see “shot-for-shot” parody of the greatest dinosaur…

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.

Goldie Frocks and The Bear Mitzvah - JW3 - Photo Credit Eamonn B Shanahan Capture with Pride

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!

Louis XV’s rhinoceros in Versailles: Science and Splendour at the Science Museum

12 December 2024 to 21 April 2025London

Versailles: Science and Splendour

Discover how the Palace of Versailles used science as a tool of power in this illuminating new exhibition.

9 January 2025 to 3 May 2025London

Kyoto

Saving the earth is a filthy business…

Image credits Helen Oxenbury Alice Through The Looking Glass & Helen Oxenbury, Illustration for Walker Books.

5 March 2025 to 14 December 2025London

Helen Oxenbury: Illustrating the Land of Childhood

Burgh House presents the first-ever solo exhibition – Helen Oxenbury, celebrating the artist, illustrator and author.

Oliver! 2024 Credit Johan Persson

14 December 2024 to 28 September 2025London

OLIVER!

Full cast announced for Cameron Mackintosh’s new production of Lionel Bart’s irresistible musical masterpiece.

5 February 2025 to 22 February 2025London

HEAVEN

Multi-award winning Irish play HEAVEN makes London debut following sellout run at Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

28 January 2025 to 8 February 2025London

Haunted Shadows: The Gothic Tales of Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit revisits her dark past, telling three of her Gothic tales while recalling various childhood terrors.

Galli, Kentaur (für Schari!), 1990. Courtesy the artist and Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin

7 February 2025 to 4 May 2025London

GALLI: So, So, So

So, So, So marks the first UK solo exhibition of artist Galli (b.1944, Germany).

7 February 2025 to 8 March 2025London

George Orwell’s Animal Farm

All animals are equal. But some animals are more equal than others…

Käte and Hugo Perls, 1913 by Edvard Munch © Foto Munchmuseet / Ove Kvavik

13 March 2025 to 15 June 2025London

Edvard Munch Portraits

National Portrait Gallery stages its first ever exhibition of portraits by Edvard Munch, featuring works never displayed…

Asmaa Jama and Gouled Ahmed, Except this time nothing returns from the ashes, 2023, film still.

15 January 2025 to 23 March 2025London

New Contemporaries

The New Contemporaries annual exhibition opens at the ICA in London, marking the beginning of the organisation's 75th…

14 January 2025 to 25 January 2025London

Jonny Woo: Suburbia

Performer and drag icon Jonny Woo is back at Soho Theatre with his most personal show to date.

10 February 2025 to 22 February 2025London

Save The Princess

A new tech extravaganza that promises a unique form of live interactive entertainment arrives in London.

4 February 2025 to 8 February 2025London

Vanya is Alive

Vanya is on his way home...at least that is what his mother thinks.

21 November 2024 to 11 January 2025London

‘Pockets of Want and Need’, by Kin Ting Li - at South Parade

Hong Kong-born, London-based Kin Ting Li’s semi-abstract oil on canvas works implicitly depict the mutability of…

14 February 2025 to 15 March 2025London

KENREX

The unbelievable true story of a community taking back control, part Western and part True Crime.

5 February 2025 to 22 February 2025London

MARIUPOL

Two Lives. Thirty Years. One War....

21 October 2025 to 25 October 2025London

FAWLTY TOWERS – THE PLAY

The ‘Greatest British Sitcom of All Time’ (Radio Times) is back – this time on stage!

Festive Dining under Mars with Live Jazz

30 November 2024 to 23 December 2024London

Christmas at the Old Royal Naval College

Celebrate Christmas at the Old Royal Naval College with a host of festive events.

Eunjo Lee, The Lullaby of the Ruins (2023-24), courtesy of the artist.

21 March 2025 to 4 May 2025London

EPISODE 14: Eunjo Lee

Eunjo Lee at Goldsmiths CCA.

16 January 2025 to 2 March 2025London

One Man Musical

Hilarious, never-before-seen one-man show inspired by a legendary musical theatre titan.

23 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

London Independent Film Festival’s 5th Anniversary

SohoLIFF celebrates its 5th birthday in style with Mark Rylance, Riz Ahmed, Toyah Wilcox and Phil Davies.

29 January 2025 to 1 March 2025London

As Long As We Are Breathing

True story of surviving the Holocaust and forging a path to acceptance and forgiveness.

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.

26 February 2025 to 22 March 2025London

One Day When We Were Young

An intimate and heart-breaking picture of two lives played out against an ever-changing world.

18 May 2025London

Home and Away: The Early Years

You Know We Belong Together….

Christina Kimeze, Soaring, 2024. Oil, pastel and oil stick on suede matboard © Christina Kimeze, image courtesy of the artist.

31 January 2025 to 11 May 2025London

CHRISTINA KIMEZE

Discover the radiant, textured paintings of Christina Kimeze at the South London Gallery, her first solo exhibition in…

Erin M. Riley, First Light, 2023, wool, cotton, (210.8 x 254 cm, 83 x 100 in); Courtesy the artist, P.P.O.W, New York and mother’s tankstation, Dublin | London. Photo: JSP Art Photography

18 January 2025 to 1 March 2025London

Erin M. Riley: Look Back at It

Brooklyn-based artist, Erin M. Riley will hold her first solo exhibition at mother’s tankstation London, January 2025.

8 March 2025 to 14 June 2025London

RETROGRADE

Nica Burns announces the West End transfer of Retrograde to The Apollo Theatre from March 2025.

6 June 2025 to 12 July 2025London

LOVESTUCK

Worst. Date. Ever. A new musical comedy inspired by true events.

19 March 2025 to 12 April 2025London

The Women of Llanrumney

Wales’ colonial past is confronted head-on in Azuka Oforka’s devastating historical drama.

20 January 2025 to 25 January 2025London

Glamrou: Drag Mother

Come get lost in this drag hall of mirrors, where one queen’s truth is another queen’s fiction.

Top left: La Voix des Sirenes (2023) dir. Gianluigi Toccafondo, top right: Masterpiece Mommy (2024) dir. Dorothy Sing Zhang, bottom left: Pirouette (2024) dir. Ann Oren, bottom right: Wander to Wonder (2023) dir. Nina Gantz

17 January 2025 to 26 January 2025London

London Short Film Festival

London Short Film Festival announces full 2025 programme with over 50 programmes and events.

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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).

12 December 2024 to 5 January 2025London

Revel Puck Circus Winter Festival

East London born The Revel Puck Circus will take over Walthamstow’s Fellowship Square 12th December–5th January.

IMAANI 606 special - New Year’s Eve

7 December 2024 to 6 January 2025London

606 Club December & NYE

Upcoming shows in December, including a 606 SPECIAL - NEW YEAR’S EVE Extravaganza!

Eat Soup or Die Trying

26 November 2024 to 4 January 2025London

‘Eat Soup or Die Trying’, by Lily Hargreaves - at the Piccalilli Gallery

A series of stunning oil on canvas works from Lily Hargreaves that focus on 21st century wellness culture, paralleled…

Cutty Sark Sea Shanty Singers

1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025London

Events at Cutty Sark

A full programme of events for visitors to Cutty Sark this February.

Chinese Astronomy

1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025London

Royal Observatory Greenwich

February events for all the family at the Royal Observatory.

Out at Sea at the National Maritime Museum

1 February 2025 to 28 February 2025London

National Maritime Museum and Queen’s House, Greenwich

Events for adults and children this February.

15 March 2025London

Everybody Dance! The Sound of Disco

The BBC Concert Orchestra and acclaimed conductor Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser present a brand-new Everybody Dance!

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,…

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.

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.

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…

MASSAOKE+Christmas+Live

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.

5 December 2024 to 25 January 2025London

Soil, Toil & Table

A new exhibition exploring food, culture and sustainability.

Resized.Glass-box_Living-Area_2024_Photo.-Kate-Wolstenholme

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.

CONGREGATION_ES_DEVLIN Image by Daniel

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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…

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…

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!