Live events · London
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52 plays, musicals, comedy nights and exhibitions running in London, matched to your taste from your film and TV taste profile.
52 events, closing soonest first
- Comedy
Daniel Sloss: Bitter
OVO Arena Wembley · Wembley
One arena night of the Scottish comic's dark, confessional stand-up, which likes to leave a sting. Over-16s only.
28 Nov 2026 onlyCloses in 16 days - Theatre
Hay Fever
Wyndham's Theatre · West End
Noël Coward's weekend from hell: a theatrical family torments its house guests in a fizzy comedy of bad manners.
Until 12 Dec 2026 - Theatre
The Afronauts
Royal Court Theatre · Sloane Square
Ryan Calais Cameron's new play about Zambia's 1960s home-made space programme: ambition, comedy and politics.
From 14 Nov 2026, until 19 Dec 2026From £15 - Theatre
Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre · West End
A prequel to the Netflix series set in 1959 Hawkins, with jaw-dropping illusions and a properly scary second half.
Until 27 Dec 2026 - Musicals
High School Musical
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre · Wembley
The Disney Channel hit on a basketball-court stage with seats on the floor: bright, bouncy and made for teens.
Until 3 Jan 2027 - Theatre
A Christmas Carol
Old Vic · Waterloo
Jack Thorne's warm, carol-filled Dickens in the round, back for a tenth year with mince pies and falling snow.
Until 9 Jan 2027 - Theatre
Eurotrash
Young Vic · Waterloo
A son takes his wealthy, unwell mother on a road trip through Switzerland in a dark comic two-hander from Kracht's novel.
From 13 Nov 2026, until 9 Jan 2027 · Mon–Sat - Musicals
Into the Woods
Noël Coward Theatre · West End
Sondheim tangles Cinderella, Jack and Red Riding Hood into one story, then asks what happens after happily ever after.
Until 9 Jan 2027 - Musicals
Jesus Christ Superstar
Theatre Royal Drury Lane · Covent Garden
Lloyd Webber and Rice's rock opera of Jesus's last days, in the concert-style Regent's Park staging, now indoors.
Until 9 Jan 2027 - Comedy
Max Olesker: Making the Cut
Soho Theatre · Soho
A Jewish comic is told to convert to Orthodox Judaism to marry the woman he loves. A tight storytelling hour.
Until 9 Jan 2027From £22 - Theatre
The Cherry Orchard
Harold Pinter Theatre · West End
Chekhov's bittersweet comedy of a family losing its estate, in a new Conor McPherson version.
Until 9 Jan 2027 - Theatre
The Lives of Others
Adelphi Theatre · Strand
The Oscar-winning film about a Stasi officer who bugs an East Berlin playwright, rebuilt as a tense stage thriller.
Until 9 Jan 2027 · Mon–SatFrom £25 - Theatre
Cloud 9
National Theatre, Lyttelton · South Bank
Caryl Churchill's playful, provocative comedy of sex and empire, jumping a century between its two acts.
Until 13 Jan 2027 - Exhibitions
Yuko Mohri: In Concert
Barbican Centre · City of London
A site-specific installation filling the Curve with everyday objects that move, hum and play by themselves.
Until 24 Jan 2027 - Exhibitions
Renoir and Love
National Gallery · Trafalgar Square
Renoir's paintings of courtship, dancing and Paris leisure, with Bal du moulin de la Galette in Britain for the first time.
Until 31 Jan 2027From £20 - Comedy
Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean
Theatre Royal Haymarket · West End
Bill Bailey's West End residency of comic songs, odd instruments and rambling tall stories, music-hall style.
From 16 Dec 2026, until 6 Feb 2027 · Tue–SunFrom £30 - Theatre
The Jungle Book
National Theatre, Olivier · South Bank
A new family adaptation of Kipling's stories for the Olivier's big drum-revolve stage.
From 13 Nov 2026, until 6 Feb 2027 - Exhibitions
Tim Walker's Fairyland: Love and Legends
National Portrait Gallery · Trafalgar Square
Tim Walker's lavish, storybook portraits of LGBTQ+ trailblazers, staged like fairy tales.
Until 7 Feb 2027 - Exhibitions
Cecilia Vicuña: Living Threads
Whitechapel Gallery · Whitechapel
Six decades of the Chilean artist-poet's work in thread, paint and protest, led by her suspended wool quipus.
Until 14 Feb 2027 · Tue–Sun - Exhibitions
The 90s: Art and Fashion
Tate Britain · Pimlico
The decade when British art, fashion and magazines collided, from Britpop-era studios to the catwalk.
Until 14 Feb 2027 - Exhibitions
Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography
Tate Modern · Bankside
How early photographers fought to make the camera an art form, with a working darkroom inside the show.
Until 21 Feb 2027 - Exhibitions
Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong
Hayward Gallery · South Bank
The photographer's first UK institutional solo show in over 20 years, turning her intimate eye to animals and the planet.
From 24 Nov 2026, until 14 Mar 2027 - Exhibitions
Es Devlin: Other Worlds
Design Museum · Kensington
Thirty years of the stage designer's light, sculpture and stadium sets, laid out as walk-through spaces.
Until 4 Apr 2027 - Exhibitions
Constantinople to Istanbul: One City, Two Empires
V&A South Kensington · South Kensington
Around 200 Byzantine and Ottoman treasures tracing 1,600 years of one imperial city's art and design.
Until 9 May 2027From £25 - Comedy
Freddie Meredith: Need a Light?
Soho Theatre · Soho
A one-man sketch show of quick-change oddballs, straight down from the Edinburgh Fringe.
Until 19 Jun 2027From £16 - Exhibitions
Wildlife Photographer of the Year
Natural History Museum · South Kensington
This year's prize-winning nature photographs on lightboxes: beautiful, sometimes brutal, always worth the queue.
Until 11 Jul 2027From £17 - Musicals
Beetlejuice The Musical
Prince Edward Theatre · Soho
The Broadway take on Tim Burton's ghost comedy: a manic, gleefully morbid show with a demon who won't stop talking.
Booking until 3 Jan 2027 - Musicals
Cabaret
Playhouse Theatre (Kit Kat Club) · Embankment
Kander and Ebb's Weimar musical staged in the round as a sleazy Berlin nightclub, where the party sours into fascism.
Open runFrom £35 - Musicals
Hadestown
Lyric Theatre · West End
Orpheus and Eurydice retold as a folk-jazz fable of hard times, sung through by a band on stage.
Booking until 12 Dec 2027 - Musicals
Hamilton
Victoria Palace Theatre · Victoria
Lin-Manuel Miranda's hip-hop history of an American founding father: fast, dense, wordy and relentlessly clever.
Open run - Theatre
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Palace Theatre · West End
Harry's son and Draco's boy tangle with time travel in a play packed with stage magic that really does look like magic.
Open run - Musicals
Les Misérables
Sondheim Theatre · West End
Boublil and Schönberg's sung-through epic of revolution and redemption in 19th-century France, still the West End's great tear-jerker.
Open run - Musicals
Mamma Mia!
Novello Theatre · Covent Garden
ABBA's hits strung on a Greek-island wedding farce. A night out built for singing along, not for surprises.
Booking until 2 Oct 2027 - Musicals
Matilda The Musical
Cambridge Theatre · Covent Garden
Tim Minchin's sharp, funny take on Roald Dahl's book-loving girl and the headmistress she outwits.
Open run - Musicals
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
Piccadilly Theatre · West End
Baz Luhrmann's Paris love story as a red-velvet pop mashup: decades of chart hits, glitter and heartbreak.
Open run - Musicals
Oliver!
Gielgud Theatre · West End
Lionel Bart's Dickens musical of workhouses, pickpockets and big chorus numbers, in Cameron Mackintosh's revival.
Open run - Musicals
Operation Mincemeat
Fortune Theatre · Covent Garden
A tiny cast plays dozens of parts in this daft, quick-witted musical about a true and very strange WWII deception.
Open runFrom £20 - Musicals
Paddington The Musical
Savoy Theatre · Strand
The bear from Darkest Peru finds a home with the Browns in a warm, family-sized new British musical.
Open run - Musicals
Pride The Musical
Bridge Theatre · Tower Bridge
The true story of London gay activists backing Welsh miners in 1984, turned into a big-hearted new British musical.
Booking until 8 May 2027From £30 - Musicals
Rent
Tom Stoppard Theatre · West End
Jonathan Larson's rock musical of young artists, love and loss in 1990s New York, revived for its 30th anniversary.
Booking until 29 May 2027 - Musicals
Sinatra The Musical
Aldwych Theatre · Covent Garden
Frank Sinatra's rise from Hoboken to the top, told through the standards he made his own.
Booking until 10 Apr 2027 - Musicals
Six
Vaudeville Theatre · Strand
Henry VIII's six wives reborn as a pop girl group, competing to tell the saddest story in 80 breathless minutes.
Open run - Comedy
The Best in Stand Up
The Comedy Store · West End
The Comedy Store's weekend bill: an MC and four stand-ups, often a famous name trying out new material.
Open run · Thu–Sat - Musicals
The Book of Mormon
Prince of Wales Theatre · West End
The South Park team send two young missionaries to Uganda in a filthy, catchy send-up of the classic Broadway musical.
Open run - Comedy
The Comedy Store Players
The Comedy Store · West End
London's veteran improv troupe makes up scenes and songs from audience suggestions, every Sunday night.
Open run · Sun - Musicals
The Devil Wears Prada
Dominion Theatre · Tottenham Court Road
Elton John scores the fashion-magazine comedy of the junior assistant and the boss from hell, with costume changes to match.
Open run - Musicals
The Lion King
Lyceum Theatre · Covent Garden
Julie Taymor's puppetry turns the Disney story into pure stagecraft: masks, stilts and a savannah that walks down the aisles.
Open runFrom £29.50 - Theatre
The Mousetrap
St Martin's Theatre · West End
Agatha Christie's snowbound country-house whodunnit, the world's longest-running play. Keep the ending to yourself.
Open run - Musicals
The Phantom of the Opera
His Majesty's Theatre · West End
Lloyd Webber's gothic romance of a masked genius haunting the Paris Opera, played in the house it opened in.
Open run - Theatre
The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre · Covent Garden
An am-dram murder mystery collapses, literally, around its cast. Pure slapstick, precision-timed.
Open run - Musicals
Wicked
Apollo Victoria Theatre · Victoria
The witches of Oz before Dorothy arrived: a big, belting pop musical about friendship and who gets called wicked.
Open run - Theatre
Witness for the Prosecution
London County Hall · South Bank
Christie's courtroom thriller played in a real council chamber, with some of the audience seated as the jury.
Open run
Dates and prices checked against official show, venue and gallery sites on 12 Nov 2026. Always confirm with the seller before you book. Descriptions and taste scores are by Boxlist.