Things to do in London on Wednesday 18 November

Women artists in conflict zones: art as resistance.

CACHE: a group show of ten painters on memory.

Abbey unlocked: Westminster Abbey before the crowds.

Tour: Memorials and memory – Westminster Abbey guided tour.

SET Film Festival 2026: a month of independent film.

Silent Discos: dance by the Great Bath to 80s and 90s hits.

Gospel Motown Brunch with live soul and R&B classics.

Act of God: a debut play on masculinity and class.

Chinese Painting & Calligraphy with Fan Wong.

Julius Caesar Remixed: Shakespeare retold by London pupils.

SHE Soho: bar night for LGBTQ+ women in Soho.

Life drawing with longer poses, guided by Piero Pierini.

Get Into Dance: social dance workshop to classic 1970s funk.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang on Britain, fiction and desire.

Queer Britain: the UK's first LGBTQ+ museum.

Stone, Light & Colour: Tour of a Gothic Revival church.

Funky social dance class at lunchtime, open to all.

Gallery Café for queer photography.

Phantom of the Opera: Andrew Lloyd Webber's iconic musical.

Caryl Churchill's Cloud 9 in a bold new staging.

Oliver!: Lionel Bart's musical of a Dickens orphan.

TJ Johnson's Peak of the Week: live jazz, blues and gospel.

Sensitive is Not Crazy: solo play about a sensitive child.

Arfa’s Kitchen: vegan and vegetarian dining.

Patterns Weekly Live Jazz: improvised jazz to hip hop.

D&D beginners' course: learn by playing.

Hellraiser: intro by Alison Rumfitt, plus The Dysphoria.

Underwear: club night in Y-fronts, boxers or speedos.

The Homecoming: Pinter's study of sex, family and power.

Into The Woods: Sondheim musical of colliding fairy tales.

MAMMA MIA!: the musical to ABBA's timeless songs.

The Pianist: chamber musical on Wladyslaw Szpilman's memoir.

Beetlejuice: the hit musical comedy after Tim Burton's film.

The Book of Mormon, musical comedy by South Park's creators.

Dogstar: a darkly comic play about icebound whalers.

Miss Penny: drag cabaret with songs, cards and prizes.

Kane Brown: Crowd Work King, unscripted stand-up comedy.

BodySwap: trans club night with Harietta and Karlie Marx.

Guided tours: behind the scenes at St John's Gate.

The Coming of Age: exhibition on ageing with Paula Rego.