Things to do in London on Thursday 19 November

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.

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

BodySwap: trans club night with Harietta and Karlie Marx.

Stories told with signs and rhymes for the very young.

Creative Drawing: Autumn Nature Studies with Debora Cane.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang on Britain, fiction and desire.

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

Gallery Café for queer photography.

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

Into The Woods: Sondheim musical of colliding fairy tales.

Dogstar: a darkly comic play about icebound whalers.

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

Darren Hayman, songwriter, live in concert.

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

Whisper of the Heart: animated Ghibli coming-of-age film.

Opera arias by candlelight with Nessun Dorma.

Fire Festival: Mitsuo Yanagimachi's 1985 film.

Poetry & Wellbeing: enjoy and write your own poems.

Swing dance taster class, no experience needed.

Stratos: jazz jam led by bassist Rio Kai.

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

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

ARIA: ten short films by ten directors set to arias.

5 world-class stand up comedians with Paul Thorne and more.

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

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

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

Orlando: A Pornobiography, queer theatre by pissCARNATION.

Mozart and Moonlight by Candlelight, classical concert.

Queer Comedy Club Raw: stand-up trying out new material.

Martha D Arthur - Spills The Tea: juke box drag cabaret.

Cable Street Rag Band: vintage jazz and swing, live.