Things to do in London on Friday 20 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.

Cherry: a night of house and disco.

Jambs Owls Experience: meet live owls and hold one yourself.

Botanical Drawing Class with illustrator Joanne Roberts.

Temple Church: its story from the Knights Templar to today.

Evelyn Taocheng Wang on Britain, fiction and desire.

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

Friday Night Drag Show: drag cabaret hosted by Karla Bear.

Drag Cabaret Show with Queera Lynn and Irene Bru.

Drag Show at The Rising: free drag show every weekend.

The Voice of Butterflies: performance on trauma's silence.

You Can See Everything: documentary on Elizabeth Holmes.

Gallery Café for queer photography.

The Odyssey, Nolan's epic of Odysseus with Tom Holland.

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

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

Uptop Dance Kids: street dance for 6 to 9 year olds.

Mozart Piano Concertos by Candlelight: Warren Mailley-Smith.

Utopia: Syrian supper club run by Hind in Vauxhall.

In the Realm of the Senses, Oshima's erotic drama.

Nathan Cassidy: stand-up on being too happy to be funny.

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

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

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

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

Into The Woods: Sondheim musical of colliding fairy tales.

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

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

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

Orlando: A Pornobiography, queer theatre by pissCARNATION.

Dogstar: a darkly comic play about icebound whalers.

Fjord: Mungiu's drama of faith against social norms.