Sherlock Holmes: Twelve Days of Christmas, comic whodunnit.
until Sun 17 Jan
Alexandra Palace
£22–34
Things to do in London today
Things to do in London today, Friday 30 October: 1,738 events, among them 288 in exhibitions and museums, 240 in party and club, 232 in theatre, 183 in workshops and courses, 154 in concerts, 127 in kids and family and 514 others.
Sacrilegious: comedy on money and faith by Tom Schulman.
until Sat 29 May
Riverside Studios
from £30
Rowan Live: Atkinson's sketches from Mr Bean to Blackadder.
until Sat 13 Mar
Gillian Lynne Theatre
£10
The History Boys: Alan Bennett's play back in the West End.
until Sat 24 Jul
Theatre Royal Haymarket
GBP 10
Family tour: Souls, saints and stories at Westminster Abbey.
Fri 30 Oct
Westminster Abbey
Free
Project E20 Scare Fest: Halloween maze 80m up the Orbit.
until Sat 31 Oct
ArcelorMittal Orbit
£35
Make a mythical creature: family art workshop at the museum.
Fri 30 Oct
London Museum Docklands
Free
Great Fire of London walk for families with children.
until Sat 28 Nov
Free
Speculations: Betts' political thriller with Janie Dee.
until Sun 17 Jan
Marylebone Theatre
from £22
Room on the Broom: theatre for ages 3 and up.
until Sun 1 Nov
2 cinemas
Julius Caesar: Shakespeare's thriller in candlelight.
until Sun 14 Feb
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
£10–89
Stoker Wilde: a glam rock musical on Stoker and Wilde.
until Sat 31 Oct
Wilton's Music Hall
£11–29
The Devil's Punchbowl: true crime meets gothic horror.
until Sat 31 Oct
Hope & Anchor
£4.20
Odissi workshop with Sandhyadipa Kar for all levels.
until Sun 1 Nov
Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan
£100
Voyage to the Deep: interactive exhibition on deep-sea life.
until Sun 1 Nov
Horniman Museum and Gardens
£9.80
Meeting Mohini: Zoya Thomas Lobo's photos of Koovagam.
until Sun 15 Nov
Horniman Museum and Gardens
Free
Angel's Bone: Du Yun's dark opera about exploited angels.
until Sat 31 Oct
London Coliseum
from £15
Iphigénie en Tauride: Gluck's opera with Christine Rice.
until Sat 14 Nov
London Coliseum
from £15
Halloween circus fun for kids, spooky but not scary.
until Sun 1 Nov
Jacksons Lane
£10–22.50
Nerdy Prudes Must Die, a cheeky horror-comedy musical.
until Sun 7 Mar
Apollo Theatre
£10
Singin' In The Rain: stage musical comedy about the talkies.
until Sat 3 Jul
Sadler's Wells
£18–19
Matthew Bourne's Cinderella: a wartime dance romance.
until Sun 17 Jan
Sadler's Wells
£18–60
BalletBoyz's Six Lethargies: dance through six emotions.
until Sat 21 Nov
Sadler's Wells
from £15
Tango After Dark: Argentine tango to live Piazzolla music.
until Mon 9 Nov
Sadler's Wells
from £18
Fourteen Again, comedy musical with Victoria Wood's songs.
until Sat 27 Feb
Menier Chocolate Factory
from £42
The Guilty: Russell Tovey in a one-man thriller play.
until Sat 3 Apr
Harold Pinter Theatre
£35–36
Austentatious: an improvised Jane Austen novel, in costume.
until Mon 14 Dec
Vaudeville Theatre
from £26
A Christmas Carol, Dickens' ghost story on stage.
until Sat 9 Jan
Old Vic Theatre
from £60
Martin Guerre, musical by the Les Misérables creators.
until Sat 31 Oct
Old Vic Theatre
£17–32
Ben Whishaw and Kathryn Hunter in Eurotrash, a dark comedy.
until Sat 9 Jan
Young Vic
from £14
Girls: Theresa Ikoko's play on the Boko Haram kidnappings.
until Sat 21 Nov
Young Vic
GBP 26
Tiago Rodrigues' play of calls between Earth and Mars.
until Sat 13 Feb
Young Vic
£23
Gem of the Ocean: August Wilson's play in 1900s Pittsburgh.
until Sat 17 Jul
Young Vic
from £23
dissent: dystopian play by debbie tucker green.
until Sat 24 Apr
Young Vic
from £23
Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean, his new comedy show.
until Sat 6 Feb
Theatre Royal Haymarket
£21–99
Little Dancer: new musical about Degas's ballerina muse.
until Sat 27 Mar
Theatre Royal Haymarket
from £30
Oh, Mary!: comedy hit with Jinkx Monsoon and Catherine Tate.
until Sat 5 Jun
Trafalgar Theatre
£25
Les Misérables: the West End musical of Victor Hugo's novel.
until Sat 2 Oct
Sondheim Theatre
from £30
The Snowman, family stage show with 'Walking in the Air'.
until Sun 3 Jan
Peacock Theatre
£22–55
One Day: the musical of Nicholls's bestseller.
until Sun 14 Mar
Garrick
£36