Things to do in London today

LitOct 2026: Hillingdon's month-long literary festival.

Saturday Sake Tasting: three premium sakes at KANPAI.

‘The Sad Ghost Club’: Lize Meddings' comic art on show.

Angel Comedy Club: free stand-up every night.

The Banality of Evil: Arendt interned in France, 1940.

Theft in the archives: exhibition.

Michael Landy: drawings of buildings in ruins.

Boyhood: a hip-hop coming-of-age play for ages 14+.

Ibsen's The Master Builder: a stage play in London.

Dracula: Bram Stoker's gothic horror on stage.

DOLLY: new play about one woman and the justice system.

Roman Remedy Making: blend your own herbal remedy.

Women artists in conflict zones: art as resistance.

Halloween Boat Party on the Thames, Day of the Dead themed.

My Walthamstow exhibition: art on the neighbourhood.

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

Introducing Freud: Keith Barrett on dream interpretation.

Gallery Café for queer photography.

Kimberly Akimbo: musical about a girl who ages too fast.

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

At Sea: a non-verbal puppet show for ages 6 to 12.

The Dark: family theatre about facing your fears, ages 4+.

Into The Woods: Sondheim musical of colliding fairy tales.

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

Animal Farm: classic British animation in 4K.

Primetime: a true-story film with Robert Pattinson.

Maya, Give Me a Title!: Michel Gondry animation for all.

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

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

Bram Stoker's Dracula, Coppola's film with Gary Oldman.

Sinners: Horror film by Ryan Coogler plus discussion.

De Gaulle (Part 2): Liberté, a French film on June 1940.

Fatherland: Pawlikowski's film about Thomas Mann.

Forgotten Island: DreamWorks animation of a magical isle.

Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom, family film.

Sense and Sensibility, Austen film with Daisy Edgar-Jones.

Talk on undiscovered particles beyond the Standard Model.

Blue Film: a feature film about queer camboy Aaron Eagle.

Halloween at the Lake: free family party with mask workshop.

Online talk on Backrooms and the unconscious.