{"title": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief", "start": "2026-10-31T19:45:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T19:45:00Z", "place": "Barbican Arts Centre", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "From £34 (including a £4 transaction fee); £18 tickets for ages 16–29 from public booking date", "price_from": "30.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://tickets.barbican.org.uk/register", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "music/rock"], "description": "A live theatre experience fusing Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet with Radiohead's album 'Hail to the Thief'. Elsinore has become a surveillance state where paranoia reigns and Hamlet and Ophelia awake to lies and corruption revealed by ghosts and music, with a deconstructed score by Thom Yorke performed live by musicians. 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It was co-created by Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke together with directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, with the album Hail to the Thief re-worked by Yorke and performed live by a cast of musicians and actors. The fast-paced distillation of the play follows the Prince of Denmark, charged with revenge against his uncle by the ghost of his murdered father, and features Samuel Blenkin as Hamlet, Ami Tredrea as Ophelia, Paul Hilton as Claudius/Ghost and Claudia Harrison as Gertrude. Following sold-out runs at the Royal Shakespeare Company and Aviva Studios, the production runs for 1 hour 40 minutes without an interval.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-63420/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c49e0e84e3993640c8b963592565392d41c769513f32e28524db197e9a10f962-600.webp"}, {"title": "Thomas: Hamlet – Chelsea Opera Group Chorus & Orchestra", "start": "2026-11-01T17:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Cadogan Hall", "address": "Sloane Terrace 5, SW1X 9DQ London", "price": "£54.50, £44.50, £34.50, £24.50", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "50.00", "tickets_url": "https://cadoganhall.com/whats-on/chelsea-opera-group-hamlet-ambroise-thomas/book/1336834", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["stage/opera"], "description": "A concert performance of Ambroise Thomas's opera Hamlet, sung in French with English surtitles. 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Winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, it is described as 'an epic celebration of music, togetherness and hope'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hadestown-at-the-lyric-theatre-74485/", "official_url": "https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/hadestown/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6a69a06880368f51a17b339aa54a662f285722804ad302bfc0575db06ffc367d-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Lives of Others", "start": "2026-10-14T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-09T00:00:00Z", "place": "Adelphi Theatre", "address": "Strand 409-412, WC2R 0NS London", "price": "Tickets from £25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://ticketing.lwtheatres.co.uk/event/71460/performance/1119502", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/political-drama", "history/gdr/stasi"], "description": "The Lives of Others is a stage play at the Adelphi Theatre. 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It stars Keira Knightley, Stephen Dillane and Luke Thompson and explores artistic censorship, state surveillance and the relationship between art and politics.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-lives-of-others-37308/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c110bb1e1e49f9a83c00453dbd6893f6ffd48dcf83c219fa823555ed9f012799-2000.webp"}, {"title": "The Tiger Lillies: Songs for The Dead", "start": "2026-11-01T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Soho Theatre", "address": "Dean Street 21, W1D 3NE London", "price": "From £15", "price_from": "15.00", "price_to": "39.00", "tickets_url": "https://sohotheatre.com/book-online/1600603", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["occasion/day-of-the-dead", "stage/cabaret"], "description": "The Tiger Lillies: Songs for The Dead is a concert by the band The Tiger Lillies, making its world premiere at Soho Theatre as part of a Day of the Dead celebration dedicated to their favourite subject: death. Created by Soho Theatre and Tim Whitehead, it features Martyn Jacques, Adrian Stout, and Budi Butenop, with songs written by Martyn Jacques spanning mortality, the afterlife, grief, murder, memory, and the strange comedy of our inevitable end. Their blend of dark cabaret, anarchic opera, and black humour is joined by classic songs including Heroin, Gin, and Crack of Doom alongside new compositions from their brand-new album of the same name.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-tiger-lillies-songs-for-the-dead-38667/", "official_url": "https://sohotheatre.com/events/the-tiger-lillies-songs-of-the-dead/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/1ff58db39ce9687b5ee720b2e7bd29537d26eab7eab253b2b2e61ec4d898ae11-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Hamlet: Workshop (14-16 years)", "start": "2026-10-31T14:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Shakespeare's Globe", "address": "New Globe Walk 21, SE1 9DT London", "price": "£18", "price_from": "18.00", "price_to": "18.00", "tickets_url": "https://basket.shakespearesglobe.com/53686/57890", "category": "workshops-courses", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "A practical workshop for 14–16 year olds bringing Shakespeare's tragedy Hamlet to life through discussion and drama activities. Led by one of the Globe's highly experienced education practitioners in a rehearsal space, it explores themes of grief, madness and family relationships and analyses Shakespeare's use of language and stagecraft, and includes a tour of the Globe Theatre. 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Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. When Konstantin falls in love with Nina while staging a play on his uncle's estate, but she is drawn to Trigorin, his mother's lover, a thrilling psychological drama follows.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/the-seagull-63524/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/25e9b6bb190dd82d3939273b1d03f7d3ea96b8a8f8892a32a7f27350d3607255-600.webp"}, {"title": "Hadestown: The Musical", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lyric Theatre", "address": "Shaftesbury Avenue 65, W1D 7ES London", "price": "Tickets from £25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://hadestown.lnk.to/LiveFromLondon", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/folk", "stage/musical"], "description": "Hadestown is a musical at the Lyric Theatre in London, currently playing and booking through to December 2027. Music, lyrics and book are by singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, developed with and directed by Rachel Chavkin, and produced in London by Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, Tom Kirdahy and the National Theatre in association with JAS Theatricals. It intertwines two mythic love stories: Eurydice makes a desperate decision to work in Hades' hellish factory to escape poverty and the cold winter, and Orpheus, separated from her, embarks on a dangerous quest to bring her back, alongside the story of Hades and Persephone, with figures like Hermes and the Fates. The winner of 8 Tony Awards including Best Musical and the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album, the show has been acclaimed as an epic celebration of music, togetherness and hope.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hadestown-the-musical-37787/", "official_url": "https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/productions/hadestown/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7198291c0299bb75efb4712f3f958309c16a07879fa767866474f5d4fea392f7-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Music of Stranger Things: Performed by Kyle Dixon & Michael Stein", "start": "2026-11-09T19:30:00Z", "end": "2026-11-09T23:00:00Z", "place": "EartH", "address": "Stoke Newington Road 11-17, N16 8BH London", "price": "", "price_from": "45.17", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://link.dice.fm/G541482d677f", "category": "concerts", "tags": ["music/electronic/synthesizers", "film/science-fiction"], "description": "A live concert performing the music of the Netflix series Stranger Things. Emmy-winning composers Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein, of the band S U R V I V E, play a complete sonic retrospective spanning all five seasons, from the iconic 2016 opening theme to the sounds of Season 5. They have partnered with visual artist MFO (Marcel Weber), whose minimal design of light and sculpted fog blurs the line between concert and cinema. 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Written by Levi Holloway and directed by Felix Barrett, visionary Artistic Director of Punchdrunk and the international hit Sleep No More, it is based on the films first written and directed by Oren Peli and brought to screen by Blumhouse and Solana Films, and produced in association with Paramount Pictures. James and Lou move from Chicago to London to escape their past, but they soon discover that places aren't haunted, people are. 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