{"title": "Lear", "start": "2026-11-18T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Yard Theatre, Hackney Wick", "address": "", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "Lear is a new stage adaptation of King Lear at the Yard Theatre in Hackney Wick, London. It stars Ian McKellen, who returns to the stage with the reopening season of the theatre, and co-stars Taylor Russell as Cordelia. 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The play brings to life the series's mix of whodunnit mystery and psychological drama, in which contestants compete for a cash prize while trying to weed out the traitors in their midst. 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It is co-created by Thom Yorke and directors Steven Hoggett and Christine Jones, with Yorke reworking the band's sixth album into a deconstructed score performed by live musicians. Elsinore has a new ruler, and the show centres on Hamlet and Ophelia's awakening to the lies and corruption infecting their war-like state. 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When King Richard the Lionheart dies, his brother John takes the throne, but faces challenges from France, Prince Arthur's claim, and Richard's bastard son, leading to war and chaos as he goes to any lengths to keep the crown.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/king-john-63526/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/f1aadc354b556ce13cfee56e7bf1e360f1a44ed8e5211e2f269ceed4f5d37a91-600.webp"}, {"title": "Mr Loverman", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-04-24T00:00:00+01:00", "place": "Lyttelton - National Theatre", "address": "South Bank, SE1 9PX London", "price": "GBP 24", "price_from": "24.00", "price_to": "43.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "literature/adaptation"], "description": "Mr Loverman is a stage adaptation of Bernardine Evaristo's best-selling novel, coming to the stage for the first time. Adapted by Natasha Gordon and directed by Paulette Randall, it follows seventy-four-year-old Barrington Walker, an upstanding member of his Hackney community who has secretly been in a relationship with his best friend Morris for sixty years. Spanning six decades from Antigua to modern-day London, it explores the British Caribbean community in a funny, heartwarming, and life-affirming story of family, love, and choosing yourself. 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Anton Lesser, known for Wolf Hall, Endeavour, Harry Potter and Andor, performs Dickens' teeming cast of characters, accompanied by on-stage musicians of Orchestra of the Swan with David Le Page. Directed by Judy Reaves and produced by Hambletts, it comes from the creative team behind Red Sky at Sunrise: Laurie Lee in Words and Music and A Beautiful Thread: Thomas Hardy in Words and Music. Running two hours including an interval, it is a fitting start to the season's celebrations.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/a-christmas-carol-in-words-and-music-40345/", "official_url": "https://wiltons.org.uk/whats-on/a-christmas-carol-in-words-and-music/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4c79c75778aadc1e81f5dbab52768592f331933024b79ca7f3df21fd639e3997-2000.webp"}, {"title": "An Oak Tree", "start": "2026-11-06T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "GBP 44", "price_from": "44.00", "price_to": "44.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "An Oak Tree is a theatre show in which a father who has lost his daughter in a car accident meets the stage hypnotist who was driving, when the father volunteers for the hypnotist's act. It was written by Tim Crouch, who calls each performance live with a new co-star who sees the script for the first time on stage, with no rehearsal and no safety net. The show is presented by the Olivier Award-winning producers of Fleabag, Baby Reindeer and Weather Girl. Critics have praised it, with The Guardian calling it a play that illuminates the manipulation and the wonder of the way stories transform us.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/an-oak-tree-39521/", "official_url": "https://theotherpalace.co.uk/an-oak-tree/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/010ed328807d0544e1a2b2a0beed45590d52ef70f77223239e2225b9f545965d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Purpose", "start": "2026-11-05T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-02-27T00:00:00Z", "place": "Royal Court Theatre", "address": "Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS London", "price": "GBP 10", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "A theatre show running at the Royal Court Theatre near Sloane Square, lasting 2 hours and 50 minutes including one interval. It stars Harry Lennix, LaTanya Richardson Jackson and Phylicia Rashad. The show is recommended for ages 14 and up and contains strong language and discussions of suicide.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/purpose-129579/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/42801e5b9990eb187a7054f70761189bf9a2395ea42bfedec0e0ce4a2e7b9a88-600.webp"}, {"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": "34.00", "price_to": null, "category": "theatre", "tags": ["music/rock/alternative", "stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a live stage show that fuses theatre, music and movement, bringing Shakespeare's tragedy and Radiohead's album together on one stage. It is co-created by Thom Yorke and directors Christine Jones and Steven Hoggett, with Yorke reworking the band's sixth album into a deconstructed score performed live by musicians. In this frenetic retelling, Elsinore has become a surveillance state where paranoia reigns, and Hamlet and Ophelia awake to lies and corruption revealed by ghosts and music. The production, played by a cast of actors and musicians (though Radiohead themselves are not performing), distils the tragedy to its dark and glittering emotional core.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-34802/", "official_url": "https://www.barbican.org.uk/whats-on/2026/event/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief", "image": "https://noky.io/images/c05fba420aa2262e6b2b67accbe34b5ba59ccb29f859d144fa1ec2f09a96c83c-1200.webp"}, {"title": "A Christmas Carol - Old Vic", "start": "2026-11-12T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Old Vic", "address": "The Cut 103, SE1 8NB London", "price": "GBP 53", "price_from": "93.00", "price_to": "93.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/classic-drama", "occasion/christmas"], "description": "A Christmas Carol is a stage adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic Christmas ghost story, staged as an immersive theatrical experience at the Old Vic Theatre. Matthew Warchus directs the production, adapted for the stage by Jack Thorne, with Giles Terera playing the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge. Now in its tenth consecutive year, the show follows Scrooge on a ghostly journey through time with the spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in Victorian London. 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The play follows Willy Loman, a despondent aging salesman obsessed with greatness, who is losing his grip on reality. Unfolding over the final 24 hours of his life in Brooklyn, it offers a scathing deconstruction of the American Dream.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/death-of-a-salesman-63402/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/3bd4a561b2942bc4efcef1b5636e87c270cf71f719eff85eedf2e1e159d01402-600.webp"}, {"title": "Autumn Season: The Mill On The Floss by George Eliot, adapted by Helen Edmundson", "start": "2026-11-04T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-06T00:00:00Z", "place": "Rose Bruford College", "address": "Burnt Oak Lane, DA15 9DF Sidcup", "price": "", "price_from": "2.00", "price_to": "5.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/adaptation", "literature/classics"], "description": "A stage performance of George Eliot's The Mill on the Floss, adapted for the theatre by Helen Edmundson, staged as part of Rose Bruford College's Autumn Season. Directed by Rachel Valentine Smith and performed by BA Acting and Actor Musicianship students, it follows Maggie Tulliver, a passionate young woman in rural nineteenth-century England whose longing for freedom clashes with her family and society. The play blends lyrical storytelling and ensemble performance in an exploration of love, loyalty, identity and the struggle for self-determination. It runs approximately two and a half hours including an interval at the college's Rose Theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/autumn-season-the-mill-on-the-floss-by-george-eliot-adapted-64923/", "official_url": "https://www.bruford.ac.uk/event/the-mill-on-the-floss/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/72f604045f25dc96454e35b2810f2314de056662a0855dc0fdfa9e0de692d4b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Rent", "start": "2026-11-06T14:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Tom Stoppard Theatre", "address": "St. Martin's Lane 104, WC2N 4BG London", "price": "GBP 23", "price_from": "23.00", "price_to": "23.00", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "Rent is a beloved rock musical returning to London for its 30th anniversary. With a book, music, and lyrics by Jonathan Larson, it follows a group of impoverished young bohemians in Manhattan's East Village, navigating love and loss, poverty, and the threat of HIV/AIDS. This new production is directed by Luke Sheppard and stars Gaten Matarazzo as Mark Cohen. It features unforgettable songs such as 'Seasons of Love', 'La Vie Boheme', and 'Take Me or Leave Me'.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rent-63427/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/6feb7051d8e2d46661ea43051dfcaff2102c5c9bbfe603638fd45dd7a103be53-600.webp"}]}