{"title": "Theatre of Blood", "start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/comedy-horror"], "description": "A screening of the horror comedy \"Theatre of Blood\". Douglas Hickox directed this 1973 British film, in which Vincent Price plays Edward Lionhart, a veteran Shakespearean actor who takes deadly revenge on the critics who snubbed him after he was passed over for the Critic's Circle award for Best Actor. The cast also includes Diana Rigg, Harry Andrews, Jack Hawkins and Arthur Lowe in what is described as a dementedly funny and deliciously macabre cult classic.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/theatre-of-blood-39221/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/theatre-of-blood/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/446587fb897c7073760323c37a1dbf4e15894999e4f3c317b203a05fc57ddd2d-2000.webp", "dates": [{"start": "2026-10-31T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "tickets": "sold_out"}], "similar": [{"title": "Vampire Ball: Live Viola, Cocktails + The Hunger", "start": "2026-10-30T18:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "The Garden Cinema", "address": "Parker Street 39-41, WC2B 5PQ London", "price": "£19 members / £21 non-members", "price_from": "19.00", "price_to": "21.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/gifts/", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/vampire", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "Fruits on Film hosts a vampire ball with live violin by Amirah de Bourg, cocktails and cupcakes by Mise-en-Crème, followed by an introduction from curator Anna Lily Dean and a screening of Tony Scott's The Hunger. Vampiric couture is encouraged, and tickets include a cupcake, a cocktail and an allocated seat. In the film, Catherine Deneuve, David Bowie and Susan Sarandon star in an erotic supernatural thriller about a five-thousand-year-old vampire whose lovers face a price for her promise of eternal life.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/vampire-ball-live-viola-cocktails-the-hunger-39219/", "official_url": "https://www.thegardencinema.co.uk/film/vampire-ball-live-violin-cocktails-the-hunger/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a8cf53a515f3f314c912fd1d95e4ab366b61561f2900e33f052850c493229671-1200.webp"}, {"title": "An Evening with Derek Jacobi in Conversation with Richard Clifford", "start": "2026-11-02T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Queen's Theatre", "address": "RM11 1QT Hornchurch", "price": "£32.70 | £28.70 | £25.70 (inc. 70p QNext fee)", "price_from": "25.70", "price_to": "32.70", "tickets_url": "https://queens-theatre.co.uk/book?pid=19214&iid=353601", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["stage/theatre/shakespeare"], "description": "An evening of conversation at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch, in which actor and director Richard Clifford talks on stage with Sir Derek Jacobi, a founding member of the National Theatre and award-winning star of stage and screen. Expect insight into Jacobi's six-decade career, from Shakespeare roles such as 'Hamlet' and 'Othello' to screen favourites including 'I, Claudius', 'Gladiator' and 'The King's Speech'. Clifford, whose own credits range from Kenneth Branagh films to 'The Crown' and directing at Washington's Folger Shakespeare Theatre, is also Jacobi's partner. The evening runs 120 minutes.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/an-evening-with-derek-jacobi-in-conversation-with-richard-cl-64298/", "official_url": "https://queens-theatre.co.uk/shows-items/an-evening-with-derek-jacobi-in-conversation-with-richard-clifford/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/80b160b817299d910e817cc6fb6eb9a5f94abec022a2835c3c7bce9088f67c6f-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dracula", "start": "2026-10-20T19:30:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T19:30:00Z", "place": "Bridge House Theatre", "address": "High Street 2, SE20 8RZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-bridge-house-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["literature/fiction/gothic-fiction", "stage/theatre/horror"], "description": "\"Dracula\" is a bone chilling horror stage show. Written and directed by Andrew Hobbs, it brings Bram Stoker's gothic classic to life in a thrilling and innovative new version. Vampire hunter Mina Harker is invited to speak at a Victorian scientific society seeking to discredit her claims, but her tale of fighting the sinister Count Dracula chills them to the bone. The cast includes Ellie Ward as Mina Harker, Brendan Matthew as Abraham Van Helsing, Megan Carter as Jonathan Harker and Paul Winterford as Count Dracula.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dracula-35082/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/a754e318e95dd8984fc3fac79c98543d988e7bf684ed3e545dd8e19fd443925a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Rocky", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Picturehouse Central", "address": "Great Windmill Street, W1D 7DH London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.theo2.co.uk/events", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/comedy-horror", "occasion/pride"], "description": "A screening of the musical comedy film \"Out at Clapham: The Rocky Horror Picture Show\", certificate 12A with a running time of 100 minutes. It is based on the musical play by Richard O'Brien, with a screenplay by O'Brien and director Jim Sharman, and produced by Lou Adler and Michael White. A newly engaged couple have a breakdown in an isolated area and must pay a call to the bizarre residence of Dr. Frank-N-Furter. The film stars Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meat Loaf and Richard O'Brien.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/rocky-37895/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/020/HO00016777/out-at-clapham-the-rocky-horror-picture-show", "image": "https://noky.io/images/688a1c21cfc937d13bf8d591d73838ceded754e2431d5bbf8abb460dcc0364b8-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show", "start": "2026-10-30T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Charles Cinema", "address": "Leicester Place 7, WC2H 7BY London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/comedy-horror"], "description": "Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show is a hosted sing-along screening of the 1975 cult classic, with a vocal warm-up, a free interactive props bag and fancy dress highly recommended. Directed by Jim Sharman and starring Tim Curry, Susan Sarandon, Barry Bostwick, Meatloaf and Richard O'Brien, the film is the most outrageous, riotous, kitsch romp ever, and doing the Time Warp this way is unlike anything before. It is a screening of the movie, not a live stage show, rated 15 for the adult content of the hosted pre-show.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/sing-a-long-a-rocky-horror-picture-show-64005/", "official_url": "https://princecharlescinema.com/film/2690/singalonga-rocky-horror-picture-show", "image": "https://noky.io/images/d93252e98dac70f00b7b4908da5e37e130145a62110b0a56cf3ceabd9c472175-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Dracula", "start": "2026-10-30T20:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Riverside Studios", "address": "Queen Caroline Street 101, W6 9BN London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/horror/vampire"], "description": "The horror film Dracula, restored by Hammer Films and Kaleidoscope Entertainment in partnership with Warner Bros, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Christopher Lee, Michael Gough, Melissa Stribling and Peter Cushing. After Jonathan Harker attacks Dracula at his castle, the vampire travels to a nearby city, where he preys on the family of Harker's fiancée. The only one who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow-student of vampires, determined to destroy Dracula whatever the cost. The restoration reinstates footage believed missing for more than six decades, previously seen only at the film's original Japanese theatrical release in 1958.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/dracula-37827/", "official_url": "https://www.picturehouses.com/movie-details/000/HO00018699/dracula-4k-restoration", "image": "https://noky.io/images/217fed229d635583b15a6794adac911242163a57f711d0f0157df84cf2d26d59-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Comedy Spooktacular", "start": "2026-10-31T20:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T21:30:00Z", "place": "South London Theatre", "address": "Norwood High Street 2A, SE27 9NS London", "price": "£8/10", "price_from": "8.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.com/slt", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["occasion/halloween", "stage/variety"], "description": "Comedy Spooktacular is a Halloween-themed variety evening of sketches and songs, with a few fearsome and familiar faces. It is directed by Nancy Stapleton and Lensey O'Grady, with a cast including Jordan Leith, Zoë Slack, Helena Raeburn and David Kors. The show is aimed at ages 14 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/comedy-spooktacular-38724/", "official_url": "https://www.southlondontheatre.co.uk/event/comedy-spooktacular/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/146e89988e1a54af6a0a04c5f97ccb29fc36af838aefbf2bc8803615a0c2128a-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2027-01-23T00:00:00Z", "place": "Barbican Theatre", "address": "Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS London", "price": "GBP 36", "price_from": "36.00", "price_to": "36.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/hamlet-hail-to-the-thief-tickets/2026/10/31/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama", "music/rock"], "description": "Hamlet Hail to the Thief is a unique theatrical experience that retells Shakespeare's greatest tragedy through theatre, music and movement, with Shakespeare's words illuminated by Radiohead's music. 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": "Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast", "start": "2026-10-26T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-16T00:00:00Z", "place": "Leicester Square Theatre", "address": "Leicester Place 6, WC2H 7BX London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/visit-us/ticketsolve-protect/", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy"], "description": "Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast is a live comedy show at London’s Leicester Square Theatre. Comedian Richard Herring interviews top comedians in front of a live audience for his podcast, including chat too controversial for broadcast, with past guests such as Stephen Fry, Michael Palin and Katherine Ryan. The show reaches up to 200,000 listeners per episode and has won three Chortle Internet Comedy Awards as well as a Sony Best Comedy Award.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/richard-herrings-leicester-square-theatre-podcast-36969/", "official_url": "https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/richard-herrings-leicester-square-theatre-podcast/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ec05c6224e014fa69b71bf063b3d0c6e2d95ae7fc1d04c41bafde17be3070d1a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Beetlejuice", "start": "2026-10-30T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Prince Edward Theatre", "address": "Old Compton Street 28, W1D 4HS London", "price": "from £42.50", "price_from": "48.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/beetlejuice-tickets/2026/10/28/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/musical"], "description": "BEETLEJUICE is a hit musical comedy running at the Prince Edward Theatre in London's West End. Based on Tim Burton's beloved 1988 film, with music by Eddie Perfect and a book by Scott Brown and Anthony King, it follows a recently deceased couple who haunt the awful family that moves into their home, aided by the demonic ghost Beetlejuice — much to the delight of the family's death-obsessed teenage daughter Lydia Deetz. The Broadway sensation features head-spinning set and costume design, jaw-dropping stage effects and catchy original songs, and has been praised as a 'feast for the eyes and soul' and 'screamingly good fun'. A gleefully irreverent, weirdly life-affirming romp for anyone who loves horror with a side of comedy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/beetlejuice-64274/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/10cd3272761014efe56c2384dce6f1470fecd9f4dc7d3ed56b8475bacf49e3c7-600.webp"}, {"title": "Agatha Christie's The Hollow", "start": "2026-10-01T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Richmond Theatre", "address": "Little Green, TW9 1QJ Richmond", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/agatha-christies-the-hollow/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/thriller"], "description": "A new stage production of Agatha Christie's psychological thriller 'The Hollow', featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. Producers Fiery Angel reunite with director Lucy Bailey, in a version adapted by Tamsin Oglesby, with Peter Polycarpou starring. Poirot arrives at what he expects to be a peaceful country retreat, The Hollow, an elegant English estate where guests gather for a summer weekend. But beneath the charm, old resentments, new rivalries and dangerous infatuations run high, until a gunshot leaves a body and a scene that looks staged yet is anything but straightforward.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/agatha-christies-the-hollow-70268/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://noky.io/images/e54252b19cd59772ec32348ba63557b82ab9c2ad54c3692887aa88aecac4bab6-1200.webp"}, {"title": "First Scares", "start": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-01T14:00:00Z", "place": "The Cinema Museum", "address": "Dugard Way 2, SE11 4TH London", "price": "£22.50 – £40", "price_from": "22.50", "price_to": "30.00", "tickets_url": "https://ticketlab.app/series/2886#/", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["film/horror"], "description": "First Scares is a two-show event in which broadcaster and writer Matthew Sweet explores what film or TV moments genuinely terrified stars of stage and screen. The 14:00 session features interviews with Peter Straughan (Conclave), BAFTA-winning Best Actress Joanna Scanlan (After Love) and Angela Allen; the 17:00 session features Mark Gatiss (Sherlock, The League of Gentlemen), Lesley Manville (The Crown, Mrs Harris Goes to Paris), Sharon Duncan-Brewster (Dune) and Carol Morley (The Falling, Typist Artist Pirate King). Expect favourite scares, childhood nightmares and plenty of debate about what really gets under our skin.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/first-scares-39074/", "official_url": "https://cinemamuseum.org.uk/scheduled/first-scares/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/ebfb7bc7dfa7390977add9f248e9b3ad2d4a1460661cafeefc340e263f69f84d-2000.webp"}, {"title": "Penge West Halloween Special!", "start": "2026-11-01T19:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Bridge House Theatre", "address": "High Street 2, SE20 8RZ London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/the-bridge-house-theatre", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/comedy", "occasion/halloween"], "description": "\"Penge West Halloween Special!\" is a spooky Halloween instalment of a theatrical soap opera, described as \"Spooky theatrical silliness\". It is written by Tim Connery, directed by Ellie Ward and produced by The Bridge House Theatre, with video and projection design by Luke Adamson. The continuing drama turns spooky as audiences find out what happens to the favourite Pengeites after the explosion of the Bleak House pub at the end of Season Two, what becomes of Scarlett Morden, whether Tony's heart holds up, and what secrets lurk beneath the streets of Penge.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/penge-west-halloween-special-35083/", "official_url": "https://thebridgehousetheatre.co.uk/shows/penge-west-2/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/4999a0a340a68fdf777324133552c78d3c78b4929327d5871517f0a454ac318e-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Signal-Man & Trial performed by James Swanton Halloween 2026", "start": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Charles Dickens Museum", "address": "Doughty Street 48-49, WC1N 2LX London", "price": "From £25", "price_from": "25.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://dickensmuseum.digitickets.co.uk/event-tickets/81275", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/horror", "literature/classics"], "description": "A live one-man performance of two Charles Dickens ghost stories, 'The Signal-Man' and 'The Trial for Murder', staged in a room of the Charles Dickens Museum like a gathering in Dickens's own drawing room. Actor James Swanton, known for screen and BBC horror roles, tells the tales, which follow a railway signal-man haunted by a warning figure and a man tormented by a murdered enemy's spectre. The horror writer Ramsey Campbell called the double bill an unforgettable experience. The performance lasts 60 minutes and is recommended for ages 12 and up.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/signal-man-trial-performed-by-james-swanton-halloween-2026-35243/", "official_url": "https://dickensmuseum.com/blogs/all-events/signal-man-trial-performed-by-james-swanton-halloween-2026", "image": "https://noky.io/images/caf17ca2c05715588b81c7699569f2b54932f1f75b95e282409e08f025423c66-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Garth Marenghi – This Bursted Earth", "start": "2026-10-31T21:30:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Leicester Square Theatre", "address": "Leicester Place 6, WC2H 7BX London", "price": "From £32 (including a £2 venue restoration levy)", "price_from": "32.00", "price_to": "32.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/visit-us/ticketsolve-protect/", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["literature/horror", "comedy"], "description": "This is a live stage show in which horror author Nick Steen's imagination bursts out of his brain and threatens to destroy the entirety of Stalkford. It features a sinister Black Steeple, eerie lights in the sky that are not a Catherine wheel, and a giant skeleton with a moustache. The show is the work of Garth Marenghi, self-described Horror Fiction's Grand Frightener and author of the Sunday Times-bestselling Garth Marenghi's TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi's Incarcerat. It offers three freshly rancid tales from This Bursted Earth, possibly the grand finale of a three-book trilogy.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/garth-marenghi-this-bursted-earth-49184/", "official_url": "https://www.leicestersquaretheatre.com/show/garth-marenghi-this-bursted-earth/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/95fb2ef17fbaa8d479f49fe88399b5d455a581cc6c7c59f5b956007bb802bd2b-1200.webp"}, {"title": "Comédie Française", "start": "2026-10-30T18:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Lexi Cinema", "address": "Chamberlayne Road 194b, NW10 3JU London", "price": "", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/Booking?Booking=TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_605.TcsWebTab_606", "category": "film", "tags": ["film/comedy"], "description": "Comédie Française is a film comedy directed by Bertrand Usclat and Martin Darondeau, a chaotic love letter to the theatre. Producer Nina (Pauline Clément) has three hours before the premiere of her Macbeth retelling when her lead actor is stuck on a train, egos clash and equipment breaks down. With the golden rule that the play is never cancelled, she must hold things together at all costs. The farce, which won four awards at the Alpe d'Huez comedy film festival, features real members of the Comédie-Française company and gleefully pokes fun at the highbrow reputation of French theatre.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/comedie-francaise-36992/", "official_url": "https://thelexicinema.co.uk/TheLexiCinema.dll/WhatsOn?f=10232139", "image": "https://noky.io/images/8ed10bb064dedc66dd0688d80f078198dba78a428a90d650621163c8f9195323-2000.webp"}]}