Things to do in London this week

Pulse, Pause, Repeat: Carmen Herrera's late works.

until Sat 7 Nov

Lisson Gallery

Black History Month 2026: film, theatre, gospel and art.

until Sat 31 Oct

Dugdale Arts Centre

Kindrd Jam with ESKA: curated sets flow into an open jam.

until Fri 4 Dec

Ovalhouse Theatre

£15–20

Fail We May, Sail We Must: six centuries of second-look art.

until Sat 7 Aug

The Brown Collection

RENT: rock musical inspired by La Bohème.

until Sat 27 Mar

Leicester Square

££

BBC TV 90: celebrating 90 years of television at Ally Pally.

until Mon 30 Nov

Alexandra Palace

Free

Andreas Gefeller: photographs on seeing and technology.

until Sat 14 Nov

Atlas Gallery

Disco Inferno, Lomas' first European solo show.

until Sun 13 Dec

Gasworks

Free

Ghost Tours - The Barbican After Dark: an eerie night walk.

until Sun 13 Dec

Barbican Centre (Cinema)

from £8

In Concert: Yuko Mohri's multi-sensory installations.

until Sun 24 Jan

Barbican Centre (Cinema)

Free

Illuminated River Walking Tours: Lichtkunst an 9 Brücken.

until Thu 10 Dec

Blackfriars Station

£15

Kitaj: paintings and collages built from fragments.

until Fri 27 Nov

Piano Nobile

if you like rice, you'll understand – Andrew Pierre Hart.

until Fri 11 Dec

Institute of International Visual Arts | Stuart Hall Library - iniva

Unseen Forster letters and Jim Buckingham's paintings.

until Thu 17 Dec

Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre, 2nd Floor, Holborn Library, 32 to 38 Theobalds Road, London WC1X 8PA

Free

Agatha Christie's The Hollow, a Poirot stage thriller.

until Sat 31 Oct

Richmond Theatre

Halloween in Covent Garden: spooky street spooks.

until Sat 31 Oct

Covent Garden

Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell: 60s fashion exhibition.

until Sun 11 Apr

Fashion and Textile Museum

£12.65

Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life, sculpture exhibition.

until Sun 28 Feb

Orleans House Gallery

Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso on the Riviera.

until Sun 31 Jan

Royal Academy

Jandyra Waters: a first London solo show of her paintings.

until Fri 27 Nov

Cecilia Brunson Projects

Gabriel Chaile: clay amphoras carrying cultural memory.

until Fri 6 Nov

Cecilia Brunson Projects

Sequinology: glittering sequins in fashion and art.

until Sun 11 Apr

Fashion and Textile Museum

The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov with Kristin Scott Thomas.

until Sat 9 Jan

Harold Pinter Theatre

from £31

The Cherry Orchid: Chekhov, starring Kristin Scott Thomas.

until Sat 9 Jan

Leicester Square

££

Silk Road Festival: concerts with Siqian Li and Kamal Sabri.

until Sat 12 Dec

World Heart Beat

Fête du Cinéma d’Animation, with Aardman's Shaun the Sheep.

until Sat 31 Oct

Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)

After the Fire: exhibition on the Great Fire of London.

until Fri 27 Nov

Bank of England Museum

Free

Playing With Form: playwriting masterclass on structure.

until Mon 2 Nov

Theatre503

Jazz Dance in British Culture: Cakewalk to UK Jazz.

until Sun 29 Nov

St. Margaret's House

Swaying in the Wind, fans by Frédérick Yvan Manuel Gay.

until Sat 9 Jan

The Fan Museum

£10

Fences: August Wilson's landmark play in 1950s Pittsburgh.

until Sat 31 Oct

Lyric Hammersmith

£18–41

Town and Country: prints and paintings by Peg Morris.

until Sun 20 Dec

Bar Gallery

Glorious city in the sea: an art history of Venice.

until Wed 4 Nov

National Gallery

£75

CASA: Lines of Flight: contemporary Latin American art.

until Sat 21 Nov

Ovalhouse Theatre

An Oak Tree: Tim Crouch's play on grief and hypnosis.

until Sun 15 Nov

The Other Palace

£20–60

Some Woman: a play with Anne-Marie Duff.

until Sat 21 Nov

Dorfman Theatre

£60

The Abbey Art Centre as Postwar Refuge: an art colony haven.

until Fri 18 Dec

Ben Uri

What Home Gives: paintings on home and homelessness.

until Sat 7 Nov

Deptford Lounge

Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures.

until Sun 20 Dec

Garden Museum

£13–16

Earshot Library-in-Residence: sound as evidence.

until Sun 27 Jun

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