An Oak Tree: Tim Crouch's play on grief and hypnosis.
until Sun 15 Nov
The Other Palace
£20–60
Things to do in London this week, Friday 30 October to Thursday 5 November: 4,997 events, among them 743 in party and club, 731 in concerts, 598 in workshops and courses, 421 in sport, 341 in theatre, 341 in exhibitions and museums and 1,822 others.
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
Ibraaz
Elegy: Goliath's ritual of collective mourning.
until Sun 17 Jan
Ibraaz
Fierce and Fragile: nature art by Takadoi and Neild.
Fri 30 Oct
Jaggedart
Francis Hamel: Two Seasons in Japan, paintings.
until Sat 7 Nov
John Martin Gallery
Baby: a play by Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti, with Pearl Mackie.
until Sat 31 Oct
Ovalhouse Theatre
£24
Justin Caguiat: Change Ringing, art of bells and memory.
until Sun 10 Jan
Serpentine South Gallery
Free
Ioannou's pop art paintings from the junta years.
until Thu 19 Nov
The Hellenic Centre
Free
Revisiting: Fernweh — art on the longing for distant lands.
until Sat 7 Nov
The Hellenic Centre
Free
Send in the Clowns: new paintings by Khalif Tahir Thompson.
until Sat 7 Nov
Victoria Miro Gallery
Muscle Memory: exhibition on gestures and skills passed on.
until Sat 21 Nov
Copperfield
Jim Amaral: Five decades of drawings on paper.
until Sat 21 Nov
LAMB Arts
Massimo Giannoni: VOLUMI, paintings of libraries.
until Sat 31 Oct
Pontone Gallery
Gabrielle Goliath's Elegy: a ritual of mourning in sound.
until Sun 17 Jan
Ibraaz
Free
Tim Walker's fantastical fashion portraits of queer love.
until Sun 7 Feb
National Portrait Gallery
£23–25
Pure nostalgia: The 90s, art and fashion at Tate Britain.
until Sun 14 Feb
Tate Britain
£22
Lowry paintings and book launch.
until Sat 7 Nov
Crane Kalman Gallery
Threads of Ascent: monumental tapestries by Clare Woods.
until Thu 5 Nov
Garden Museum
Free
Stuart Marshall & Tamara Krikorian: video art.
until Sat 12 Dec
LUX
Free
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, the West End play.
until Sun 5 Sep
Palace Theatre
£25–175
Vessels of Earth: ceramics by Takahashi and Suzuki.
until Tue 10 Nov
Flow Gallery
Derren Brown: Only Human, mind-reading stage show.
until Sat 30 Jan
Apollo Theatre
£25–60
Dark Bloom: Local artists on light, dark and the mystical.
until Sat 31 Oct
The Woodfield Pavilion
Derren Brown: Only Human, mind-reading stage illusions.
until Sat 30 Jan
Leicester Square
££
Cady Noland: new works on American power and media.
until Sat 19 Dec
Gagosian
Allen Jones: In Town Tonight – British Pop Art solo show.
until Fri 18 Dec
Gazelli Art House
Jonathan Gardner's paintings of artists' studios.
until Fri 18 Dec
Massimo De Carlo
Botero: exhibition of amplified, monumental forms.
until Sun 22 Nov
Opera Gallery London
Tarek Atoui: a vast sound installation for the Turbine Hall.
until Sun 11 Apr
Tate Modern, Turbine Hall
Free
Glenn Ligon: Prompts, new and earlier works in dialogue.
until Sat 19 Dec
Thomas Dane Gallery
Paul Pfeiffer: Pasodoble, video art on bullfighting.
until Sat 19 Dec
Thomas Dane Gallery
Ryoji Ikeda's immersive data universe: lie back, look up.
until Sun 20 Dec
180 Studios
Jekyll and Hyde: a gothic thriller at Boston Manor House.
until Sun 1 Nov
Boston Manor
£13.50–19
Elise Ansel: wall window table light, after Vermeer.
until Sat 14 Nov
Cadogan Contemporary
Gerhard Marx: artworks from maps and plants.
until Sat 7 Nov
Everard Read
Dog Mom: comedy of a stray dog and comic chaos.
until Sat 7 Nov
Southwark Playhouse Borough
£10