Things to do in London this weekend

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

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

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

RENT: rock musical inspired by La Bohème.

Masks of Becoming: Miguel Sobreira photos on identity.

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

Andreas Gefeller: photographs on seeing and technology.

Disco Inferno, Lomas' first European solo show.

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

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

Illuminated River Walking Tours: Lichtkunst an 9 Brücken.

Kitaj: paintings and collages built from fragments.

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

Unseen Forster letters and Jim Buckingham's paintings.

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

Halloween in Covent Garden: spooky street spooks.

Sculpted Heritage: sculptures of Africa and its diaspora.

Ossie Clark + Celia Birtwell: 60s fashion exhibition.

Ronald Moody: Sculpting Life, sculpture exhibition.

Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso on the Riviera.

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

Gabriel Chaile: clay amphoras carrying cultural memory.

Sequinology: glittering sequins in fashion and art.

The Cherry Orchard, Chekhov with Kristin Scott Thomas.

The Cherry Orchid: Chekhov, starring Kristin Scott Thomas.

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

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

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

Playing With Form: playwriting masterclass on structure.

Jazz Dance in British Culture: Cakewalk to UK Jazz.

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

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

Town and Country: prints and paintings by Peg Morris.

CASA: Lines of Flight: contemporary Latin American art.

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

Some Woman: a play with Anne-Marie Duff.

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

What Home Gives: paintings on home and homelessness.

Oliver Cook: stone carvings in alabaster and limestone.

Sabine Moritz: Lie Down in Green Pastures.