London Wonderground

Limbo

West End, Circuses, Cabaret

As the centrepiece of this year's London Wonderground season of cabaret, variety and comedy next to the Udderbelly, the people behind 'Cantina' and 'Tom Tom Crew' bring you another circus spectacular laced with music, magic, dance and darkness. Performers...

The Horne Section

Musical comedy

• Critics' choice

Alex Horne's jazz-accompanied comedy-party comes to the beautiful surroundings of the London Wonderground's spiegeltent. It's heaps of fun, trust us, with games and nonsense from Horne and his hugely talented band, plus special guest comics accompanied...

Boris & Sergey's Vaudevillian Adventure

Comedy, Cabaret

• Critics' choice

Boris and Sergey – a couple of leathery, foot-high filthy charmers – are the stars of this semi-improvised grown-up bunraku puppet show. The puppeteers' visibility does nothing to undermine the characters' seedy allure, ranging from amusing double-act...

Friday Night Freakshow

Comedy, Cabaret

For a fourth year, the twisted showcase of the best dark and delicious variety old London town has to offer returns to the wonderground. Shocking, hysterical and downright weird, some of the finest performers from the alternative cabaret circuit and the...

Miss Behave's Social Club and Pleasure Aid

Comedy, Alternative nightlife, Performance art, Musical comedy, Specialty acts

"If less is more, then fuck-all is everything!" Miss Behave promises to make the most of the least in this brand new game show-cum-variety night-cum-disco. Acts include veteran musical stylist and unlikely sex symbol Earl Okin, cheeky musicial duo Raymond...

Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall

Performance and entertainment

DJ Monski Mouse has been known to get the under-5s crowd jumping at this Sunday disco. Parents are welcome to rave along with the kids to her mega mix of nursery rhymes, pop classics and retro dance numbers.

House of Burlesque

Cabaret

The award winning, critically-acclaimed House of Burlesque returns to the glorious Spiegeltent with a jaw-dropping show celebrating decadence, glamour and empowerment, all wrapped in the quick wit and sex appeal of host Miss Tempest Rose. Produced by...

House of Burlesque

Cabaret, Books and poetry

Tempest Rose comperes a night of cheeky entertainment.

Bourgeois & Maurice

Musical comedy

• Critics' choice

B&M return for more deftly turned, snarky songs (think Noël Coward for the me-me, meow-meow generation) and oh-so-outré costumes (thanks to Julian J Smith). They promise 'new material, old material and good old-fashioned slander'. Joy.

Cirque du Cabaret

Alternative nightlife, Performance art

Burlesque, cabaret, circus and music from the ambitious company, including the likes of Des O'Connor, Sarah-Louise Young, David Armand, Banbury Cross, Craig the Incredible Hula Boy and Japanese trapeze artist Yusara.

Miss Behave's Social Club and Pleasure Aid

Comedy, Alternative nightlife, Performance art, Musical comedy, Specialty acts

"If less is more, then fuck-all is everything!" Miss Behave promises to make the most of the least in this brand new game show-cum-variety night-cum-disco. Acts include veteran musical stylist and unlikely sex symbol Earl Okin, cheeky musicial duo Raymond...

CIRCA: Beyond

Circuses, Circuses

Australian circus group Circa do conceptual contemporary circus sparked by a certain extra something which you could justiably call soul. The acclaimed 'How Like an Angel' saw their acrobats soar to the sacred music of early music ensemble I Fagiolini,...

Note-able Comedy

Stand-up, Musical comedy

• Critics' choice

Time Out Live presents this harmonious evening of musical comedy, featuring our very favourite stand-up acts who come armed with guitars, pianos or hip-hop beats. This year's line-up is headlined by the might Brett Domino Trio – massive YouTube sensations...

The Horne Section

Musical comedy

• Critics' choice

Alex Horne's jazz-accompanied comedy-party comes to the beautiful surroundings of the London Wonderground's spiegeltent. It's heaps of fun, trust us, with games and nonsense from Horne and his hugely talented band, plus special guest comics accompanied...

The Tiger Lillies

Pop and rock, Cabaret

• Critics' choice

The world’s foremost filthy neo-Brechtian-post-punk-falsetto-squeezebox-gypsy-cabaret-three-piece band rock up for a showcase that’s sure to offer thrills, chills and more than a little grotesquerie. Last year they gave us a uniquely bizarre take on ‘Hamlet’...

Ida Barr

Cabaret

The hip-op hip-hop star, the missing link between music hall and dancehall, the 'people's pensioner'

Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall

Performance and entertainment

DJ Monski Mouse has been known to get the under-5s crowd jumping at this Sunday disco. Parents are welcome to rave along with the kids to her mega mix of nursery rhymes, pop classics and retro dance numbers.

The Horne Section

Musical comedy

• Critics' choice

Alex Horne's jazz-accompanied comedy-party comes to the beautiful surroundings of the London Wonderground's spiegeltent. It's heaps of fun, trust us, with games and nonsense from Horne and his hugely talented band, plus special guest comics accompanied...

Monski Mouse's Baby Disco Dance Hall

Performance and entertainment

DJ Monski Mouse has been known to get the under-5s crowd jumping at this Sunday disco. Parents are welcome to rave along with the kids to her mega mix of nursery rhymes, pop classics and retro dance numbers.

House of Burlesque

Cabaret

The award winning, critically-acclaimed House of Burlesque returns to the glorious Spiegeltent with a jaw-dropping show celebrating decadence, glamour and empowerment, all wrapped in the quick wit and sex appeal of host Miss Tempest Rose. Produced by...

House of Burlesque

Cabaret, Books and poetry

Tempest Rose comperes a night of cheeky entertainment.

Frisky & Mannish – The College Years

Comedy, Cabaret

Celebrating their fifth anniversary, pop mash-up merchants F&M are performing their smash-hit shows at the London Wonderground. Tonight it's their second hour, The College Years – a thesis in pop dialectics focusing on collision theory and covering great...

Frisky & Mannish – School of Pop

Comedy, Cabaret

Superb musical collisionists Frisky & Mannish are five years old. Hurrah! And to celebrate, their reviving their three hit shows, each for one night only, here at the London Wonderground. Tonight's they'll be trying to remember their debut hour, School...

Boris & Sergey's Vaudevillian Adventure

Comedy, Cabaret

• Critics' choice

Boris and Sergey – a couple of leathery, foot-high filthy charmers – are the stars of this semi-improvised grown-up bunraku puppet show. The puppeteers' visibility does nothing to undermine the characters' seedy allure, ranging from amusing double-act...

Cirque du Cabaret

Alternative nightlife, Performance art

Burlesque, cabaret, circus and music from the ambitious company, including the likes of Des O'Connor, Sarah-Louise Young, David Armand, Banbury Cross, Craig the Incredible Hula Boy and Japanese trapeze artist Yusara.