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Chelsea Fringe Festival

Around Town: Festivals

Critics' choice
Until Sun Jun 10
Various venues

The first ever Chelsea Fringe, which takes place during the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Open Garden Squares Weekend, ...

1 attending

Out of Focus: Photography

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

FreeCritics' choice
Until Sun Jul 22
Saatchi Gallery, SW3

If you want to know where photography is at right now, this gathering of 37 disparate photo-practitioners won't make ...

Christian Louboutin Exhibition

Shopping: Sales & events: Exhibitions

RecommendedFamily friendly
Until Sun Jul 1
Design Museum, SE1

A retrospective of shoemaker master Christian Louboutin's work, examining the evolution of the French designer's famo...

Posh

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Aug 4
Duke of York's Theatre, WC2

ticket: http://timeout.londontheatredirect.com/play/1072/Posh-tickets.aspx

3 attending

Bauhaus: Art as Life

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Aug 12
Barbican Centre, EC2

Imagine going to an art school where the godfather of abstraction, Wassily Kandinsky, is teaching a class in wall pai...

Fabric

Clubs: House, disco and techno

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
Fabric, EC1

Join the cutting edge fray here for the best deep house, melodic techno, minimal and Latin to dub- and- disco-flavour...

Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2012

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

FreeNewRecommended
Until Sun Oct 14
Serpentine Gallery, W2

The first of the annual temporary pavilions and event spaces to be built largely underground, designed by Swiss archi...

2 attending

Field Day

Music: Festivals

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
Victoria Park, E9

The Vaccines, Franz Ferdinand, Sleigh Bells, Mazzy Star, Metronomy, Beirut, Hudson Mohawke, Baxter Dury, Andrew Bird,...

4 attending

Matilda the Musical

Theatre: West End

Critics' choiceFamily friendly
Until Feb 17 2013
Cambridge Theatre, WC2

The RSC's seven Olivier Award-winning 'Matilda' is the best British musical in years. And it's not just a kids' show....

Cutty Sark

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice
Cutty Sark, SE10

Badly damaged by fire in May 2007, Cutty Sark -the last surviving tea clipper - re-opened after extensive renovation ...

Abigail's Party

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Sep 1
Wyndham's Theatre, WC2

Mike Leigh's landmark 1977 play 'Abigail's Party' isn't revived as often as it should be - probably because every act...

Love, Love, Love

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jun 9
Downstairs Royal Court Theatre, SW1

It's hard to be genuinely angry with the irresponsible babyboomers in Mike Bartlett's pointed black comedy when swing...

1 attending

Leonardo da Vinci: Anatomist

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Recommended
Until Sun Oct 7
The Queen's Gallery, SW1

The 87 pages of largely human studies, rendered in pen-and-ink, chalk and metalpoint, come from the hundreds of loose...

Yayoi Kusama

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choiceLast chance
Until Tue Jun 5
Tate Modern, SE1

During her prolific 80-plus years on this earth, she has breached the divides between East and West, male and female,...

Damien Hirst

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Sep 9
Tate Modern, SE1

At his best Damien Hirst speaks to our incomprehension in the face of life's great mysteries. All that meat and medic...

Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thames

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice

The National Maritime Museum's major show for spring and summer 2012 is 'Royal River: Power, Pageantry and the Thame...

2 attending

Picasso Prints: The Vollard Suite

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

FreeCritics' choice
Until Sun Sep 2
British Museum, WC1

The complete set of Picasso's 100 etchings 'The Vollard Suite', made between 1930-1937 (and named after the Paris art...

3 attending

Chariots of Fire

Theatre: Off-West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jun 16
Hampstead Theatre, NW3

Now this is a real coup for Olympic year: the Hampstead Theatre has secured the rights to a film whose mere name can ...

2 attending

Picasso and Modern British Art

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Jul 15
Tate Britain, SW1

What on paper might seem like a delicate interleaving of Picasso and British art, in the gallery can feel like you're...

The Hairy Ape

Theatre: Fringe

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jun 9
Southwark Playhouse, SE1

Eugene O'Neill's expressionist monument to the oppressed industrial class is once more unleashed on London after 25 y...

Long Day's Journey Into Night

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Aug 18
Apollo Shaftesbury, W1

This superb revival of Eugene O'Neill's masterpiece has everything you could ask for in a drama: powerhouse performan...

3 attending

Sweeney Todd

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Sep 22
Adelphi Theatre, WC2

'It's enough to make you come all over gooseflesh,' shivers Imelda Staunton's canny creative cook, Mrs Lovett, as she...

3 attending

War Horse

Theatre: West End

Critics' choiceFamily friendly
Until Oct 26 2013
New London Theatre, WC2

Entrenched in the heart of Theatreland, 'War Horse' is thrillingly other: technically and visually singular and an of...

Remote Control

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

FreeCritics' choice
Until Sun Jun 10
ICA, SW1

This exhibition features work by over 30 artists who have explored both the social and cultural impact (good and ill)...

4 attending

Henry Moore: Large Late Forms

Art: Galleries: West

FreeNewCritics' choice
Until Sat Aug 18
Gagosian Britannia St, WC1

An exhibition, in collaboration with the Henry Moore Foundation, of large-scale sculptures by the British artist. Int...

2 attending

Havana Rumba

Dance

Critics' choice
Until Sun Jul 8
Udderbelly, SE1

A Cuban song and dance show, direct from Havana, tracing the island's music from the mambo and cha cha cha of the 19...

2 attending

Royal Observatory, Greenwich

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice

An admission charge (which serves as an annual pass allowing for repeat visits) applies to parts of the magnificent R...

British Design 1948-2012: Innovation in the Modern Age

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Aug 12
V&A, SW7

In its favour, this survey of British design isn't the backslapping exercise you may have feared and it doesn't make ...

Cantina

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sun Sep 30
London Wonderground, SE1

This grungy vaudevillian circus show from Australia's Tom Tom Crew is the headlining attraction in the Southbank Cent...

1 attending

Gillian Wearing

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Jun 17
Whitechapel Gallery, E1

What is genuine and what is artifice? Do we have both a real and a false personality? And what should be public and w...

Brimstone and Treacle

Theatre: Off-West End

Critics' choiceLast chance
Until Sat Jun 2
Studio 2 Arcola Theatre, E8

Middle England is living in hell but still clings nostalgically to its good intentions in Dennis Potter's 1976 play a...

Juan Muñoz: An Inaccessible Moment

Art: Galleries: West

FreeCritics' choice
Until Wed Jun 20
Frith Street Gallery, W1

A black and white oil-stick drawing of a man peering under a heavy curtain sits at the heart of this exhibition. Taki...

3 attending

Designs of the Year 2012

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Jul 15
Design Museum, SE1

Annual exhibition and awards celebrating the most innovative and inventive design from the past year. A shortlist of ...

Singin' in the Rain

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Feb 23 2013
Palace Theatre, W1

Jonathan Church's exuberant production looks back to Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly's 1952 film, which itself looks bac...

1 attending

Les Miserables

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Oct 27
Queen's Theatre, W1

Cameron Mackintosh's 'little girl' has shaken off that 1980s synth vibe and finally woken up to the organic twenty-fi...

The Duchess of Malfi

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jun 9
Old Vic, SE1

Jamie Lloyd's revival of John Webster's savagely poetic 'The Duchess of Malfi' may rather annoy purists, with several...

3 attending

Billy Elliot the Musical

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Dec 15
Victoria Palace Theatre, SW1

Six years after it first stamped, swore, and pirouetted into audiences' hearts, 'Billy Elliot the Musical' continues ...

A Slow Air

Theatre: Off-West End

Critics' choiceLast chance
Until Sat Jun 2
Tricycle, NW6

David Harrower's 'A Slow Air' takes its time but stick with it and this potent two-hander will reward your patience. ...

Torture Garden June Ball

Alternative Nightlife: Alternative nights out

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
Brixton Clubhouse, SW9

The massive fetish event is back for another gropetastic affair, which are hugely popular with show-offs, goths, ind...

Victoria Revealed

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice
Until Feb 27 2013
Kensington Palace, W8

The Palace re-opened in March after major refurbishment, with the permanent exhibition 'Victoria Revealed', which loo...

South Downs/The Browning Version

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jul 21
Harold Pinter Theatre, SW1

Dignified by oak panelling and haunted by the unbroken voices of boys, these boarding school plays by Terence Rattiga...

1 attending

One Man, Two Guvnors

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Jan 12 2013
Haymarket Theatre Royal, SW1

A new cast moves into Richard Bean's uproarious update of 'A Servant to Two Masters' without loss. Generally, the act...

1 attending

Royal Kitchens at Kew

Museums & Attractions

Critics' choice
Until Sun Sep 30
Kew Palace, TW9

Opened on May 18 after extensive conservation, the Royal Kitchens at Kew Palace, untouched since the time of King Geo...

Jekyll and Hyde - The Musical

Theatre: Fringe

Critics' choice
Until Sat Jun 16
Union Theatre, SE1

'How far would you go to play God?' Dr Henry Jekyll goes the whole distance - as does Morphic Graffiti's updated adap...

Dreamboats and Petticoats

Theatre: West End

Critics' choice
Until Sat Nov 24
Playhouse Theatre, WC2

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Sweatbox Foam Party

Gay & Lesbian: Bars & clubs

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
Sweatbox Soho, W1

Soho's biggest gay sauna is situated deep in the bowels of London's busiest shopping district. In addition to the jac...

Subsoul

Clubs: Hip hop, funk, jazz and R&B

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
The Social, W1

Since their days rocking the Africa Centre with Soul II Soul and at Funkin' Pussy respectively, Jazzie B and Spin Doc...

Best of the Comedy Store

Comedy

Recommended
Sat Jun 2
Udderbelly, SE1

As the premier name in stand-up comedy, with over 30 years experience in the business, The Comedy Store remains a bre...

Harry Potter London Tour with Muggle Tours

Around Town: Walks

Critics' choiceFamily friendly
Until Sun Sep 30

A walking tour for 'Harry Potter' fans, exploring film locations and inspirations for the books, with props and trivi...

Burtynsky: Oil

Art: Art Museums & Institutions

FreeCritics' choice
Until Sun Jul 1
Photographers' Gallery, W1

The Photographer's Gallery's refurbished venue opens with colour images from respected Canadian photographer Edward ...

1 attending
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