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What are you up to in London this weekend? Checking out promising artists at New Contemporaries? Gorging on Italian food at Eataly Fest? Gazing at Canary Wharf’s free Winter Lights? Whatever you’re seeing or doing in the city over the coming days, you’ll want to be kept in-the-loop on all the planned tube and train service disruption. Mercifully, following major closures of the Piccadilly, Metropolitan, Hammersmith & City and District lines earlier in the month, there isn’t too much to be watch out for – but there’s still some noteworthy disruption. Especially if you rely on the Central line in east London or the Mildmay line out west, you’ll want to know about this weekend’s closures and service alterations. RECOMMENDED: 📍The best free things to do in London this weekend. 🚇 All the upgrades and new services coming to London’s transport network in 2026. London travel disruption and tube closures, January 31-February 1 2026 Central line From 2am on Saturday January 31 and all day Sunday February 1, no trains between Bethnal Green and Epping / Hainault. Mildmay line (Overground) On Sat Jan 31 and Sun Feb 1, no service between Camden Road and Richmond / Shepherds Bush. Special service will run between Stratford and Willesden Junction. Suffragette line (Overground) On Sat Jan 31 and Sun Feb 1, reduced service on the entire line. Weaver line (Overground) On Sun Feb 1, no service between Liverpool Street and Cheshunt, Chingford and Enfield Town until 10.15am. ...

In an insanely busy week for new season announcements (with the Globe, National Theatre and Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre all revealing programming)… here’s another! The Donmar Warehouse had already announced a single piece of 2026 programming, Anna Ziegler’s Evening All Afternoon, which will open next month but now artistic director Timothy Sheader has dropped the entire year of shows at the prestigious boutique Covent Garden theatre. Only the Christmas slot is now unoccupied. The Donmar’s programme is as eclectic as ever, with the opening play being Mass (Apr 18-Jun 6). US actor-writer-director Fran Kranz’s adaptation of his own hit indie film is about two sets of couples – the parents of the victim of a high school shooting, and the parents of the shooter – who attempt a painful reconciliation years after the event. Carrie Cracknell directs a top cast that includes Adeel Akhtar, Amari Bacchus, Monica Dolan, Paul Hilton, Lyndsey Marshal, Rochelle Rose and Susie Trayling. Photo: Helen Murray Next up, Felix Barrett of Punchdrunk fame will tackle Chloë Moss’s new play The Guilty (Jun 20-Aug 15). Like Barrett’s excellent current West End hit Paranormal Activity. Like Paranormal Activity, it’s a film adaptation, being based upon the the Dutch film Den Skyldige and its Jake Gyllenhaal-starring US remake The Guilty. The play will star Russell Tovey (pictured above) as a police officer with a troubled past who takes a shocking 999 call. Expect a Barrett production to be full...

If you want to feast your eyes on the world’s most iconic masterpieces in London, next month you won’t have to trek all the way into central to do so. Croydon will become one of the city’s hottest arty hubs thanks to a new show of National Gallery masterpieces. Paintings including Van Gogh’s legendary painting ‘Sunflowers’ and works by Michelangelo, Monet, Picasso and Renoir will be scattered throughout the south London town next month as part of the National Gallery’s free ‘Art on Your Doorstep’ programme. Before you get too excited (or worried about these paintings being exposed to the elements), no, the real masterpieces aren’t being shown in Croydon. The artworks are life-sized reproductions – though they’ll still be very much worth a look. ‘The National Gallery: Art On Your Doorstep’ is a programme aiming to bring life-sized reproductions of 30 world-famous paintings to neighbourhoods across the UK. The project has already been to Stoke and will also come to 10 other UK locations between now and 2027. Croydon is the first London borough on the docket. The exhibition will debut on February 3 and run all the way until July 5. Photograph: The National Gallery Photographic Department So, where exactly can you search out these iconic pieces of art in Croydon? They’ll be dotted around town centre locations including The Queen’s Gardens, Croydon Minster, Whitgift Shopping Centre and Park Hill Park. The National Gallery is also installing artworks in Coulsdon, New...