What’s On

The latest from London — new openings, just-announced events, selling-out shows and everything worth knowing about this week in the city.

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Poster for Hear Art's production of Constellations showing Stephen Collins and Kitty Devlin, directed by Charlotte Arrowsmith, at Merton Arts Space from 17 to 20 September 2026

A play about parallel universes, performed in two languages at once: a Deaf-led Constellations lands in Wimbledon

Rene Magritte's painting The Philosopher's Lamp, showing a man in a suit whose nose curves down into the bowl of a pipe, beside a candle bending in loops on its holder, against a blue-green ground

Magritte, Koons, Cattelan and Yoko Ono in one Mayfair room, and nobody is charging to get in

A Joe and the Juice chia pudding breakfast bowl with blueberries, passion fruit, kiwi slices and granola, shot from above

Breakfast at four in the afternoon, free with a coffee: Joe & The Juice is going breakfast-only at Liverpool Street

Artwork for the Hallelujah House: Inside Handel's HQ exhibition, showing the blue plaque to George Frideric Handel on the brick front of 25 Brook Street being polished

Handel wrote Messiah in this Mayfair terrace, and the letters that argued him into it are going on the wall

Renoir's The Umbrellas painted as a five-metre mural high on the brick corner of Carnaby Street and Ganton Street in London, with shoppers passing below

Hand-painted, five metres tall and free until March: Renoir’s The Umbrellas has landed on Carnaby Street

A panel of the Baa-Ewe Tapestry at the Natural History Museum showing Shaun the Sheep trick-or-treating at a farmyard Halloween party under the stitched caption Party From Dusk Till Shaun

The British Museum got the Bayeux Tapestry. The Natural History Museum got the sheep version

A packed crowd at the Roundhouse facing the stage under a shaft of spotlight, with Limitless Live projected on the wall behind

A Dragons’ Den pitch, 12,000 young people and no tickets to buy: Limitless Live is back at the Roundhouse

A speaker in a red kurta on a small wooden stage under paper lanterns, addressing an audience sitting on bright beanbags in a covered courtyard

Bring a broken lamp, leave with a working one: Camden Inspire is two free days of fixing things

Three children in yellow hard hats and hi-vis vests digging through wood chips in a wooden trench with trowels and scoops at London Museum Docklands

The Little Londoners Festival: mudlarking and a mini disco at the London Museum Docklands

An overhead view of a wooden table crowded with croquetas, padron peppers, pan con tomate, Basque cheesecake and glasses of beer, with several people reaching in

Txakoli poured over your head and a public vote on croquetas: a free Basque festival lands in the City for one day

A green marble table laid with a whole roast fish in sauce with chanterelles, a sliced bone-in steak, chips, salad, bearnaise and glasses of wine

A martini washed in beef fat from the butcher two doors down: Dockley Road is the Bermondsey restaurant hiding inside a wholesale food market

Four Cabaret performers posed across the bar at Balthazar, one lying along the stools and one mid-leap in front of the backlit bottle shelves

Cabaret’s dancers are getting up on the bar at Balthazar for six Friday nights only

A girl in school uniform holding a backpack, standing on stone slabs over a stream in dense woodland, looking back over her shoulder

Half the films are by women, one took twelve years to shoot and a village made the other: London Breeze Film Festival returns this October

The red-brick Edwardian frontage of Stanley Arts on South Norwood Hill, with its pink-faced clock tower and Stanley Arts banners

Electric windows in 1903 and a building Pevsner called eccentric: Stanley Arts is opening free for Open House

Two pieces of cured tuna nigiri each topped with a quenelle of black caviar, on a blue and white patterned plate

Ten seats, one sitting a night and a window facing Harrods: Alba’s omakase counter opens this month

A dense festival crowd silhouetted in red light in front of a steel-framed stage at Waterworks

Waterworks has moved to The Cause and become a non-stop 36-hour festival on 12 and 13 September

A figure in an oxygen mask with wild grey hair reaching through a smashed window in a dark smoke-filled room

One shared torch and a retirement home where everyone has vanished: Thorpe Park Fright Nights opens its first pitch-black maze

London Podcast Festival

Paloma Faith, Judi Love and both Fish shows are still to come: the London Podcast Festival is half over and the best week is the one left

London Transport Museum hides 320,000 objects in Acton, and it’s opening the doors for three days this month

Eight performers in 1940s suits and braces mid-dance on a Talawa stage under blue light

Talawa put Black actors on Britain’s biggest stages. Now it’s throwing itself a 40th at Hackney Empire