The crew of the Dogstar are dropping like flies. Whalers with no whales left to catch, they have been icebound for months and a whiff of mutiny is in the air as they look to cast blame. But something strange is happening. Are the crew’s heavenly visions a symptom of scurvy, a result of the endless polar night – or a chance at salvation?

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Dogstar

Hampstead Theatre

‘Wow is too small a word!’ (Broadway World) to describe My Neighbour Totoro, the ‘utterly spectacular’ (Telegraph), ‘remarkably beautiful’ (Financial Times) stage adaptation of Studio Ghibli’s beloved animated film. Winner of 6 Olivier Awards, this acclaimed production features ‘awe-inspiring’ (Time Out) large-scale puppetry and iconic songs from the film performed by a live band and singer.

My Neighbour Totoro

Gillian Lynne Theatre

Matilda The Musical is the multi-award winning musical from the Royal Shakespeare Company, inspired by the beloved book by the incomparable Roald Dahl.

Matilda The Musical

Cambridge Theatre

Shakespeare’s great tragedy and Radiohead’s critically acclaimed album collide for a mesmerising live experience that fuses theatre, music and movement.

Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Barbican Theatre

The Shame Disco. DJ Reform94 throws a youth disco for adults, with the best/worst music from the nineties.

Reform94

Union Scene

A free, family-friendly street dance on the west side of the Stadium of Fire site, featuring a Miner Music DJ spinning tunes from across the decades, held after the fireworks on Independence Day.

Street Dance: Post-Stadium of Fire Celebration

LaVell Edwards Stadium

Closing reading of the Queer Literature Festival Munich with Sophia Merwald, moderated by Franziska Setare Koohestani. Reading from the debut novel "Sperrgut".

Closing Reading: Sophia Merwald "Sperrgut"

Gasteig HP8

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_ZQW5C2pw&amp;t=2s

The Artelize Podcast Presenting Will Shutes: 'Bring it down out of the clouds to human being level'

An all-star cast brings Damiano Michieletto’s white-hot production to life, with Ginger Costa-Jackson and Ramona Zaharia in the fiery title role, alongside Russell Thomas and Valentyn Dytiuk as the jealous and despairing Don José. Sesto Quatrini conducts Bizet’s electrifying and sensual score.

Carmen

Royal Opera House

Kristin Scott Thomas returns to the West End in a gripping new production of THE CHERRY ORCHARD, Anton Chekhov’s poignant and piercing tragicomedy about a family on the brink of irreversible change.

The Cherry Orchard

Harold Pinter Theatre

Our Autumn Opera Double Bill pairs Gian Carlo Menotti’s sparkling comic opera Amelia al ballo with Leonard Bernstein’s Trouble in Tahiti, a sharp, jazz-inflected portrait of suburban life and marital disconnection. At first glance, these two one-act works could not be more different. Look closer, and they are in an illuminating conversation. 

Opera Double Bill: Menotti’s 'Amelia al ballo' & Bernstein’s 'Trouble in Tahiti'

Guildhall School of Music and Drama - Milton Court

Continuing our exploration of Handel oratorio in 'staged' concert performances, Christophe Rousset brings his trademark operatic panache to this transcendental work. The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are joined by an international cast of soloists, each of them acclaimed for their thrilling performances of Handel.

London in 1750: rocked by earthquakes, and stunned by the 65-year-old Handel’s penultimate oratorio. The adopted Englishman had abandoned his tried-and-tested Old Testament formula for a work set in Christian times, and ending not with triumph and fanfare, but the minor-key death of hero and heroine.

The 18th-century audience shunned Theodora, but 225 years later this story of devotion and martyrdom is firmly recognised as a masterpiece, containing some of Handel’s greatest arias (‘As with rosy steps the morn’; ‘With darkness deep’; ´Angels ever bright and fair’), and choruses which range from the rollicking to the pious to the anguished.

The Monteverdi Choir is amongst the world’s greatest exponents of Handel oratorio, and Theodora requires the choir’s whole expressive spectrum, stretching from the piety of oppressed Christians, to the orgiastic revels of Roman pagans.

Handel: Theodora

Julio Prestes

Salle Gaveau

Teatro Municipal de Lima

Teatro Solís

Teatro Colón

St Martin-in-the-Fields

Schwarzman Centre

Auditorium Parco della Musica

A life of luxury... or love? Manon’s inner turmoil and struggle for survival lie at the devastating heart of Kenneth MacMillan’s 1974 ballet, set to Jules Massenet’s score and featuring Nicholas Georgiadis’s designs.

Manon

Puccini’s classic opera Tosca unfolds in a world of desire, fear and resistance, where nothing feels safe and every choice has consequences.

Tosca

London Coliseum

Gluck’s rarely performed opera, Iphigénie en Tauride makes its ENO debut in a new staging by Olivier award-winning director Lyndsey Turner.

Iphigénie en Tauride

David Byrne is one of the most original and influential artists of the last half century. Since co-founding Talking Heads in 1975, his work has spanned music (including his 2025 album Who Is The Sky?), film, theatre (American Utopia, Here Lies Love), photography and visual art, establishing him as one of the most curious and inventive cultural thinkers of our time. This November, he comes to the UK to present a brand-new solo talk inspired by his forthcoming book, Sleeping Beauties.

An Evening With David Byrne: Sleeping Beauties

Hackney Empire

Gilbert O’Sullivan, one of the UK’s most enduring and respected singer-songwriters, comes to The London Palladium for a special concert celebrating 60 years of music.

Gilbert O’Sullivan Celebrating 60 Years of Music

The London Palladium

Internationally acclaimed pianist Makoto Ozone has been one of Japan's leading jazz musicians for more than four decades. Since making his international debut at Carnegie Hall in 1983, he has collaborated with artists including Gary Burton, Chick Corea, Branford Marsalis and Christian McBride earning a reputation for combining dazzling virtuosity with infectious swing and boundless musical imagination.

Makoto Ozone Trio: TRiNFiNiTY

Ronnie Scott's

When Dizzy the duck oversleeps and misses the flight South, he knows that he must, somehow, catch his friends up. Unfortunately, Dizzy doesn’t have a good sense of direction. Can anyone help him on his way? Join him as he encounters a mischievous pigeon, a well-meaning parrot, and a hungry vulture… not to mention swampy jungles and a chase into space!

The Duck with No Luck: Wimbledon International Music Festival

Wimbletech

Besides being one of the finest baritones of his generation, a natural successor to his great teacher, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Benjamin Appl is among the most thoughtful of programme builders. He opens his recital with the Jerusalem Quartet with Robert Schumann’s melodramatic Belsatzar, a spine-tingling ballad recalling Belshazzar’s feast from the Book of Daniel, and ventures into the world, past and present, and beyond into the infinite cosmos of dreams.

Benjamin Appl baritone; Jerusalem Quartet

Wigmore Hall

Join us on Remembrance Sunday at Smith Square Hall for a powerful and reflective performance of Mozart’s Requiem. Written at the end of his life, this extraordinary work remains one of the most profound expressions of grief, consolation, and hope in all music. The Requiem was unfinished at the time of Mozart’s death, and this version was expertly completed by Robert Levin in 1996. His goal was to place the voices at the expressive centre of the piece, and to thin out the heavy orchestration found in the familiar Süssmayr edition.

Mozart Requiem

Smith Square Hall

Louise Farrenc’s Nonet raised its composer to celebrity status, propelled by the ovations with which the four-movement work was received at its première in 1850. Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective, described by Strings Magazine as being like ‘A big, glorious house party with a long and fabulous guest list’, brings the French composer’s sonorous score to life alongside Mozart’s Quintet in E flat, with its beguiling blend of instrumental sonorities and dazzling array of themes.

Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Join us for the thrilling final of The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition, one of the world’s most prestigious stages for emerging talent.

The Margot Fonteyn International Ballet Competition – Final

Award-winning singer, guitarist and songwriter Marcus Bonfanti brings his Blues Review show to Ronnie Scott's. Twice winner of the British Blues Award for Best Acoustic Performer and Best Songwriter as well as countless nominations, Marcus has released three critically acclaimed solo albums and toured the world with his own band and collaborations with other artists.

Events in London next week

Dogstar

Hampstead Theatre

My Neighbour Totoro

LW Theatres

Matilda The Musical

LW Theatres

Hamlet Hail to the Thief

Barbican Centre

Reform94

Union Scene

Street Dance: Post-Stadiu...

America's Freedom Festival at Provo

Closing Reading: Sophia M...

Gasteig HP8

The Artelize Podcast Pres...

Artelize

Carmen

Royal Opera House

The Cherry Orchard

Harold Pinter Theatre

Opera Double Bill: Menott...

Guildhall School of Music & Drama

Handel: Theodora

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Manon

Royal Opera House

Tosca

London Coliseum

Iphigénie en Tauride

London Coliseum

An Evening With David Byr...

Hackney Empire

Gilbert O’Sullivan Celebr...

LW Theatres

Makoto Ozone Trio: TRiNFi...

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club

The Duck with No Luck: Wi...

London Mozart Players

Benjamin Appl baritone; J...

Wigmore Hall

Mozart Requiem

Sinfonia Smith Square

Kaleidoscope Chamber Coll...

Wigmore Hall

The Margot Fonteyn Intern...

London Coliseum

Marcus Bonfanti

Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club