A real German Christmas market along Queen's Walk (from the Southbank Centre to the London Eye) with decorated wooden chalets selling a wide range of hand-crafted gifts and German delicacies such as Glühwein (mulled wine), bratwursts and...
Located between Hyde Park corner and the Serpentine, the site features a toboggan slide as well as an ice rink. There's also a Christmas market and rides including a carousel, helterskelter and 50m observation wheel. Last year, reports from...
As it says on the tin, T Bar present 12 days of their integral parties before, sadly, shutting those doors (sob). Watch out for a series of special guests and plenty of surprises, whilst the majority of us wonder where all those lost hours /...
This annual exhibition showcases the best photojournalism of the past year. This year's competition attracted a record 80,536 entries from around the world. For the first time since 1980, the main prize has been won by a British photographer –...
Part of the Cologne Christmas Market on the South Bank between the Hayward Gallery and the London Eye, a 30-minute grotto experience where children can meet the entire Claus family. Chat to jolly Santa and get a gift and a photo, or decorate a...
Doctor Who's Hamlet comes to London.
A programme of music and entertainment events for Christmas, centreing around one of London's most unusual light displays – a reactive light installation from United Visual Artists. Visit www.coventgardenlondonuk.com for more information, but...
The legendary Mr Izzard is back from the States for an extended run before Christmas. He is one of the top five comics of all time. Go and see why.
There are two unforgettable images in Rupert Goold’s production of Harold Pinter’s hypnotic play: one is...
Not an ice rink, but two artificial ski slopes offering 45m-long indoor runs for skiers and snowboarders – and for daredevils there's the option of taking to the slopes in inflatable sledges. Children under 6 are not allowed on the slopes and...
Promising 'a multimedia pile up of artistic endeavour celebrating the evolution of artistic spirit', Mutoid Waste take over the five floors of Behind The Shutters gallery for five weeks. Paintings, prints, live art performances, sculptures, film...
Last chance to see this comedy legend on his wonderful 'Tinselworm' tour! Expect musical brilliance, talk of wizards and enough jokes to choke a donkey. Consistently fantastic for years now.
This ragtag band of puppeteers, burlesquers, cortortionists and assorted beautiful freaks come together during this two-part extravaganza of modern circus performance. The venue's circular shape is ideal - a small stage in the centre is picked...
We admit, it's often rare to find a New Year's Eve bash that isn't overpriced and undersubscribed. Not this year: promoters B&M and this smart bar is throwing 12 (yes, 12!) hours of disco and electro to pop, indie, old school hip hop, funk and...
The Olivier was built to stage productions like these. Jonathan Kent’s dark revival is dominated by men in...
Marriage, according to the cynics, is solitude without privacy.That could be applied to the whole of family life as...
If, like me, you’re left cold by the whole magisterial myth of Lucian Freud, then this exhibition of early...
Plenty of theatres will be trotting out the size 12 stilettos this season, but the Royal Court’s ‘Wig...
Get 2 for 1 entry with Time Out Andy's back, or rather, he never...
The grand eighteenth-century courtyard provides one of the most impressive skating backdrops in town. The skate school offers lessons for beginners and there are special sessions for children, students and disabled people, as well as late-night...
Annual jewellery showcase featuring more than 3,000 works for sale by 77 designers from around the world. This year's exhibition also includes a selection of contemporary embroidered images by four UK artists.
Dr Gunther von Hagens returns with the latest instalment of the discomfiting blend of anatomy lesson, theatrical presentation and showbiz hype that is Body Worlds. This time, the focus is on life cycles and ageing, as plastinated human and...
Tall Stories have adapted Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picture book about a mouse's woodland adventures and embellished the story by fleshing out the characters of the predators who would like to turn the mouse into dinner. The result is...
The Bond Ball is back which can only mean one thing…Time to dust off that black tie or little backless number and make like your childhood fantasy just came true. Everyone's a Bond or Bond Girl at this themed soirée (complete with a casino)....
New Christmas installation of kinetic light sculptures from Willie Williams, the groundbreaking visual artist and light designer best known for his work with musicians such as U2, David Bowie and George Michael.
They may think Shoreditch is "shit", but that hasn't stopped them taking over this Old Street institution and its three floors for a good ol' fashioned rave-up, complete with glow-in-the-dark room (don't forget to wear white or fluoro!), balloon...
Alice’s experiences down the rabbit hole were surely not nearly so disorientating, discombobulating and...
We might know about the Tower of Babel, the Hanging Gardens and Nebuchadnezzar's madness but the city of Babylon (in modern-day Iraq) also brought us the sixty-part division of the minute and the hour, certain mathematical concepts, the zodiac...
A 1,000-metre square outdoor rink, plus a smaller rink for children, in front of the museum. There is a café and bar overlooking the ice, and a Christmas fair alongside features 25 chalets selling handmade jewellery, glassware, ceramics, toys...
Tracing comforting domestic traditions such as evergreen decorations, Christmas stockings, sparkling lights and glowing fires, the Geffrye's 11 period rooms are embellished with examples of the Christmas decorations that were displayed in the...
Six areas of frolics for metrosexual indie boys and girls, covering all the bases from rock to electro via pop, trash, R&B, disco, Motown and ballads with a special Narnia twist. Performance artists tempt you to the icy side, there are makeovers...
Despite the post-war gloom into which Francis Bacon’s early hunchback characters shambled, the world...
Among the spaces to walk around here – which includes a room filled with red objects and a passage knee-deep in talcum powder – is a maze of different fence-like barriers, including wire mesh, net and wood, which must be navigated to reach...
The ice rink returns to the Tower Moat which offers skaters a grand view of the Tower. The Moat Café is nearby and ready with warming drinks. Wheelchairs are welcome on the ice except during the last session of the day.
Anyone who has yawned their way through the inanities of too many jukebox musicals is likely to wonder how...
Matthew Bourne's take on the Scissorhands story stays close to Tim Burton's film – minus Johnny Depp of course. It's great fun and Bourne cleverly conjures up the right mix of kitsch Americana and fairytale fantasy, but it lacks the depth,...
Norman Jay's legendary Good Times party ups the glamour with this Hollywood-themed NYE bash. Joining Norman Jay will be Crazy P live, Beardyman live, and A-Skillz. Expect hip hop, house, disco, funk and more. DC: Hollywood glamour!
Pyrotechnician Christophe Berthonneau will orchestrate London's official New Year firework display from The London Eye and barges in the Thames, which will be broadcast live on BBC One. BBC Radio 1 will supply the sounds for Londoners who head...
Following a summer of Monkey in the 2008 Olympics and a sold-out season at London's Royal Opera House in July, Damon Albarn's Chinese opera finally arrives at the O2. Designed by Jamie Hewlett and written, conceived and directed by Chen...
There is surely no other country that sentimentalises the idea of family so fervently as America, and nowhere...
Seasonal songs and music performed by local schools, followed by tea or coffee and mince pies.
On the face of it – and where else is there, in photography? – this is a cruel trick to play on a bunch...
All shimmying, all dancing, all swinging NYE bash thanks to the special talent that is DJ Healer Selecta. Two rooms and plenty of space for dancing to the bands and DJs playing buttshaker soul, reggae rockers, raw funk, ska, rock 'n' roll,...
A confession: sometimes I lazily assume that all long-running West End musicals are soulless corporate juggernauts...
Belmont Ensemble of London and English Chamber Choir under Peter G Dyson, with Colin Campbell (baritone) and Anna Bradley, violin. A Christmas Celebration by Candlelight: Handel's 'Christmas Music' from 'Messiah'; Vaughan Williams's 'Fantasia on...
Three new large steel sculptures plus smaller painted steel plates.
This exhibition celebrates the centenary of the birth of Bond creator Ian Fleming, exploring his wartime career and work as a journalist and travel writer and how, as an author, he drew upon his experiences to create the iconic secret agent and...
One side of the road: Camino. Transformed into a retro London fiesta thanks to Hispanic hothouse White Mischief. Spanish snake dancers, sword fighters, tango dancers and fire-breathers make space for bands and DJs playing jazz, blues, rock'n'roll...
An opportunity to buy unique hand-blow glass Christmas decorations, jewellery, candle holders, vases and ornaments by Peter Layton and others. Plus mulled wine, mince pies, glass-blowing demos and free parking at weekends.
The most famous comedy impro outfit in town brings you its twice-weekly night of off-the-cuff games and tomfoolery. A line-up which includes the usual suspects Josie Lawrence, Lee Simpson, Neil Mullarkey, Richard Vranch, Andy Smart and Niall...
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