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THE ARCHITECTS A SHUNT EVENT A wildly disorientating performance chasing the tail of myths, memory and misanthropy; and the vague hope that amongst you there might also be a hero.

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People power Ever wondered how the opening ceremony might look in the unlikely event that the Olympics were held in North Korea? Well, these impressive images offer a pretty good idea.

Taken by award-winning photo-journalist Jeremy Hunter, they provide a rare glimpse of the secretive nation’s annual Arirang Mass Games. This huge-scale art and gymnastics display involves 100,000 impeccably synchronised performers, half of whom are teenagers who create the incredible picture backdrops using flipcards, while gymnasts perform choreographed routines in front.

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As you might imagine, the event is heavy on propaganda and nationalism, telling the story of the country through 90 minutes of North Korean iconography.

Few westerners are ever allowed to witness the games, and it was only after lengthy negotiations that Hunter managed to gain access to last year’s event. It has since been announced that the 2012 games would be the last, making his images all the more significant.

The pictures will be on display at Atlas Gallery in Marylebone from January 16 to February 16.

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Jeremy Hunter

A new photo exhibition of a North Korean national celebration offers a fascinating glimpse inside the secretive state

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LONDON Scrooge the Musical London Palladium Closes Sat Jan 12 Midnight’s Pumpkin Battersea Arts Centre Closes Sun Jan 13

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Man proposes on Scout London mystery tour When Adam Freeman’s girlfriend agreed to go on the Scout London HiddenCity Christmas Trail, little did she know that she would finish the walk with an engagement ring on her finger.

Adam proposed to Nadia Taylor while on the trail – and his friend James Lewis tweeted a photo of the big moment.

He tweeted: “@Scoutlondon Thank you for the Christmas romance”, while Adam himself tweeted: “Mulled wine, fast walking and proposed to my girlfriend Nadia Taylor while on the @scoutlondon @HiddenCity tour.”

Hundreds of others took part in the trail, which took place from November 30-January 2 and involved clues being sent to participants’ mobile phones, guiding them on a very festive tour of some of the capital’s best hidden spots.

Laura Callaghan tweeted: “Great fun today @ScoutLondon with team Inspiring Adventurers – best treasure hunt ever!”

And Peter Eisenhauer tweeted: “Had a great time following the @ScoutLondon

Christmas Trail as team WeThree – saw some new parts of London.”

Teams could win prizes such as luxury Fairtrade chocolate from Divine Chocolate, tickets to award-winning comedy at Soho Theatre, and festive handmade ice creams from Ruby Violet.

Visit inthehiddencity.com for more fun HiddenCity trails around the capital.

Quentin Blake: New Etchings, Lithographs and Drawings Marlborough Fine Art Closes Fri Jan 11 Everything Was Moving: Photography From the 60s and 70s Barbican Centre Closes Sun Jan 13 The Dark Earth and the Light Sky Almeida Theatre Closes Sat Jan 12 Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde Tate Britain Closes Sun Jan 13

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Finding love Adam Freeman proposes to Nadia Taylor

Punchdrunk Enrichment: The House Where Winter Lives Discover Children’s Story Centre Closes Sun Jan 13

On the hunt The Life Beyond Mars team

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chips with parmesan and truffle oil.

Or we can get crisps with our cider.

What’s your favourite London venue?

I like Koko in Camden for its oldfashioned velvety velvet. The O2 Academy Islington feels like a serial killer’s windowless basement and is all the better for it. Otherwise, The Roundhouse is a good all rounder, in both senses of the word.

Tell us about a great cultural experience you’ve had recently?

I saw a pigeon fly straight into a busker’s face. It was almost poetic.

What’s your secret London tip for Londoners?

As Samuel Johnson never said: “When a man is tired of London, get a tube home.”

Charming. Now, how about a bite to eat?

Villandry, also on Great Portland Street, do a good line in hand cut

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What in London inspires you?

I like the rawness of the people and the streets that you can still find in London. This kind of energy gives so much room to create anything you want, without limitation.

Favourite part of London?

The Wapping Project near Shadwell. It’s an old power station which has been converted into an exhibition centre, café and other wonders.

mystical-gothic, drama and fun randomness.

Any London secrets to share?

Squirrels: they are just rats in pyjamas.

How important is London in your work?

London has always been a great inspiration, my work is linked to how I see London – a cocktail of

What’s next for you?

If everything goes according to plan, directing movies.

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Jon Holmes starts the new year with a new job – fronting the Xfm Breakfast Show. The Sony Entertainment Award-winning broadcaster and comedian, who has most recently been heard on BBC6Music and filling in for Graham Norton on Radio 2, gets behind the brekkie mic for the first time today. Known for his controversial humour, there’s a fair chance he’ll have people choking into their cornflakes – either through laughter or shock.

Let’s go for a drink – Scout’s buying. Where shall we go?

For a bar we could try something poncy in Soho. If it’s a pub you’re after then The George on Great Portland Street does a fine, convivial ale. Failing that, let’s just get some cider from the offy and sit on the swings in the park.

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Sinéad O’Connor Crazy Baldhead Tour Fri 25 Jan An evening with

Cowboy Junkies Sat 26 Jan

Sahara Soul with Bassekou Kouyaté & Ngoni Ba, Tamikrest and Sidi Touré Sun 3 Mar (3pm & 7.30pm shows)

Bobby McFerrin SpiritYouAll Wed 20 Mar

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3 1 R E B M U N LUCKy 2013 might not have the Olympics, but there’s still loads to look forward to. So shrug off the January blues and get planning your year, starting with our top 13 massive must-dos the opening of the view from the shard The grand opening of the public viewing platforms on the 69th floor of The Shard – aka Mordor via Bank – is a major highlight in the 2013 attraction calendar. Granted, it’s not a cheap view (£25 for adults) but it towers over all of London’s other highrise vistas, offering 360-degree, 40-mile panoramic views of the city.

The 95-storey skyscraper is the tallest building in Western Europe, which is pretty cool if you’re into, you know, big stuff. And it’s the brainchild of awardwinning architect Renzo Piano, who also designed Paris’s Pompidou Centre and the New York Times Building.

Still not enough for you? Well you also get to travel in a high speed lift as anthems by the London Symphony Orchestra play in the background, before getting to use high-tech, touchscreen telescopes to admire the view.

Opens February 1, £25, viewfromtheshard.com

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D avid B owie e x hibition at the V & A David Bowie, the only man in history able to rock a bleach-blonde mullet, frosted eyeshadow and a ruffled shirt, is to have an exhibition dedicated to his extraordinary legacy as a musical, artistic and fashion pioneer. The 300-strong collection will include handwritten lyrics, diary entries, rare photographs, costumes (including the iconic Ziggy Stardust suit worn for his 1972 Top of the Pops performance) and other personal effects from the David Bowie Archive.

Granted unprecedented access to these rarely-displayed objects, the V&A show will reveal how the rather less glamourous David Jones transformed himself from a humble Brixton lad into the lithe-hipped, spike-haired rock god who changed popular music forever.

Twisted reality A manipulated film still from The Man Who Fell to Earth

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March 23-July 28, £15.40, vam.ac.uk

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G allagher and A lbarn bury the hatchet One of the defining conflicts of the 90s will finally be put to rest later this year. No, not the Balkans, the other one. That’s it, Blur vs Oasis. What would have seemed unthinkable 15 years ago is finally set to happen: Noel Gallagher and Damon Albarn are to perform on stage together as part of the Teenage Cancer Trust series of gigs at the Royal Albert Hall.

Oasis songwriter Gallagher is curating this year’s programme,

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T he B ook of M ormon at P rince of W ales T heatre It sold out every seat on Broadway, scooped a slew of awards, including nine Tonys and a Grammy, was described as “the best musical of this century” by the (notoriously hard to please) New York Times and is, according to comic talk show host Jon Stewart, “so good it makes me f**king angry”. We could go on, but chances are you know all about The Book of Mormon already. And if you don’t, you really need to open your eyes because the ad campaign is as in-your-face as the show itself.

As you might suspect from a musical by South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone and Avenue Q author Robert Lopez, this is not your average song and dance affair.

A religious satire with the ultimate comedy pedigree, it focuses on two young Mormon missionaries sent to war-torn Uganda to spread God’s word. Unfortunately for them, the

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and has booked Albarn and Blur bandmate Graham Coxon to support him, revealing at the end of last year that he intends for them all to perform together at some point on the night.

The stellar TCT line-up also includes Ryan Adams, Kasabian, Primal Scream, Rizzle Kicks, Labrinth and comedy bromance duo Russell Brand and Noel Fielding. Just imagine the queue for the mirror in that dressing room.

March 23, £38.50-£110, royalalberthall.com

locals are too preoccupied with surviving conflict, poverty and AIDS to take it all in.

Depressing?

Hell no, have you even seen South Park?! Expect the same brand of biting satirical wit, just without Cartman and the gang, but with a host of similarly provocative characters and toe-tapping tunes taking their place.

The tagline is “God’s favourite musical”, and in our book the word of the South Park guys is gospel.

Previews from February 25, opens March 21, £27.50-£95, bookofmormonlondon. com

Details about the reopening of the Olympic Park (now renamed the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park) have been almost as muddled as G4S’s advance preparations for the Games.

Initially it seemed that people would have to wait until spring of next year to start reenacting Team GB glories in the stadium, or to visit the Orbit and the Aquatics Centre. But last week saw the announcement that concerts could be taking place in the stadium as soon as this summer, with Live Nation rumoured to be running the show (though the stadium might not be ready for new

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One thing is for sure: sections of the Olympic Park will start reopening to the public from July 27 this year – exactly one year since the Opening Ceremony.

The quieter and pleasantly green northern section of the park will welcome visitors, along with the Copper Box venue, which was home to handball and the modern pentathlon in the Games. It will now host a variety of indoor sports, including basketball, badminton, and boxing.

And, by the end of the year, you’ll also be able to visit the Velodrome and pretend to be Sir Chris Hoy as you blub your way through all the emotional memories.

Pop dots Oh Jeff I Love You Too, 1964, by Roy Lichtenstein

R oy L ichtenstein e x hibition at T ate M odern Your GCSE art teacher was wrong: comics ARE art. Co-organised by The Art Institute of Chicago and Tate Modern, this will be the world’s biggest Lichtenstein exhibition since the Guggenheim’s 1993 show. Not only is this one rather conveniently being held in

London as opposed to New York, but it will also include a staggering collection of work

by Lichtenstein, aka ‘the dot guy’. There’ll be 125 paintings, sculptures and never before seen drawings spanning the pop artist’s 50 year career. To quote one of his more famous paintings: “WHAAM!” February 21-May 27, £14, tate.org.uk

T he arrival of S hake S hack If you thought the queues were bad at some of London’s hip, ‘no reservations’ burger joints, you should see the crowds who stand patiently in line for the patties at Danny Meyer’s legendary burger hut in New York’s Madison Square Park. This original Shake Shack won New York Magazine’s ‘Best Burger 2005’ award and has since expanded into a full-blown chain, with 17 restaurants across the US. Now they’re hopping across the pond to give London’s new burger joints a run for their money. Europe’s first Shake Shack is tipped to open in late spring in Covent Garden’s main market building, and London’s foodies are already chomping at the bit to get their fill. Burgers, hot dogs and milkshakes are the stars of the show, while careful and conscientious sourcing backs up the offering.

The frozen custard goes down rather nicely, too. It would seem London’s burger revolution is far from over.

America’s finest One of Shake Shack’s burgers

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C harlie and the C hocolate F actory at T heatre R oyal , D rury L ane Like the Wonka bars themselves, the musical stage adaptation of Roald Dahl’s deliciously dark tale of morality and chocolate has been put together using the perfect recipe: two measures of Grammy-winning composers Scott Wittman and Marc Shaiman (Hairspray, Smash); a thick serving of award-winning playwright David Greig; several dashes of star choreographer Peter Darling (Billy Elliot, Matilda the Musical); all mixed together by Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (American Beauty).

It’s a gourmet West End opening, which promises chocolate gardens, a squirrel army and, of course, lots of Oompa Loompas (who were presumably fairly easy to cast due to the plethora of orange-faced reality TV stars waiting in the wings). The excellent Douglas Hodge will play the sardonic Mr Wonka in what is shaping up to be a sure-fire hit.

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Y oko O no ’ s M eltdown The woman that no one calls “the fifth Beatle”, Yoko Ono, is to curate this year’s Meltdown festival at the Southbank Centre.

There are two reasons why you should check this out. Number one: she’s as mad as a box of frogs, so it could be hilariously terrible. Number two (the likelier option): she’s as mad as a box of frogs, so it could be AMAZING. If the eccentric avant-garde artist, musician and widow of John Lennon harnesses the help of her countless celebrity friends (think Lady Gaga, David Byrne, Patti Smith, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Mark Ronson and many many more) she could quite conceivably make it one of the best Meltdown’s ever. Just, er, imagine.

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June 14-23, various prices, meltdown. southbankcentre.co.uk

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After 38 years tucked cozily into the old arches beneath London Bridge station, the London Dungeon is upping sticks and moving to County Hall, right on the river near Waterloo. With the estimated cost at around £20m, it’s a huge move for the popular visitor attraction, but also a great turn of events for all us macabreminded gore lovers.

The new space is considerably larger than the old Tooley Street base, enabling the Dungeon to significantly up its gruesome game. There’ll be a raft of new thrill rides and historically-themed interactive displays, plus high-tech projections of wife-swapper Henry VIII (voiced by Brian Blessed).

And that’s in addition to all the existing sections – covering everything from the plague to Jack the Ripper – which will be relocated to the new home. To top it off, the shows are being scripted by West End writers, so promise to be funnier and more dramatic than ever before. If you’ve never been, now’s the time to pop your Dungeon cherry – just be prepared for the sleepless nights.

March 1, £18.45-£24.60, the-dungeons.co.uk

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They’re the gigs that broke the Tate’s website. Such was the demand for this series of special shows by German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk that the Tate website was totally overwhelmed and crashed almost as soon as tickets went on sale. For the lucky people who got through, Kraftwerk’s first London shows in nine years promise to be spectacular.

The quartet will perform their back catalogue of Autobahn (1974), RadioActivity (1975), Trans Europe Express (1977), The Man-Machine (1978), Computer World (1981), Techno Pop (1986), The Mix (1991) and Tour de France (2003) in chronological order across a week in February, alongside other highlights from their 40 year career. And not just in any old venue, but amid the former industrial splendour of the Turbine Hall. Most certainly a gesamtkunstwerk.

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February 6-14, returns only, tate.org.uk Dance music pioneers Kraftwerk on stage

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L ife and D eath in P ompeii and H erculaneum at the B ritish M useum This unprecedented exhibition looks at the daily life of Romans in Herculaneum and Pompeii, and features an impressive array of artefacts from the doomed settlements.

For the uninitiated, Herculaneum and Pompeii were two towns buried by hot lava and ash during a volcanic eruption 2,000 years ago. Many citizens made the mistake of not fleeing, so were buried by massive flows of rock and gas that ended up preserving the settlements –

and the body shapes of their tragic inhabitants – until they were finally rediscovered in the 18th century.

The most chilling aspect of this exhibition is the human content: the star attractions are plaster casts of a family cowering under the stairs and that of a little dog found yapping in the courtyard, as well as a baby’s cot that still rocks.

Many of the 250 items on display have never been seen outside of Italy, while the rest have not seen British shores in over 40 years.

March 28-September 29, £15, britishmuseum.org

Roman relics The ancient city of Pompeii today

H arry H ill back on stage TV’s loss is live comedy’s gain: after a six year absence from the stage, one of the country’s favourite comic talents has finally found the time to head back out on the road, and with a typically amusingly-titled show: Sausage Time.

The former TV Burp host will treat audiences to some old favourites from throughout

his lengthy comedy career: Stouffer the Cat will make an appearance, as will Hill’s ailment-prone nan and his fictional son Gary (who will, apparently, be debuting his own stand-up show). We’re also told there’s a section in the show “exclusively for Tongans”. Oh, and a giant sausage… obviously.

March 28, £30, hammersmithapollo.com

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Whose nap is it anyway?

Looking for something interesting to do this weekend? How about taking the ultimate audience member challenge and watching a 50-hour improvised comedy soap opera?

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icture this: Whose Line Is It Anyway? but with a cast of around 50, all improvising a comedy soap opera that lasts a whopping 50 hours, non-stop.

That’s right, more than two days of continuous improv, running day and night, only pausing for quick breaks between each two-hour ‘episode’.

Welcome to the London Improvathon.

This annual event sees the world’s greatest improvisers descend on the capital for a typically wild, uplifting, moving and generally hilarious marathon production. Forget Hamlet; forget Lear; forget headlining The O2; this is the Everest of comedic and theatrical achievement.

Scout caught up with director Adam Meggido ahead of the 2013 event this weekend.

How do you direct something that is entirely improvised?

We keep the storylines going through the entire 50 hours, so I have to note down all the stories that the actors start, to make sure they can be advanced and resolved. I will call the top of each scene, saying ‘these particular actors play this scene in this location’, but the actors have the freedom to do whatever they like outside of that.

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Is it dangerous?

Sleepless in Hoxton Improvathon director Adam Meggido

strong story offers. If they start playing dark, rumbling chords, then the actors will respond to that and something sinister might start to happen, so everyone is involved in this very live storytelling process. What’s so extraordinary is that the stories are brilliant. This isn’t your average improv night down the pub. This is bigscale drama, so as well as it being very funny, you’ll also have audience members gasping and crying.

Does it get funnier as the actors get tired and start going off in more surreal directions?

A little bit. What happens is you get a different kind of comedy. The quality of the performers is so high that you’re always in good hands. But after 30 hours without sleep the part of your brain that censors you is too tired to function.

That means any remaining inhibition is gone, so yes, it’s a bit wilder and more surreal.

It’s not dangerous, but to do too much of it would not be good for you. You go to some dark places. The second night without sleep is often referred to as the ‘gates of hell’, because you can get quite paranoid and start hallucinating, so you have to be careful. A lot of the actors will do close to 50 hours, but they’ll have two or three hours sleep here and there. But you’ll also have a group of veterans who refuse to sleep, who will push through.

What’s the weirdest storyline a tired actor has ever led it down?

I don’t know where to begin. Put it this way: when it really gets surreal, it makes Monty Python look tame. But it doesn’t just stay surreal. It comes through it and suddenly sharpens into focus to become something extraordinary. The surreal hours, which are traditionally the early hours of Sunday morning, might be quite difficult for the actors to push through because it’s so odd. But it’s very funny, and throughout Sunday they start to really hone in on what they are doing, and it becomes some of the best drama I’ve ever seen.

London Improvathon, Hoxton Hall, 7pm January 11 – 9pm January 13, £10 per episode or £55 for all 50 hours, hoxtonhall.co.uk

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Waterloo £4, concs £3, 6pm. The award-winning actor talks about his first play, I Am Shakespeare, followed by a book signing.

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London Ice Sculpting Festival at Wood Wharf, E14 9SB Canary Wharf Jan 11, 11am7pm, Jan 12, 10am-12noon & 1pm3.30pm, Jan 13, 11am-3pm, FREE. Teams from around the world fashion blocks of ice into dazzling sculptures.

Until Jan 13.

Bicycle Tours at The London Bicycle Tour Company, Gabriel’s Wharf, Upper Ground, SE1 9PP Blackfriars Jan-Mar, Mon-Sun 10am-4pm, Apr-Oct, Mon-Sun 9.30am-6pm, £18.95-£29.95. Classic tours of central London, plus countryside tours and cycle rental. Until Dec 31.

Cafe Philo at Institut Francais Du Royaume-Uni, Queensberry Place, SW7 2DT South Kensington Sat 10.30am-12.15pm, £2. Discuss philosophical issues. Until Jan 26.

Monday January 7 Day Special: Israeli Elections: Workshop at London Jewish Cultural Centre, Ivy House, 94-96 North End Road, NW11 7SX Golders Green £35, 10.30am-3.30pm.

A look at what the Israeli elections mean for Israel.

Mark Rylance: Talk at National Theatre: Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1 9PX

Crouch End Poetry Group: Workshop at Hornsey Library, Haringey Park, N8 9JA Crouch Hill FREE, 10.30am-12.30pm.

Develop poetry writing and craft.

Ftw Comedy Pop Quiz at The Queen Of Hoxton, 1-5 Curtain Road, EC2A 3JX Shoreditch High Street £3, 8pm-late.

An interactive weekly quiz with stand-up from James Loveridge, Amy Howerska, Luke Capasso and Kerry Billson between rounds.

Lyrically Challenged at Passing Clouds, Richmond Road, E8 4AA Dalston Kingsland £3, FREE before 8pm, 7pm. Poetry readings and an open mic.

Street Dance at Stratford Circus, Theatre Square, E15 1BX Stratford £7 per session, 8.30pm. Hip hop dance classes.

William Burges And The Victorian Gothic Revival: Talk at British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG Russell Square FREE, 1.15pm. A talk on the influence of the Victorian architect.

Wednesday January 9 Bookshop Barnies With Jonathan Fenby at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB Tottenham Court Road FREE, adv booking at futurecitiesproject@ gmail.com, 6.15pm-8pm. Austin Williams talks to author Jonathan Fenby about his book Tiger Head, Snake Tails.

Halfway To Paradise: The Birth Of British Rock: Lecture at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington FREE, 1pm. Harry Hammond’s life and works are discussed.

Thursday January 10 Beginners Watercolour: Workshop at Donald Hope Library, High Street, SW19 2HR Colliers Wood FREE, 4.30pm-6pm. Drop-in session

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Bogan Bingo at The Underdog, 16a Clapham Common South Side, SW4 7AB Clapham Common two games of bingo £5, 8pm. Games to a rock soundtrack.

David Bedella’s After Show at The Alley Cat, 4 Denmark Street, WC2H 8LP Tottenham Court Rd phone for prices, 10pm-3am. Stars sing with Dave and his trio followed by an open mic session.

John Dowland’s iPod: The Music That Inspired Dowland’s Genius: Talk at Wigmore Hall, 36 Wigmore Street, W1U 2BF Bond Street £3, 6pm. A preconcert talk.

The Funding Of Research Into Biology: Talk at Highgate Literary & Scientific Institution, 11 South Grove, N6 6BS Archway FREE, 8pm-9.30pm. The Wellcome Trust’s Kevin Moses discusses the subject’s support.

I Love Lists at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB Tottenham Court Road £7, adv £5, 7pm-9pm. With American presenter Jess Indeedy.

London Underground: Past, Present And Future: Panel Discussion at London Transport Museum, 39 Covent Garden Piazza, WC2E 7BB Covent Garden £10, concs £8, adv booking required, 6.30pm-8.30pm. Celebrate the 150th anniversary of the London Underground with experts, who are on hand to explain aspects of the Tube system’s history.

Tongue Fu: Poetry Reading at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA Shoreditch High Street £8, NUS £6, 8pm, doors 7pm. Improvised poetry and spoken word.

Friday January 11 The Annual Jocelyn Herbert Lecture: Christopher Hampton - Simplifying The Jungle at National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £4, concs £3, 6pm. The award-winning screenwriter of Dangerous Liaisons and Atonement discusses the role of the designer in the theatre.

Digital Bootcamp Deluxe: Workshop at The Frontline Club, 13 Norfolk Place, W2 1QJ Paddington £40, adv booking required, 2pm-7pm. This session covers best social media practice, building an audience before a film is completed, crowd funding, DIY distribution techniques and more.

Arenacross - Monster Event at The O2, Peninsula Square, SE10 0DX North Greenwich £19-£39, 6.30pm. Highly energetic showcase of freestyle motocross.

Peter Stamm In Conversation With Tim Parks at London Review Bookshop, 14 Bury Place, WC1A 2JL Holborn £10, adv booking required, 7pm. The authors discuss their work.

Saturday January 12 Balkanplus at Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regents Park Road, NW1 7AY Camden Town £7, adv £5, 7pm-10pm.

A variety of music and dancing that has its roots in the Balkan countries.

Electro Dough Workshop at Rough Trade East, Brick Lane, E1 6QL Aldgate East £30, 10am-1pm. Spend a morning exploring the intersection where technology, art and electro-dough meet.

Killer Bugs: Talk at Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD South Kensington FREE, 12.30pm1pm. A staff member discusses predatory bugs.

Tullett Prebon London Boat Show 2013 at ExCel, Royal Victoria Dock, 1 Western Gateway, E16 1XL Canning Town £10 & £20, concs £10 & £15, under 15s FREE, adv £10 & £16, concs £10 & £13, under 15s FREE, two day ticket £26, 10am-7pm.

Exhibitors and trade stands, interactive pools and demonstrations and advice.

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Sunday January 13

District line No service Dagenham East to Upminster all weekend. On Saturday until 7am the closure will be Plaistow to Upminster (eastbound) and Upminster to Barking (westbound).

Hammersmith & City line No service Liverpool Street to Barking until 7am on Saturday.

Northern line No service Tooting Broadway to Morden all weekend.

London Overground No service on Saturday Clapham Junction to Kensington (Olympia). No service Clapham Junction to Kensington (Olympia) from 12noon on Sunday.

No service Clapham Junction to Willesden Junction until 12noon on Sunday.

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BAFTA Masterclass Labs: Peter Strickland: Talk at ICA, 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Charing Cross £10, concs £8, mems £7, 6.30pm. A masterclass on experimental sound in films.

Africa: Eye To Eye With The Unknown: Talk at Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD South Kensington FREE, 12.30pm-1pm, 2.30pm-3pm. With Michael Bright and James Honeyborne.

Book In A Day Workshop at Saatchi Gallery, Duke Of York’s HQ, King’s Road, SW3 4RY Sloane Square £45, inc materials, under 14s £35, adv booking required, 11.30am-5pm, children must be accompanied. Learn how to make a book in a day.

Welcome To Cheese & Wine: Workshop at Vinopolis, 1 Bank End, SE1 9BU London Bridge £50, 1pm. Sample selected wines and cheeses.

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Hot food trends

2013

PREVIEW

Scout food and drink editor Ben Norum predicts this year’s foodie fashions

Fusion Is Back Many will baulk at the suggestion that fusion food is set to make a return, but watch this space.

We’re not talking osso bucco with bananas or anything, but having lost out over the past few years to the trend for authenticity, 2013 could be the year that London embraces fusion’s better side.

Street food has been subtley paving the way, demonstrating how cross-cultural influences can come together without confusion.

Furthermore, there are already some good examples of how it can work well, such as at Peter Gordon’s The Providores or Anna Hansen’s The Modern Pantry.

Indian-influenced Bhangra Burger and Vadaszdeli’s blend of South American and Eastern European flavours have been big in 2012, so it could be time to take things to the next level.

Asian American A Bhangra Burger

Chinese Revolution Alvin Leung (pictured top right), famous for his self-branded X-Treme Chinese cuisine, is one chef who isn’t afraid of flavour 18 Scout London scoutlondon.com

fusing, and his first UK restaurant Bo London is set to make waves when it opens later this month.

Already a name among the foodie hardcore, we’re putting bets on him being a celebrity figure before the year is out. We’ve already seen the opening of a few copy-cat restaurants aiming to rejuvenate Chinese food’s ever-so-slightly tired reputation through some modern mad-cap dishes. Prepare yourself for a shock.

Something’s Brewing 2012 saw London enthusiastically embrace craft beer, with the opening of numerous beerspecialising pubs and bars across the city. Craft Beer Co. branches in Brixton and Islington, The North Pole in Haggerston and Crown & Anchor close to Oval are just a few. Newcomers like Hackney Brewery and Wandsworth’s By The Horns Brewing Company have also helped shift our beer-drinking focus towards London. But we still lag behind cities such as New York, San Francisco and Berlin where it’s completely normal for pubs to have their own brews on tap and for residents to make their own at home.

For a city with an

unrivalled history of beer and pubs, it’s about time we caught the brewing bug and started to take the making of it as seriously as we do the drinking of it. Cheers to 2013 being the year of beer.

Cake hole Sprinkles vending machine in LA

Status Vending Last year LA cupcake brand Sprinkles made headlines with the introduction of its 24-hour vending machine, which sells around 1,000 cakes daily to those who want an out-of-hours fix, or don’t want to queue. Meanwhile a butcher in Spain has a 24hour vending machine offering homemade sausages, steaks and meatballs. It’s a trend adopted

by Japan many years ago, where everything from noodles to lobsters can be bought from machines. With growing discontent at London’s lack of 24-hour dining options, and the increasing popularity of good quality fast food, we’re predicting London will jump on the food vending bandwagon before the year is out.

Going Soft Soft drinks aren’t just for kids. Look out in 2013 for a return of British classics such as lemonade, ginger beer and dandelion and burdock.

Companies are already seeing a boost in sales of the classics, with the soft drinks market seeing a 3.3 per cent increase in sales last year, despite the drinks market overall decreasing slightly. New openings Moo Grill and Burger & Shake are also taking the soft approach with a focus on milkshakes. We’re predicting that homemade cordials and pops will start appearing in cafés, bars and pubs, and we’ll see a few more Londoners meeting over a glass of pop or a shake instead of a pint or a coffee.

Getting Spiked If the idea of going soft doesn’t sound like much fun, then you’ll like the idea of another trend we’ll be looking out for in 2013: drink spiking. Don’t worry, we’re talking consensual spiking only. In particular, the Hard Shake (that’s a milkshake with a shot in it) and – most enticingly – the Boilermaker. Take a pint of ale (hoppy, American style works best) and add a shot of bourbon to create a real winter-warmer with a punch. They’re already on the menu at Byron and we’re expecting to see them all over town this year.

Top Ten healthy eating

Lounge Indian without the 1 Indali butter or cream and little oil W1U 7BT Baker Street

Fresh veg and 2 Ottolenghi sexy salads N1 2TZ Highbury & Islington

Bio Vegetarian and organic, including the wine 3 Amico EC1A 7JQ Barbican

Blue Boar Smokehouse Westminster £££

Raw food & detox 4 Saf specials W8 5SE

The Intercontinental Group has just opened a new hotel in Westminster, and with it comes this lauded restaurant. Indulging in the pulled pork/ barbecue meat craze that the likes of Pitt Cue Co have sparked, plus our seemingly indefatigable current love of steak, Blue Boar is bang on trend.

It is named after the Blue Boar’s Head Inn that was famous for feeding and watering Westminster’s population from the late 14th century right up to its demolition in 1899.

Similar cultural references are found throughout the restaurant and hotel through speciallycommissioned artwork, including a mesmerising painting by Agamaria Pasternak, which contains the faces of every MP in parliament.

While there are plenty of fun nods to the restaurant’s parliamentary location in the decor, the menu itself is much more Deep South than SW1.

No dish characterises this more so than the Blue Boar Ribs, which are available as either starter or main. Served poking animalistically out of an elaborate silverware bucket, they boast tender flesh, a sticky coating that’s slightly spicy and not too sweet, and with surprisingly little fat – they’re exemplary.

A starter of deep-fried duck egg served atop a garlic butter-soaked slice of toast piled with wild mushrooms turns out to be our only non-meat dish of the meal. It’s earthy, creamy and crisp in all the right places.

But it’s the meat that is the focus. A veal T-Bone steak, served beautifully pink in a caper

High Street Kensington

Libanais Fresh salads with healthful spices 5 Comptor W1U 1JT Bond Street

Food Cafe Raw, vegan, vegetarian, 6 Wild vibrant WC2H 9DP Covent Garden

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The Duke of Cambridge Gastropub that’s gone organic N1 8JT Angel

Dietary and spiritual wellbeing at a Hindu temple 8 Shayona NW10 8HD Neasden Loads of veg, Mediterranean style 9 Carnevale EC1Y 8JL Old Street

Lounge Vegan full 10 InSpiral breakfast NW1 8QS Camden Town

and anchovy sauce, is a recommendation by our waiter – one we wouldn’t hesitate to back up. It’s not for the faint-hearted, but if you’re salivating at the idea of getting your teeth stuck into a chunk of rich meat complete with the hedonistic extras of melting fat and a smoky char-grilled surface, then this is your bag.

The award of best bag, however, has to go to the Carpetbag Hereford Fillet Steak. Popular in America in the 1950s, this dish sees the fillet cut open and stuffed with an oyster before being cooked and served – in our opinion, the rarer the better. The combination of bloody meat and salty oyster is a powerful one, hitting the taste buds like a surf and turf tsunami. At £25, it’s something of a treat, but worth every penny.

Side dishes are unexciting in comparison, though Parmesan coated corn-on-the-cobs stand out from the vegetable crowd.

Roast potatoes and chunky chips are at the other end of the spectrum, neither crisp nor fluffy enough to match the quality of the mains.

Desserts may not be a priority, and a Chocolate Seven Ways tasting plate is hardly dynamic, but for a selection of mousse, crumble, ice-cream, brownie and jelly to slip down nicely even after all that meat is still impressive.

Ben Norum 37-45 Tothill Street, SW1H 9LQ St James’s Park scoutlondon.com Scout London 19

B-Soho Soho £

The Depot Barnes £££

Any pretensions of Soho cool with which you enter this place won’t last long. Must be the Italian charm. That and the ever-wafting smell of pizzas coming out of a wood-fired oven. When they arrive, they’re thin-based and crisp, with a sweet chewy crust. Flavours range from the traditionals such as Margherita and capricciosa to more creative options, such as the Don Raffaele topped with cream, pistachios, speck and mozzarella. Low prices are a high point, starting at around £8, but what really sets this place apart from its pizza rivals across town is its fun communal atmosphere, regular live music, large bar and superb cocktail list. Tongue-in-cheek but tasty creations include the Napoli, made with Neopolitan ice cream, chocolate liqueur, strawberries and vodka. Ben Norum

The Depot is perched on the riverbank with great views of Chiswick Bridge. But unless you know that, you may never find it, as the entrance is tucked away in a Victorian cobbled yard. Service riverside is friendly, and a decent sized bar with good cocktail options – Mojitos have a good balance of mint, sweet and sour – set us up nicely for the main event. Food is a tad predictable, though wholly decent. Beetroot salad with blue cheese, walnuts and raisin bread is well made and satisfying. Slow-roasted shoulder of lamb with a bean and chorizo stew is just what the doctor ordered: high-class modern comfort food for the mostly middle aged. Be sure to leave room for the artisan cheese with chutney. All in all, it’s good value at £35 a head for tasty grub, a great vibe and that view. Alice Whiting

21 Poland Street, W1F 6QG

Oxford Circus

Mortlake High Street, SW14 8SN

Barnes Bridge

Kensington Place Notting Hill £££

Craft Beer Co. Islington £££

Some London restaurants are so iconic that they need no introduction. Ten years ago, if you had cash to burn Kensington Place would have been near the top of your list. A lot has changed since then, and until recently it’s fair to say that KP had failed to keep up with the rest of London’s restaurant scene. That’s no longer the case.

It has modernised its design, introduced more accessible pricing and a stand-alone bar area. Fish remains the focus, and it’s reassuring that the restaurant passes the ultimate test with flying colours: its fish and chips is crisp, moist, full-flavoured and flaky. Steamed mussels are another win, creamy and soft in a light wine sauce. But the smoked salmon in our starter is distinctly unexciting. Nevertheless, as it stands, we’ll be back. BN

With this latest opening in Islington, there are now three Craft Beer Co. pubs in London. The company prides itself on bringing together the best and most interesting brews from London, the UK and the world, focusing on genuine ‘craft’, small-batch beer rather than just importing brands which are lesser-known in this country but big elsewhere. Beer geeks will know the significance of the house Craft Lager being especially brewed for them by renowned Danish firm Mikkeller, but you need no nerdery to enjoy drinking it. Pairing a 30-strong on-tap selection and countless bottles with staff who are not only hugely knowledgeable but also passionate about beer is enough to win us over. Throw in comfy seats, a cosy atmosphere and the fact you can buy bottles to take away, and we’re in love. BN

201 Kensington Church Street, W8 7LX 20 Scout London scoutlondon.com

Notting Hill Gate

55 White Lion Street, N1 9PP

Angel

CENTRAL

EAST

Ametsa with Arzak Halkin Hotel, 5-6 Halkin Street, SW1X 7DJ Hyde Park Corner Spanish £££ This London outpost of the three Michelin-starred original in Spain is confirmed to be replacing Nahm in The Halkin Hotel. With the menu said to be “rooted in the traditions of ‘New Basque Cuisine”, expect traditional influences given a modern twist.

Curious Yellow Kafe 77 Pitfield Street, N1 6BT Old Street Cafe £ This Swedish-run foodie emporium isn’t as small as it looks from the street.

The cakes are enough reason to stop by, but regularly changing menu items include Swedish meatballs, beef stews, Thai curries and gravlax.

Brasserie Chavot 37 Conduit Street, W1S 2YF Bond Street French £££ This new restaurant in Mayfair’s The Westbury Hotel will see he return of Eric Chavot to London. He previously headed up the restaurant at The Capital Hotel, where he held two Michelin stars.

Chavot will feature a small bar, banquette seating and a dedicated seafood bar. It promises to be “very reasonably priced for Mayfair”.

Big Easy 12 Maiden Lane, WC2E 7NA Covent Garden BBQ ££ A new American-influenced bar and BBQ restaurant, Big Easy Covent Garden will offer up ribs, burgers and lobsters alongside drinks including hard and soft milkshakes. Opening later this month.

Balthazar London 4-6 Russell St, WC2E 7BN Covent Garden American ££ When Richard Caring and Keith McNally snapped up the site of the old Theatre Museum in Covent Garden, rumours were abound that they might be opening the first foreign outpost of McNally’s famed New York Balthazar restaurant. It has now been confirmed that they are. Exact details are still thin on the ground, but the hotly-anticipated new eatery is widely expected to open in February.

The Social Eating House 58-59 Poland Street, W1F 7NR Oxford Circus British £££ If Pollen Street Social is anything to go by, all the signs are that Jason Atherton’s Soho follow-up could be one of the biggest openings of the year. It’s now confirmed that he plans to open The Social Eating House – complete with a bar – in partnership with his long-standing head chef Paul Hood.

The restaurant is due to open either in late February or early March.

Tom’s Kitchen Canary Wharf Units 1 & 2, 11 Westferry Circus, E14 Canary Wharf English ££ The third branch of controversial chef Tom Aiken’s British Brasserie group is set to open in Canary Wharf within the next couple of months. It follows his return to the restaurant industry after his flagship business went bankrupt. The food will follow the same simple, British and seasonal ethos.

The Haberdashery at Sixty London Sixty Holborn Viaduct, EC1N 2PB Chancery Lane Gastropub / bar ££ A new opening from Drake & Morgan, the company behind The Anthologist in the City and The Refinery in Southwark, among others. Set over three floors, this huge venue will include a deli, large restaurant and bar, a cheese and wine room and even a florist. It’s set to open around April time.

SOUTH

Zuma at The Shard The Shard, 32 London Bridge Street, SE1 London Bridge Japanese ££££ It has to be one of the most prestigious restaurant properties in the world, and now it has been announced what is going to fill it. Zuma will be opening a restaurant on floor 32 with a contemporary rotisserie and grill menu in the city’s tallest building, as well as a bar with live music and its own bar menu. It is expected to open in early April.

Bunga Bunga 37 Battersea Bridge Road, SW11 3BA Clapham Junction Italian ££ Next Tuesday, Bunga Bunga will be taking its crazy Italian antics to the next level with a life drawing class. The £30 package includes a welcome drink and nibbles, 1.5 hours’ tutorial and a pizza.

And, yes, that’s nibbles.

WEST Brompton Bar & Grill 243 Brompton Road SW3 2EP South Kensington British £££ By way of a New Year’s resolution, BB&G is patriotically flying the flag for British Rose Veal. In support of television farmer Jimmy Doherty’s quest to prevent ‘useless’ male dairy cows from being shot at birth and to help decrease Britain’s carbon footprint, it will be serving a special menu featuring Rustic Rose Veal Meatballs and Braised Rose Veal Shoulder.

North The Grain Store Granary Square, 1 Goods Way, N1C 4AA Kings Cross French ££ Acclaimed chef Bruno Loubet will be swinging open the doors of this, his second restaurant, in a couple of weeks’ time. It will follow the same format as his original Bistrot Bruno Loubet in Clerkenwell, but be slightly more informal. A ‘corner counter’ will serve soups, salads and pastries to take away. This opening completes the Granary Square transformation as part of the Kings Cross upgrade project.

Juniper Dining 100 Highbury Park, N5 2XE Arsenal European ££ This Modern European eatery is as much of a locals’ restaurant as it’s possible to be. The food is simple and homely with a few finer touches, while an impressive sourcing policy is not just about ingredients being as local as possible, but also about supporting other local businesses, suppliers, shops and delis.

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Supperclub 12 Acklam Road, W10 5QZ Ladbroke Grove Scottish £££ A night of Scottish feasting followed by traditional ceilidh dancing is set to be given the Supperclub twist this Burn’s Night when celebrity chef Hardeep Singh Kohli takes over Supperclub. The evening runs from 7.30 until late and costs £49 for four courses. Book at supperclub.com The Clove Club 380 Old Street, EC1V 9LT Old Street British ££ Following their highprofile crowd-funding, the guys famous for their Young Turks / Ten Bells pop-ups and residencies are set to open this permanent restaurant. Isaac McHale, Daniel Willis and Johnny Smith will be opening the doors of Clover Club at the beginning of February.

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COOK IN

Jessica’s Recipe Bag

EAT IN

Pop Chips These rather special crisp-like snacks that have made it to our shores from the USA are made of pure corn and natural flavours. That means they’re low calorie and pretty much fat free, but also that they taste good. From a scientific point of view, they’re also quite interesting as they are popped simply by the application of pressure. Ponder that while you snack.

Available in Waitrose, Harvey Nichols, Pod and Tossed stores in London. Approx £1.99 per bag, popchips.co.uk

If your New Year’s resolution is to eat better, Jessica is the lady to help. Or, more specifically, her bags are. Qualified as a cook and nutritional therapist, her plan is to give everybody the chance to cook simple, delicious meals at home without the stress and time involved in shopping and planning. How? Well, she does it for you and delivers it all to your door along with recipes. Apart from a few kitchen essentials such as salt, pepper and flour, each bag includes all the ingredients you need for your week’s meals, plus a recipe booklet. Meals take no longer than 45 minutes from start to finish.

A Family Bag (four meals/four people) costs £69; Couples Bag (three meals/ two people) costs £42. jessicasrecipe bag.co.uk

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Image: Wellcome Library, London

Open until 14 April 2013 Book tickets at www.museumoflondon.org.uk/dissection or on 020 7001 9844 An online booking fee and timed entry apply. Due to its subject matter, Doctors, Dissection and Resurrection Men is not recommended for children under 12.

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Home detoxification New year’s resolutions should go beyond the mind and body. Now’s the perfect time to wipe away the sins of the past with a good winter clean

an apple a day

IT’S EASY BEING GREEN

INTO THE GROOVE

Drop the mop for these disposable wipes that leave a fresh apple scent.

Antibacterial Floor Wipes x15, £1 (save 15p) until Jan 8 from Sainsbury’s

With separate compartments for waste, recycling and miscellaneous (we suggest carrier bags), this makes it easier to have an eco-friendly home.

Living 3 Compartment Recycling Bin, £49.99 from Argos

If you like things to be really clean, the fact that you can’t get behind the radiator will be bugging you like mad.

Worry no more. This nifty device will reach those impossible spots.

Radiator Duster Microfibre Cloth, £1.49 from The Range

DUST MONSTER

SMALL BUT MIGHTY

(DE)ICE-ICE BABY

The telescopic handle extends from 85 to 136cm, perfect to gobble up dust in hard-to-reach corners.

Telescopic Monster Duster, £6.99 from Lakeland

Perfect for small flats (its footprint is that of a sheet of A4 paper), this ultimate sucking machine packs a mighty punch.

Dyson DC26 Multi Floor, £229.99 from amazon.co.uk

You know the glacier at the back of your freezer? Yeah, that shouldn’t be there.

De-ice and clean at the same time.

Ozmo Fridge De-icer and Cleaner Spray, £3.29 from John Lewis

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Art through the ages

2013

PREVIEW

Forthcoming exhibitions in the capital cover everything from ancient art to modern masters, while pondering one of the biggest questions out there Manet: Portraying Life The Royal Academy January 26-April 14

Museu Picasso, Barcelona (gasull Fotografia) / The Trustees of the British Museum / Man Ray Trust ARS-ADAGP

This display of work by 19th century French painter Manet is one of the season’s most exciting shows. It will be the first retrospective of his portraiture – something that has never been explored in an exhibition before, even though it makes up around half of his artistic output. The images he created are of everyday life, and the 50 set for display demonstrate his forward-thinking, modern approach to portraiture.

Barocci: Brilliance and Grace National Gallery February 27-May 19 Italian Renaissance painter Federico Barocci’s altarpieces are spectacular. This exhibition will showcase the best examples, including Entombment from Senigallia and Last Supper from Urbino Cathedral, which will be shown for the first time in the UK.

Duveen galleries at the heart of Tate Britain. Starling famously won the Turner Prize in 2005 for his work ShedboatShed, which saw him dismantle a wooden shed on the banks of the river Rhine, transform it into a type of boat typical of the area and sail it down the river. It was finally reassembled as a shed and exhibited.

Ice Age Art The British Museum February 7-May 26

Picasso’s debut exhibition in Paris, aged 19, was the beginning of an astonishing career. This display reunites major paintings from that exhibition, and shows how he took on and adapted the styles of contemporaries such as Van Gogh, Degas and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Described as being 40,000 years in the making, this collection of exceptional artefacts from between 10,000 and 40,000 years ago includes a 23,000-year-old sculpture of an abstract figure from Lespugue, France, which so fascinated Picasso that it influenced his 1930s sculptural works. Other items, made from mammoth tusk and reindeer antler, will be presented alongside modern works by Henry Moore, Mondrian and Matisse.

Simon Starling’s Tate Britain Commission, March 12-October 20 Every year, the Tate invites an artist to create a new work in response to the organisation’s art collection.

This year, Turner Prize winner Simon Starling will be unveiling his creation: an ambitious new installation, developed for the

Becoming Picasso: Paris 1901 The Courthauld February 14-May 26

Avant-garde Barbette, 1926, by Man Ray

generation. While he worked in a variety of media, he is best-known for his avant-garde photography and fashion shoots. Most of the 150 vintage prints to be displayed in this exhibition have never been seen in the UK before.

Extinction: Not the End of the World?

The Natural History Museum, February 8–September 8 Early genius Pablo Picasso, Dwarf Dancer, 1901, oil on board

Man Ray Portraits National Portrait Gallery, February 7-May 27

Historic A spear thrower made from reindeer antler, carved around 13,00014,000 years ago

One of the most significant contributors to the Dada and Surrealism movements, Man Ray was among the most innovative and influential artists of his

Extinction – it has such an air of finality about it. But there’s more to it than death and more death. This exhibition will encourage you to think past the dinosaurs and dodos, to understand the crucial role extinction plays in the evolution of life. As well as bringing to life some ex-species, it also looks at today’s endangered creatures and asks if conservation can save them. scoutlondon.com Scout London 27

The UK premiere of Peter Schaufuss’s acclaimed production of Midnight Express Based on Billy Hayes’s best selling 1977 book

‘Stupefyingly beautiful’ Dance Europe

‘Highly dramatic Another great success’ Dancing Times

9 - 14 April 2013 • London Coliseum 020 7845 9300* • eno.org* midnightexpresstheballet.com

*bkg fee applies

Midnight Express is performed to a specially conceived and mastered sound track Photograph: Svetlana Postoenko

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Paul Wenham-Clarke: Westway - A Portrait Of A Community at St Martin-InThe-Fields, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 4JJ Charing Cross FREE, Starts Wed, Until Feb 28. A pictorial document of the social and cultural diversity of the people who live beneath the A40 flyover in London.

Tonico Lemos Auad at Stephen Friedman Gallery, 25-28 Old Burlington Street, W1S 3AN Green Park FREE, Until Jan 19. Sculpture by the Brazilian artist, exploring ephemerality and form.

John Bartlett: London Sublime at Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, EC2P 2EJ Bank £5, concs £3, under 16s/mems FREE, Until Jan 20.

Contemporary paintings inspired by protests and city riots.

The Beauty Of Women at Menier Gallery, 51 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU London Bridge FREE, Until Jan 19.

More than 100 works celebrating the female form.

Best Art Vinyl 2012 at St Martins Lane Hotel, 45 St. Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4HX Embankment FREE, Until Jan 13. The shortlisted 50 album sleeves for the award.

Quentin Blake: New Etchings, Lithographs And Drawings at Marlborough Fine Art, 6 Albemarle Street, W1S 4BY Green Park FREE, Until Jan 11. Contemporary works by the established artist and children’s book illustrator.

William S. Burroughs: All Out Of Time And Into Space at October Gallery, 24 Old Gloucester Street, WC1N 3AL Holborn FREE, Until Feb 16. Paintings, drawings and a selection of ‘talismanic’ art objects.

Cartier-Bresson: A Question Of Colour at Somerset House, The Strand, WC2R 1LA Temple FREE, Until Jan 27. Photographs

by Henri Cartier-Bresson, together with works by 14 modern-day photographers.

Steven Claydon: Culpable Earth at Sadie Coles, 4 New Burlington Place, W1S 2HS Oxford Circus FREE, Until Jan 26.

Sculpture, videos, paintings and prints.

Constable, Gainsborough, Turner And The Making Of Landscape at Royal Academy Of Arts, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD Green Park £8, OAP/disabled/Art Fund mems £7, NUS £5, unwaged/ages 12-18 £4, ages 8-11 £3, under 8s FREE, family £18, Until Feb 17.

More than 100 works by three significant British landscape painters.

Death: A Self-Portrait: The Richard Harris Collection at The Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, NW1 2BE Euston FREE, Until Feb 24. Around 300 items providing an overview of the iconography of death.

Everything Was Moving: Photography From The 60s And 70s at Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS

Barbican £12, adv £10, concs £8, adv concs/ages 13-17 £7, adv ages 13-17 £6, under 13s FREE, Until Jan 13. A major survey of the photographic medium during a period of rapid social change.

Oskar Fischinger at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark FREE, Until May 12.

Restored film footage of the artist’s 1926 performances.

Geeked About Art at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0EB Tottenham Court Road FREE, Starts Tue, Until Jan 30. Work by up and coming artists, who have contributed to the illustration-led quarterly magazine Geeked.

Antony Gormley: Model at White Cube Bermondsey, 144-152 Bermondsey Street, SE1 3TQ London Bridge FREE, Until Feb 10. Large-scale sculpture and sitespecific installations.

Michael Joaquin Grey: Orange Between Orange And Orange at Carroll / Fletcher, 56-57 Eastcastle Street, W1W 8EQ Oxford Circus FREE, Starts Fri, Until Feb 16. Sculpture, installation and digital works.

Josephsohn at Hauser & Wirth, 196A Piccadilly, W1J 9EY Piccadilly FREE, Until Jan 19. A tribute show featuring works spanning 60 years of the late artist’s career.

William Klein & Daido Moriyama at Tate Modern, Bankside, Holland Street, SE1 9TG Southwark £12.70, concs £10.90, National Art Pass/Art Fund mems £6.35, concs £5.45, Until Jan 20. A chance to compare photographs and films by the artists.

Greg Miller: Four Corners at Scream, 2728 Eastcastle Street, W1J 6QX Oxford Circus FREE, Until Jan 20.

Paintings and films by the American artist.

Mughal India: Art, Culture And Empire at The British Library, 96 Euston Road, NW1 2DB Euston £9, OAP £7, NUS/ disabled/unwaged £5, under 18s/mems/ disabled carer FREE, National Art Pass £4.50, OAP £3.50, Until Apr 2. More than 200 paintings and artefacts documenting the entire period of the Mughal Empire.

Patricia Piccinini at Haunch Of Venison, 103 New Bond Street, W1S 1ST Bond Street FREE, Until Jan 12.

The first solo exhibition in the UK of the Australian artist’s work.

Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Avant-Garde at Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG Pimlico £14, concs £12.20, National Art Pass/Art Fund mems £7, concs £6.10, Until Jan 13. Over 150 works in different media exposing the Pre-Raphaelites as ahead of their time. rAndom International: Rain Room at Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Barbican FREE, Until Mar 3. An installation exploring the notion of water as an increasingly scarce natural resource.

North Brown Sugar On Main Street at Zebra One Art Gallery, 1 Perrins Court, NW3 1QX Hampstead FREE, Until Jan 26. A display of unseen and rare images of The Rolling Stones, by Peter Webb and Dominique Tarle.

Karl Ferris: The Karl Ferris Psychedelic Experience at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town FREE, Until Feb 3. An exhibition of album covers and images by the English photographer and designer.

Judy Chicago And Louise Bourgeois, Helen Chadwick, Tracey Emin at Ben Uri Gallery, 108a Boundary Road, NW8 0RH Kilburn Park £5, child FREE, concs £4, Until Mar 10. A survey of the American artist and activist, contextualised with work by three other renowned female artists.

East

Ugo Gattoni: Water For Elephants at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street FREE, Until Feb 3. The Paris-based illustrator’s depictions of tropical flora and fauna.

Helen Marten: Plank Salad at Chisenhale Gallery, 64 Chisenhale Road, E3 5QZ Bethnal Green FREE, Until Jan 27.

Sculptural pieces forming an installation which examines the relationship between the material and conceptual.

South

Jonathan Gabb: System at WW Gallery, 34-35 Hatton Garden, EC1N 8DX Hackney Downs FREE, Starts Wed, Until Feb 2. Three-dimensional paintings combining acrylics with PVA glues.

Aspen Magazine: 1965-1971 at Whitechapel Gallery, 80-82 Whitechapel High Street, E1 7QX Aldgate East FREE, Until Mar 3. All 10 complete sets of the cult 1960s publication.

William Bradley: Good Plan at EB&Flow, 77 Leonard Street, EC2A 4QS Old Street FREE, Until Jan 26. Largescale abstract canvases.

Ansel Adams: Photography From The Mountains To The Sea at National Maritime Museum, Romney Road, SE10 9NF Cutty Sark £7, concs £5, mems FREE, Until Apr 28. Photographs of the natural landscapes of America.

Astronomy Photographer Of The Year 2012 at Royal Observatory Greenwich, Greenwich Park, Blackheath Avenue, SE10 8XJ Cutty Sark FREE, Until Feb 12. Images from this year’s competition.

Pauline Boudry & Renate Lorenz: Toxic Play In Two Acts at South London Gallery, 65-67 Peckham Road, SE5 8UH Elephant & Castle FREE, Until Feb 24. The Berlin-based duo showcases film installations Toxic and Salomania.

British Wildlife Photography Awards at Horniman Museum And Gardens, 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ Forest Hill FREE, Until Feb 24. An exhibition of the winning images from the British Wildlife Photography Awards 2011.

Daniel Kramer: Photographs Of Bob Dylan at O2 Bubble, Millennium Way, SE10 0PH North Greenwich £12, child £6, concs £8, Until Feb 3. Images of the acclaimed folk and rock musician and writer.

Jim Marshall: Rip This Joint: The Rolling Stones 1972 at O2 Bubble, Millennium Way, SE10 0PH North Greenwich £12, child £6, concs £8, Until Feb 3. Photos of the band, taken during their 1972 tour.

West

Take Another Look at Museum Of London Docklands, West India Quay, Hertsmere Road, E14 4AL Canary Wharf FREE, Until Aug 4.

An exploration of the people from the African Diaspora who lived and worked in Britain during the 18th and 19th centuries.

Heman Chong & Anthony Marcellini at Wilkinson Gallery, 50-58 Vyner Street, E2 9DQ Bethnal Green FREE, Until Jan 13. Contemporary works of art.

Jonathan Hoskins: Plus Ultra (Go Further Beyond) at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Road, E1 6LA Shoreditch High Street FREE, Until Jan 27. Installation and video of one man’s doomed voyage from London’s waterways to the sea.

The Estate Of LS Lowry: A Selection Of Works at Crane Kalman Gallery, 178 Brompton Road, SW3 1HQ South Kensington FREE, Until Jan 12.

Paintings, pastels and drawings, including previously unseen works Hollywood Costume at Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL South Kensington £14, OAP £11, NUS/ ages 12-17/unwaged/disabled £9, family of 3 £23, family of 4 £37, under 12s/mems/ disabled carer FREE, Until Jan 27. Over 100 costumes covering 100 years of films.

Jonas Mekas at Serpentine Gallery, Kensington Gardens, W2 3XA South Kensington FREE, Until Jan 27. Films, videos and photographs by the Lithuanian artist, film-maker and poet.

Pain Less: The Future Of Relief at Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD South Kensington FREE, Until Nov 8. An exhibition investigating the future of pain relief.

Veolia Environnement Wildlife Photographer Of The Year at Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD South Kensington £9, concs £4.50, family £24, Art Fund mems £4.50, concs £2.25, under 3s FREE, Until Mar 3. One hundred winning images from the established contemporary wildlife photography competition.

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A season of smiles

2013

PREVIEW

Don’t look so glum. Laugh away the winter blues with some fantastic stand-up comedy.

Here’s our pick of what’s coming up over the next few months Sarah Silverman Bloomsbury Theatre, February 9

Simon Amstell The Invisible Dot, January 7-9 & 14-16

When she’s good, she’s utterly fabulous. The problem is that shock comedian Silverman has had a rather hit-and-miss run over the past few years. Her last visit to London, for a show at Hammersmith Apollo, was a disaster that saw the satirical taboo-trasher walking off stage after 40 minutes. And yet, there’s no denying that the Saturday Night Live alumnus is highly rated and has it in her to be pant-wettingly funny. Here’s hoping she’s on form for February. £25, thebloomsbury.com

You might not want to be invited to his Grandma’s House (Amstell’s rather disappointing sitcom), but remember his triumphs instead: on Popworld and Never Mind The Buzzcocks Amstell was a sardonic genius, and generally a breath of fresh air for mainstream TV. His stand-up act can be similarly funny, and is noted by many for its simmering intensity. He’s trying out new material at these smaller, more intimate dates. £6, simonamstell.co.uk

Milton Jones Hammersmith Apollo, April 19

Laughter is the best medicine Doctor Brown

Doctor Brown Soho Theatre, March 25-April 20

Tony Law Soho Theatre, February 18-March 2 Tony Law joked at Edinburgh last year that it had “taken him 12 years to get to this point” – the point of selling out a run and finally being accepted as more than just a whimsical also-ran in the tough world of stand-up. The jowly Canadian has been working at his surreal, self-referential schtick for years. And it shows.

In Maximum Nonsense he mocks the art (or perhaps craft) of stand-up itself, satirising crummy comedy like a hairy Stewart Lee. £12.50-£17.50, sohotheatre.com 30 Scout London scoutlondon.com

A law unto himself Tony Law

Pappy’s Soho Theatre, April 1-20 Pappy’s divide opinion. If you went cerebral, meta-drenched comedy this is not the place to look. But if you just want to sit back and laugh your socks off at brilliantly anarchic silliness, you really need look no further. After years of ploughing away on the circuit to decent if not life-changing crowds, the madcap trio finally stepped up into the big leagues at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe, where they bagged a nomination for the top award and garnered a slew of five star reviews to boot. This is a chance to see the show that won them all that acclaim. £10-£15, sohotheatre.com

A real handful Pappy’s

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Inventive mime artist Doctor Brown might have been the surprise winner of last year’s Edinburgh Comedy Award, but he certainly wasn’t an undeserving one. Forget what you think you know about mime and head along to this incredible show, where the one thing you won’t need to mime is laughter. £12.50-£20, sohotheatre.com

Never less than greatly enjoyable, Milton Jones’s flights of whimsy take on the characteristics of a flock of pigeons released from a basket. If that sounds at all odd, it’s entirely in keeping with this straggle-haired surrealist’s typical set, which trades on the absurd flecks you find hidden in the most mundane of days. £20, hammersmithapollo.com

ONGOING

Alfie Moore: I Predicted A Riot at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road 8pm, £10.

Career highlights from a serving policeman.

New Material Night at The Camden Head, 100 Camden High Street, NW1 0LU Camden Town 7.30pm, £3. Established comedians try out new material.

Robert Newman: Theory Of Evolution: Work In Progress at Tabard Theatre, 2 Bath Road, W4 1LW Turnham Green 8pm, £10. Hard-hitting humour.

Tuesday January 8

Simon Amstell: Numb at The Invisible Dot, 2 Northdown Street, N1 9BG King’s Cross St Pancras Jan 7-9, 14-16, 7.45pm-8.45pm, £6. Dry humour.

Sean Lock: Work In Progress at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square Jan 1013, 15 & 16, Feb 6, 7.30pm, Feb 8, 7pm, £18.

Cynical humour and satirical observations.

NewsRevue at Canal Cafe Theatre, Bridge House Pub, Delamere Terrace, W2 6ND Warwick Avenue Thu-Sat 9.30pm, Sun 9pm, £11 & £12.50, concs £9.50 & £11.

Comedy sketches and songs inspired by current affairs. Until Jan 31.

Claudia O’Doherty: The Telescope at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Jan 9-12, 9.15pm, £12.50, concs £10. Surreal and musical comedy from the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee.

Trevor Noah: The Racist at Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Mon-Sat 7.30pm, no perf Jan 14, £25, concs £22.50, phone for availability. The South African makes his London debut. Until Jan 19.

Monday January 7

Micky Flanagan: Work In Progress at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 7pm, £18, phone for availability. Sharp wit and storytelling.

Laugh Out London at The Old Queen’s Head, 44 Essex Road, N1 8LN Angel 7.30pm-12midnight, £7, adv £5. Simon Munnery, Daniel Simonsen, Sara Pascoe, Pat Cahill, MC Jack De’Ath. Patrick Morris & Funmbi Omatayo at The Miller, 96 Snowfields, SE1 3SS London Bridge 8pm, £5. Two fastrising stars of the stand-up circuit deliver wry observations on modern life.

Matt Richardson And Romesh Ranganathan at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 9.15pm, £5. Fastpaced wit and acerbic observations.

Wednesday January 9 Comedy Store Players at Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE Piccadilly Circus 8pm, £17, NUS/concs £12. Fast-paced improv courtesy of Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Neil Mullarkey, Andy Smart, Steve Steen.

The Decapitated Puppy Dark & Rude Comedy Night at The Intrepid Fox, 15 St Giles High Street, WC2H 8LN Tottenham Court Road 8pm, £6, concs £4. With Ben Target, Howard Smith, Laura McClenaghan, Tom Mullen, Tyson Boyce and MC Bobby Carroll.

Thursday January 10

Iona Dudley-Ward And Fraser Millward: Resolute Comedy at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 9.15pm, £6.50.

Character comedy.

Ian D Montfort: Unbelievable at Kings Place, 90 York Way, N1 9AG King’s Cross St Pancras 8pm, £12.50, adv £9.50. Tom Binns as the spoof psychic medium from Sunderland.

Robert Newman: Theory Of Evolution: Work In Progress at Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road 8pm, £10. Hardhitting humour.

The New Wave at The Invisible Dot Ltd, 2 Northdown Street, N1 9BG Kings Cross St Pancras 7.45pm9.45pm, £8. With Will Andrews, Jamie Demetriou, Mike Wozniak, Oscar JenkynJones and MC Adam Riches.

Friday January 11 The Boat Show at Tattershall Castle, Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2HR Charing Cross 8pm, £13.50, concs £11, Fri £20 inc meal, Sat £26 inc meal. With Abandoman, Marcel Lucont, The Boy With Tape On His Face and MC Rob Beckett.

Comedy Cafe at Comedy Cafe, 66-68 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street 7.30pm, Fri £12, Sat £16.

With Carl Hutchinson, Barnaby Slater, Greg Burns and MC James Redmond.

Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston 8pm, £15. Upbeat anecdotes from the Geordie stand-up and actor.

Saturday January 12 The Boat Show at Tattershall Castle, Victoria Embankment, SW1A 2HR Charing Cross 8pm, £13.50, concs £11, Fri £20 inc meal, Sat £26 inc meal. With Abandoman, Marcel Lucont, The Boy With Tape On His Face and MC Rob Beckett.

Tom Craine: Work In Progress at Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road 8pm, £5. Intelligent wit as the stand-up tries out new material.

The Good Ship Comedy Club at The Good Ship, 289 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn 7.30pm, £5. With Henning Wehn and Joe Bor.

Rosie Wilby: Absolute Love at Canal Cafe Theatre, Bridge House Pub, Delamere Terrace, W2 6ND Warwick Avenue 7.30pm, £5 & £6.50, concs £4 & £5.50. The Radio 4 comedian explores the pitfalls of modern romance.

99 Club Leicester Square at Storm, 28a Leicester Square, WC2H 7LE Leicester Square 8.30pm-10.30pm, £9, £20 & £25 inc meal. With Spencer Brown, Josh Howie and Brett Goldstein.

Jongleurs Comedy Show at Sway, 61-65 Great Queen Street, WC2B 5BZ Holborn 7pm & 8.45pm, £17 & £20.

With Angie McEvoy, James Dowdeswell and Rogue 5.

Monkey Business Comedy Club at Sir Richard Steele, 97 Haverstock Hill, NW3 4RL Chalk Farm 8.45pm, £12.50, concs £10. With Gary Delaney, Joe Rowntree, Jen Brister, The Wit Wits, Maggy Whitehouse and MC Martin Besserman.

Mr B’s Chap-Hop Hoorah at LOST Theatre, 208 Wandsworth Road, SW8 2JU Stockwell 8pm, £10.

Tweed-suited musical comedy from The Gentleman Rhymer.

Chris Ramsey: Feeling Lucky at The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston 8pm, £15. Upbeat anecdotes from the Geordie stand-up and actor.

Soho Comedy Club at The Casino At The Empire, 5-6 Leicester Square, WC2H 7NA Leicester Square 8pm-10pm, £15, adv £10. With Paul Sinha, Rhodri Rhys and Nick Beaton.

Sunday January 13

Foster’s Comedy Live at Highlight, Camden Lock, Middle Yard Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town 8.15pm-10.15pm, £17 & £18. With The Boy With Tape On His Face, Marlon Davis, Sean McLoughlin, Addy Van Der Borgh and Simon O’Keeffe.

Comedy Cafe at Comedy Cafe, 66-68 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street 7.30pm, Fri £12, Sat £16.

With Carl Hutchinson, Barnaby Slater, Greg Burns and MC James Redmond.

Paco Erhard: Ex-German: Has Issues Will Travel: A Work In Progress at Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square 7pm, £7, concs £5. Hard-hitting humour about his home country.

Jongleurs Comedy Show at The Sports Cafe, 80 Haymarket, SW1Y 4TE Piccadilly Circus 8.30pm, £12. With Gary Delaney, Matt Reed and Fergus Craig.

Foster’s Comedy Live at Highlight, Camden Lock, Middle Yard Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AB Camden Town 8.15pm-10.15pm, £17 & £18. With The Boy With Tape On His Face, Gavin Webster, Simon O’Keeffe, Pat Cahill and Angela Barnes.

Hampstead Comedy Club at The Pembroke Castle, 150 Gloucester Avenue, NW1 8JA Chalk Farm 8.30pm, £10, concs £8.50. With Horse And Louis, Paul Ricketts, Inder Manocha, Ian Cognito and Ivor Dembina.

Clever Peter’s New Material Night at Pleasance Theatre, Carpenter’s Mews, North Road, N7 9EF Caledonian Road 8pm-9pm, £5. With Sam Fletcher, Rachel Parris (pictured) and Allnutt & Simpson.

Comedy Store Players at Comedy Store, 1a Oxendon Street, SW1Y 4EE Piccadilly Circus 7.30pm, £17, NUS/ concs £12. Improvised mayhem courtesy of Paul Merton, Lee Simpson, Richard Vranch, Neil Mullarkey, Andy Smart and Phill Jupitus.

Comedy Variety Cabaret at Downstairs At The King’s Head, 2 Crouch End Hill, N8 8AA Finsbury Park 8.30pm, £7, concs £5. With Manos, Damian Clark, Henry Ginsberg, Jim Campbell, Noel James and MC Howard Smith.

Jack Jerome’s Journey Of Life at Canal Cafe Theatre, Bridge House Pub, Delamere Terrace, W2 6ND Warwick Avenue 7pm, £5 & £6.50. Tips on how to live your life according to Will Cooper.

Laughing Horse New Act Of The Year: Heat at The Dogstar, 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LQ Brixton 8.30pm, £6, concs £5. With MC Lewis Bryan.

Mr Cee & Friends at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN Stratford 7pm, FREE. Gags and banter from special guests.

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The big screen stars in 2013 2013

PREVIEW

Flight (15) Flight’s heart-stopping opening sequence, brilliantly orchestrated by director Robert Zemeckis, sees SouthJet flight 227 to Atlanta develop chronic mechanical failure and pilot William “Whip” Whitaker (Denzel Washington) perform a daring manoeuvre to keep his bird in the air. Almost everyone on board survives the subsequent crashlanding but blood tests reveal Whip was inebriated in the cockpit, prompting tough questions about his culpability in this taught and emotional drama.

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A Good Day To Die Hard (15 TBC)

With its outrageous body count, excessive use of the n-word and frequent explosions of graphic violence, Quentin Tarantino’s blood-soaked western-cum-revenge thriller is certain to divide opinion. Jamie Foxx plays a slave who is freed from his shackles by a German bounty hunter (Christoph Waltz) in order to rescue his wife from Leonardo DiCaprio’s sadistic plantation owner. Samuel L Jackson kicks sand in the face of political correctness as a head slave who is just as racist as his masters.

Released: January 18

This Is 40 (15)

Die Hard 4.0 introduced us to the daughter of gung-ho, wisecracking hero John McClane (Bruce Willis). For this fifth chapter, 25 years after the original Die Hard, his son Jack (Jai Courtney) enters the fray, joining the old man on an explosive jaunt through Moscow to prevent a disgraced Russian general from assassinating the US President. As the poster tagline puts it: Yippee-ki-yay, Mother Russia.

Since the release of The 40-Year-Old Virgin in 2005, writer-director Judd Apatow has become synonymous with boisterous yet touching comedies that explore the foibles of the human condition.

In This Is 40, he revisits characters we first met in Knocked Up to explore the reality of married life for a middle-aged couple who have lost that loving feeling. Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann) have raised two daughters, but are now stuck in a rut as the big four-zero approaches.

Released: February 14

Released: February 14

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Cowboys, Presidents, pilots, terrorists and John McClane – the big film releases that will take you into spring

Django Unchained (18)

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The Sessions (15)

Zero Dark Thirty (15)

Lincoln (12A)

Every once in a while, an actor delivers a performance of such raw emotional power that it’s impossible to tear your eyes from the screen. John Hawkes, who was Oscar nominated in 2011 for indie drama Winter’s Bone, achieves this feat in The Sessions, a tender drama based on an article written by journalist Mark O’Brien, who was paralysed from the neck down by childhood polio and required an iron lung to breathe. From director Ben Lewis, this is sophisticated, adult filmmaking, tipped for Oscar success.

Kathryn Bigelow, the first woman to collect an Oscar as Best Director for The Hurt Locker, lets loose the dogs of modern warfare again in this riveting dramatisation of the hunt for Osama bin Laden. Taking its title from the time when Navy SEALs stormed the compound in Pakistan where the al-Qaeda founder was holed up, Zero Dark Thirty replays recent history through the eyes of a tenacious female CIA agent (Jessica Chastain) at the forefront of the biggest manhunt in American history.

Steven Spielberg’s beautifully crafted history lesson concentrates on the final months of Abraham Lincoln’s life, when the 16th President of the United States (Daniel Day-Lewis) worked tirelessly to pass the Thirteenth Amendment to abolish slavery. The battle for control of the House of Representatives is elegantly captured in Tony Kushner’s screenplay. Lincoln is the current Oscar frontrunner and Day-Lewis is likely to win his third Best Actor statuette for a mesmerising lead performance.

Released: January 18

Released: January 25

Released: January 25

Oz: The Great And Powerful 3D (PG TBC)

About Time (PG TBC)

Trance (15 TBC)

Inspired by L Frank Baum’s beloved novel The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, Sam Raimi’s colour-saturated fantasy is a prequel to Dorothy’s trot up the Yellow Brick Road, propelling circus magician Oscar Diggs (James Franco) into a fantasy realm where his small-scale illusions and tricks make him a wizard in the eyes of the enchanted denizens, including three witches (Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis).

In the throes of a relationship, we have all said something unkind that we instantly regretted and wished we could take back.

The laconic hero of Richard Curtis’s latest romantic comedy can do just that because he harks from a long and distinguished line of time travellers. This incredible power allows him to subtly alter his fortunes with the beautiful yet deeply insecure Mary (Rachel McAdams). But, as he quickly learns, reshaping the past creates unforeseen ripples with unfortunate results.

Fresh from his duties as artistic director of the spectacular Olympic opening ceremony, Oscar-winning filmmaker Danny Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) joins forces with regular screenwriter John Hodge (Shallow Grave, Trainspotting) for a hypnosisthemed thriller that blurs the boundaries between reality and fantasy. James McAvoy plays a fine art auctioneer who joins forces with an underworld boss (Vincent Cassel) and his goons to pull off an audacious heist of a Goya masterpiece.

Released: March 8

Released: March 22

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new releases

Gangster Squad (15) Based on the real-life battle for the streets of late 1940s and early 1950s Los Angeles, Gangster Squad is a stylish crime thriller directed with verve by Ruben Fleischer, punctuated by explosions of graphic violence. The simple premise – a covert team of police officers led by Sgt John O’Mara (Josh Brolin) and partner Sgt Jerry Wooters (Ryan Gosling) bends the law in order to bring down boxer-turned-thug Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) and his henchmen – conjures fond memories of Brian De Palma’s Prohibition-era drama, The Untouchables. Screenwriter Will Beall introduces a slightly undernourished romantic subplot between Wooters and Cohen’s latest squeeze, actress Grace Faraday (Emma Stone). Penn chews scenery with obvious relish while impeccable production design evokes the era when sharp-suited men traded bullets and polished one-liners beneath the iconic Hollywoodland sign. Damon Smith

Les Misérables (12A) Tom Hooper, Oscar-winning director of The King’s Speech, dreamed a dream of immortalising Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil’s powerhouse musical without the conventional safety net of lipsynching and playback. That audacious gamble – asking the actors to sing live in every take – pays off handsomely, including a cri de coeur from Anne Hathaway as a much abused and self-sacrificing mother that guarantees the statuesque actress her Oscar next month.

Hugh Jackman is equally impressive, teasing out the heartbreaking emotion as parole-breaking convict Jean Valjean, whose arduous flight to freedom is pursued by wily Inspector Javert (Russell Crowe).

Les Misérables is a towering achievement in front of and behind the camera, capturing the revolutionary fervour of 19th century Paris as actors sing their hearts out in lip-quivering close-up. Magnifique! DS

Girls just wanna have flesh-ripping fun in American Mary, a blooddrenched cautionary tale of female empowerment that ponders about the nature of true beauty in a youth-obsessed modern society. Canadian director siblings Jen and Sylvia Soska come on leaps and bounds from their low budget debut, Dead Hooker In A Trunk, showing admirable restraint with the gore as their heroine, gifted surgical student Mary Mason (Katharine Isabelle), uses her medical expertise to modify and enhance the physical attributes of clientele who orbit a sleazy strip club. Isabelle’s impressive performance exposes the woodenness of the supporting cast but the script is solid and the tone is deliciously dark and demented. DS Jan 11, 6.45pm, £10, mems £7.50. The Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY Leicester Square

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American Mary (18)

Also showing

The London Short Film Festival

Underground (PG)

Small is beautiful at the 10th edition of the LSFF, which proudly showcases hundreds of cutting-edge UK independent films in various spaces around the capital. Highlights include the London premiere of The Creator, a surreal meditation on the relationship between man and machine (Jan 7), Jacob Cartwright and Nick Jordan’s lyrical documentary Between Two Rivers about the historic yet deeply troubled town of Cairo, Illinois (Jan 9), 60 minutes of silent films accompanied by a live soundtrack from South London five-piece Breton (Jan 11), and a trio of revealing documentaries about the thriving cabaret scene interspersed with live performances from human suspension troupe States Of Bliss, avant-garde musical group Frank Chickens and tranny superstar Jonny Woo (Jan 12). DS

The BFI celebrates the 150th anniversary of the London Underground – the world’s first subterranean railway – with a lovingly restored print of Anthony Asquith’s 1928 silent film accompanied by Neil Brand’s evocative orchestral score, recorded live last year. Underground is a working-class love story of jealousy and deceit on the Northern Line, centred on two very different men (Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen) engaged in a battle for the affections of the same pretty shop girl (Elissa Landi). Ahead of the film’s release on January 11 at selected cinemas, BFI Southbank hosts a special preview screening followed by a panel discussion hosted by BBC Radio 4’s Francine Stock in the company of film score composer Brand, London Transport Museum curator Simon Murphy and two BFI archive curators, Bryony Dixon and Ben Thompson. DS

Until Jan 13, times vary, £6-£10, Institute Of Contemporary Arts (ICA) The Mall, SW1Y 5AH Charing Cross and various venues, shortfilms.org.uk

Jan 10, 6pm, £5-£10, concs/mems £5-£8.50, BFI Southbank, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XT Waterloo

Rooftop Film Club

Studio Ghibli Select-Rospective

A heated marquee situated 100ft above Kensington High Street within 1.5 acres of themed gardens is the setting for four days of recent, cult and classic films to banish the winter blues. Jim Henson’s 1986 fantasy Labyrinth and Michael Curtiz’s seminal wartime romance Casablanca open the season, followed by The Goonies and Breakfast At Tiffany’s (Jan 8) and crime thriller Drive starring Ryan Gosling (pictured) and Oscar-winning silent The Artist (Jan 9), culminating in the rip-roaring 1980s double whammy of Top Gun and Back To The Future (Jan 10). Ticket prices include a glass of champagne, Italian beer or soft drink, plus a bite to eat from the outdoor barbecue. Visit rooftopfilmclub.com. DS

(PG)

Jan 7-10, 7pm & 9pm, £20 & £21.50, Kensington Roof Gardens, 99 Kensington High Street, W8 5SA High Street Kensington

Jan 13, 12.25pm, £18, mems £15.50, The Prince Charles Cinema, 7 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BY Leicester Square

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While Aardman sets the gold standard for stop-motion animation and Pixar continues to push the boundaries of computer animation, Studio Ghibli undoubtedly stands head and shoulders above its peers for Japanese anime. Established in 1985 in Tokyo, it has released 17 features, directed predominantly by talismanic founders Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata. To celebrate the studio’s popularity, The Prince Charles Cinema screens three offerings from Miyazaki in their subtitled versions: My Neighbor Totoro, aeronautical adventure Porco Rosso and the highest grossing anime of all time, Spirited Away. DS

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The best of the box

2013

PREVIEW

World Without End

January, Channel 4

Mr Selfridge

Girls

The Following

Jeremy Piven is the latest US star to be tempted over to our side of the pond by a plum TV role. He plays the lead in Mr Selfridge, a sumptuous retelling of the opening of the famous department store, all the way back in 1909. Based on the novel Shopping, Seduction And Mr Selfridge by Lindy Woodhead, it also features former Coronation Street star Katherine Kelly as socialite Lady Mae, who helped Selfridge build his empire.

Not a new show as such, but the hotlyanticipated second series of Lena Dunham’s kooky comedy/drama Girls, which will begin over here just one day after it starts in the States. Despite the big bustups of the first season, the trailer implies that Adam Driver (Adam) and Christopher Abbott (Charlie) still feature in the new series, although Patrick Wilson has reportedly been cast as a new love interest for Hannah.

Not for the faint-hearted, this cat-andmouse thriller follows the pursuit of a university professor-turned-convictedserial-killer (played by British star James Purefoy). Having recently escaped from prison, he’s being hunted by the FBI agent (Kevin Bacon) who captured him originally.

As well as its cast, the show’s creative pedigree is highly promising – producers include alumnae from Dexter, True Blood and the Scream films.

Begins January 6, ITV1

Begins January 14, Sky Atlantic

January, Sky Atlantic

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Warner Brother International Television 2012

This year is packed with exciting new television shows. Here’s our pick of the small screen offerings with big promise

Fans of Ken Follett’s The Pillars of the Earth will be pleased to know its followup – set two centuries later, in the 14th century – is soon to hit our shores. The gore and raunch fest stars Charlotte Riley and Tom Weston-Jones as Caris and Merthin, a young couple forging their way into adulthood against the backdrop of the Black Death and the Hundred Years War. Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon plays Caris’s villainous aunt Petronella.

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Heading Out

Mary and Martha

Top of the Lake

Sue Perkins lends her razor-sharp wit to this, her first sitcom. Focussed on a provincial vet who still hasn’t come out as a lesbian to her parents, it stars The Great British Bake Off presenter alongside Dawn French, Joanna Scanlan and EastEnders actress June Brown.

A TV film to promote the message that malaria can be eradicated doesn’t sound like the most promising dramatic premise.

But with a script by Love Actually writer Richard Curtis, and starring performances from Brenda Blethyn and Hilary Swank, we’re confident it’ll be a corker.

In film-maker Jane Campion’s first project for television, a pregnant 12-year-old goes missing after last being seen standing in a freezing lake. Mad Men actress Elisabeth Moss plays the detective charged with solving the mystery, which unravels in the stunning landscapes of New Zealand.

January, BBC Two

Spring, BBC One

2013 TBC, BBC Two

Run

Peaky Blinders

Wolf Hall

Olivia Colman, famed for roles in Peep Show, Twenty Twelve and Tyrannosaur, appears in this gritty new drama as a mother who suspects her sons of committing a terrible crime. The other three main characters, who all have interweaving stories, are a Chinese DVD seller, a Polish woman whose husband is killed and a former heroin addict trying to re-establish his relationship with his daughter.

Set in the suburbs of post-first world war Birmingham, a gang called the Peaky Blinders (because they used to hide razor blades in the peaks of their caps) terrorises the city with robbery and other nefarious practices. With Cillian Murphy in the lead role and Eastern Promises writer Steven Knight recruited for his first television project, it promises a gripping portrait of this underexplored chapter of UK history.

The rights to Hilary Mantel’s Booker prizewinning historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies have been snapped up by the BBC, which plans to make a six-part drama with the novels’ narratives as its base. Details are patchy at this stage, with the part of Thomas Cromwell (the figure at the heart of the books) yet to be cast.

But there’s little doubt that this will be appointment viewing.

February/March, Channel 4

Autumn 2013, BBC Two

2013 TBC, BBC Two

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A sound start to 2013 From frothy pop to post rock, and tender folk to classic grime, there are gigs to get even the pickiest toes tapping over the next few months

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PREVIEW

Foals at Royal Albert Hall, March 28 Hearing Foals’ captivating songs live is always a treat. But when they’re in the Royal Albert Hall’s main space they become something very special indeed. This date will see the Oxford lads joined by post-rock wunderkinds Efterklang, who played some astonishing shows with the Northern Sinfonia at the Southbank Centre last year. These kinds of acts aren’t standard Royal Albert Hall fodder, but the venue’s Albert Sessions programme is broadening what’s on offer while subsidising ticket costs, so it won’t cost you an arm and a leg to be there. This date includes two shows – at 3.30pm and 8.15pm. £15-£17.50, royalalberthall.com

Sigur Ros at O2 Academy Brixton, March 7-9 Undoubtedly one of Iceland’s finest exports, Sigur Ros will be bringing their epic, haunting and achingly beautiful sounds to O2 Academy Brixton for three nights. The band will perform tracks from sixth album Valtari, as well as classics such as Sæglópur and Hoppípolla.

Yes, we can’t pronounce them either, but you’ll know them from The Life of Pi film trailer and the BBC’s incredible Planet Earth series respectively. £33, o2academybrixton.co.uk

Horse power Foals are coming to the Royal Albert Hall

Climbing high Alt-J

Alt-J at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, January 18 & 19 The least surprising winners in the history of the Mercury Prize show why they were so deserving of the award with two dates at the O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, where they’ll be playing tracks from debut album An Awesome Wave. Sure to be a road-block, these dates are among the hottest on the calendar in 2013. If, like many, you’re unable to get tickets, they’ll also be playing at O2 Academy Brixton in May. £15.40, o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk 38 Scout London scoutlondon.com

Iceland of hope and glory Sigur Ros will play O2 Academy Brixton

Of Monsters and Men at O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, March 5-7 Another wonderful band to come out if Iceland, Of Monsters and Men had one of the biggest indie hits of 2012: the ubiquitous Little Talks. Hailed as “the new Arcade Fire” by Rolling Stone, the sixpiece create fast, thunderous, brassand piano-driven pop, which puts a massive grin on your face and a wiggle in your behind. £17.60, o2shepherdsbushempire.co.uk

Sufjan Stevens at The Barbican, April 9 Sufjan Stevens’ last solo gig in the UK – at The Barbican in 2006 – was a truly sublime live performance. The visionary multi-instrumentalist’s tender and inventive music is wonderfully suited to the venue’s exquisite acoustics.

We’re expecting similarly great things from this show. Don’t miss it. £20-£30, barbican.org.uk Pioneer Grime legend Wiley

Girls Aloud at The O2, March 1-3

Wiley, Skepta and JME at The Forum, April 20 The godfather of grime, Wiley, is joined by fellow Boy Better Know founders JME and Skepta – heavyweights in the scene themselves – for what will be a masterclass in the genre. Expect some of the gang’s classic hits, such as Too Many Man and Duppy, as well as Wiley’s number 3 hit Can You Hear Me? (Ayayaya). Get set for a night where east London goes north. £14.50, theforumlondon.com

Kinda Ooooooh Girls Aloud are back

One Direction at The O2, February 23-24 & April 1,2,4 & 5

Billy Cobham Band at Ronnie Scott’s, February 18-23 Drummer Billy Cobham is peerless. His percussion acrobatics, skill and innovation have rightly earned him recognition as the greatest fusion drummer ever. Not only this, but he was instrumental in the early days of electronic music – one of the first to use the Electronic Drum Controller, way back in 1968. This short residency is one of the jazz gigs of the year. £30-£50, ronniescotts.co.uk

It’s 10 years since the five piece met and were formed before our very eyes on Popstars the Rivals. And what a decade it has been. We’ve enjoyed some winningly edgy pop, followed by solo careers of varying success and the tabloid phenomenon that is Cheryl Cole. But now they’re back together, armed with a few new songs and ready to reclaim their place at the top of the pop pile. £42.50-£49.50, theo2.co.uk

Globe conquerors Boy band One Direction

Behold, the biggest boy band in the world.

Whether your favourite is Harry, Zayn, Niall, Louis or Liam, get your vocal cords in training for some serious screaming. There’s no denying the chaps have some fantastic pop songs, which is obviously why they attract such rabidly obsessive fans – nothing to do with them being really quite good-looking or anything. Honest.

This mega-run of shows includes matinees, so you can indulge in a spot of afternoon 1Delight. £25-£33.50, theo2.co.uk scoutlondon.com Scout London 39

THIS W EE K L TJ Bukem, Trojan Sound System, Channel One January 12, Koko, £17.43-£19.68 Blow away the January Blues with a line-up of bass culture legends. Topping the bill is the thinking man’s drum ’n’ bass producer, LTJ Bukem, whose jazz-influenced sounds brought a lighter touch to a genre with fairly macho tendencies. It was this, plus the use of keyboards, live vocals and slow-motion breaks that saw him get the ‘intelligent drum ’n’ bass’ tag before it became a slur. He’ll be joined by sound system stalwarts Channel One and the dub, ska and reggae party that is Trojan Sound System. If you’re not feeling better after all that, you might need to head back to bed.

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Also this week: Allo Darlin’, Tender Trap, Spook Jan 8, The Lexington, adv £10.50 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: Babeshadow, Tripwires, Silverclub, Sheen Jan 10, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, adv £5 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: Towns, Must, The Vestals, Spectres Jan 9, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, adv £5 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: Whales In Cubicles, Fractures, Jacques Caramac And The Sweet Generation, The Kill Van Kulls Jan 8, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, adv £5 The Beverly Hellbillies Jan 12, Hope And Anchor, £6, concs £5 Dino Baptiste Jan 13, Ain’t Nothin But Blues Bar, FREE Dutch Uncles Jan 8, Shacklewell Arms, FREE Gravenhurst, Ralfe Band Jan 11, Kings Place, £12.50-£19.50, adv £9.50 Roy Ayers Jan 8-Jan 10, The Jazz Cafe, £22.50 Sam Leak’s Aquarium Jan 12, Kings Place, £12.50, adv £9.50 Scott Hamilton Jan 7, Pizza Express Jazz Club, Sun-Thu £18.50, Fri-Sat £23

Seethe Jan 11, Nambucca, £5 Silent Crowd, Rayys, Radar Jan 7, Dublin Castle, £6, adv/concs £4.50 The Humphrey Lyttelton Band Jan 8, Bull’s Head, £12 The Leo Green Experience Jan 12, Dover Street Restaurant And Bar, £15, FREE before 10pm Tom Robinson, Hamell On Trial, Orlando Seale & The Swell Jan 12, The Tabernacle, £20

Sons And Lovers Jan 11, 18 & 25, KOKO, £5

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Make the most of your city

Ben UFO

January 11, Fabric, £17 adv Hessle Audio is at the forefront of cutting edge electronic music. Its co-founder Ben UFO launches his first Fabriclive mix album at this night, which sees him team up with fellow label founders Pearson Sound and Pangea. Anyone who’s seen the Peckhamite previously will know to expect the latest new stylings in the continuing evolution of dubstep, grime and garage. So don’t expect any Skrillex.

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Ultraísta You’re Out

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The Drowners Long Hair

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Novella He’s My Morning

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The Jesus and Mary Chain Just Like Honey

Take a bath in the warm synths of this track to beat the cold weather blues.

90s Brit indie is making a comeback and this New York lot are leading the way.

Zoned-out shoe-gazing for fans of Dum Dum Girls

Fuzzy and begrudgingly optimistic swooning from the shoe-gazing Scots, easing us through January.

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Fever Ray Triangle Walks Atmospheric electronics for winter afternoons

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Gary Barlow

January 16, Hammersmith Apollo, returns only Last year was superbly successful for singer songwriter, former Take That member, X Factor judge and new OBE Gary Barlow. As former boybanders go, he’s a pretty incredible talent, able to turn out hit after hit and with a strong voice to boot. This will be the last London date on this tour.

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Chris Lee January 12, Wembley Arena, £31.75-£151.80

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The winner of China’s 2005 Super Girl competition, Li Yunchin – also known as Chris Lee – is one of the country’s biggest selling artists. She’ll be making her UK debut at Wembley, showing us Brits how they do pop in the PRC. Engineers Way, HA9 0AA Wembley Park scoutlondon.com Scout London 41

B OO K IN G AHEAD Albert Hammond Apr 17, Bush Hall, adv £25 Alicia Keys May 30 & 31, The O2, £39.50 & £45 Alt-J Jan 18 & 19, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £14 & May 16, O2 Academy Brixton, £16 AlunaGeorge Feb 19, XOYO, £11.50 Aly Bain & Jerry Douglas Feb 6, Southbank Centre, £20-£27.50, concs £10-£13.75 Amon Tobin Mar 8, Hammersmith Apollo, £28.50 & £35 Amy MacDonald Mar 3, London Palladium, £22.50-£37.50 Anastacia Apr 6, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £32.50

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club Mar 27, O2 Academy Brixton, £22.50 Animals And Friends & Steve Cropper Jan 26, Islington Town Hall, £25 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: Kites, Waylayers, Navaho Blue, The Divers Jan 16, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, adv £5 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: Reptile Youth, Neurotic Mass Movement, Blackeye, Entertainment Jan 15, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, adv £5 Artrocker New Blood Festival 2013: The Brute Chorus, Crows, Velcro Hooks, Hank Haint Jan 17, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, £5 Asher Roth Feb 20, The Garage, £22.50 Athlete May 10, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £21.50 Bastille Mar 28 & 29, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, adv £13 Beach House Mar 25 & 26, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £18 Biffy Clyro, City And Colour Apr 3, The O2, £26.50 & £29.50 Big Country Apr 21, The Forum, £23.50 Billy Cobham Band Feb 18-23, Ronnie Scott’s, £30-£50 Bleech Feb 15, KOKO, £5 Bloc Party, The Joy Formidable, Old Men Feb 22, Earls Court, adv £29.50 Blood Red Shoes, Rolo Tomassi, Wet Nuns Jan 22, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £13.50 Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble Mar 21, XOYO, adv £12 Bullet For My Valentine, Halestorm Mar 17, Roundhouse, £20 Buzzcocks Apr 6, Electric Brixton, adv £20 C2C: Country to Country Mar 16 & 17, The O2, £35-£65 Cancer Bats Mar 15, KOKO, £12.50 Carlos Nunez And Philip Pickett & Musicians Of The Globe Feb 1, Southbank Centre, £15-£30, concs £7.50-£15

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Chali 2na, Roc Jan 24, The Jazz Cafe, phone for prices Chas & Dave May 18, IndigO2, £26.50£45 Chris De Burgh Apr 24, Royal Albert Hall, £35-£50 Conor Maynard, Gabrielle Aplin, Little Nikki Jan 22, The Forum, adv £13.50 Cosmo Jarvis Feb 20, The Lexington, adv £10 Crystal Fighters May 23, KOKO, £14 D-A-D Mar 2, O2 Academy Islington, adv £15 Darwin Deez Feb 12, Heaven, £15 Death Grips May 2, The Forum, £15 Deftones, Letlive, Three Trapped Tigers Feb 20, O2 Academy Brixton, £28.50 Depeche Mode May 28 & 29, The O2, £40 & £50 DevilDriver, Cannibal Corpse Mar 7, The Forum, £20 Dizzy Gillespie Afro-Cuban Experience Feb 8 & 9, Ronnie Scott’s, £25-£45 Dog Is Dead Mar 6, KOKO, adv £11.50 Don Broco Feb 21, The Underworld, adv £9 & Apr 18, KOKO, £12 Donny And Marie Jan 20, The O2, £45£75 Dropkick Murphys, Crowns Jan 18 & 19, The Forum, £21 Edwyn Collins Apr 24, Union Chapel, £25 Eels Mar 21, O2 Academy Brixton, £30 Egyptian Hip Hop Mar 4, XOYO, £10 Elvis Costello & The Imposters Jun 4 & 5, Royal Albert Hall, £45 Emeli Sande Apr 8, Hammersmith Apollo, £25-£29.50 Engelbert Humperdinck May 10, Royal Albert Hall, £38.50 Eric Clapton May 17, 18, 20, 21 & 23, Royal Albert Hall, £70 & £85 Esben And The Witch Feb 26, The Scala, adv £10 Example Feb 23, Earls Court, £28.50 Exit Ten Feb 27, The Underworld, £9 FM Mar 23, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £18.50 Fairport Convention, Fake Thackery Mar 9, Union Chapel, adv £25 Family Feb 2, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £35 & £38.50 Fenech Soler Feb 25, Birthdays, £10 & May 22, Electric Ballroom, £12

Bryan Ferry Nov 4, Royal Albert Hall, £35-£95

Classical

London Symphony Orchestra Jan 17, Barbican Centre, £10-£36 Ne-Yo, Tulisa Mar 15, The O2, £36 & £40 Finley Quaye, The Mercenaries Feb 28, The Scala, £19.50, adv £12.50 & £15.50 Foals, Efterklang Mar 28, Royal Albert Hall, £10-£25 Focus Jan 30, Islington Town Hall, £24 Four Tet Feb 28, Heaven, £15.50 Frank Hamilton May 3, The Borderline, £7.50 Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons Jun 25 & 26, Royal Albert Hall, £55-£65 Frightened Rabbit Feb 13, The Forum, £15 Fun Apr 12, Hammersmith Apollo, £18.50 Funeral For A Friend Feb 18, The Garage, £16 Gabby Young And Other Animals Mar 16, The Garage, £12 Gallops Feb 21, The Lexington, adv £7 Gaz Coombes Apr 25, The Garage, £13.50 General Fiasco Feb 11, The Barfly, Camden, adv £8.50 Girls Aloud Mar 1-3, The O2, £42.50£49.50 Goodly Words 5th Annual Winter Cultural Festival Jan 26, The Black Grape Cinema, £20, adv £15, early bird £10 Gwyneth Herbert Jan 27, 606 Club, £10 H.E.A.T Apr 11, The Borderline, £8.50 Hadouken! Apr 25, Electric Ballroom, £14.50 Heartless Bastards Feb 11, The Lexington, adv £8 Helloween Apr 16, The Forum, adv £25 Henrik Freischlader Jan 29, 100 Club, adv £10 Henry Lowther Jan 15, Lord Rookwood, £6 High On Fire Feb 8, O2 Academy Islington, £11 I Am Kloot Feb 19, Barbican Centre, £25 Iamamiwhoami May 30, Electric Brixton, £15 Inspiral Carpets Mar 22, KOKO, phone for prices JLS Dec 21 & Dec 22, The O2, £25 & £33.50 Jaguar Skills Mar 23, KOKO, £15 Jah Wobble & Bill Sharpe Apr 26, Islington Town Hall, £17.50 & £20 Jake Bugg Feb 27 & 28, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices James Last: One More Time Apr 26 & 27, Royal Albert Hall, £35-£60 James, Echo And The Bunnymen Apr 19 & 20, O2 Academy Brixton, £38.50

Alfie Boe: Storyteller Apr 8 & Apr 9, Royal Albert Hall, £25-£45 BBC Symphony Orchestra Jan 18, Barbican Centre, £10-£30 Baroque Festival: Trafalgar Sinfonia Feb 1, St Martin-In-TheFields, phone for prices Britten Sinfonia Jan 16, Barbican Centre, £8-£32 English Chamber Choir And Belmont Ensemble Of London Jan 19, St Martin-In-The-Fields, £8-£28, concs available Fretwork Jan 17-19, Kings Place, £14.50-£26.50, adv £9.50 Gondwana Chorale Jan 30, St John’s, Smith Square, £9-£18, concs £8.10-£16.20 Il Divo And Katherine Jenkins Apr 19, The O2, £35-£95

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra: The Great Classics Jun 7, Royal Albert Hall, £5-£38 Mitsuko Uchida Jan 15, Southbank Centre, £10-£40 Only Boys Aloud Apr 6, Cadogan Hall, £19.50-£27.50 Trafalgar Sinfonia Jan 18, St Martin-In-The-Fields, £8-£24, concs available Trio Karenine And Wu String Quartet Jan 18, Wigmore Hall, £5 Yevgeny Sudbin Jan 21, Wigmore Hall, £12, concs £10 Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra Jan 23, St John’s, Smith Square, £10-£18, concs £8-£14.40 Yuka Ishizuka, Ellena Hale And Nicolas Deletaille Jan 18, St James’s Church, £3.50 donation Zelkova String Quartet Jan 24, St John’s, Smith Square, £10, concs £9, mems FREE, £10, concs £9, mems FREE

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Jun 17, The O2, £45-£65 Jamie Lidell Mar 8, Heaven, adv £16 Janet Devlin Apr 6, O2 Academy Islington, £10 Jessie J Oct 29 & 30, The O2, £25 & £33.50 Jessie Ware Mar 13 & 14, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £16.50 Joe Brown Apr 13, Cadogan Hall, £32.50 Joe Satriani Jun 17, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £40 Johnny Marr Mar 15, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £22.50 Journey/Whitesnake, Thunder May 29, Wembley Arena, £48 Justin Bieber Mar 4, 5, 7 & 8, The O2, £50 & £60 Kaiser Chiefs, This Many Boyfriends Mar 1, O2 Academy Brixton, adv £27.50 Kaizers Orchestra Apr 25, KOKO, phone for prices Kendrick Lamar Jan 20, Hammersmith Apollo, £22.50-£30, phone for availability Killing Joke Mar 16, The Forum, adv £25 Kings Of Leon Jun 12 & 13, The O2, £57.50 Lana Del Rey May 19 & 20, Hammersmith Apollo, £28.50 Lawson Mar 1, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £15.50 Lee Scratch Perry Feb 9 & 10, The Jazz Cafe, £22.50 Leona Lewis May 8 & 9, Royal Albert Hall, £35-£65 Lianne La Havas, Rae Morris, George Ezra Mar 11 & 12, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £15 Little Feat Feb 8, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £30-£32.50 Little Mix Feb 13, Hammersmith Apollo, £19.50-£32.50 Local Natives Feb 14, The Scala, adv £13.50 London International Ska Festival 2013 Mar 28-Mar 31, Various Venues, weekend ticket £99.99 Mamas Gun Feb 23, The Jazz Cafe, £12 Maps & Atlases Mar 6, Dingwalls, adv £11.50 Mark Knopfler May 27-Jun 1, Royal Albert Hall, £37.50-£52.50 Mark Morriss Jan 17, The Queen Of Hoxton, phone for availablity Marlena Shaw Mar 26-30, Ronnie Scott’s, £30-£50 Maroon 5 Jun 23 & 24, The O2, £40 & £45 Matchbox Twenty Apr 16, Hammersmith Apollo, £29.50 Matt Cardle May 2, Union Chapel, £25

McFly May 18, Wembley Arena, £31.50 Meat Loaf: Last At Bat Tour Apr 10, The O2, £57.50 Michael Ball: Both Sides Now Tour May 4, Hammersmith Apollo, £37.50 & £42.50 Mick Hucknall Apr 28, Hammersmith Apollo, £40 & £50 Mumiy Troll May 25, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £20 Muse May 25 & May 26, Emirates Stadium, phone for prices My Bloody Valentine Mar 12 & Mar 13, Hammersmith Apollo, adv £25 NME Awards Shows 2013: Brooke Candy Feb 25, Madame Jojo’s, £9.10 NME Awards Shows 2013: Dinosaur Jr Feb 4, Electric Ballroom, £20.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Doldrums Feb 20, Corsica Studios, £10.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Everything Everything Feb 13, Heaven, £15.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Fiction Feb 25, Electrowerkz, £8.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Fidlar Feb 25, The Garage, £11.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Gabriel Bruce Feb 5, Hoxton Square Bar And Kitchen, £9.10 NME Awards Shows 2013: Hurts Feb 7, Heaven, phone for prices NME Awards Shows 2013: Jagwar Ma Feb 26, Birthdays, £8.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Kate Nash Feb 13, The Sebright Arms, £12.50 NME Awards Shows 2013: Kodaline Feb 14, Dingwalls, adv £10.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Metz Feb 1, Birthdays, £9.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Savages Feb 21, Electric Ballroom, £12.50 NME Awards Shows 2013: The Cribs, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Deap Vally, Drenge Feb 22, O2 Academy Brixton, phone for prices NME Awards Shows 2013: Tim Burgess Feb 21, Birthdays, £15.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Toy Feb 12, The Scala, £11.60 NME Awards Shows 2013: Tribes Feb 6, Secret Location, phone for prices

Netsky Mar 1, The Forum, £15

Nas Mar 19, The O2, £34-£39, w/CD £44.99-£49.99 Ocean Colour Scene Feb 25 & 26, Electric Ballroom, £28.50 Of Monsters And Men Mar 5-7, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices Olivia Newton-John Mar 13, Royal Albert Hall, £45 & £55 Olly Murs Feb 11, IndigO2, £15-£75, Mar 10, Wembley Arena, £34 & Mar 29 & 30, The O2, £34 One Direction Feb 22-24, & Apr 1, 2, 4 & 5, The O2, £25 & £33.50 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark May 3, Roundhouse, £33.50 P!nk Apr 24, Apr 25, Apr 27, Apr 28, The O2, £42.50-£55

Tame Impala Jun 25, Hammersmith Apollo, £19.50 Paloma Faith, Josephine Feb 7, Hammersmith Apollo, £22.50-£29.50 Patrick Wolf Apr 6, Southbank Centre, £17.50-£22.50 Pet Shop Boys Jun 18, The O2, £35 Peter Gabriel Oct 21 & Oct 22, The O2, £40 & £50 Peter Hook And The Light Jan 17, KOKO, £20 Plan B, Labrinth, Rudimental Feb 9, The O2, £30 Planes Mar 6, Birthdays, phone for prices Republica Mar 14, The Garage, £14 Richard Hawley Feb 23, Troxy, £22.50 Rita Ora Feb 5 & 6, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, phone for prices Rod Stewart: Live The Life Tour Jun 4 & Jun 6, The O2, £60-£70 Roddy Woomble Mar 13, The Jazz Cafe, £15 Rolf Harris Feb 8, Southbank Centre, £25£55, concs £12.50-£22.50 Ron Sexsmith Mar 7, Royal Albert Hall, £22.50-£32.50 Ronan Keating: Fires Tour Jan 26, The O2, £35 Roots Manuva Mar 16, KOKO, £17, adv £15 Rudimental Feb 22, Village Underground, £12 Rush May 24, The O2, £60 & £75 Salif Keita Feb 13, Southbank Centre, £10£30, concs £5-£15 Saxon Apr 27, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £20 Shockwaves NME Awards Show: Django Django, Miles Kane, Palma Violets, Peace Feb 23, O2 Academy Brixton, £20

Shout Out Louds Apr 2, The Lexington, adv £12.50 Sigur Ros Mar 7-9, O2 Academy Brixton, £30 Squarepusher Mar 30, Roundhouse, £25 Suede Mar 30, Alexandra Palace, £32.50 Teenage Cancer Trust: Kasabian Mar 22, Royal Albert Hall, £25-£75 Teenage Cancer Trust: Noel Gallagher With Damon Albarn & Graham Coxon Mar 23, Royal Albert Hall, £25-£100 Teenage Cancer Trust: Primal Scream Mar 21, Royal Albert Hall, £25-£75 Teenage Cancer Trust: Rizzle Kicks, Labrinth Mar 24, Royal Albert Hall, £25£50 The Bootleg Beatles: The Beatles Tribute Mar 5, Royal Albert Hall, £23.50£35 The Courteeners Mar 16, O2 Academy Brixton, £19.50 The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Moulettes Mar 29, The Borderline, £19.50 The Darkness Mar 7, Hammersmith Apollo, £27.50 The Datsuns Feb 15, Dingwalls, adv £10 The Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster Apr 12, O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire, £15 The Gaslight Anthem Mar 29 & 30, Troxy, £23.50 The Joy Formidable Mar 8, Roundhouse, £15 The Script Mar 22 & 23, The O2, £29.50 The Stone Roses Jun 7 & 8, Finsbury Park, £55 The Vaccines May 2, The O2, £27 The X Factor Live Tour 2013 Feb 7, The O2, £32.50 & Feb 22-23, Wembley Arena, £32.50 Trey Songz Jan 30 & 31, Hammersmith Apollo, £30 & £35 Two Door Cinema Club Apr 27, Alexandra Palace, £20, disabled £10 Wave Machines Feb 6, The Scala, adv £9 Wiley, Skepta, JME Apr 20, The Forum, £14.50 Willy Moon Feb 12, XOYO, £10 Yo La Tengo Mar 20, Barbican Centre, £15

Teenage Cancer Trust: Ryan Adams, Beth Orton Mar 19, Royal Albert Hall, £25-£75

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Massive Mondays at The Lockside Lounge, 75-89 West Yard Dock, NW1 8AF Camden Town FREE, 7pm12midnight. Tiny T, Asher G, Oxman and Naoko The Rock spin ska, rocksteady, R&B, reggae and rock.

Popcorn New Year Mirrorball at Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG Charing Cross £8, £4 before 1am, FREE w/wristband before 1am, 11pm-5.30am. DJs Adam Turner, Zach Burns, Jamie Hammond, Tony English, The Sharp Boys, Neroli, Terry Vietheer and Alan K spin house, while resident on rotation play pop and guilty pleasures in the Stage Bar and DJ Terry T-Rex plays R&B and hip hop in the Star Bar.

Celebrate In The City at East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX Old Street £10, gustlist £5, 10pm3am. DJs Shortly Bless, Invasion Crew, Strikeforce and DJ Semo spin hip hop, house and club classics.

Chick Habit at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road FREE, 9pm-late. DJs Amy B and CeCe spin pop and classics from the 1990s, plus music by girls in the basement.

Cut Your Hair at The Waiting Room, 175 Stoke Newington High Street, N16 0LH Stoke Newington £4, 9pm-4am.

Resident DJs and guests play indie, plus a live performance from Great Waves.

Gravity at Covert, 65 Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP Vauxhall w/flyer £5, FREE before 1am, 12midnight-8am. DJs Fat Tony, Verity Mayes and The Oli spin house and electro.

Porn Idol at Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG Charing Cross w/flyer FREE, 11pm4am. Resident DJs spin pop and dance while plucky punters are invited to demonstrate their talents for a shot at a cash prize.

Throwback Thursdays at Undersolo, 22 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ Marylebone FREE, 5pm-1am. DJs Donny and Drizz spin R&B, old skool hip hop, funky house, dance and bashment.

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Tuesday January 8 Panic at The Roxy, 3-5 Rathbone Place, W1T 1HJ Tottenham Court Road £5, NUS/w/flyer £3, guestlist w/flyer FREE before 10.30pm, 10pm-3am. Max Panic, Gaz Panic and That Perfect Fumble spin indie, electro, retro and pop.

White Heat at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £5, concs/flyer £4, 10.30pm-3am. DJs Matty, Olly and Marcus supply electro, techno and indie.

Wednesday January 9 Back To My Roots at Zen Sai, 16 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ Camden Town FREE, 9pm-2am. Paul Trouble Anderson spins 1970s to 1990s jazz, funk, hip hop, disco and R&B. Disco Paradise at Joiners Arms, 116-118 Hackney Road, E2 7QL Old Street FREE, 11pm-2am. Jo Public plays rare groove, disco, soul and rock’n’roll.

Les Femmes Sur Le Ponte at Bar Vinyl, 6 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ Camden Town FREE, 8pm-12midnight.

House and dance music courtesy of resident female DJs. Trannyoke at Escape Bar, 10A Brewer Street, W1F 0SU Piccadilly Circus FREE, 9pm-3am. DJ Matt spins pop and dance, with host Lady Lloyd, and karaoke.

Thursday January 10 B3 at The White Horse, 153-155 Hoxton Street, N1 6PJ Hoxton FREE, 8pm12midnight. Electric Boogie, Mike Franklin and The Wook spin soul and house.

Bad Sex at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £7, guestlist £5, £5 before 10pm, guestlist FREE before 10pm, 7.30pm-1.30am. Laurent Schark, Mayton DJs and Fin Munro spin house, electro house and disco house.

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X Presents at Egg, 200 York Way, N7 9AX King’s Cross St Pancras £15-£20, 11pm-10am. Adriatique, My Favourite Robot, SQUA, Whitesquare, Montana Cruz, Luke Wolfman, Ricardo Baez, Tony Stephenson, Michael Bibi and 7oel spin house and techno across two rooms.

Bingo at Thirst, 53 Greek Street, W1D 3DR Tottenham Court Road £5, FREE before 10pm, 5pm-3am. DJ Yvette spins pop, R&B and dance.

Bedrock at The Borderline, Orange Yard, Manette Street, W1D 4JB Tottenham Court Road £7, w/flyer £5 before 12midnight, 11pm-4am. DJs Little Chris and George spin indie, electro, rock, retro and pop.

Connected at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street £10, FREE before 10pm, 8pm-3am. Jesse James, Johnny Bloomfield, Habit to Others, Ricky Torres, Jamie Hiller and George Peck spin dance and house.

Cover Up at Ginglik, Shepherd’s Bush Green, W12 8PH Shepherd’s Bush £8, £6 before 11pm, 7pm-3am. DJ Moshev and DJ C-Boogie spin funk, boogaloo, hip hop, reggae, Baile, soul and Latin, with

live performances from Aina Roxx and The Fontanas.

Disjecta & OTO Projects Present at Cafe Oto, 18-22 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Dalston Kingsland £10, adv £8, 8pm11pm. Mika Vainio, Lee Gamble and Will Guthrie spin electro and jungle.

DJ Manson at The InSpiral Lounge, 250 Camden High Street, NW1 8QS Camden Town FREE, 9.30pm-1.30am.

The Spanish DJ spins nu-jazz, deep house, trip hop, acid jazz, techno and funk.

Fabriclive at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £18, adv £17, mems £13, NUS £13 before 12midnight, £9 after 3am, adv £22 inc CD, 10pm-7am.

DJs Ben UFO, Pearson Sound, Pangaea, Optimo, Lando Kal, Call Super, Lando Kal, xxxy, Illum Sphere, Altered Natives, Jonny Dub, Eclair Fifi, Jon K, Peverelist, Joe, Oli Marlow and Tim Breach spin dubstep, electronica and bass music across three rooms, plus live performances from MMM, Kuedo and Cupp Cave.

Feeling Gloomy at The Phoenix, 37 Cavendish Square, W1G 0PP Oxford Circus £6, adv £4.50, NUS £5, 9.30pm-2.30am. DJs Leonard and Cliff spin melancholy pop, rock and indie.

Friday at The Nest, 36 Stoke Newington Road, N16 7XJ Dalston Kingsland £7, 9pm-4am. Busy P, Boston Bun, Riotous Rockers and Blue On Blue play electronica and dance. With a live performance from Teeth Of The Sea. Friday Night Pick N Mix at South London Pacific, 340 Kennington Road, SE11 4LD Oval £5, £3 before 10pm, FREE before 9pm, 6pm-3am. Disco Dave Daggers, Magnus Dr Hoover Box and Marshmellow Mike spin pop and dance.

G-A-Y Camp Attack at Heaven, Charing Cross Arches, Villiers Street, WC2N 6NG Charing Cross w/flyer FREE, 11pm4am. Pop and retro classics from the 1970s to the 1990s, plus songs from musicals in the Departure Lounge with a chance to perform at 1am.

Happy Endings at Camino, Regent Quarter, N1 9RL King’s Cross St Pancras phone for prices, 7pm-12midnight. Andy Peyton and guests spin disco, electro, hip hop and rock’n’roll.

I Love Pacha - Closing Party at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria adv £12, 11pm-5am. DJs Matt Emulsion, C. Randall, Dan Johnson, Sean O’Leary, M. Blaize, Gary D, Pete Lewis and Biczok play house music.

Pick N Mix at Arch, 15-16 Lendal Terrace, SW4 7UX Clapham North FREE, 10pm-3am. Resident DJ Jerry spins funky house, soulful electro, indie, rock, pop and soul from the past six decades.

RBMA: LFO Full Live Show at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street adv £15, 9pm-3am. The Sheffield-born electronica and techno producer performs live, plus support from DJs Truss/Mpia3 and Nightwave.

Sin City at Electric Ballroom, 184 Camden High Street, NW1 8QP Camden Town £7, NUS/mems £5 before 11.30pm, w/flyer £5 before 12midnight, 10.30pm-3.30am.

DJs Adam Lightspeed and Sleazy H play alternative rock and metal in the main room, with classic rock and old skool metal in room two.

The Snake Hips Mambo Club at The Bedroom Bar, 62 Rivington Street,

EC2A 3AY Old Street £7, adv £5, 9pm-3am. DJs Crash and Burn spin ska, rhythm’n’blues and rock’n’roll, with a live performance from The Jolly Good Bollywood Band.

W1Freedom at Freedom Bar, 66 Wardour Street, W1F 0TA Piccadilly Circus phone for prices, 10pm-6am. DJ Dan Stone supplies house and dance anthems.

White Jail Warehouse at Secret Location London, E1 £10, early bird £8, 10pm-6am.

Rio Padice, ThanksMate, Roberto Amo and Dualmono spin electro, techno, disco, house, garage and dubstep.

Youth Gone Wild Presents at The Lock Tavern, 35 Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AJ Camden Town FREE, 8.30pm-late.

Resident DJs play indie, pop and rock records.

Zombie Soundsystem January Sale at The Basing House, 25 Kingsland Road, E2 8AA Liverpool Street £5 before 12midnight, 10pm-4am. Shane Watcha, Jonny Cade, Leitmotif and Belle And Bex spin underground house.

Scroobius Pip Presents We. Are.Lizards at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street £5, 8pm2am. House and electro courtesy of the London-based rapper, with support from Tythe, Buddy Pearce, Redshift Rebels, Destruction and Push Music.

Saturday January 12 6T’s Northern Soul at 100 Club, 100 Oxford Street, W1D 1LL Oxford Circus £12, 10pm-6am. 60s soul courtesy of Butch, Keith Money, Ady Croasdell, Just Soul’s Sean Hampsey and Andy ‘Tats’ Taylor.

Audio Sushi at The Dogstar, 389 Coldharbour Lane, SW9 8LQ Brixton £5, FREE before 11pm, 7pm-4am. Jeffrey Disastronaut plays reggae, electro, funk jungle, pop, indie and dubstep.

Break Yourself at Bloomsbury Bowling Lanes, Basement Of Tavistock Hotel, Tavistock Square, WC1H 9EU Russell Square £5, adv £4, 9pm-3am.

Resident and guest DJs spin old skool hip hop, reggae, funk, house, nu-disco, bass, garage, jungle, electro-funk and nu-soul.

Bump & Hustle Music at The Bussey Building/CLF Art Cafe, 133 Rye Lane, SE15 4ST Peckham Rye FREE, 10pm4am. DJs Paul Trouble Anderson, Johnny Reckless and Man Vs Wife spin house, jazz, funk and soul.

Bunker 194 Presents at East Village, 89 Great Eastern Street, EC2A 3HX Old Street £10, adv £6, 9pm-3.30am.

Manuel Tur, Bruno Balbino, Freaklou, Brenno, Sleasy-O and Sparky spin dance, house, techno and disco.

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Club De Fromage at O2 Academy Islington, N1 Centre, 16 Parkfield Street, N1 0PS Angel £6.50, 10.30pm-3.30am.

Resident DJs play cheese and pop from the 1980s and 1990s, plus themed fancy dress.

Club Aloha at South London Pacific, 340 Kennington Road, SE11 4LD Oval £5, £3 before 10pm, FREE before 9pm, 7pm-3am. Les and Ian from Music Inc spin jazz, soul, Motown, Latin, funky house and pop.

Crazy Rhythms at The Bedroom Bar, 62 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street adv £7, 9pm-3am. DJs play garage and rock sets, plus there are live performances from Charles Howl and The Red Cords.

Cratediggin’ at White Horse, 94 Brixton Hill, SW2 1QN Brixton FREE, 9pm3am. DJ Don Sonix spins reggae, funk, dubstep, drum’n’bass and party hip hop.

Daliee’s Jukebox at The Book Club, 100-106 Leonard Street, EC2A 4RH Old Street £5, FREE before 9pm, 8pm-2am. Rodney P, DJ Skitz, DJ Jawa, Sweetie Irie, Master Level and Hinda Hicks spin hip hop.

Deep Rhythm at The Rhythm Factory, 16-18 Whitechapel Road, E1 1EW Whitechapel £5 & £10, 10pm-6am.

DJs Rebel, Lance Morgan, Anticx, Jay Forbez, Theo Stretch Lewis, Dudley, Mark Radford, Aaron Jay, Tim Ross, Frank Tama and Kay Jose spin minimal techno, nu-disco and deep house.

Ear Music at The Silver Bullet, 5 Station Place, N4 2DH Finsbury Park £5, 5pm-late. Funk and hip hop beats courtesy of DJ Sonny Delight, plus live performances from Dirt Diggers, Frankie Teardrop and Samuel James Routledge.

Eleflight Records London at Horse And Groom, 28 Curtain Road, EC2A 3NZ Shoreditch High Street £4-£5, concs £3, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-4am.

Dairmount, Santi Touch and Fresh Tee spin deep house.

Fabric at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £20, adv £19, mems/NUS £14, £10 after 4am, 11pm-8am.

Techno, dubstep and house courtesy of Craig Richards, San Proper, Trus’me, Terry Francis, Trevino, Jimpster, Session Victim and Norm De Plume across three rooms, with live performances from Portable and Conforce.

Feast at 93 Feet East, 150 Brick Lane, E1 6RU Liverpool Street FREE guestlist, 3pm-1am. DJs Liam Webb, Jamie Ward and Billy Hill spin deep house, disco and techno.

Fill Yer Boots Resident Special at The White Horse, 153-155 Hoxton Street, N1 6PJ FREE, 9pm-2am. Leisureware and Daniel Ghazvinie spin house.

Funky House Vs R&B at Undersolo, 22 Inverness Street, NW1 7HJ Camden Town £8, £5 guestlist, FREE, 7pm-late. Resident Signature Sound DJs spin funky house, club classics, dance and R&B High Focus Records Present at Jamm, 261 Brixton Road, SW9 6LH Brixton £10, £7 before 11pm, adv £7, early bird £5, 10pm-6am. Hip hop and bass music courtesy of Fliptrix, Dirty Dike, Verb T, Edward Scissortongue, Leaf Dog, Bva MC, Jam Baxter, LDZ, Phoenix Da Ice Fire, Rag N Bone Man, Runone, DJ Sammy B-Side,

DJ Madnice, 184, Purist, Telemachus, Bozak, DJ Rebs and DJ Flash Harry across two rooms.

Hot And Close at 229 The Venue, 229 Great Portland Street, W1W 5PW Great Portland Street £10, 7.30pm12midnight. Capital FM DJ Rich Clarke spins dance, R&B and chart, with support from Verdala.

Lost And Found at Madame Jojo’s, 8-10 Brewer Street, W1F 0SE Piccadilly Circus £8, mems £5, 10pm3am. DJs Andy Smith and Dave Crozier spin rhythm’n’blues, Northern soul and rockabilly.

Mixology at Veranda Bar, 30 Acre Lane, SW2 5SG Brixton FREE before 12midnight, phone for times. DJs Phat Kontrollaz mix trance and techno.

Monster at Candy Bar, 4 Carlisle Street, W1D 3BJ Tottenham Court Road £5, mems £3, FREE before 10pm, 9pm-3am.

Chart hits, dance and pop classics hosted

by DJ Lady Bex or Sandra D on alternate weeks.

Mooch 4th Birthday at The Basing House, 25 Kingsland Road, E2 8AA Liverpool Street £5-£8, 10pm-4am.

Tom Ruijg, Natalie Coleman and Ed Jones spin house and techno.

Motion at The Workshop, 243 Old Street, EC1V 9EY Old Street FREE, 10pm5am. Jamie Scott, Oliver James, Sam Hedworth and Darren Lee Fenton spin house and techno.

Nouveau Up Close at Cargo, 83 Rivington Street, EC2A 3AY Old Street £15, adv £10, FREE before 9pm, 8pm-3am.

Marcman spins house music with support from David Bevan, Williams And Du Bois, Oliver Cole and Cem Baris.

One Sound Events Present Dreamland at Pacha, Terminus Place, SW1V 1JR Victoria £20, adv £15, 11pm-late.

Lissat And Voltaxx, James Murray, Lewi Five 0, Lawrence Friend, O-Twins, Lyle M, George Smeddles, Gary Morre, Musical Mike and Russell Kane spin house and techno across two rooms.

Purple at The InSpiral Lounge, 250 Camden High Street, NW1 8QS Camden Town FREE, 9pm-1.30am.

Ekim, Raku, Autom, Wingnut, Baxter and Dan-de-Lion spin house, techno, drum’n’bass and hip hop, raising money and awareness for the charity Centrepoint.

Remix at Escape Bar, 10A Brewer Street, W1F 0SU Piccadilly Circus w/re-entry stamp £10 after 10pm, FREE before 10pm, 5pm-3am. DJ Julio Bravo spins dance music from the last four decades.

Ride at Proud Camden, The Horse Hospital, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8AH Camden Town £10, £8 before 10pm, guestlist FREE before 9pm, 7.30pm2.30am. Tom Lunn and Filthy Few spin house, electro and dance.

The Saturday Shake Up at The Hideaway, 114 Junction Road, N19 5LB Archway FREE, 10pm-2am. Local guest DJs Decadence, Jonny Silcock, Sunshineman, Michael Dodds and Liam Devall spin a mix of pop, hip hop, rock, funk, Motown, club classics and commercial hits.

Total Hypnosis: The Winter Warmer at Covert, 65 Albert Embankment, SE1 7TP Vauxhall FREE, 10pm-6am. R&B, drum’n’bass and jungle across two rooms featuring Ruffstuff, Devious D, Funky Flirt, Dominator, Shockin, Hoodlum, Uno,

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Elegance, Rob Blaze, Harry Bizzle, Phantom D, DJ Jonah, Jack-Knife, Food, Junky, Rusher, DJ Eclipse, Staf, Coldharbour Ray, Mad Al, DJ Snapper, DJ Infinity and Syksta.

Troupe at XOYO, 32-37 Cowper Street, EC2A 4AP Old Street adv £12, 9pm3am. DJs Hot Since 82, Ben Pearce, South London Ordinance, Squa, Hannah Wants and Shark Bait spin deep house, UK funky, techno and electro.

No-Attitude at Secret Location, E1 £10, mems £7, NUS £5, 10pm-5am. Enzo Tedeschi and guests spin dance and electro.

Sunday January 13 Cairo Son at The Roadhouse, 35 The Piazza, Covent Garden Market, WC2E 8HB Covent Garden £5, FREE before 10pm, 6pm-1am. The band plays grunge-rock and

blues, followed by DJs spinning electro, indie, dance and rock.

Global Faction at Upstairs At The Ritzy, Coldharbour Lane, SW2 1JG Brixton FREE, 8.30pm-11pm. DJ Snuff spins hip hop, with open mic.

Later at Fire, Arch, 39-43 Parry Street, corner South Lambeth Road, SW8 1RT Vauxhall £6, 11.30am-8pm. D’Johnny, Paul Martin, The Oli, The Sharp Boys and Jamie Head spin house music.

Odyssey at Vibe Bar, 91 Brick Lane, E1 6QL Aldgate East FREE, 4pm11.30pm.

Sunbeats & Soul Cafe at Veranda Bar, 30 Acre Lane, SW2 5SG Brixton FREE, 3pm-late. DJs Danny Tammuz, Damion Silk, Rashaan K and CLK spin soul, R&B, funk and Latin.

Sunday at Gigalum, 7 Cavendish Parade, Clapham Common South Side, SW4 9DW Clapham South FREE, 7pm-late. House and trance courtesy of Australian DJ and producer Jaytech.

Volume London at Catch, 22 Kingsland Road, E2 8DA Old Street £5 & £8, 7pm-1am. Hip hop, rap and dance music courtesy of Princess Nyah, Melissa Steel, Shackavillian, Kieron Boothe, Asia Love, DLux, Rakaya B, Jaye CZAR, Mya Sky and Karina Diazz.

WetYourSelf! at Fabric, 77A Charterhouse Street, EC1M 6HJ Farringdon £10, NUS £7, adv £5, 11pm-6am. Cormac, Peter Pixzel and Jacob Husley spin house and techno, with a live performance from Alex Under.

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PREVIEW

From A-list movie stars to high-kicking musical numbers, there’s plenty be cheery about on the London stage this season Port National Theatre January 22-March 24

Quartermaine’s Terms Wyndham’s Theatre January 23-April 13

Port was one of the first plays by celebrated writer Simon Stephens, who went on to pen hits including Harper Regan, Punk Rock and Pornography. Having premiered to rave reviews at the Royal Exchange in Manchester in 2002, the bleak coming-of-age story about a girl growing up in Manchester is being revived by the National, with original director Marianne Elliott. £12-£34, nationaltheatre.org.uk

Rowan Atkinson will star in Richard Eyre’s production of this gently comic 1982 play by Simon Gray.

Set in the 1960s, it tells of the relationship between teachers at an English-as-a-foreign-language school in Cambridge. £25-£58.50, quartermainesterms.com

Once Phoenix Theatre March 16-November 30

Macbeth Trafalgar Studios February 9-April 27

On his terms Rowan Atkinson will appear in Quartermaine’s Terms

Feast Young Vic January 25-February 23

Trelawny of the Wells Donmar Warehouse February 15-April 13 Joe Wright, the director of films such as Atonement and Anna Karenina, will make his theatre-directing debut with this production of Arthur Wing Pinero’s comic play about an actor who abandons his profession for love, with unexpected consequences. £10-£35, donmarwarehouse.com 46 Scout London scoutlondon.com

The Scottish play James McAvoy

Full house Robert Lepage’s Playing Cards

One of the season’s most epic productions is this from London Road director Rufus Norris.

Written by five playwrights from five countries that were all deeply affected by the enslaving of West Africa’s Yoruba people, the piece follows the spirits of three sisters – from Nigeria in the 1700s to London in 2013 – in its exploration of Yoruba culture through the ages. £10-£30, youngvic.org

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Movie star James McAvoy will be treading the boards for the first time since 2009 in the title role of Shakespeare’s pitch-black and bloody tale of power, greed and murder. Jamie Lloyd will direct as part of the Trafalgar Transformed series of politically-charged plays at the theatre. £24.50-£65, atgtickets.com

Remember that sweetly romantic film about a busker in Dublin who falls in love with a young Czech immigrant? Well some shrewd American theatre folk turned it into a hit Broadway musical that scooped eight Tony Awards, and now they’re bringing it over here. £19.50-£67.50, oncemusical.co.uk

BEST OF THE REST A Chorus Line London Palladium February 5-January 18, 2014 Back on the West End stage for the first time since its inaugural production in 1976, this musical about Broadway dancers will be directed by Bob Avin, who co-choreographed the original production. It also comes at a poignant time, just six months after the death of the show’s composer, Marvin Hamlisch. £38-£120, londonpalladium.org

Back again A Chorus Line The queen of the stage Helen Mirren The Low Road Royal Court March 21-April 27 Bruce Norris, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Clybourne Park, returns to the Royal Court with this “fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism”, with direction from the theatre’s outgoing artistic director, Dominic Cooke. £10-£28, royalcourttheatre.com

The Winslow Boy Old Vic March 8-May 25 Lindsay Posner will direct this revival of Terence Rattigan’s 1946 play, based on the true story of a father’s desperate efforts to clear his son’s name after he is expelled from the Royal Naval College for theft. £11-£75, oldvictheatre.com

Metamorphosis Lyric, Hammersmith January 17-February 9 Almost a full century since Kafka penned his classic short story about a man who wakes up to find he has transformed into a grotesque insect, David Farr and Gísli Örn Garðarsson are bringing their imaginative reworking of the tale back to the Lyric, after sell-out runs in 2006 and 2008. £12.50-£35, lyric.co.uk

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Lift Soho Theatre January 30-February 24 This new musical features a variety of established West End talent, including Julie Atherton (Sister Act, Avenue Q) and Nikki Davis-Jones (Wicked, Mamma Mia), in its amusing projection of the many outcomes of a lift ride taken by eight strangers. £10-£29.50, sohotheatre.com

The Audience Gielgud Theatre February 15-June 15 Having won an Oscar for playing the monarch in Stephen Frears’ celebrated film, The Queen, Helen Mirren will once again be taking on the formidable role of Her Maj in this new play by the same writer, Peter Morgan, who also wrote Frost/Nixon and The Last King of Scotland.

The Audience dramatises the weekly meetings between the Queen and her various prime ministers through the ages, and will be overseen

by Billy Elliot director Stephen Daldry. £10-£59, theaudienceplay.com

Playing Cards: Spades The Roundhouse February 7-March 2 Globally-revered theatre-maker Robert Lepage is to stage four plays at The Roundhouse, each themed around a suit in a deck of cards. This first chapter should see him bring his usual virtuosity and visual wizardry, with a piece set in Las Vegas on the eve of the 2003 Iraq invasion. £15-£45, roundhouse.org.uk

Peter and Alice Noël Coward Theatre March 9-June 1 A real-life encounter between the woman who inspired Lewis Caroll’s Alice in Wonderland and the man who inspired JM Barrie’s Peter Pan forms the basis of this new play by John Logan, with Judi Dench and Ben Whishaw (pictured above) as the now grown-up icons of children’s literature. The production is part of a season of celeb-heavy plays from the Michael Grandage Company. £10-£57.50, michaelgrandagecompany.com

Liar Liar Unicorn Theatre January 31-March 6

Money, the Gameshow Bush Theatre January 31-March 2

Exciting young playwright EV Crowe has tackled the difficult and often ugly side of growing up before – namely in her Royal Court hit, Kin. Here she pens a tale about a teenage girl whose increasingly wild lies lead to increasingly severe consequences. Aimed at ages 13 to 16. £13-£16, unicorntheatre.com

Clare Duffy’s playful new piece gets the audience to take a very direct role in its look at the origins of the financial crisis. With £10,000 of real pound coins to play with, the audience is invited to gamble its way through a series of high-stake games designed to cast some light on how the global economy came so close to collapse. £10-£19.50, bushtheatre.co.uk

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P REVIE W S No Quarter Royal Court January 11-February 9, £10-£20 Both conspicuously young and talented, 26-year-old playwright Polly Stenham is returning to the Court with her third play (after previous hits That Face and Tusk Tusk), described as “an anarchic twist on the drawing room drama”.

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London International Mime Festival Various venues and prices January 10-27 but our top picks include: aerial theatre piece Ockham’s Razor, staged as an immersive promenade performance at Platform Theatre; puppetry show The Heads from celebrated company Blind Summit at Soho Theatre; disorientating physical theatre piece Leo and the visual trickery of Plan B, both at the Southbank Centre; Hans was Heiri, which sees seven performers jump, climb, dance and tumble through a spinning house at the Barbican; and Smashed, the mind-blowing juggling spectacular that was the hit of last year’s show, at the Royal Opera House. mimelondon.com

The Judas Kiss Duke of York’s Theatre January 9-April 6, £20-£65 David Hare’s play about the destructive relationship between Oscar Wilde and his spoiled and selfish young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas (Bosie), didn’t fare well with critics when it premiered in the West End in 1998. This revival, however, has attracted far more praise.

Rupert Everett takes the role of Wilde, with rising star Freddie Fox as Bosie, in a production directed by Australian theatre titan Neil Armfield. Having opened at Hampstead Theatre in September, it is now getting a well-deserved West End transfer.

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Monkey Bars Unicorn Theatre January 9-26, £10-£16 Bespoke children’s theatre The Unicorn is throwing out its own rulebook and staging a show for adults – but with a twist. Writer Chris Goode asked 30 eight- to 10-year-olds to talk about their lives and thoughts about the world. He then put their words into the mouths of adult actors and created one of the hit shows of last year’s Edinburgh Fringe.

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The Silence of the Sea Trafalgar Studios January 10-February 2, £22 This story of an old man and his niece who use silence as a way of displaying opposition to a soldier occupying their house was published secretly in Nazi-occupied Paris, and became a symbol of psychological resistance against the Germans. Anthony Weigh’s new version is part of the Donmar Warehouse’s season at the Trafalgar.

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What qualifies as ‘mime’ in contemporary theatre? Quite a lot actually, if the London International Mime Festival is anything to go by. There aren’t any white gloves or stripy shirts round here, thank you very much. Rather, this is an annual “festival of contemporary visual theatre” – which translates as circus, puppetry, aerial acrobatics and otherworldly illusion.

This is the 37th year of the festival, which will stage productions in a variety of venues around the city, including the Southbank Centre, the Barbican, Soho Theatre, the Royal Opera House and the Roundhouse.

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Old Times Harold Pinter Theatre January 12-April 6, £10-£49.50 There’s star power galore in this revival of a 1971 play by Harold Pinter. Kristin Scott Thomas will star alongside multi-award-winner Rufus Sewell and acclaimed stage and screen actress Lia Williams.

The play – about the conflicting reminiscences of a couple and their visiting friend – will be directed by Ian Rickson, whose credits include Hamlet at the Young Vic (starring Michael Sheen) and the incredible Jerusalem, which won feverish acclaim on both sides of the Atlantic.

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Seamlessly synchronizing live music, performance and storytelling with stunning film and animation, the internationally acclaimed show by award-winning company 1927 returns.

American Justice Arts Theatre January 10-February 9, £22.50

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A biting and caustic play about the penal system under Obama, American Justice has garnered rave reviews around the UK and is now heading to the West End. Written by Richard Vergette, it tells of a newly-elected congressman who steps in to prevent his daughter’s murderer from being executed, instead asking for the chance to educate the illiterate criminal himself. Is this just a selfless act of altruism or does the congressman have ulterior motives? And what secrets does the convict himself have?

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Privates On Parade booking until Mar 2 2013, Noel Coward Theatre, 85-88 St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4AU Leicester Square £10, £27.50, £57.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Peter Nichols’s award-winning comedy set during the Malayan Campaign of the Second World War, starring Simon Russell Beale as the hilarious cross-dressing leader of a military concert unit.

The 39 Steps booking until Mar 30 2013, Criterion Theatre, 218-223 Piccadilly, Piccadilly Circus, W1J 0TR Piccadilly Circus £15-£55, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Wed 3pm, Sat 4pm. Comedy version of John Buchan’s thriller.

Billy Elliot - The Musical booking until Dec 21 2013, Victoria Palace, Victoria Street, SW1E 5EA Victoria £19.50-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

Adaptation of the film about a miner’s son, who dreams of becoming a ballet dancer.

The Bodyguard booking until Apr 27 2013, Adelphi Theatre, 409-412 Strand, WC2R 0NS Charing Cross £20£67.50, Nov 6-30, Dec 1-4 previews £20-£57.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm. Musical stage adaptation from director Thea Sharrock of the film which starred Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston Cabaret booking until Jan 19 2013, Savoy Theatre, Savoy Court, Strand, WC2R 0ET Charing Cross £35-£85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Will Young stars in Rufus Norris’s re-vamped production of Kander and Ebb’s musical.

Chariots Of Fire booking until Feb 2 2013, Gielgud Theatre, 35-37 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6AR Piccadilly Circus £26-£55, Premium Seats £85, MonSat 7.45pm, mats Wed, Sat 3pm. Mike Bartlett’s stage version of the race to compete in the 1924 Paris Olympic Games.

Dick! booking until Jan 20 2013, Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX Leicester Square £18.50, Tue-Sat 7pm, Fri & Sat 9.30pm, Sun 5pm, mats Sat 4pm, Sun 2.30pm. International diva Miss Dusty O stars in this adult panto.

Dreamboats And Petticoats booking until Jan 19 2013, Wyndham’s Theatre, Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0DA Leicester Square £10-£75, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm. Musical featuring classic old pop hits.

English National Ballet: The Sleeping Beauty Starts Wed, ends Jan 19 2013, London Coliseum, St Martin’s Lane, WC2N 4ES Charing Cross £10-£67, From Jan 9, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 2.30pm, extra mat perf Jan 15, 17.

The world-class ballet company perform the enchanting fairy tale set to a score composed by Tchaikovsky.

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Ghost - The Musical booking until Apr 20 2013, Piccadilly Theatre, 16 Denman Street, W1D 7DY Piccadilly Circus Mon-Wed/Thu mats £25-£65, Thu eves/ Fri & Sat £25-£67.50, Premium Seats £85, £25 day tickets available Mon-Fri from the box office from 10am on the day of the performance, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. A musical stage adaptation of the 1990 romantic film.

Goodnight Mister Tom booking until Jan 26 2013, Phoenix Theatre, 110 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0JP Leicester Square Nov 22-28, Jan 8, 15, 22 £15-£39.50, Nov 29 & 30, Dec 1-31, Jan 1-7, 9-14, 16-21, 23-26 £15-£46.50, Nov 22-30, Dec 1-21, Jan 8-25 Tue-Fri child £29.62 & £34.87, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm, extra mat perf Jan 8, 15, 22, 1.30pm. A stage adaptation of Michelle Magorian’s second world war-set tale of friendship.

Jersey Boys booking until Oct 20 2013, Prince Edward Theatre, 28 Old Compton Street, W1D 4HS Tottenham Court Road Tue-Thu £20-£65, Fri-Sun £20-£67.50, Premium Seats Tue-Thu £85, Fri-Sun £95, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm, mats Tue, Sat 3pm.

Musical drama about Frankie Valli And The Four Seasons.

Les Miserables booking until Oct 26 2013, Queen’s Theatre, 51 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 6BA Piccadilly Circus £20-£85, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm.

Award-winning musical based on Victor Hugo’s classic novel.

Let It Be booking until Jan 19 2013, Prince Of Wales Theatre, 31 Coventry Street, W1D 6AS Piccadilly Circus £20, £40, £60, Mon, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 5pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Concert-style show featuring the songs of The Beatles.

Mamma Mia! booking until Apr 13 2013, Novello Theatre, 5 Aldwych, WC2B 4LD Covent Garden Mon-Fri £15-£64, Sat £15-£67.50, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Musical comedy based at a family wedding and set to the ABBA songbook.

Matilda: The Musical booking until Dec 22 2013, Cambridge Theatre, Earlham Street, WC2H 9HU Covent Garden £20-£62.50, disabled £31.25, Tue-Thu under 18s £19-£52.50, Tue 7pm, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm, Sun 3pm.

Dennis Kelly and Tim Minchin’s musical adaptation of Roald Dahl’s tale.

Monty Python’s Spamalot booking until Apr 13 2013, Playhouse Theatre, Northumberland Avenue, WC2N 5DE Charing Cross £15-£85, Mon-Sat 8pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Eric Idle and John Du Prez’s musical comedy.

The Mousetrap booking until Dec 21 2013, St Martin’s Theatre, West Street, Cambridge Circus, WC2H 9NZ Leicester Square £16-£42, Premium Seats £61, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Tue 3pm, Sat 4pm. Long-running stage adaptation of Agatha Christie’s murder mystery.

One Man, Two Guvnors booking until Aug 31 2013, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, 18 Suffolk Street, SW1Y 4HT Piccadilly Circus £15-£55, premium seats £85, concs available, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Richard Bean’s comic tale, based on Carlo Goldoni’s The Servant of Two Masters.

The Phantom Of The Opera booking until Oct 26 2013, Her Majesty’s Theatre, 57 Haymarket, SW1Y 4QL Piccadilly Circus £22.45-£85, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s gothic musical.

Richard III booking until Feb 10 2013, Apollo Theatre, 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EZ Piccadilly Circus £25£55, Jan 9 & 10, 23 & 24, 30 & 31, Feb 6, 7.30pm, mats Jan 12, 19, 26, Feb 2, 9, 2pm, Jan 20, Feb 10, 3pm. All-male production of Shakespeare’s history play, led by the acclaimed Mark Rylance.

Room On The Broom: Tall Stories (Ages 3-8) booking until Jan 13 2013, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7ES Piccadilly Circus £12.50-£20, Jan 10 & 11, 11am, Jan 12 & 13, 10am & 12noon.

An adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s charming children’s tale.

The Royal Ballet: A Mixed Programme (The Firebird/In The Night/Raymonda Act III) Ends Jan 11 2013, Royal Opera House, 45 Floral Street, WC2E 9DD Covent Garden £4-£63, phone for availability, Jan 9, 11, 7.30pm. Three oneact ballets of contrast.

The Royal Ballet: The Nutcracker Ends Jan 16 2013, Royal Opera House, 45 Floral Street, WC2E 9DD Covent Garden £5-£110, phone for availability, Jan 8, 15 & 16, 7.30pm, Jan 12, 7pm, mat Jan 12, 2pm.

Peter Wright’s acclaimed production of Lev Ivanov’s choreographed classic.

Scrooge The Musical until Jan 12 2013, London Palladium, 8 Argyll Street, W1F 7TF Oxford Circus £27-£69, child £22-£53, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 3pm. Leslie Bricusse’s musical based on Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol, starring Tommy Steele in the title role.

Shrek - The Musical booking until Feb 24 2013, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Catherine Street, WC2B 5JF Covent Garden £20-£65, Wed & Thu eves family of four £99-£150, additional seats £29.50 (upper circle) & £45 (best available), Premium Seats £95, Mon, Thu-Sat 7.30pm, Wed 7pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm. Musical based on the computer-animated film.

Singin’ In The Rain booking until Sep 1 2013, Palace Theatre, 109-113 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 5AY Leicester Square £14-£84, £25 day seats available from the box office from 10am on day of the performance, Oct 1-Aug 31 2013, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mat Oct 1-Aug 31 2013, Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Musical based on the film about the end of silent movies.

Stomp booking until Dec 22 2013, Ambassadors Theatre, West Street, WC2H 9ND Leicester Square £20£49.50, Mon, Thu-Sat 8pm, Sun 6pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm. Long-running percussion-based show.

Thriller Live booking until Oct 15 2013, Lyric Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7ES Piccadilly Circus £26£87.50, Tue-Fri, Sun 7.30pm, Sat 8pm, mats Sat 4pm, Sun 3.30pm. A celebration of the music of Michael Jackson.

Top Hat - The Musical booking until Sep 28 2013, Aldwych Theatre, 49 Aldwych, WC2B 4DF Covent Garden £20-£65, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

Irving Berlin’s romantic musical.

Twelfth Night booking until Feb 9 2013, Apollo Theatre, 31 Shaftesbury Avenue, W1D 7EZ Piccadilly Circus £25-£55,

Jan 8, 11 & 12, 15, 17-19, 22, 25 & 26, 29, Feb 1 & 2, 5, 7-9, 7.30pm, mats Jan 9, 16, 23, 30, Feb 6, 2pm, Jan 13, 27, Feb 3, 3pm.

Mark Rylance leads an all-male production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy.

Uncle Vanya booking until Feb 16 2013, Vaudeville Theatre, 404 Strand, WC2R 0NH Embankment £25£53.50, Premium Seats £76, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Anton Chekhov’s comic tale starring Ken Stott, Samuel West and Anna Friel.

Viva Forever! booking until Jun 1 2013, Piccadilly Theatre, 16 Denman Street, W1D 7DY Piccadilly Circus £20£67.50, Nov 27-30, Dec 1-10 previews £20-£52.50, Mon-Thu, Sat 7.30pm, Fri 5pm & 8.30pm, mats Sat 3pm. Jennifer Saunders’ comedy musical, featuring the songs of the Spice Girls.

We Will Rock You booking until Mar 23 2013, Dominion Theatre, 268-9 Tottenham Court Road, W1T 7AQ Tottenham Court Road Mon-Fri

War Horse booking until Oct 26 2013, New London Theatre, 166 Drury Lane (corner of Parker Street), WC2B 5PW Covent Garden £15-£55, Premium Seats £85, Mon, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Tue 7pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Puppetryled drama about a farm horse caught up in the horrors of the First World War. £27.50-£55, Sat £27.50-£60, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, Jan 31, Feb 27, 2.30pm. Musical set to Queen hits.

Wicked booking until Apr 27 2013, Apollo Victoria Theatre, 17 Wilton Road, SW1V 1LG Victoria Mon-Fri eves/mats £15-£62.50, Sat eves £15-£65, 24 front row day tickets priced £27.50 each released 10am at the box office, maximum two per person, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Musical charting the early years of the Wicked Witch of the West.

The Woman In Black booking until Dec 14 2013, Fortune Theatre, Russell Street, WC2B 5HH Covent Garden £16.50£45, Premium Seats £55, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Tue, Thu 3pm, Sat 4pm. Adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story.

Yes, Prime Minister booking until Jan 12 2013, Trafalgar Studios, 14 Whitehall, SW1A 2DY Charing Cross £26.50, £46.50, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm. Antony Jay and Jonathan Lynn’s political comedy.

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OFF WEST END The Arabian Nights Ends Jan 12 2013, Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR Kilburn £15 & £20, child/ NUS £10. Adaptation of the classic story.

Bane 1: Someone’s Gonna Pay Ends Jan 13 2013, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Sun & Mon £12.50, concs £10, Thu £15, concs £12.50, Sun Full Trilogy £25, Jan 7, 10, 9.30pm, mat Jan 13, 4pm. Joe Bone’s one-man film noir parody about a hired hand hungry for revenge.

Bane 2:The Beast Within Starts Tue, ends Jan 13 2013, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Tue & Sun £12.50, concs £10, Fri £15, concs £12.50, Sun Full Trilogy £25, Jan 8, 11, 9.30pm, Jan 13, 5.30pm. The story continues in the sequel with a live score composed by Ben Roe. Bane 3: Welcome To Sunnyview... Starts Wed, ends Jan 13 2013, Soho Theatre, 21 Dean Street, W1D 3NE Tottenham Court Road Wed/Sun £12.50, concs £10, Sat £15, concs £12.50, Sun Full Trilogy £25, Jan 9, 12, 9.30pm, Jan 13, 7pm. Intrigue and betrayal in the concluding chapter of the comical trilogy.

Cinderella: A Fairytale (Over 6s) Ends Jan 26 2013, St James Theatre, 12 Palace Street, SW1E 5JA Victoria £15-£40, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Jan 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, 2.30pm. A celebrated modern take on the classic fairy tale.

Cirque Du Soleil: Kooza Ends Feb 14 2013, Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP South Kensington £20£95, concs £22.50-£76.50, under 12s £17.50-£66.50, Premium Seats £85 & £95, Tue-Sat 8pm, Sun 7.30pm, mats Wed, Fri & Sat 3.30pm, Sun 3pm. The Canadian circus company returns with its latest show.

Cocktail Sticks booking until Mar 30 2013, National Theatre: Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£32, Jan 7, 12, 15, Feb 2, 9, 12 & 13, 18, 20 & 21, 25 & 26, Mar 16, 18, 28, 30, 6pm, mats Jan 13, Feb 10, Mar 10, 17, 3.30pm. An oratorio without music by Alan Bennett, with Alex Jennings and Janet Dale.

Cross Purpose Starts Tue, ends Feb 2 2013, King’s Head, Islington, 115 Upper Street, N1 1QN Angel £10-£25, From Jan 8, Tue-Sat 7.15pm, mats Sun 3pm.

French author Albert Camus’s absurd tragedy is translated by Stuart Gilbert.

The Dark Earth And The Light Sky Ends Jan 12 2013, Almeida Theatre, Almeida Street, N1 1TA Highbury & Islington £8-£32, Mon under 30s £16, concs available, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, extra mat perf Jan 9. Nick Dear’s drama about poet Edward Thomas.

The Effect booking until Feb 23 2013, National Theatre: Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£32, Jan 7, 11 & 12, 14 & 15, 21-23, Feb 1 & 2, 4-9, 11-16, 18-23, 7.30pm, mats Jan 12, 23, Feb 2, 6, 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, 2.30pm. Lucy Prebble’s drama looks at sanity, neurology and the limits of medicine.

The Future Show Starts Thu, ends Jan 12 2013, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Clapham Junction Hill, SW11 5TN £10, concs £8, Jan 10-12, 9pm. An honest monologue spoken entirely in future tense, written and performed by Deborah Pearson.

Hansel And Gretel: National Theatre (Ages 7-10) booking until Jan 26 2013, National Theatre: Cottesloe, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£24, Jan 8-10, 16-19, 24-26, 6pm, mat Jan 10, 1.30pm.

An imaginative show from Katie Mitchell and Lucy Kirkwood, based on the fairy tale.

In The Republic Of Happiness until Jan 19 2013, Jerwood Theatre At The Royal Court, Sloane Square, SW1W 8AS Sloane Square Mon £10, Tue-Sat 7.30pm £12, £20, £28, under 25s £8, Thu, Sat 2.30pm/concs £15, £23, MonSat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, Jan 10, 17, 2.30pm. A violent modern satire on obsessions by Martin Crimp.

Julius Caesar Ends Feb 9 2013, Donmar Warehouse, 41 Earlham Street, WC2H 9LX Covent Garden Nov 29 & 30, Dec 1-3 previews £10-£27.50, Dec 4-31, Jan 1-31, Feb 1-9 £10-£35, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Thu, Sat 2.30pm.

Phyllida Lloyd’s all-female production of Shakespeare’s Roman tragedy.

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (Over 6s) Ends Jan 19 2013, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN Clapham Junction £15, concs £10, Tue-Sat 7pm, mats Sat & Sun 2pm. A puppetry parable inspired by Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s short story, from Kneehigh and Little Angel Theatre.

Kiss Me Kate until Mar 2 2013, Old Vic, 103 The Cut, SE1 8NB Waterloo £11-£60, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Wed, Sat 2.30pm. Cole Porter’s classic musical, directed by Trevor Nunn.

The Magistrate booking until Feb 10 2013, National Theatre: Olivier, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£47, Jan 7-12, 14-16, 18 & 19, 21 & 22, Feb 9 & 10, 7.30pm, mats Nov 22, Dec 1, 8, 22, 27, 29, 31, Jan 3, 5, 12, 19, Feb 9, 2pm, Dec 2, 20, 2.30pm. Victorian farcical comedy by Arthur Wing Pinero, with John Lithgow.

The Master And Margarita until Jan 19 2013, Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS Barbican £16-£42, MonSat 7.15pm, no perf Jan 13. Complicite presents an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov’s novel.

Merrily We Roll Along Ends Mar 9 2013, The Menier Chocolate Factory, 53 Southwark Street, SE1 1RU London Bridge £35, Meal Deal £43, concs £27.50, Premium Seats £37.50, TueSat 8pm, mats Sat & Sun 3.30pm. Stephen Sondheim and George Furth’s musical, based on the 1934 drama.

Midnight’s Pumpkin Ends Jan 13 2013, Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, SW11 5TN Clapham Junction £15 & £25, family £100, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 2.30pm, extra eve perf Jan 13, extra mat perf Jan 13. Kneehigh’s energetic reimagining of the Cinderella fairy-tale.

New Adventures: Matthew Bourne’s Sleeping Beauty Ends Jan 26 2013, Sadler’s Wells, Rosebery Avenue, EC1R 4TN Angel £12-£60, Tue-Sun 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 2.30pm, Jan 23, 2.30pm, audio described mat perf Jan 12. Gothic reimagining of Tchaikovsky’s classical ballet.

Old Money Ends Jan 12 2013, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage £15-£29, Mon-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3pm, Wed 2.30pm.

A poignant comedy about life, death, widowhood and moving on.

Olga’s Room Starts Wed, ends Jan 26 2013, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Dalston Junction Jan 9 & 10 £12, £17, child/concs £12, Tue-Sat 8pm, mats Sat 3pm. A drama about survival in 1940s-1950s Brazil and Germany, from Speaking In Tongues Theatre Company.

Orient Express Season: Pippa Starts Thu, ends Jan 11 2013, Arcola Theatre, 24 Ashwin Street, E8 3DL Dalston Junction £15, concs £12, Jan 10 & 11, 7.30pm. A drama about two performance artists on a journey to promote peace and trust, by Talimhane Theatre.

People booking until Apr 2 2013, National Theatre: Lyttelton, South Bank, SE1 9PX Waterloo £12-£47, Mon-Fri under 18s £19 & £23.50, other concs available, Jan 7 & 8, 11 & 12, 14 & 15, Feb 1 & 2, 4, 8 & 9, 1113, 18-21, 25-28, Mar 7-9, 15 & 16, 18-20, 26-28, 30, Apr 1 & 2, 7.45pm, Mar 21, 7pm, mats Jan 12, Feb 2, 9, 13, 20, 27, Mar 9, 27, 30, 2pm, Feb 3, 3pm. Alan Bennett’s new drama, starring Frances de la Tour.

Revolution The Bush Theatre At The Old Library, 7 Uxbridge Road, W12 8LJ Shepherd’s Bush £10, Jan 12, 7.30pm.

Drama, music and poetry in aid of Weekend Art College.

Salad Days Ends Mar 2 2013, Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 9RL Hammersmith £25, concs £20, Premium Seats £30 & £35, Cafe Seats £40, Tue-Sat 7.45pm, mats Thu, Sat & Sun 3pm. Julian Slade’s and Dorothy Reynolds’s sunny and romantic musical.

Tu I Teraz (Here & Now) Ends Jan 19 2013, Hampstead Theatre, Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU Swiss Cottage Dec 18-20 previews £10, Dec 21-31, Jan 1-19 £12, Sat 3.30pm OAP/concs £10, Mon-Sat 7.45pm, mats Sat 3.30pm. A drama about family loyalties and immigration, written by Nicola Werenowska.

FRINGE The 6th Annual London Improvathon Starts Fri, ends Jan 13 2013, Hoxton Hall, 130 Hoxton Street, N1 6SH Old Street full event pass £55, all episodes £10, concs £7, for additional episode £5. Extempore Theatre host a 50-hour marathon of improvised theatre, celebrating the days of Egyptology.

Aftercare Starts Tue, ends Jan 27 2013, White Bear Theatre, 138 Kennington Park Road, SE11 4DJ Kennington £10, From Jan 8, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 6pm.

Drama set in the world of suburban sadomasochism.

Alice In Poundland Ends Jan 11 2013, The Battersea Barge, Riverside Walk, Nine Elms Lane, SW8 5BP Vauxhall £12.95, Jan 9-11, 8.30pm, doors 7pm. A grown-up pantomime which is very near the knuckle and for adults only, written by Paul L Martin.

The Architects Ends Feb 2 2013, V22 Workspace, Block F, 100 Clements Road, SE16 4DG Bermondsey Tue-Thu £20, Fri & Sat £25, Sun £10, Tue-Sat 8pm, doors 7pm, Sun 6pm, doors 5pm, mats Sat 3pm, doors 3pm, Sun 1pm, doors 12noon, latter time is final entry point. A promenade show from the Shunt collective that taps into the mythological tale of the Minotaur.

Baby Grand Burlesque Starts Tue, ends Jan 29 2013, Volupte, 7-9 Norwich Street, EC4A 1EJ Chancery Lane £55 inc 3 course dinner, Jan 8, 16, 22 & 23, 29, 8pm.

Burlesque and cabaret performances.

Beyond The Joke: The Way You Tell Them Starts Wed, ends Jan 26 2013, Camden People’s Theatre, 58-60 Hampstead Road, NW1 2PY Euston £10, concs £8, Jan 9-12, 17-19, 24-26, 7.30pm. An uncompromising solo piece fusing live art, oral sex jokes and personal material, from Rachel Mars.

Fuerzabruta Ends Jan 26 2013, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm Road, NW1 8EH Chalk Farm Sun & Tue-Thu £35, Fri & Sat £39.50, Tue & Wed, Sun 8pm, Thu-Sat 7pm & 10pm, Sun 5pm, Jan 22-26, 7pm & 10pm. A dazzling multi-sensory production featuring strobe lighting, thumping dance music and aerial wizardry.

Boy George’s Taboo Ends Mar 31 2013, Brixton Clubhouse, 467 Brixton Road, SW9 8HH Brixton £10, £25, Meal Deal with top price ticket only £32.50, Oct 31 £20, Tue-Sun 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm. Boy George’s romantic musical set during the era of the New Romantics Cabaret Ends Jan 27 2013, The Phoenix Artist Club, 1 Phoenix Street, WC2H 0DT Tottenham Court Road phone for prices, Sun 3.30pm. Starring Tiffaney Wells.

A Christmas Carol Ends Jan 13 2013, The Puppet Theatre Barge, Opp 35 Blomfield Road, W9 2PF Warwick Avenue: phone for prices, Sat & Sun 3pm. Movingstage presents a puppetry adaptation of Dickens’s novel.

Crazy For You: Ovation Ends Jan 27 2013, Upstairs At The Gatehouse, Hampstead Lane, N6 4BD Highgate £14 & £16, concs £10-£14, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sun 4pm. George and Ira Gershwin’s musical, presented by Ovation.

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LISTIN G S Dogs Don’t Do Ballet: Little Angel Theatre (Ages 2-6) Ends Jan 27 2013, The Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, Cross Street, N1 2DN Angel £10, child/concs £8, Jan 8, 11, 15, 18, 22, 25, 10am, 11.30am & 1.30pm, Jan 9, 12 & 13, 16, 19 & 20, 23, 26 & 27, 10am & 11.30am. David Duffy and Andrea Sadler’s adaptation of the book by Anna Kemp.

The Dumb Waiter Starts Wed, ends Jan 12 2013, The Courtyard, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, N1 6EU Old Street £9, Jan 9-12, 7.30pm. Harold Pinter’s menacing black comedy.

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The House Where Winter Lives: Punchdrunk Enrichment (Ages 3-6) Ends Jan 13 2013, Discover Children’s Story Centre, 383387 High Street, E15 4QZ Stratford £8, child £6, concs £7.50, Jan 7, 12 & 13, 11.30am, 1pm, 3pm, 4.30pm. Immersive storytelling adventure set in a magical frozen forest.

Fiesco Ends Feb 23 2013, The New Diorama Theatre, 15-16 Triton Street, NW1 3BF Great Portland Street £15.50, concs £12.50, All three plays in The Faction Rep Season £40, concs £35, Jan 5, 8-10, 16, 18 & 19, 22, 31, Feb 7, 15, 20, 7.30pm, mats Feb 2, 16, 23, 3pm. Freidrich Schiller’s republican tragedy, adapted by Daniel Millar and Mark Leipacher.

Hamlet Ends Jan 12 2013, The Network Theatre, 246A Lower Road, SE1 8SJ Waterloo £6-£10.50, concs £6-£7.50, Dec 17-22, Jan 2-5, 7-12, 7.30pm, doors 7pm. The Bedouin Shakespeare Company presents the Bard’s tragedy.

Honk! Ends Jan 13 2013, Tabard Theatre, 2 Bath Road, W4 1LW Turnham Green Jan 11-13 £19, concs £17, Jan 8-10 £17, concs £15, Jan 8-11, 7pm, Jan 12 & 13, 5.30pm, mats Jan 12 & 13, 2.30pm, Jan 11, 1.30pm. George Stiles and Anthony Drewe’s musical show, based on Hans Christian Andersen’s The Ugly Duckling.

House Of Atreus Starts Tue, ends Jan 27 2013, Waterloo East Theatre, 3 Wootton Street (Entrance In Brad Street), SE1 8TG Waterloo £12, concs £10, From Jan 8, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, Sun 4pm.

Ozlem Ozhabes’s adaptation of Aeschylus’s The Libation Bearers.

Impotent Starts Tue, ends Jan 26 2013, The Lion & Unicorn, 42-44 Gaisford Street, NW5 2ED Kentish Town £15, concs £12, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3.30pm.

Dark comedy drama about a condition with devastating consequences.

In Extremis Starts Tue, ends Jan 25 2013, Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, off Fleet Blackfriars £7, Street, EC4Y 8EQ From Jan 8, Tue-Fri 1pm. A drama about the night palm reader Mrs Robinson visited Oscar Wilde, a week before his famous trial, from Kean Productions.

The Inferno Starts Tue, ends Jan 13 2013, Barons Court Theatre, The Curtain’s Up, 28A Comeragh Road, W14 9HR Barons Court £12, concs £10, Jan 8-13, 7.30pm, mat Jan 12, 2.30pm. Nick Pelas directs an adaptation of Dante’s Divine Comedy.

Jack & The Beanstalk Ends Jan 19 2013, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Gerry Raffles Square, E15 1BN Stratford £7-£23, concs £5.50-£17.50, Jan 11 & 12, 18 & 19, 7pm, mats Jan 7-12, 14-19, 2pm, Jan 8-10, 15-17, 10am. Dawn Reid directs Paul Sirett’s adaptation of the traditional family pantomime.

Jack And The Beanstalk Ends Jan 27 2013, Colour House Theatre, Merton Abbey Mills, off Merantun Way, SW19 2RD Colliers Wood £10, child £9, concs £8, Sat & Sun 2pm & 4pm. Fun-filled children’s theatre, based on the famous story.

Jazz Verse Jukebox Ronnie Scott’s, 47 Frith Street, W1D 4HT Leicester Square £8, Jan 13, 7.30pm, doors 6.30pm. Jazz-based variety show.

The Lady From The Sea Starts Wed, ends Jan 20 2013, The Courtyard, Bowling Green Walk, 40 Pitfield Street, N1 6EU Old Street £10, concs £8, From Jan 9, Mon-Sun 7.30pm, no perf Jan 13. A production of Ibsen’s play.

Lady Windermere’s Fan Starts Tue, ends Jan 19 2013, Bridewell Theatre, Bride Lane, off Fleet Street, EC4Y 8EQ Blackfriars £14, concs £12, From Jan 8, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat 3pm. Turn Of The Wheel presents Oscar Wilde’s witty comedy drama.

Love Explosion! The Sebright Arms, 34 Coate Street, E2 9AG Cambridge Heath FREE, Jan 10, 7pm-9.30pm. Friendly Fire presents an improvised comedy drama.

My Name Is Bill: An Afternoon With An Alcoholic Starts Thu, ends Jan 12 2013, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £12, concs £10, Jan 10-12, 7.30pm. A moving solo-performance about the consequences of alcoholism.

Overruled Ends Jan 19 2013, Old Red Lion, 418 St John Street, EC1V 4NJ Angel £15, From Jan 3, Jan 3-5, 8-12, 14-19, 7.30pm, mats Jan 5 & 6, 12 & 13, 19, 3pm.

Three short comedy dramas by George Bernard Shaw.

Pinocchio: Little Angel Theatre (Over 6s) Ends Jan 27 2013, The Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, Cross Street, N1 2DN Angel Jan 1-27 Wed-Sun £14, child & concs £10, family £44, Fri 5pm Friday Fives £5, Jan 9, 16, 23, 1.30pm & 5pm, Jan 10, 17, 24, 10am & 1pm, Jan 11, 18, 25, 5pm, Jan 12 & 13, 19 & 20, 26 & 27, 2pm & 5pm.

Puppetry adaptation of the popular Carlo Collodi story.

The Prince And The Pauper (Over 6s) Ends Jan 13 2013, Unicorn Theatre, 147 Tooley Street, SE1 2HZ London Bridge £22, under 21s & concs £15, mats Jan 8, 10, 12 & 13, 2pm, Jan 8, 10.30am, Jan 9, 1.30pm, Jan 11, 11am. Mark Twain’s tale about confused identities is adapted by Jemma Kennedy.

Sleeping Beauty - Dream On: Chickenshed (Over 5s) Ends Jan 12 2013, Chickenshed, 290 Chase Side, N14 4PE Cockfosters £11-£20, Jan 8-11, 7.30pm, mat Jan 12, 3.30pm. The traditional fairy story given a funky, modern overhaul by Chickenshed.

Small Worlds: Mimika Theatre (Ages 5-11) Half Moon Young People’s Theatre, 43 White Horse Road, E1 0ND Limehouse £6, Jan 12, 10.30am, 12noon, 1.30pm, 3pm. Children’s show presented inside an intimate white canvas dome.

Sometimes I Laugh Like My Sister Starts Wed, ends Jan 12 2013, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £9, concs £7, Jan 9, 7.30pm, mat Jan 12, 4pm. A sharp political comedy written by Rebecca Peyton and Martin M Bartelt.

Spring Awakening The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH Marylebone £8, Jan 12, 7.30pm. Frank Wedekind’s exploration of the sexual awakenings of teenagers, translated by Edward Bond.

The Stories Of Shakey P Starts Thu, ends Jan 12 2013, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £9, concs £7, Jan 10-12, 9pm. Spoken word and rap adaptations of Shakespeare’s works by Charlie Dupre.

Theatre In The Pound The Cockpit, Gateforth Street, NW8 8EH Marylebone £1, Jan 7, 7pm. An evening of drama, cabaret and more.

The Three Musketeers Ends Jan 9 2013, Rosemary Branch Theatre, 2A Shepperton Road, N1 3DT Old Street Jan 8 & 9 7.30pm adults only perf includes a glass of fizz £22.50. A musical pantomime by John Savournin and David Eaton.

Three Sisters Starts Fri, ends Feb 23 2013, The New Diorama Theatre, 15-16 Triton Street, NW1 3BF Great Portland Street £15.50, concs £12.50, All three plays in The Faction Rep Season £40, concs £35, Jan 11 & 12, 14 & 15, 17, 23-26, Feb 1 & 2, 8 & 9, 16, 19, 23, 7.30pm. The Faction presents Ranjit Bolt’s translation of Anton Chekhov’s play.

Top Story Ends Feb 2 2013, The Old Vic Tunnels, Station Approach Road, SE1 7XB Waterloo Mon £21, Tue-Thu £26, concs £23, Fri & Sat £29, concs £26, 7.45pm. Apocalyptic comedy about a large meteor hurtling towards earth.

Snow White And The Seven Dwarfs Ends Jan 13 2013, New Wimbledon Theatre, 93 The Broadway, SW19 1QG Wimbledon £10-£35, Jan 8-12, 7pm, Jan 13, 1.30pm & 5.30pm, mat Jan 12, 2pm, Jan 8-11, 1.30pm. Priscilla Presley stars as The Wicked Queen in New Wimbledon’s telling of the traditional fairytale.

So Great A Crime Ends Jan 22 2013, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED West Brompton £14, concs £10, Sun & Mon 7.30pm, mats Tue 2pm (press night Jan 7). Drama telling the real-life story of Sir Hector MacDonald.

Somersaults Ends Jan 26 2013, Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Road, SW10 9ED West Brompton Jan 8 £10, Jan 12 7.30pm £14, Jan 7, 9-11, 13 £14, concs £10, Jan 15, 22 £12, Jan 19, 26 7.30pm £16, Jan 16-18, 20 & 21, 23-25 £16, concs £12, Jan 12 3pm £14, concs £10, Jan 19, 26 3pm £16, concs £12, Tue-Sat 7.30pm, mats Sat & Sun 3pm. Iain Finlay Macleod’s drama about the slow death of Scots Gaelic.

Tom’s Midnight Garden: Birmingham Stage Company (Over 4s) Ends Jan 19 2013, The Bloomsbury Theatre, 15 Gordon Street, WC1H 0AH Euston £19.50, child £14.50, family £64, concs £16.50, Jan 8-11, 14-18, 10.30am & 1.30pm, Jan 12, 19, 2.30pm. David Wood’s adaptation of Philippa Pearce’s children’s tale. Presented

by Birmingham Stage Company.

Too Many Penguins?: Mcrobert/Frozen Charlotte (Ages 1-4) Ends Feb 16 2013, Polka Theatre, 240 The Broadway, SW19 1SB South Wimbledon £10, concs £8, Jan 9, 11, 13, 16, 18, 20, 23 & 24, 27, 29 & 30, Feb 1 & 2, 5, 7 & 8, 12 & 13, 15, 2.05pm, Jan 9, 11, 16, 18, 23 & 24, 29 & 30, Feb 1, 5, 7, 12 & 13, 15 & 16, 10.35am, Jan 9, 11, 13, 18, 20, 27, 29, Feb 7 & 8, 16, 12noon, Jan 12, 26, 11.05am, 2.35pm, Jan 26, Feb 2, 12.30pm. Children’s show telling a whimsical tale of friendship.

The Trials Of Harvey Matusow Starts Sun, ends Jan 15 2013, Tristan Bates Theatre, The Actors Centre, 1a Tower Street, WC2H 9NP Leicester Square £10, concs £8, Jan 14 & 15, 8.30pm, mat Jan 13, 4pm. The dramatic story of supergrass Harvey Matusow.

Voluptea Starts Sat, ends Jan 26 2013, Volupte, 7-9 Norwich Street, EC4A 1EJ Chancery Lane £49 inc tea, Jan 12, 26, 3pm. Burlesque show at which afternoon tea is served.

The Wind In The Willows (Ages 5-11): Polka Theatre Ends Feb 16 2013, Polka Theatre, 240 The Broadway, SW19 1SB South Wimbledon £16, concs £11, Jan 19, Feb 2, 9, 5.30pm, mats Jan 12, 26, 11am & 2.30pm, Jan 13, 19 & 20, 27, Feb 2, 8 & 9, 16, 2pm. Kenneth Grahame’s story of friendship and bravery.

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