Hey DILFs!

It's Halloween this weekend, and it's also the final weekend of half term. Which means London's event organisers have collectively decided to put on approximately six weeks' worth of activities in the space of two days. It would have been nice if someone had suggested spreading a few of them out over November, rather than making us choose between them all now.

Fortunately, a few of the things I've included this week are sticking around for longer, so you don't have to cram absolutely everything into the next 48 hours.

Stil… take a deep breath: there’s a lot.

Enjoy!

Jeff xx

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Larger Than Life: Starring Wallace & Gromit, Shaun and More
Daily until 4 January, entry timeslots throughout the day
Lightroom, 12 Lewis Cubitt Square, N1C 4DY
Adults £25, 3–18s £15 (families of 3+ get 15% off at checkout on selected timeslots)
Age guidance: “Younger children need to be supervised in the space and we ask that parents are considerate of the experience for all our guests.”

Yes, yes. You've already taken the kids to the Aardman exhibition at the Young V&A. You saw the models there, admired the sets, and had a go at making your own stop-motion animation. Then when it was bucketing last weekend, you all went to see the latest Shaun the Sheep film. You’re very aware of how extraordinarily talented the people at Aardman are. You know they're still making their characters move by physically adjusting them with their own bare hands. You appreciate their hard work and dedication. Your children, too, have an appropriate level of awe. Surely that's enough Aardman for one half-term?

I'm afraid not. Because now you need to go see Larger Than Life, the new show at Lightroom in King's Cross. Because it's spectacular.

And it's not just a low-rent, screen-heavy version of what you get at the V&A. Rather than focusing on the intricate hows and whats of animation-creation, this one is a chance to see the transformation from paper and plasticine into something magical on screen. Or screens plural, in this case: Aardman's characters appear across four enormous walls, each 11 metres high, and even on the floor beneath you.

There's a brilliant sequence where the original storyboard drawings for the train chase in The Wrong Trousers appear on the screens, then start falling away one by one to reveal the finished animation behind them. And then there's the behind-the-scenes footage of the animators acting out their characters' movements and facial expressions before painstakingly recreating them with puppets. It's so much fun seeing a real person pull a ridiculous face, followed by Wallace or Gromit doing exactly the same thing.

You also get to watch famous actors recording their lines, with the finished animated characters appearing alongside them. There's Creature Comforts, too, where Aardman records ordinary people talking about ordinary and somewhat mundane things, then turns them into animals having the same conversations. It's completely ridiculous, and even funnier when you realise that the people being interviewed had no idea their voices would end up coming out of a plasticine creature.

I left the venue feeling kind of smug on Aardman’s behalf. While the rest of the world is desperately trying to find ways to get AI to do everything for us, these people are still spending entire working days moving a sheep's head three millimetres to the left. AI might be able to write your emails, identify security flaws in programming languages and tell you to see a doctor about your symptoms, but can it make a mouthless beagle express utter contempt with a twitch of his eyebrows? I think not.

Not everyone has been quite so enthusiastic. The Times gave the show five stars and called it Lightroom's best yet, but the Guardian was considerably less impressed. Its critic thought the show couldn't decide whether it wanted to be a documentary or a collection of film clips, didn't make enough use of the enormous projection space, and might struggle to hold younger children's attention. His four-year-old apparently kept asking when the actual film was going to start.

Well, I disagree. The projection space couldn't have been better used, and this was clearly so much more than a collection of film clips. As for his kid’s reaction… well my own four-year-old understood the brief perfectly – and he’s someone who once tried to shove an entire ketchup-covered banana into his mouth because he “didn't want anyone else to steal it”.

But even if you have your own minor quibbles with the concept of this show, there are some very compelling reasons to take the kids here on a rainy weekend.

For a start, you can sit down. You can even lie down: there are cushions. And you don't need to explain what the placards mean or worry that someone is about to knock something expensive off a display shelf – so you really can relax, especially as there's nowhere for your kids to get lost because it's just one big room.

It's in King's Cross, so it's reasonably straightforward to reach from much of London. There's space upstairs to leave prams and scooters. And the show runs on a continuous loop, taking roughly 50 minutes to complete. You're welcome to stay for another showing, which means that if the kids want to watch the whole thing again, you have an excellent excuse to close your eyes for a bit.

Not that I imagine you'll want to. But it's nice to have the option.

Find out more: https://lightroom.uk/whats-on/larger-than-life/

👍️ Granary Square Brasserie is getting into the Halloween spirit with a Little Monsters Breakfast Banquet on Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November. For £32.50 per adult and £27.50 per child, you get breakfast, Halloween treats and a toy for the kids, with fancy dress encouraged.

If that sounds like rather a lot to spend on breakfast, there's a cheaper way to get your Halloween fix. On the restaurant's main menu, you'll find The Wicked Eye – a £13.95 dessert made with chocolate ice cream, dark chocolate mousse, honeycomb, pink angel hair and milk foam. There are no photos, so we'll all just have to guess what it's going to come out looking like.

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The Big Draw: Drawn Together at the Wallace Collection
Saturday 31 October, 11:00–16:00
The Wallace Collection, Hertford House, Manchester Square, W1U 3BN
FREE – first come, first served
Age guidance: 5+

A few years ago, Reddit came up with one of my favourite ideas in the history of the internet. It gave millions of strangers access to a gigantic blank canvas, with two rules: you could colour in a single pixel every five minutes, and the project would end after three days. They brought the project back a couple of times, and the results were always extraordinary. Here's the 2022 canvas; zoom in to see it all properly.

Bear in mind: there wasn't some Reddit overlord in a gaming chair deciding where everything should go. People organised themselves through online forums, agreed what they wanted to draw and got on with it. Of course, plenty of others spent their time trying to ruin everyone else's pictures, but that's the internet for you.

Now, we can’t expect a few dozen kids to produce anything quite so remarkable in a single afternoon, but they can at least participate in a smaller-scale version of the idea at the Wallace Collection this Saturday. They’ll be given a shared canvas, invited to add whatever they want, and we'll see what emerges. Artist Grace Holliday will be helping visitors create a giant landscape, with everyone contributing their own drawings and patterns.

The event is part of The Big Draw, which started in London in 2000 and has since spread to more than 35 countries. Around half a million people take part every year, at more than a thousand events held in museums, schools, libraries and all sorts of other places. Sir Quentin Blake and Gerald Scarfe are patrons, which is about as good an endorsement as a drawing festival could hope for.

And at the Wallace Collection, you can join in for free, with all the materials provided. The only slight complication is that places are limited and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis – so I'd suggest getting there reasonably early.

Find out more: https://www.thebigdraw.org/events/the-big-draw-drawn-together-at-the-wallace-collection

👍️ The Wallace Collection has three more activities on Saturday 31 October. At Hands on Armour: Paint your Power, children can try on real and replica armour and discover why looking impressive was almost as important as not getting stabbed. At Portray your Power, they can design their own decorative armour, while the Museum Detectives family tour takes them around the collection gathering inspiration to create a portrait. All three are free, with places allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

The 90s: Art and Fashion
Daily until 14 February, 10:00–18:00
Tate Britain, Millbank, SW1P 4RG
Adults £22, 12–18s £5, under-12s free
Age guidance: see write-up below!

This is the city's eleventy billionth exhibition celebrating the 90s, but it nonetheless looked jolly exciting to visit. The promo image showed the 90s poster girl herself, Kate Moss, so naturally I assumed this would be a chance to wallow in 90s nostalgia while educating my kids on why they missed out on the best decade ever. I'd introduce them to Jarvis Cocker, who somehow became a sex symbol despite looking like he'd never knowingly bought an item of clothing that fitted. And surely Mel B's famous leopard-print boots would be there, given they'd only just appeared in the Barbican's exhibition about the year 1996? It couldn't cost that much to Uber them over to Millbank.

There'd be tons of Tracey Emin detritus artwork because the Tate Modern has just had a show about Emin and presumably still had the unmade bed in storage somewhere. And while we waited in the inevitable enormous queue to see Damien Hirst's pickled shark, I'd explain how the Young British Artists had transformed Britain's reputation in the international art world. It was going to be marvellous. All my favourite bits of the decade under one roof, and two captive audiences for my strongly held views on why Oasis were better than Blur.

But then I read a few reviews before going, and it turns out The 90s: Art and Fashion isn't that sort of exhibition at all. And I would have been upset about that, but some of the reviews were so scathing that I decided I absolutely had to see what everyone was getting so worked up about. One of their issues was that there's too much fashion and not enough art. The critics were also angry about the piddly amount of work by Hirst and Emin on display – not to mention the fact that so many of the decade's other most daring artists hadn't made it into the exhibition at all.

Apparently, what the exhibition needed was less fashion photography and fewer examples of Alexander McQueen's “metal costume phase”, and more of the art that left me completely baffled when I turned up with my kids. Was 90s art always this nudey and weird? How had I missed it all?

There's a photograph of Sarah Lucas wearing a pair of knickers with a raw chicken attached to the front. And a woman made out of stuffed tights with what look like two enormous penises sticking out of her head. And another woman standing in her knickers wearing a T-shirt with four words on it that I wasn't particularly keen to teach my children. Elsewhere, there are razor blades stuck into a pair of Dr. Martens. You try explaining that to a little kid when you've spent the last four years telling him not to run with scissors. According to many critics, this was the sort of thing the exhibition needed more of.

Yet despite all that, we had the best time. It was all so, so weird, and the kids were delighted to discover that I understood as much of it as they did. I'd gone along expecting to teach them all about Cool Britannia, but instead discovered a side of it that was completely unfamiliar to me. Turns out there was a whole artistic revolution going on while I was busy learning the words to Champagne Supernova – and while I can't say I understand much of it (yet), it was jolly interesting to see.

If you're someone who gets a bit funny about discussing willies and boobies in public, this probably isn't the exhibition for you. But if you're fine with that, and you quite fancy seeing an exhibition that's had almost as many terrible reviews as glowing ones, you might just have a brilliant time.

Find out more: https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/the-90s

👍️ There’s lots more to do at Tate Britain itself. Be sure to take a look at the famous works by William Blake (the one who loved angels but wasn’t so keen on science), JMW Turner (the one who, as we now know, had a massive prize named after him) and Francis Bacon (the one who brought existential dread to life), among others. Specifically for kids, there’s Story Space and Tate Draw.

Children’s activities at Dugdale Arts Centre
Saturday 31 October
Dugdale Arts Centre, 39 London Road, EN2 6DS

Whoever wrote the biography of Florence Dugdale on the Dugdale Arts Centre's website deserves a job in PR.

Florence was a young writer who, at 26, became close to her literary hero, Thomas Hardy – a married man 38 years her senior. After his wife died, she became the second Mrs Hardy and largely gave up her own writing career to support his. The arts centre presents this as an inspiring tale of female empowerment, praising Florence's “bravery, intelligence and creative approach to the world” – which strikes me as a rather generous reading of the situation.

Anyway, the centre named after her is in Enfield Town, a few miles from her birthplace in Edmonton. It has a theatre, a museum and a busy programme of creative workshops, covering everything from writing to making art out of recycled materials. There don't seem to be any sessions on how to abandon your literary ambitions to advance your husband's career, but maybe they had those over the summer.

For children, there's a pleasingly odd selection of activities this Halloween. They can make ghost-themed artwork, learn to solve a Rubik's Cube or have a go at juggling and plate spinning. There's also a Halloween circus show, Trick & Treat Circus Live, which is a “scare-free experience” that's “suitable for even the smallest of monsters”.

So, depending on your child's interests, they can spend the day acquiring an impressive new skill, making something spooky or enjoying a bit of Halloween entertainment without anyone needing to sleep in your bed that night.

Find out more:

👍️ Gooey Waffle is a restaurant that serves gooey waffles. But there's more: you can build your own gooey waffle (or crepe, cookie dough or sundae) from ingredients including strawberries, cherries, caramel apples, peanut sauce, dark chocolate sauce, Kinder Bueno, Oreos, Twix and an assortment of ice creams. Don't look at the photos unless you're prepared to want to go there immediately.

Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now Exhibition
Daily until 21 March, timeslots between 10:00 and 16:30
Guildhall Art Gallery, Guildhall Yard, EC2V 5AE
Pay what you can (including “free”) – booking required
Age guidance: suitable for all

I have an American friend who lives in London. Until a few weeks ago, she'd never even heard of the Bayeux Tapestry. Today, she's the proud owner of two tickets to see it in person, having spent 12 hours in an online queue. And that's after paying to become a British Museum member for access to priority booking.

Is it herd mentality that's driving this insane demand to look at an old piece of needlework? Has getting tickets become a competitive sport that nobody wants to lose? Or is it simply a case of severe FOMO? After all, if you don't book, you might miss out on a life-altering experience in the darkened Sainsbury Exhibitions Gallery, contemplating the mysteries of 1066 while counting all the willies. Everyone else could emerge with a profound new understanding of life itself while you're stuck in Tesco arguing with your children about whether they can have a Monster Energy as part of their post-playground meal deal.

If you haven't managed to get tickets, here's something that might make you feel better: the Bayeux Tapestry isn't even a tapestry. It's an embroidery. And if we can't even trust the name, who knows what else they've cocked up? Perhaps Harold didn't get an arrow in the eye at all.

Fortunately, Guildhall Art Gallery has just opened Beyond Bayeux: Tapestry Now, an exhibition devoted to tapestries that have the considerable advantage of actually being tapestries.

There are more than 20 of them, all made by the extraordinarily skilled weavers at Edinburgh's Dovecot Studios who worked with artists including David Hockney, Yinka Shonibare and Hurvin Anderson. The artists provided the designs, and then the weavers then translated them into enormous works made from thousands upon thousands of strands of thread. There's a woven version of one of Hockney's paintings, a new work by Anderson and a tapestry designed for the V&A Dundee. (Have the weavers ever considered taking up a less demanding hobby, like building a cathedral or something?)

And while the British Museum is charging for tickets to see its embroidery, Guildhall Art Gallery is letting you see its actual tapestries for whatever you fancy paying. Including nothing.

Find out more: https://onecitylondon.com/event/beyond-bayeux-tapestry-now-exhibition/

This section brings together both new events I don’t have room to expand on and selected older ones from past newsletters that are still running. If you see a “(see my write-up here)”, that’s your cue to click through and rediscover whatever Past Me felt strongly enough to write about.

Drag Tales
Saturday 31 October, 14:00
Park Theatre, Clifton Terrace, N4 3JP
Adults £12.50, children £7.50, babes in arms free
Age guidance: under-10s

At Sea
Until 1 November, 11:30 and 14:30
Polka Theatre, 240 The Broadway, SW19 1SB
£15 per person, plus £2.50 booking fee per order
Age guidance: 6–12

Halloween Family Drop-in
Saturday 31 October, 15:30–19:00
Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG
FREE – no booking required
Age guidance: 5–11

Treasure Hunt at the British Museum
Saturday 31 October, 14:00–17:00 (other dates available)
British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
Adults £15, 7–16s £8
Age guidance: 7+

Taskmaster for Kids
Friday 30 October, 13:30 and 16:00; Saturday 31 October, 11:00 and 14:00
Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX
From £21.85 per person (including fees)
Age guidance: 5+

Maestro of the Movies: A Tribute to John Williams
Saturday 31 October, 14:30 and 19:30
Royal Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 2AP
£30–£125.50 per person
Age guidance: 5+ (under-15s must be accompanied by an adult)

Wild Life Drawing: Owls
Saturday 31 October, 11:00–13:00 and 14:00–16:00
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
£60 for one adult and one child, additional children £30

The Smeds and the Smoos
Until 1 November, various performance times (see website)
Southbank Centre, Queen Elizabeth Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
From £22 per person
Age guidance: 3+

Search for a Story
Thursday 29 October–Sunday 1 November, 11:00–15:00 (Friday 13:00–17:00)
Southbank Centre, The Clore Ballroom, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
FREE – no booking required
Age guidance: 5+

London Literature Festival Book Swap
Until 1 November, 10:00–20:00 (Sunday 1 November until 19:30; closed Monday and Tuesday)
Southbank Centre, Blue Side Foyer, Royal Festival Hall, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
FREE – no booking required
Suitable for all

Super Spooky Circus Cabaret for Kids
Until 1 November, 11:00, 14:00 and/or 17:00 (see website)
Jacksons Lane, 269a Archway Road, N6 5AA
£10–£22.50 per person
Age guidance: 4+

Day of the Dead Family Festival
Saturday 31 October, 11:00–16:00
Horniman Museum and Gardens, 100 London Road, SE23 3PQ
Adults £8, under-16s £6, under-2s free – currently sold out
Suitable for all

Family Workshops: Halloween
Saturday 31 October, 10:30 and 12:15
Little Angel Studios, Sebbon Street, N1 2EH
£10 per person
Age guidance: 5–9

Disco Kids: Halloween Special
Saturday 31 October, 14:00–17:00
The Albany, Douglas Way, SE8 4AG
£12 per person (four tickets for £40)
Age guidance: 3–8

Creepy Creatures Nature Trail
Until 1 November, 10:00–16:00
Gunnersbury Park & Museum, Popes Lane, W5 4NH
£2 per trail – no booking required
Age guidance: 3+

Spooky Slime Make & Take
Thursday 29 and Saturday 31 October, 10:30–11:15, 12:00–12:45, 14:00–14:45 and 15:15–16:00
Gunnersbury Park & Museum, Popes Lane, W5 4NH
£8 per child
Age guidance: 6+

Halloween Face Painting at Holborn Library
Saturday 31 October, 14:00–16:00
Holborn Library, 32–38 Theobalds Road, WC1X 8PA
FREE – booking required (walk-ins subject to availability)
Age guidance: 5–12

Halloween Family Disco 2026
Saturday 31 October and Sunday 1 November, 13:00–14:30 and 15:30–17:00
Big Penny Social, 1 Priestley Way, E17 6AL
£7 per person (tickets required for ages 3+)
Suitable for all

Relaxed Screening: Minions and Monsters + Pre-film Drawing Demo
Saturday 31 October, 11:00
Barbican Cinema 2, Beech Street, EC2Y 8DS
Adults £5, under-18s £2.50, plus £1.50 transaction fee per booking
Suitable for all (U)

Singin' in the Rain + Introduction from Curator Susie Evans
Saturday 31 October, 13:45
Barbican Cinema 2, Beech Street, EC2Y 8DS
Adults £5, under-18s £2.50, plus £1.50 transaction fee per booking
Age guidance: 6+

Halloween at the Tower of London
Until 1 November, 10:30–16:00
Tower of London, Tower Hill, EC3N 4AB
Free with general admission (adults £38, 5–17s £19, under-5s free)
Suitable for all

Halloween Trail
Until 1 November, 10:00–18:00
Claremont Park, Brent Cross Town, Claremont Road, NW2 1AJ
FREE – no booking required

Halloween at Hampton Court Palace
Until 1 November (see website for opening times)
Hampton Court Palace, East Molesey, Surrey, KT8 9AU
Free with general admission (adults £30–£33, 5–17s £15–£16.50, under-5s free)

Cirque Berserk!
Until 31 October, various performance times (see website)
Garrick Theatre, 2 Charing Cross Road, WC2H 0HH
Adults from £25, under-15s from £17.50
Age guidance: 5+

Kay's Gruesome Games with Adam Kay and Henry Paker
Sunday 1 November, various performance times (see website)
Leicester Square Theatre, 6 Leicester Place, WC2H 7BX
£26.45 per person (including booking fee)
Age guidance: 7+

Petit Pierre From Transylvania
Until 1 November, 11:00 and 15:00
The Well Walk Theatre, 49 Willow Road, NW3 1TS
£15.90 per person
Age guidance: 3+

Toto
Until 1 November, 11:00 and/or 13:00 and/or 14:00
Polka Theatre, 240 The Broadway, SW19 1SB
£10 or £19 per person
Age guidance: 3–8

Ronnie Wood: The Jimi Hendrix Portraits
Wednesday–Sunday until 11 April, 10:00–17:00
Handel Hendrix House, 25 Brook Street, W1K 4HB
Free with general admission (adults £14.50, 13–17s £5, under-13s free as part of a family group)

The Town Mouse and the Country Mouse
Various dates until 15 November, various performance times (see website)
Puppet Theatre Barge, Blomfield Road, Little Venice, W9 2PF
Adults £15, 2–16s £12, under-2s free
Age guidance: 3–7

Up Yours! God Save the Queens
Wednesday–Sunday until 22 November, 12:00–18:00
Museum of Youth Culture, 51 St Pancras Way, NW1 0PZ
FREE – advance booking recommended

Freddie Mercury | Splendid Things
Daily until 17 January, 10:00–17:45 (until 22:00 on Fridays)
V&A South Kensington, Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL
FREE – no booking required

Hamlet: Hail to the Thief
Until Saturday 23 January, various performance times (see website)
Barbican Theatre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
From £34 per person (including transaction fee)
Age guidance: 14+

Koestler Arts: Rock, Paper, Scissors
Tuesday–Sunday until 29 November, 12:00–20:00
Southbank Centre, The Undercroft, Belvedere Road, SE1 8XX
FREE – no booking required

Hokusai: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji from the Iuchi Collection
Tuesday–Sunday until 17 January, 10:00–17:00
Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, SE21 7AD
Adults £19, under-18s free

Painting the French Riviera (see my write-up here)
Tuesday–Sunday until 31 January, 10:00–18:00 (Friday and Saturday until 21:00)
Royal Academy, Burlington House, Piccadilly, W1J 0BD
Adults £26, under-16s free

Light and Magic: The Birth of Art Photography (see my write-up here)
Daily until 21 February, 10:00–18:00 (Friday and Saturday until 21:00)
Tate Modern, Bankside, SE1 9TG
Adults £20, 12–18s £5, under-12s free

Salman Toor: Someone Like You
Daily until 10 January, 10:00–18:00
Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 0RN
Adults £16, under-19s free (includes the permanent collection)

Renoir and Love
Daily until 31 January, 10:00–18:00 (Friday until 21:00)
National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, WC2N 5DN
Adults £25, under-18s free

High School Musical
Until 3 January, various performance times
Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre, 3 Fulton Road, Wembley, HA9 0SP
£35–£199 (!) per person
Age guidance: 6+; under-3s not admitted

LAIKA presents Wildwood: The Exhibition
Until 10 January, 10:00–17:00 Monday–Thursday and 10:00–18:00 Friday–Sunday
Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG
Adults £17.09, 6–15s £8.55, under-6s free

Es Devlin: Other Worlds (see my write-up here)
Until 4 April, 10:00–18:00 (until 17:00 Monday–Thursday)
Design Museum, 224–238 Kensington High Street, W8 6AG
Adults £21, 6–15s £11, under-6s free

Pokémon Space Trail (see my write-up here)
Daily until 3 January, 10:00–18:00
Science Museum, Exhibition Road, SW7 2DD
FREE – but you need to book a free admission ticket to enter

Robert Ryman: The Real Thing (see my write-up here)
Tuesday–Sunday until 28 February, 10:00–17:00 (until 19:00 on Thursdays and Fridays)
Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2Y 8DS
Adults £20.50, under-16s free

Jenkin van Zyl: Enclosure
Tuesday–Sunday until 29 November, various timeslots each day
Somerset House, Strand, WC2R 1LA
FREE – booking required
Age guidance: 13+

Everest: The First Ascent – An immersive experience in London
Wednesday–Sunday (and daily during half term) until 31 December, 10:00 or 11:00–19:00
Eclipso Immersive Entertainment, 213–219 Camden High Street, NW1 7BT
Adults £27.50, 8–17s £21.50 (family bundles and London resident pricing also available)
Age guidance: children must be 8+

Korea
Daily until 31 January, 10:00–17:00 (Fridays until 20:30)
British Museum, Great Russell Street, WC1B 3DG
Adults £20, under-16s free

Body Worlds: The Anatomy of Happiness
Until 21 March, various timeslots each day
Sussex Mansions, 79–85 Old Brompton Road, SW7 3LD
Adults £24.61, 6–17s £16.05 (family bundles also available)
Age guidance: suitable for all (“Note that some exhibits and installations contain mature content, so parental discretion is advised.)

Amar Kanwar Exhibition
Until 31 January, Tuesday–Sunday 10:00–17:00
Serpentine North, West Carriage Drive, W2 2AR
FREE, but booking required

Pip and Posy Live on Stage
Until 22 November, various start times (see website)
Little Angel Theatre, 14 Dagmar Passage, N1 2DN
Adults £16, 1–17s £14
Age guidance: 2–5

The Pied Piper: A Rat's Tale
Until 7 November, various start times – see website
Little Angel Studios, Sebbon Street, N1 2EH
Adults £16, 1–17s £14 (all tickets are £8 this Saturday 12/Sunday 13 September)
Age guidance: 5+

As You Like It (see my write-up here)
Until 25 October, various start times – see website
Shakespeare’s Globe, 21 New Globe Walk, SE1 9DT
Standing tickets £10, seated £28–£88
Age guidance: suitable for all