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From Suranne Jones' return in BBC detective thriller Vigil to the new Famous Five TV adaptation starring Jack Gleeson, this week's TV embarks on many adventures
From the final season of The Crown with Imelda Staunton to the latest BBC Agatha Christie adaptation Murder is Easy starring David Jonsson, here's our Christmas TV 2023 guide
The streets of London are twinkling once more. Here are the loveliest Christmas light displays to catch this year
All the great tunes and choruses, but funkier than you can imagine: Handel's ever-popular work in a jazzy new version gets its London debut
From the psychosexual Ottessa Moshfegh adaptation Eileen starring Anne Hathaway to Bradley Cooper's spirited Leonard Bernstein drama Maestro with Carey Mulligan, here are the films in cinemas this weekend
Specialists in the music of JS Bach bring Christmas to a sonorous close with choral music by star performers
A year-long celebration of the amazingly rich contribution to music of Scottish performers, composers and inspiring landscapes
One of Brazil's foremost contemporary troupes, São Paulo Dance Company, makes its UK debut at Sadler's Wells early in 2024
Secret Cinema returns to London with Wishmas: a Yuletide immersive experience promising family-friendly, sugar-coated escapism
Following his success with A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper returns to direct another music movie – this time examining the legendary Leonard Bernstein. Also stars Carey Mulligan
From a cosy alpine lodge to a kitsch cocktail den transporting guests back in time, we round up London’s festive pop-ups to hunker down in this winter
Steve Coogan reunites with frequent collaborator Armando Iannucci in the latter's stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s war comedy Dr. Strangelove
Embrace the silliness of the 70s with Swamp Motel’s Yuletide theatre dinner experience Velvet Pines
The sixth and final season of The Crown opens with four episodes devoted to the weeks preceding Princess Diana's death, with Elizabeth Debicki returning as the ill-fated former royal
From majestic performances in stunning settings to little known gems in aid of a good cause, we round up the best Christmas carol concerts London has to offer
The new film from Promising Young Woman director Emerald Fennell is a dark, gothic and erotic drama set in an English country house. Stars Barry Keoghan and Jacob Elordi
Save your seats for Sheridan Smith in Rufus Wainwright and Ivo van Hove's new musical adaptation of Opening Night, based on the 1977 movie
From the enormity of the BFI Imax to The Luna Cinema's return to Kensington Palace, we round up the best Christmas film screenings London 2023 has to offer
Contemporary visual theatre returns to London this winter with a new collaborative project between MimeLondon and a number of venues in the capital
Justine Triet's Palme d'Or winner Anatomy of a Fall is a fascinating examination of a novelist (Sandra Hüller) accused of murdering her husband in the French Alps
Hollywood golden couple Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex and the City) and Matthew Broderick (Ferris Bueller's Day Off) star together in Plaza Suite
Succession's Sarah Snook plays all 26 characters in Kip Williams' mind-boggling production of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray
McOnie Company’s Nutcracker inaugurates a brand-new venue at the Southbank and breathes exciting new life into the Christmas classic ballet
Start trying to make fetch happen: the Mean Girls musical finally comes to London after dazzling on Broadway
Kenneth Branagh returns to the London stage for the first time in almost a decade with a bizarrely melodramatic and abridged King Lear
The mezzo-soprano on dying for a living, loading up on carbs and housework in the early hours
Sadler's Wells has launched its eclectic programme of dance for the first half of 2024
Molly Manning Walker's directorial debut follows a teenage trio of girls navigating the Mediterranean party town of Malia after finishing their GCSEs. Stars Mia McKenna-Bruce
Lily James and Kristin Scott Thomas bring star prowess to Lyonesse, but Penelope Skinner’s story in Ian Rickson’s production is a jumble of ideas
After a four-year acting absence, Michael Fassbender returns to cinema as an existential hitman in the new David Fincher film The Killer
London's cosiest pubs are the best spots to get rosy-cheeked and merry. We round up our favourites – offering bonus points if they have a cat or dog
Sam Mendes directs The Hills of California, the latest play from Jerusalem playwright Jez Butterworth, showing at the Harold Pinter Theatre in 2024