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London events today and this week

Every event we have checked and put in, soonest first. Tonight and this weekend have their own editions.

Monday

26 October
  1. Cabaret £30

    Alex Parker & Friends: A Sondheim Cabaret

    20:45 to 22:15 Crazy Coqs, Soho

    A show in the art deco room under Brasserie Zedel, 8.45pm. One act and a piano rather than a revue, and the room listens.

  2. Comedy From £12

    King Gong at the Comedy Store: the brutal open mic

    20:00 The Comedy Store, Soho

    Thirty comics try to last five minutes while the audience decides when they are done. Last Monday of the month, from £12. It is as brutal as it sounds. Over 18s.

  3. Gigs From £52.53

    EartH Hackney: dodie

    19:30 to 23:00 EartH Hackney, Dalston

    dodie at EartH Hackney, 19:30 to 23:00.

  4. Comedy £5

    Museum of Comedy: The Monday Club

    19:00 to 21:00 Museum of Comedy, Bloomsbury

    The Museum bar's weekly night of new material from circuit comics, £5 ahead or on the door from 6pm. Age 14+.

  5. Gigs £30

    Electric Ballroom: Archspire

    18:00 Electric Ballroom, Camden

    Archspire's European Vacation 2026 tour, with Crown Magnetar, The Zenith Passage and Analepsy on the bill.

Tuesday

27 October
  1. Comedy £10

    JK Comedy Club Piccadilly Circus: Tuesday night comedy

    19:00 to 20:45 JK Comedy Club Piccadilly Circus, Soho

    A host and four professional comedians, a new bill every week. Fifty seats at BOX Piccadilly, about as central as a comedy room gets. Doors fifteen minutes before, over 18s, ID on the door.

  2. Comedy £10

    JK Comedy Club Soho: Tuesday night comedy

    21:00 to 22:45 JK Comedy Club Soho, Soho

    A host and four professional comedians, a new bill every week. Sixty seats above the Spice of Life, two minutes from Leicester Square. Doors fifteen minutes before, over 18s, ID on the door.

  3. Cabaret From £15

    The Haunted Cabaret

    19:30 to 21:15 Phoenix Arts Club, Covent Garden

    A cabaret bill with the lights down for the season. Fifteen pounds, half seven.

  4. Cabaret Free

    Dragaoke: Drag Hosted Karaoke!

    22:00 to 23:45 Phoenix Arts Club, Covent Garden

    Karaoke with a drag host running it, free to get into, and it starts at half ten on a Tuesday. Turn up rather than plan.

  5. Seasonal £15

    Beyond the Veil at Highgate Cemetery

    19:00 Highgate Cemetery, Hampstead

    One night only: a one man gothic adaptation of George Eliot in the cemetery chapel, doors 7pm. Fifteen pounds including a glass of wine. Highgate runs no ghost tour and no Halloween event.

  6. Comedy £15, concessions £11, students £10

    Cray Cray Cabaret at the Comedy Store: comedy and music

    19:30 The Comedy Store, Soho

    Headliners, a house band and musical guests, roughly every other month. £15, concessions £11, students £10, which is the club's cheapest ticketed bill after King Gong.

  7. Comedy £12.50

    The Bill Murray: Material Girls Comedy

    20:00 The Bill Murray, Islington

    Material Girls Comedy at the Bill Murray, on stage 20:00. Angel Comedy's ticketed room, round the corner from the free one at the Camden Head.