{"title": "Dogstar", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-12-05T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampstead Theatre", "address": "Eton Avenue, NW3 3EU London", "price": "GBP 12", "price_from": "12.00", "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/dogstar-tickets/2026/10/30/2", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "Dogstar is a new play set aboard an icebound whaling ship whose stranded crew faces mutiny as supplies run low. Written by Daisy Hall, writer of the sell-out hit Bellringers, and directed by Lucy Morrison, it follows the sailors as they begin collectively experiencing strange heavenly visions. The darkly comic and moving story asks whether these hallucinations are a symptom of scurvy, a trick of the endless night, or a chance at salvation. 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Director Caroline Steinbeis and translator Rory Mullarkey, who together made the 2025 production of Three Sisters, reunite for this timeless story of ambition and desire, inspired by Shakespeare's Hamlet. On a rural estate, the lives of four people intersect: the middlebrow writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the washed-up actress Irina Arkadina, and her son Konstantin Treplev, a brooding experimental playwright. When Konstantin falls in love with Nina while staging a play on his uncle's estate, but she is drawn to Trigorin, his mother's lover, a thrilling psychological drama follows.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-seagull-63524/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/25e9b6bb190dd82d3939273b1d03f7d3ea96b8a8f8892a32a7f27350d3607255-600.webp"}, {"title": "We Anchor in Hope", "start": "2026-11-03T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-11-07T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hampton Hill Playhouse", "address": "High Street 90, TW12 1NZ Hampton Hill", "price": "£20 (£16 for Members) plus £1.90 transaction fee", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "20.00", "tickets_url": "https://purchase.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/EventAvailability?EventId=4001&ref=bookNow&scroll=timeAndDates", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama"], "description": "We Anchor in Hope is a stage play about the final night of The Anchor, a London pub closing for good, as Kenny and his friends go out with a bang of karaoke, a blow-up sheep and a lot of Campari. As secrets, grudges and forgotten dreams surface and the bar is drunk dry, there is more to lose than just a pub. The sharply funny and melancholy play is by Anna Jordan, the award-winning writer behind TV's Succession, Killing Eve and One Day, and was previously a 2024 hit for the club. 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Ben Stower's Natural Affairs, directed by Livia Sardão, follows the guests, staff and resident ghosts of a rundown English B&B as secrets become scandals and beliefs are tested. The evening runs 80 minutes with an interval.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/two-plays-one-night-39970/", "official_url": "https://uniontheatre.biz/show/two-plays-one-night/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5baf4aa9fd9bc72e190263d89cc7471bce2d86eff624f1b407bf54ac3ff5414a-1200.webp"}, {"title": "The Devil's Punchbowl", "start": "2026-10-27T00:00:00Z", "end": "2026-10-31T00:00:00Z", "place": "Hope & Anchor", "address": "Upper Street 207, N1 1RL London", "price": "£4.20", "price_from": "4.20", "price_to": "4.20", "tickets_url": "", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/horror"], "description": "The Devil's Punchbowl is a chilling show where true crime meets gothic horror, running 70 minutes and perfect for a dark Halloween night. It follows Olivia, who disbelieves tales of the supernatural and always seeks rational explanations for ghostly hauntings. Given a tip-off to investigate the historic murder of Amelia Harbinger by the Devil's Punchbowl in Norfolk, she suspects a freak animal attack rather than the legendary demon dog Black Shuck. As she interviews Amelia's orphaned sons, she finds the family house was filled with secrets, old ghosts resurface, and the creature that killed Amelia is still out there and ready to strike again.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/the-devils-punchbowl-43331/", "official_url": "", "image": ""}, {"title": "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time", "start": "2026-11-10T00:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "New Wimbledon Theatre", "address": "The Broadway 93, SW19 1QG London", "price": "", "price_from": null, "price_to": null, "tickets_url": "https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/the-curious-incident-of-the-dog-in-the-night-time/new-wimbledon-theatre/", "category": "theatre", "tags": ["stage/theatre/drama/mystery"], "description": "A staging of the play The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at New Wimbledon Theatre. The theatre's own announcements describe it as a thrilling mystery, with a sneak peek inside rehearsals shared ahead of its arrival. 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It is the latest work by Tony Craze award-winning writer Chris Fung, directed by Rupert Hands and part of the first season from the venue's artistic director Taio Lawson. The story follows Brian Tran, interviewed for the role of the world's most powerful leader, as the questions turn into brutal psychological warfare. It is a twisted tale of family loyalty, cabalistic elites, and what we're prepared to sacrifice for proximity to power.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/global-majority-63507/", "official_url": "", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/8d254932b767b232489a644b3ea201d51b9e233113415972887c77048611723d-600.webp"}, {"title": "Garry Starr: Classic Penguins", "start": "2026-10-25T00:00:00+01:00", "end": "2027-01-03T00:00:00Z", "place": "The Other Palace", "address": "Palace Street 12, SW1E 5JA London", "price": "£20 – £45", "price_from": "20.00", "price_to": "45.00", "tickets_url": "https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/search/form-for-venue/garry-starr-classic-penguins-tickets/2026/10/26/2", "category": "comedy", "tags": ["comedy", "literature"], "description": "Garry Starr: Classic Penguins is an award-winning comedy show at The Other Palace. It was created by and stars Damien Warren-Smith as Garry Starr, directed by Cal McCrystal and designed by takis. In it, Garry Starr tries to save books from extinction by performing every Penguin Classic ever written, mostly naked but with flippers. 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It was written by original Mischief team members Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, the Olivier Award-winners behind The Play That Goes Wrong. The ill-fated Cornley Amateur Drama Society stages Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, but hilarious problems with miscommunications, delays, missing actors and a fight over the lead role destroy the much-loved story of Ebeneezer Scrooge. 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The story follows a sailor whose heart compass is stolen, sending them through a coral reef, a siren's lair and to the bottom of the ocean to win it back. The hour-long family show asks whether they will find their way back to the surface or end up trapped in the belly of the beast who steals sailors' hearts.", "url": "https://go-gnocchi.app/en/london/events/at-sea-38076/", "official_url": "https://polkatheatre.com/event/at-sea/", "image": "https://go-gnocchi.app/images/5b2ebcd29e5294e48fb5db6f5c74bfdd9f966b99b1e7007ec3ec06899bf71413-2000.webp"}]}