Events in London Today (Friday, October 16, 2026)
23 West End shows from £23, 176 museums open, 6 free events. Showtimes updated hourly.
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🎭 Shows
Musical
The Lion King
Disney's landmark musical transforms the Serengeti with puppetry, masks and Elton John songs in a family West End epic.
19:30 16 October 2026
Musical
MAMMA MIA!
ABBA's sun-soaked jukebox musical turns a Greek island wedding into a feel-good story of mothers, daughters and old flames.
19:30 16 October 2026
Play
The Play That Goes Wrong
A disastrous amateur murder mystery collapses in real time, turning missed cues, broken sets and bad acting into farce.
19:30 16 October 2026
Play
Witness for the Prosecution
Agatha Christie's courtroom thriller puts the audience inside the trial as a murder case twists toward its verdict.
19:30 16 October 2026
🏛️ Museums
Museum
#1
British Museum
One of the world's great public museums, the British Museum traces human curiosity across continents and millennia. Founded in 1753, its eight-million-object co...
10:00-20:30
Museum
#2
Tower of London
More fortress than museum, the Tower of London compresses a thousand years of power, fear and ceremony. William the Conqueror's White Tower (1078) anchored the ...
09:00-17:30
Museum
#3
Madame Tussauds London
Madame Tussauds London is theatre you can touch: lifelike wax figures staged under studio lights, built for selfies and playful make-believe. The tradition date...
10:00-15:00
Museum
#4
Tate Modern
Tate Modern turns a riverside power station into a cathedral of contemporary ideas. Since 2000 its Turbine Hall-152 metres long and 35 metres high-has hosted ar...
10:00-21:00
🆓 Free Events
Art
Indian Textile Heritage & Craft Practice Exhibition
MA Fashion Design Management &
National Institute of Fashion Technology
15:30
Nature
*BIRDNOISE* RNB EDITION - ALL NIGHT LONG
London's staple selectors, given free rein.
18:00
Music
Latin, Soul & Blues with Alejandra Lomelí at The Artillery Arms
Alejandra Lomelí brings Mexican favourites, Latin music, soul, and blues to The Artillery Arms — warm vocals, guitar, and nostalgic songs.
18:30
Nature
FRIDAY FEELINGS
Kick your weekend off with BOXPARK!
19:00