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Deadly Live! is an action-packed, edge-of-your-seat thrilling experience hosted by BAFTA award-winning wildlife presenter and adventurer, Steve Backshall.

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Deadly Live! with Steve Backshall is back for autumn 2026, including a visit to London OVO Wembley Arena on 27 October.
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Following the smash hit 2025 tour, the thrilling supersized live entertainment adventure is returning this October half term for 11 more shows at some of the UK’s biggest venues.

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The first-ever stage adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ internationally acclaimed book ‘The Hunger Games’ and Lionsgate’s hit motion picture of the same name have a new cast from Friday 23 October, as the show enters its second year at Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre.

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The Hunger Games: On Stage will be led by Elizabeth Anderson as Katniss Everdeen with Vinnie Copeland as Peeta Mellark, Nathan Stokes as Gale Hawthorne, Daisy Statham as Prim, Alix Dunmore as Mrs. Everdeen, Isabel Della-Porta as Effie Trinket and Theo Ogundipe as Cinna.

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Best known for her acclaimed television roles in Desperate Housewives and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman, Hatcher joins the West End production from 20 October, following Vanessa Williams’ final performance and Debbie Kurup’s run as Miranda.

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Golden Globe-winning actress Teri Hatcher is set to take on one of fashion’s most formidable figures as Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada: The Musical at the Dominion Theatre. 
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The exhibition brings together two distinct yet complementary approaches to painting, exploring abstraction, memory, gesture and the relationship between what is seen and what remains hidden.

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Ingo Fincke Gallery will present a joint exhibition of new work by artists Rachel Deacon and Lara Bowen at J/M Gallery, 230 Portobello Road, from 15 to 20 October.

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The latest issue of This is London Magazine is now available – visit https://t.co/9UTahMPB6o to read the magazine online, highlights will be posted @thisislondonmag every day!

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Rounding off the Southbank Centre's 75th anniversary year, it marks Goldin's first institutional exhibition in the UK since 2002.

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From 24 November, the Hayward Gallery will host a major solo exhibition by acclaimed American artist and activist Nan Goldin: You Never Did Anything Wrong. @haywardgallery

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Rose Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for Three Men in a Boat, a riotous new comedy by Al Smith, featuring original songs by Tony Award nominee Grant Olding (One Man, Two Guvnors). Until 10 October. 
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The Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 exhibition will present 56 works by 56 photographers at the National Portrait Gallery from 5 November to 17 January next year.
📸 A Young Elvis by Ellie Ramsden from the series The Elvies, 2025.

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Four photographers are shortlisted for the Winston Taylor Photo Portrait Prize 2026 at the National Portrait Gallery, celebrating outstanding contemporary portrait photography from emerging and established talent worldwide
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Sting plays a leading role in The Last Ship, the musical he first developed in 2011, initially inspired by his 1991 album The Soul Cages.
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Global reggae icon Shaggy is set to co-star with Sting in the reimagined 2026 adaptation of Sting's musical The Last Ship for just two nights at Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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Producers Eva Price and Michael Harrison have a spectacular new cast member for their must sea Olivier Award Winning Titanique at the Criterion Theatre. Self-declared South Yorkshire Siren Myra DuBois has boarded the ship of dreams and is staring as Ruth until 11 October.

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Star trumpeter David Blackadder joins renowned period-instrument orchestra The Hanover Band at 19.30 on 21 September at Cadogan Hall, for a special performance of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto ­– played on the unique type of instrument for which the work was originally composed.