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Cirque Du Liban: Fontana

Yas Island Abu Dhabi

Cirque du Liban comes to Yas with "the first travelling water circus in the Middle East ... live entertainment, breathtaking artistic performances in a tailor-made aqua theatre, waterfalls cascading, artists diving and performing mind-blowing Aquatic experience". The previews look great, [ ... ]

From AED 100

LAST CHANCE Farah Al Qasimi: Toy World

The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The Third Line's fourth solo exhibition with Farah Al Qasimi, Brooklyn based but Abu Dhabi born, is a collection of still and moving images in colour and – for the first time – black and white too. “Black and white [ ... ]

Free

Torn

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

The world premiere of a new play written and directed by the award-winning Australian writer/director Alex Broun, well known to Dubai audiences for the past 15 or so years (not least from his promotion of and participation in the Short [ ... ]

From AED 100

Cineolios Cinenights at Mohammed Bin Rashid Library

Mohammed Bin Rashid Library Al Jaddaf, Dubai

Another free MBR Library film night organised by shorts specialist Cineolio, this one featuring four short films that embody diverse cultures and reflect different visions from around the world: The Coin dir Siqi Song (2019, 7 min) Stop-motion animation by [ ... ]

Free

Spencer & Vogue

Dubai Opera

Reality royalty bring their podcast to the stage for the Dubai Comedy Festival: Spencer Matthews (Made In Chelsea, etc) and Vogue Williams (Dancing with the Stars, Stepping Out etc) are engagingly chatty and very funny about the detail of their [ ... ]

From AED 250

PETTEE: storybox

The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi

A second performance for this show where dancers and fabricated landscape lead the audience into an immersive world of movement and music and flight, where bodies unbend, lunge and soar, to unseal and unpack years of youth, where multiple futures, [ ... ]

AED 105

Comedy Bizarre 6

Dubai Opera Studio Downtown Dubai, Dubai

This Dubai Comedy festival showcase provides nightly entertainment from an eclectic mix of (mostly local) standups at a pretty good price. Tonight it’s Moncef Boumaza, Sahar Ali, Adi Thomas, Amr Elassal, Sadiq Saboowala, Shaddy Gaad, and Yash Bhardwaj, hosted by
 Salman [ ... ]

AED 75

Alfred Adriaan: Unfit and Forty

Roxy Cinemas Dubai Hills Dubai Hills Mall, Al Khail Road, Dubai

Relatable comedy for many from the likeable, hard-working South African stand-up with his new one-man show. He’s turned 40, is middle-aged and married, and has a few complaints about the situation … A Dubai Comedy Festival gig.

AED 180

Mo Gilligan

Dubai Opera

Mo Gilligan is black, British and very funny – he’s very good at observational comedy with a very distinctive take on British culture, especially from his home milieu (South London). He says his influences include Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock; [ ... ]

From AED 195