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Youth Takeover 2025

Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

The Jameel's annual Youth Takeover is the manifestation of the Assembly, an experimental learning programme designed to foster creative leaders aged 18 to 24 in the UAE, "inviting the creation and curation of projects reflective of their generation’s areas of [ ... ]

Free

LAST CHANCE Sama Alshaibi: طرس (Tterss)

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

A solo exhibition of recent body work by one of the gallery’s stars. Alshaibi’s multimedia work explores spaces of conflict and the power struggles that reimagine Baghdad’s transformation – its peaks, declines, and latent possibilities. Baghdad becomes a site of [ ... ]

Free

Sharmila Dance Extravaganza 2025

Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, Dubai

The annual show by Sharmila Dance Center, one of the UAE's longest-established dance schools, is currently in its 24th year. A show for aspiring performers of all ages – from 7-year-olds to professional dancers – it always offers a whirlwind [ ... ]

From AED 150

Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons

Ritz Carlton Grand Canal Al Maqta, Abu Dhabi

The Vivaldi favourite was written as concerti for violin and orchestra, but it's often arranged for a quartet and this is what we'll be getting here, performed by Snezana Ivkovic's String Quartet. The ambiance is (non-flammable) candleight, of course. The [ ... ]

From AED 200

Shrek the Musical

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

The second performance for the Abu Dhabi Choral Group’s Summer Revue. This "hilarious and heartwarming" adaptation of the popular film, a successful Broadway and West End musical (music by Jeanine Tesori, book and lyrics by David Lindsay-Abaire) is based on [ ... ]

AED 105

Gad Elmaleh

Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

The Moroccan-Canadian comedian and actor celebrated as one of the funniest people in France brings a French-language show to the Abu Dhabi Comedy Season lineup. Boasting a career spanning acclaimed one-man shows, international tours, and French cinema, Elmaleh has a [ ... ]

From AED 195

Saaniya Abbas: Hellarious

The Agenda Abdullah Omran Taryam St, Media City, Dubai

The razor-sharp Dubai-based comedian previews her Edinburgh Fringe show, her official solo debut. She's no novice, of course – she's supported Jason Manford and Schalk Bezhuidenhout on tour, has opened for Frankie Boyle too, and she has more than 500,000 [ ... ]

AED 100