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Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu Dhabi

The second weekend for the spectacular (and spectacularly successful) Andrew Lloyd Webber musical. Look for decent songs, great choreography and staging, and a well-paced plot (not always the case with musicals ...) Friday/Saturday prices start at AED 160, Sunday it's [ ... ]

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LAST CHANCE Anthony Akinbola: Get Well Soon

CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai

Durags are stretchable fabrics worn over the head to shape and protect the hair; in Akinbola’s practice, they are both culturally loaded objects and a material he can reconfigure. For this solo show, Akinbola assembles durags into compositions that are [ ... ]

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Lakelands! dir Robert Higgins a Patrick McGivney (2022)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

Cian is a dairy farmer, amateur sportsman and committed hedonist never slow to hit the pub after training. After roping two pals into yet another nightclub bender, he’s subjected to a brutal alleyway beating that leaves him with concussion and [ ... ]

AED 25

Promis le Ciel | Promised Sky: dir Erige Sehiri (2025)

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

Sehiri’s intimate drama follows four generations of Ivorian immigrant women as they find solidarity, conflict and sometimes a sense of displacement in one another’s company. We're dropped into the lives of Marie (Aïssa Maïga), Naney (Debora Lobe Naney) and Jolie [ ... ]

AED 30

Théotime Gillot: Hommage à Haydn

Dubai Opera Studio Downtown Dubai, Dubai

Another hit for the Steinway Series bookers, with the exciting French pianist in a programme that pays homage to Haydn via some of the master's own piano works and pieces from composers that he inspired. The programme: George Benjamin Meditation [ ... ]

AED 250

The Queen and the Smokehouse: dir Iga Lis (2025)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

In a bustling seaside town, Miecia – known as  “Queen" – has run her smokehouse for over forty years: a beloved fixture in the community, it is a meeting place for all, a lifeline for some, and a small empire [ ... ]

AED 25

Stelios: dir Yorgos Tsemberopoulos (2024)

Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu Dhabi

This film is a tribute to the near-legendary singer, Stelios Kazantzidis, whose voice touched the hearts of all Greeks around the world; it’s a touching story of a refugee child from Pontus in northeastern Anatolia, who managed to survive and [ ... ]

AED 25