• Grease the Musical

    Hartland International School Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Second performance for the classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for MTDXB [ ... ]

    AED 150
  • LAST CHANCE Suanjaya Kencut: Re-Charge

    Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

    Kencut's first solo show in the Middle East explores personal challenge and transformation, described by the gallery as "a pivotal moment in Kencut's artistic journey— a deliberate pivot from external inspirations to an introspective examination of the struggles that define [ ... ]

    Free
  • Tynda.Music: Ludovico Einaudi Tribute

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

    A programme of music by film composer Ludovico Einaudi, performed by the Kazakh chamber ensemble Tynda.Music.

    AED 250
  • Grease the Musical

    Hartland International School Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A third night for the classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for [ ... ]

    AED 150
  • Grease the Musical

    Hartland International School Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The final performances of this classic 1950s-based musical with all the songs (and moves) from the 1978 John Travolta / Olivia Newton-John movie, delivered in some style by a cast of 47 and a professional 10-piece band. It's directed for [ ... ]

    AED 150
  • An Hoang: Between Days

    Volery Gallery Maze Tower - 5201, Dubai International Financial Center, Dubai

    Solo exhibition for An Hoang, her debut show in the Middle East. In these new paintings, Hoang explores a delicate balance between abstraction and figuration through "expressive, colourful compositions that capture moments of immersion in nature ... With the use [ ... ]

    Free
  • Global Notes: Jeonghwan Kim

    Dubai Opera Studio Downtown Dubai, Dubai

    The Global Notes series of recitals from Encore Performing Arts, Dubai Opera and the Royal Grammar School Guildford Dubai continues with the international acclaimed (and still very young) South Korean pianist, known for captivating performances that bring audiences to their [ ... ]

    AED 199
  • LAST CHANCE Vikram Divecha: Short Circuits

    Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, Dubai

    Vikram Divecha’s exhibition covers the Dubai-based artist’s practice since 2013, showcasing his playful and poetic site-specific works, public art, installations, videos, photography and drawings. In particular, Divecha has long had an in-depth interest in the invisible structures of planning, construction, [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Henok Melkamzer: Telsem Symbols and Imagery

    Sharjah Art Museum Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    With more than 100 works, many on view for the first time, this exhibition is the largest solo presentation by telsem artist Henok Melkamzer. Traditionally termed a healing or talisman art, telsem is a distinctive Ethiopian art form that incorporates [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Lala Rukh: In the Round

    Al Mureijah Art Spaces Al Mureijah Square, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

    The first major survey of the late artist, feminist organiser and pedagogue Lala Rukh brings together more than 50 drawings, prints, photographs, videos and animation works from across her three-decade practice. The artist captured the diverse rhythms of lunar movements, [ ... ]

    Free
  • NEOclassica with Alessandra Toni

    Theatre of Digital Arts Souk Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    Alessandra Toni plays works by Zimmer, Chryssomallis, Einaudi and more, plus her own original repertoire, all accompanied by ToDA's 360° visuals.            

    From AED 180
  • Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers plus guests. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • Matilda The Musical

    Dubai Opera

    As the New York Post put it, “Once in a blue moon, a show comes out blazing and restores your faith in broadway. Matilda the Musical is that show”. The multi-award-winning musical (it has won more than 99 international awards) [ ... ]

    From AED 150
  • The Welkin

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for murder but [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Mövenpick Hotel JBR Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    This month's Laughter Factory tour looks a good mix – two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time [ ... ]

    AED 160
  • LAST CHANCE Echoes of Sierra Leone

    Urbanist Art Gallery Box Park, Al Wasl Road, Dubai

    A group show by five artists from Sierra Leone – Hawa-Jane Bangura, Hickmatu Leigh, Julius Parker, Felix Rhodes, Zahra Fakih Zato.

    Free
  • The Welkin

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A second performance (of three) for Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy is [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • The Jazz Night with Lady J

    Theatre of Digital Arts Souk Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    ToDA transforms into a jazz venue for live performance accompanied by a 360° immersive show: this time it's Lady J & her trio in a 90-minute set. "Expect a sparkling arrangement of the Grooviest Classics together with jazzed-up Radio Hits [ ... ]

    From AED 150
  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Mövenpick Hotel JBR Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A second night at the Mövenpick JBR for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic of the Year in 1997. A circuit [ ... ]

    AED 160
  • The Welkin

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Last chance to see this performance of Lucy Kirkwood's feminist twist on Twelve Angry Men, with the courtroom made up of bickering, bantering women who must decide the outcome of a heinous crime in rural Suffolk in 1759. Sally Poppy [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • LAST CHANCE Echoes of Infinite: Poetry’s Visual Symphony

    Farjam Foundation Unit GF-97 Gate Avenue, DIFC, Dubai

    The Farjam Foundation isn’t a particularly activity gallery, but it does have access to an excellent private collection that spans early Islam to present-day artistic practice across regional geographies and beyond. So when it puts on a show of selected [ ... ]

    Free
  • Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Exactly what it says: a regular Monday evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers plus guests. Classic Courtyard stuff. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • LAST CHANCE Khaled Akil: The Infinite & The Finite

    Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A solo show for the artist’s recent work − which aims to depict “the unseen, the felt, and the omnipresent”. Akil creates his compositions through dozens of thin layers, creating depth while avoiding impasto; “the drying process presents and provokes [ ... ]

    Free
  • Je verrai toujours vos visages: dir Jeanne Herry (2022)

    Alliance Française Dubai Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    The regular Alliance Française ciné-apéro evening (a glass of wine and canapés before the screening) this month features a drama of restorative justice with a strong storyline and a good cast. Victims of violent crime and perpetrators meet up on [ ... ]

    AED 45
  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Al Habtoor Polo Resort Al Safa 5, Emirates Road 611, Dubai

    This month's Laughter Factory tour features two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic [ ... ]

    AED 160
  • Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ten actors converge for a night of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest score is eliminated. Eventually only [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A new season opens for the Courtyard's regular Wednesday evening of scenes, songs and games based on audience suggestions. After each round you score the ten players on a scale of 1 to 5, and the one with the lowest [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • LAST CHANCE Raed Yassin: Allegorical Ruins

    Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Yassin explores the implications of Roland Barthes' concept of "the return of the dead" in photography, playing on the tension between memory and ghostliness by utilising old black and white photographs to evoke loss and the fleeting nature of memory. [ ... ]

    Free
  • Book-Paper-Scissors: dir Nanako Hirose (2019)

    House of Artisans Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum St(2nd St), Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    The book designer’s job is not only to come up with the outstanding jacket of a book, but also to carefully choose the papers and the fonts, and layout them to create the unique physical book. This documentary on 75-year-old [ ... ]

    AED 38.65
  • The Leisure Seeker: dir Paolo Virzì (2017)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    Lovably impulsive oldsters Ella and John (Donald Sutherland and Helen Mirren) infuriate their uptight children by heading off in their cranky old Winnebago for a last road trip in the sunset of their lives. They are cheerful, gutsy, secretly scared [ ... ]

    Free
  • Powerpointless

    Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Improvised PowerPoint presentations. The speakers face a live audience, presenting slides they’ve never seen before, on a topic determined at random by the ‘Wheel of Destiny’. Virtually guaranteed to be funny ... Afterwards there's a chance to mingle with presenters [ ... ]

    Free but donations welcome
  • LAST CHANCE Ala Ebtekar: The Sky of the Seven Valleys

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Ebtekar's exhibition, is presented as "one work in seven chapters", each composed of one to four doorway-sized panels that combine multi-wavelength photographic processes with the artist's distinctive cloud-making brushstrokes. Inspired by Farid ud-Din Attar's Sufi poem Conference of the Birds, [ ... ]

    Free
  • LAST CHANCE Khalid Jauffer: Looking, dwelling, leaving

    The Third Line Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    Jauffer is an artist who deals in the metaphoric potential of everyday objects, find the ironies in his everyday surroundings ad teasing out the spatial, poetic relationships between his subjects and their frangible correlation to human beings. "Discarded objects and [ ... ]

    Free
  • Let it Be: The Beatles on Piano

    Theatre of Digital Arts Souk Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    Berklee graduate Nikolai Mishchenko plays an hour of Beatles hits arranged for piano, complete with ToDA's signature 360° visuals. "Experience the enduring legacy of the world's most beloved band in a whole new light ..."

    From AED 200
  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Radisson DAMAC Hills Hessa Street Dubailand, Dubai

    The penultimate stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour. It features two hardworking and reliable stalwarts of the British standup scene, plus Dubai's funniest Filipina: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and [ ... ]

    AED 160
  • The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club

    Dukes The Palm Palm Dubai, Dubai

    Last stop for this month's Laughter Factory tour: Paul Tonkinson winner of the 1992 Time Out New Act of the Year Award and Time Out's Stand Up Comic of the Year in 1997. A circuit regular, and underrated author of [ ... ]

    AED 160
  • LAST CHANCE Susan Kosti: What Lies Beneath

    kanvas Dubai Unit 1, Al Khayat Art Avenue, 19th Street Al Quoz 1, Dubai

    The Sydney-based media artist and motion graphic designer has assembled a cutting-edge immersive 3D-projection show that translates ocean data collected by NASA into what the organisers describe as “a stunning kaleidoscope of vibrant corals and sea creatures ... What Lies [ ... ]

    Free
  • Victoria and Abdul: dir Stephen Frears (2017)

    Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

    A beautifully shot, beautifully acted account of the friendship between Queen Victoria and a young Indian civil servant who became a powerful and influential figure in her court. Stephen Frears explores questions of race, religion, power, and the farce of [ ... ]

    Free
  • 1 Minute to Krushit

    Paramount Hotel Midtown Al Mustaqbal Street, Business Bay, Dubai

    1M2K returns to Dubai with the comedy game show where standups get just one minute to make you laugh – and you choose the winners too. If you're a comic and you want to perform, let them know; it's the [ ... ]

    Free, but pre-register
  • LAST CHANCE Rana AlMutawa: Everyday Life in the Spectacular City

    Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, Dubai

    Dubai’s newest independent bookstore and cultural centre, Kutubna Cultural Center, is opening with Dr Rana AlMutawa’s first solo exhibition in Dubai – an exhibition of images from her book Everyday Life in the Spectacular City: Making home in Dubai. It’s [ ... ]

    Free
  • Comedy at the Stables

    The Stables Sheikh Zayed Road, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A comedykix standup gig promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.

    AED 75
  • ST-Duo

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

    ST-Duo are pianists Sofia Sakhnova and Antonina Luzko, multiple prizewinners in Russia and recipients of a special prize from Yamaha for Best Piano Duet at the 2018 Roma International Piano Competition. They will be playing an entertaining-looking programme, mostly arrangements [ ... ]

    From AED 200
  • Searching for Pierrot

    The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A one-person play written and performed by Gillian Rhodes, who is really very good at this storytelling-with-performance sort of thing. This time it's a coming-of-age tale of a young boy in the late 19th century; a chance encounter with the [ ... ]

    AED 120
  • Friday Unfiltered Comedy

    Funny Cat Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

    A comedykix standup gig, as usual promising "Dubai’s finest comedians". The door price is redeemable on F&B.

    AED 75
  • Rita Mikhael

    Theatre of Digital Arts Souk Madinat Jumeriah, Dubai

    "A rising star from Lebanon brings the essence of Palestine to life ... showcasing the rich musical heritage of Palestine through timeless folk songs and stories" says the blurb for this ToDA gig in its Women’s Voices of the Middle [ ... ]

    From AED 190.29
  • Coco Tomita and Simon Callaghan

    Dubai Opera Studio Downtown Dubai, Dubai

    The brilliant young Japanese violinist (winner of the BBC Young Musician strings category in 2020) is regularly accompanied on piano by Simon Callaghan – not least on their universally applauded 2022 debut album Origins. Their programme: Debussy Violin Sonata L.140 [ ... ]

    AED 199
  • Same Same, but Different: A Sit Down with Shawn and Friends

    VOX Mercato Mercato Mall, Jumeirah Beach Rd, Dubai

    Shawn Chidiac, aka ‘My Parents are Divorced', is doing this chat-plus-comedy evening once a month at VOX Cinemas Mercato Mall until the end of the year. For the Julyedition, Shawn will be joined by Russian-Romanian content creator Denisa Alexe (known [ ... ]

    From AED 175