Arabic-language standup for the Dubai Comedy Festival, with three top Egyptian comics. Mohamed Badr hosts.
With The Roots, a show created with and for his company Accrorap, the French-Algerian dancer and choreographer Kader Attou brings his own history of hip-hop to the stage. The show is based on cultural exchanges and childhood memories, features exciting [ ... ]
A second Arabic-language standup show at this venue and on this date for the Dubai Comedy Festival, featuring Palestinian, Kuwaiti, and Jordanian humour. Dubomedy’s Ali Al Sayed hosts.
A solo show by Ibrahim with a new series of paintings that fixate on motifs of flowers and trees – endlessly repeated, reconfigured and recoloured, much as the abstract notations and marks recurring throughout his practice. Showing alongside these are [ ... ]
This group show features drawings and prints by Tammam Azzam, Nihad Al-Turk, Mohammad Bozorgi, Thaier Helal, Samia Halaby, Athier Mousawi, and Faisal Samra. Says the gallery: "Through the included works, viewers will discover how drawings, whether created with graphite, charcoal, [ ... ]
Badr's third solo show is the first in the UAE for the Brooklyn-based artist. Formally trained as a portrait painter, her works are representative dreamscapes and portraits of her life: memories from her childhood, thoughts, flashbacks and daydreams that are [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
Top Indian comic returns with a new show as part of the Dubai Comedy Festival. Currently midway in a tour that’s bouncing between India and North America, Das is in a great vein of form at the moment – he’s [ ... ]
The first underground standup comedy platform in Lebanon is back in town as part of the Dubai Comedy Festival, featuring strong opinions and Lebanese-centric jokes in an Arabic-language show.
An iconic spy thriller play given an ironic comic treatment, thanks to Patrick Barlow witty collation of John Buchan's original novel and Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation. The play was a big hit both in the West End and Broadway – [ ... ]
The South African comic, actor, TV star and satirist takes to the stage as part of Dubai Comedy Festival. He’s good; having grown up during the last years of apartheid, his riffs about race, identity, and politics carry real weight. [ ... ]
The French-Moroccan standup returns to the Dubai Comedy Festival with a new show that’s currently touring France and getting great reviews. It’s in French, of course. It looks pretty much sold out, but there may be returns ...
Warehouse421 hosts an exhibition by students of the inaugural MFA (Master of Fine Arts and Media) programme at NYUAD, with projects and artworks from Mahra Alfalahi, Majd Alloush, Liane Al Ghusain, Elizabeth Dorazio, and Fabiola Chiminazzo. To 21 August.
Paintings and fabric works in a solo exhibition for Jill Magi, part of the Artistic Development Exhibition Program run by Warehouse421 in partnership with The Institute for Emerging Art. The works here are rooted in the grid or matrix – [ ... ]
A former heart surgeon who quit the day job to become a standup, Bassem Youssef has been hailed as the Egyptian Jon Stewart, whose Daily Show inspired Youssef to begin his career (which included hosting the influential satirical news programme [ ... ]
Take the family (inc children 3-18) on a journey through the current Parthenogenesis exhibition and explore the works with the Art Gallery's Young Person’s Guide (rather good, and a great idea).
This capitvating coming-of-age tale about a group of boys trying to find their own voices in an elite, conservative boarding school in the 1950s was a multiple Oscar winner, including one for Robin Williams. He gives one of his most [ ... ]
The second night for Patrick Barlow's madcap collation from John Buchan's original novel and Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation. The play was a big hit both in the West End and Broadway – and should be in Dubai too. Gautam Goenka [ ... ]
The final performances for this iconic spy thriller play given an ironic comic treatment, thanks to Patrick Barlow witty collation of John Buchan's original novel and Hitchcock's 1935 film adaptation. The play was a big hit both in the West [ ... ]
ADIBF has become the region's largest trade fair for publishing, and has broadened its remit considerably to appeal to the general reading public as well – over 150,000 visitors are expected in total. As well as hosting more than 1,000 [ ... ]
HIPA courses are good, so this four-day intro (23-26 May, 9-12 each day) is highly recommended – especially at this price. The syllabus looks pretty comprehensive, but we don't have any details ...
Exactly what it says: an evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff.
A solo show for the Spanish architect and artist, the culmination of a long-term residency at Tashkeel which she used to pursue experimental investigations around Arabian architecture and geometry while also exploring the bonds between Arab and Spanish culture. “In [ ... ]
Series 37 of The Fridge Concert Series gets under way with headliners of whom we know nothing (happy to be educated). Support comes from the sultry-voiced singer/songwriter (and sometime actress) Dana Naidu. These Fridge gigs are intimate, economical, low-key introductions [ ... ]
Series 37 of the Fridge Concert Series gets under way with this gig. We know nothing of Reuben or the Tasty Biscuits (we're happy to be educated, of course); but Dana is a sultry-voiced singer-songwriter with a happy Dubai-vibe style [ ... ]
The inaugural grad show from DIDI; the 32 projects by DIDI’s very first graduating class covers the institute's four-discipline combination of Product Design, Multimedia Design, Fashion Design and Strategic Design Management. Should be a fascinating show, not least as a [ ... ]
Blue Fever is singing live again. An Abu Dhabi based a cappella group with a jazzy feel, Blue Fever has been going since 2009; the pandemic rather stalled any development for the last couple of years, but the group is [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
A workshop by Anita Shishani, part of the current Youth Takeover of the Jameel, that aims to guide participants on a journey of self-reflection through screening three short cartoons and responding to a series of writing prompts. The building blocks [ ... ]
A second dinner show featuring Abu Dhabi based a cappella group Blue Fever. Expect excellent multipart harmonies on popular hits from shows and movies like A Star is Born and The Greatest Showman. The price includes a steak dinner and the [ ... ]
Part of the current Youth Takeover of the Jameel, this workshop seeks to understand the exchange of ideas and energy in a young city. Manupriam Seth, founder of Urban Sketchers Dubai, uses doodles, written verses, installations, sand art, collage, ink drips, [ ... ]
The team curating the current Youth Takeover of the Jameel deliver a guided tour of their exhibitions and can talk about the takeover’s theme, commissioned and loaned work, and their creative process.
How can we relearn to imagine the world differently, away from the status quo of emergencies and disasters towards a more just and equitable future? This seminar, part of the current Youth Takeover of the Jameel, considers the most interesting [ ... ]
Two really interesting people in conversation as part of the current Youth Takeover of the Jameel: Madina Tlostanova, who talks earlier in the day about worlding and refuturing (the role of art in shaping a better world) chats with Taus [ ... ]
The most autobiographical of Francois Truffaut’s films, one of the first of the nouvelle vague movement, and regularly included in 'best films of all time' lists, Les quatre cents coups follows a few months in the life of 12-year-old Antoine [ ... ]
Based on the 2012 Jihadist takeover of Mali, Timbuktu is a searing and poetic tale of the dangers of religious extremism that also conveys the rich cultural heritage of the Malian people. Passionate, humanistic and enormously powerful, it was nominated [ ... ]
Second performance (of three) for this Dubai Drama Group production of Lulu Raczka's one-act play that "forces the audience to turn detective not just to track down the elusive Charlotte but also to find meaning itself" (the Guardian). In this [ ... ]
As his mother battles chronic depression, a child creates a list of every thing they can think of that makes life worth living. As the child grows, so does the list. Looking back on a life of ups and downs, [ ... ]
Final performance of this Dubai Drama Group production of Lulu Raczka's one-act play that "forces the audience to turn detective not just to track down the elusive Charlotte but also to find meaning itself" (the Guardian). In this dystopian sort-of [ ... ]
A group show for seven contemporary artists from Uganda – Doddridge Busingye, Matt Kayem, Pamela Enyonu, Ronex Ahimbisibwe, Ismael Kataregga, Remmy Sserwadd and Ngule Kiire Yusuf. Taking inspiration from their distinctive and rapidly evolving culture while commenting on tradition, their [ ... ]
Fashion wars in the medieval court of Joseon. After 30 years of serving the king, Dol-suk, a conservative court tailor who has risen to the top, is faced with a new rival: Gong-jin finds favour with his avant-garde designs. As [ ... ]
Exactly what it says: an evening of scenes, stories and narrative improvisation influenced by audience suggestions and featuring the Courtyard Playhouse's most experienced improv performers. Classic Courtyard stuff.
Soulful neo-RnB from the Dubai-based Iraqi-born singer/songwriter as the second gig for Series 37 of The Fridge Concert Series. Support comes from Leone Murphy, another who benefits from the Dubai vibe: he has a great voice, writes good lyrics, and [ ... ]
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 [ ... ]
The second edition of Alliance Française's day-long environment-themed festival features films (check out the excellent Festival Namur Nature shorts at 10-11am – that's a still above), a Green Bazaar 'sustainable designers market', a climate mural, a beekeeping workshop (10am-midday, AED [ ... ]
A two-day pop-up group show (14-15 June) for four artists from the Karachi-based Eye for Art gallery: Jamil Naqsh, Ismail Gulgee, Bahir Mirza and Ahmed Parvez.
Two favourite Courtyard Playhouse performers present an evening of comedy – improv, stand-up and a Bollywood musical act.
In this conversation, Kuwaiti artist Mo Reda will lead a discussion with emerging practitioners on the ins and outs of professional art practice, their challenges in developing their career and the necessary skills they find themselves relying on. This talk [ ... ]
Well-crafted funky "Indian soul" from the India-born Dubai-based singer-songwriter. Ananya supports. These Fridge gigs are intimate, economical, low-key introductions to what generally turns out to be really good music; and it's very much the artists' own show, since they get [ ... ]
A deserved rerun in a "fully-realised immersive version" at ToDA for this enjoyable one woman show from the undisputed queen of the Dubai comedy scene. Combining comedy, rhythm and spoken word with mixed media, plus the extra effects available at [ ... ]
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