Stand-up Comedy Night
"Dubai’s funniest comics" gig in Business Bay, courtesy of the comedykix crowd.
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Events
- Bay Club DoubleTree by Hilton, Business Bay, Dubai
LAST CHANCE Sama Alshaibi: طرس (Tterss)
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesA 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 [ ... ]
FreeSharmila Dance Extravaganza 2025
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThe 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 150Candlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Ritz Carlton Grand Canal Al Maqta, Abu DhabiThe 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 200Shrek the Musical
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe 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 DhabiThe 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, DubaiThe 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 100Shrek the Musical
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesMatinée and evening shows for the Abu Dhabi Choral Group’s Summer Revue, a "hilarious and heartwarming" adaptation of the popular film. The grumpy but lovable ogre embarking on a quest to rescue the feisty Princess Fiona for the scheming Lord [ ... ]
AED 105LAST CHANCE Kojo Marfo: HOME Heart Of My Existence
JD Malat Gallery ACT 2 Tower, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Blvd 13A ,Downtown Dubai, DubaiThe inaugural exhibition in the Emirates for the Ghanaian artist explores the concept of ‘home’ through the lens of Afro-Surrealism. This series marks an introspective shift in his practice, reflecting his evolving sense of place in the world; HOME: Heart [ ... ]
Free
Malik Thomas Jalil Kydd: Garden of Murmurs
CARBON 12 17th Street, Dubai, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesMalik Thomas Jalil Kydd's body of work delves into his Iraqi heritage, while bridging painting, drawing and fibre art – "reconciling the tactility of textiles with a sensitive examination of form", as the gallery puts it. "Focusing primarily on the [ ... ]
Free
Nazgol Ansarinia: Instruments of Viewing an Obscurity
Green Art Gallery Dubai, United Arab EmiratesRecent projects from the Tehran-born artist. Nazgol Ansarinia’s work examines the systems and networks that underpin her daily life – from everyday objects to routines, events and experiences. She's interested in the relationships they form to make up a larger [ ... ]
FreeSharmila Dance Extravaganza 2025
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThe second day of performances for this annual show by Sharmila Dance Center, one of the UAE's longest-established dance schools. Currently in its 24th year, this is a show for aspiring performers of all ages – from 7-year-olds to professional [ ... ]
From AED 150
Omar Al Gurg: Everyman’s Mountain
Lawrie Shabibi Unit 21, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe Emirati artist and designer's inaugural solo exhibition comprises a series of photographs that documents the striking ecological diversity of Mount Kilimanjaro. Captured through Al Gurg’s attentive and empathetic gaze during a six-day journey in 2021, this work offers "a [ ... ]
Free
Ahmad Kasha: Offerings – The War Series
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAhmad Kasha’s complete War Series (2018–2025) is presented here for the first time in association with Fann à Porter. Influenced by various traditions of war art, the series reflects on the psychological toll of violence on people, animals, nature, and [ ... ]
Architectures of the In-Between
Aisha Alabbar Gallery Warehouse C19, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiA group show featuring Nevine Hamza, Atefeh Majidi Nezhad, and Layla Juma. Says the gallery: "Each artist navigates the threshold between structure and sentiment, material and memory, between what is seen and what is sensed ..." Hamza’s work draws on [ ... ]
FreeSaaniya Abbas: Hellarious
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiThe razor-sharp Dubai-based comedian previews her Edinburgh Fringe gig, a show that "dives deep into the absurdities of divorce, internet fame, and identity, wrapped in Saaniya’s signature wit and bite".
AED 100Hans Zimmer Live
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiHans Zimmer is probably best known for some of the most listened-to soundtracks in the history of cinema – The Lion King, Gladiator, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Dark Knight, Dune - but his live show is also pretty special. [ ... ]
From AED299Music Loves Company presents Comedy Kix
Music Loves Company Sky Quarter , Mobility District, Expo City, DubaiAnother good-looking Comedy Kix night in Expo City, with some of Dubai’s most interesting up-and-coming stand-ups – seven of them: Saeed El Nahdy, Moncif Boumaza, Ehsan Fahmi, Andrea Brooks, Rebecca How, Jed Dawson and Tanveer Khan. The door price includes [ ... ]
AED 85Sharmila Dance Extravaganza 2025
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiThe final day of performances for this annual show by Sharmila Dance Center, one of the UAE's longest-established dance schools. Currently in its 24th year, this is a show for aspiring performers of all ages – from 7-year-olds to professional [ ... ]
From AED 150
time heals, just not quick enough
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiThe second exhibition in Efie Gallery’s new Alserkal Avenue location, this group show of film and photography features works by contemporary artists across generations – Samuel Fosso (b.1962), Aïda Muluneh (b.1974), Kelani Abass (b.1978), Abeer Sultan (b.1999) and Sumayah Fallatah [ ... ]
Ahmad Nabil: Fetus Exodus
Jameel Library Jameel Arts Centre, DubaiA Jameel Library Commission by the Palestinian artist and educator that explores regional myths and legends through ten monthly texts – chapters in fact, in digital form – that address an imagined foetus (referred to as a “child of myths") [ ... ]
FreeKutubna Community Day
Kutubna Cultural Center Madina Avenues 17, Nadd Al Hamar, DubaiThe first-ever Kutubna Community Day – "a full day of creativity and connection" at the bookstore and cultural centre in Nadd Al Hamar. There are a lot of kids' activities, including storytime for children (in multiple languages) and art workshops [ ... ]
Pay what you canShrek the Musical
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe final performance of 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 105Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Bik Van der Pol’s The poem that jumps the fence
Abu Dhabi Beach Al Hisn Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesArtist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) engage in collaborative projects on how art constructs public spaces for speculative thought and collective creativity. The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on Abu [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerHans Zimmer Live
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiA second show for Hans Zimmer, on stage with his orchestra and choir performing arrangements from the Oscar-winning composer’s stellar back catalogue. Recommended.
From AED299Monday Night Comedy: This Is Impro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesExactly 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 improv. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
Free
Béchir Boussandel: Tenté par d’autres soleils (Tempted by Other Suns)
Tabari Artspace Gate Village Level 2, DIFC, DubaiThe Dubai iteration of this show, which is presented in collaboration with Kamel Lazaar Foundation and has previously been shown at B7L9 Art Centre in Tunis, introduces a new body of work in blown glass – a departure from Béchir’s [ ... ]
FreeThe Fridge Concert Series Season 48: Hadi X | Ma2am
The Fridge Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Fridge's showcase gig series continues with Hadi X and a completely new show that moves between EDM drops and quiet indie songwriting. Support comes from Ma2am, "reshaping how Arabic music sounds today ... through deep rhythm, raw emotion, and reworked rap [ ... ]
AED 70
Dahomey: dir Mati Diop (2024),
A timely documentary by French-Senegalese filmmaker and actress Mati Diop which won the Golden Bear at this year's Berlin International Film Festival. The film follows the return of 26 royal treasures from France to the Republic of Benin, tracing the [ ... ]
LAST CHANCE Hassan Sharif: The Storyteller
Gallery Isabelle Unit 17, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesCurated by Murtaza Vali, this exhibition revisits Hassan Sharif’s 'objects', works which expand the definition of 'craft' beyond notions of skill, precision and medium-specific mastery and towards "an experimental, experiential and embodied practice of learning, understanding, and knowing through making". [ ... ]
FreeCandlelight: Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
Mina A’Salam Hotel Jumeirah Road, DubaiOne of the most successful productions in the Candlelight Concerts series – "classical music concerts aimed at democratising access to classical music by allowing people all over the world to enjoy live music candlelit performances". The Vivaldi favourite was written [ ... ]
From AED150Public Art Abu Dhabi Biennial: Bik Van der Pol’s The poem that jumps the fence
Abu Dhabi Beach Al Hisn Street, Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesArtist duo Bik Van der Pol (Liesbeth Bik and Jos Van der Pol) engage in collaborative projects on how art constructs public spaces for speculative thought and collective creativity. The poem that jumps the fence features weekly performances on Abu [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerMonday Night Comedy: This Is Impro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesExactly 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 improv. It's free, but you need to put your [ ... ]
FreeSummer Cinema: Cities, Cinema and People
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiJameel’s Summer Cinema, organised in collaboration with The Culturist Film Club and curated by Hind Mezaina, ia a season of free-to-attend films about cities, archives, and the ways we live and remember together – plus a special evening celebrating David [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
Mama Mia!
Etihad Arena Yas Island, Abu DhabiThe worldwide smash hit arrives in Abu Dhabi with its heartwarming story (the lighthearted and humorous tale of a mother, her daughter, and three possible fathers on an idyllic Greek island), created by Judy Craymer – who rarely gets the [ ... ]
From AED 125Stand Up Off Record
Off Record Al Qana, Al Khor St, Rabdan, Abu DhabiA stand-up night promising "fresh voices and sharp material" from. Maher Barwany, Roxy, Rula Korban, and Amin Soltani.
AED 95Gloria! dir Margherita Vicario (2024)
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSet in a Venetian boarding school for orphaned girls at the end of the 18th century, Gloria! tells the story of a group of talented young musicians who are dteermined to make music. There's a mischievous musical anachronism at the [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerWednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard's most peopular evening of elimination improv. 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 [ ... ]
FreeTracing the Unseen: Landscapes of Memory and Metaphor
Foundry Downtown Boulevard Crescent, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Boulevard, DubaiThis exhibition brings together four artists from the Atassi Foundation collection – Walid El-Masri, Farouq Kondakji, Rida Hus Hus, and Omar Hamdi – whose work reimagines the landscape not as a fixed geography, but as a space of memory, metaphor, [ ... ]
Free
Evgeny Khmara: Piano in Motion
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe noted Ukrainian double pianist makes classical music accessible without losing its depth, "blending familiar influences with a modern touch" as the promoter puts it. For this performance he will play both a baby grand and a Roland electric piano, [ ... ]
AED 150
Mami Wata: dir CJ Obasi (2023)
Efiɛ Gallery 2 Al Khayat Art Avenue, First Al Khail Street, DubaiMuch-awarded black-and-white fantasy thriller, based on Nigerian folklore. Said the LA Times: "That balance between light and dark is how Obasi most potently underscores all his themes: faith and proof, tradition versus modernity, the otherworldly alongside the human, and of [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerBlue Fever at the Movies
The Club Al Mina, Abu DhabiTop a capella action from Abu Dhabi's long-standing (since 2008) and always excellent singing group, noted for dynamic performances on a wide range of material. This time the show features "iconic songs from the silver screen" with "delicious movie theatre [ ... ]
AED 150
Jesse Cook
Zabeel Theatre Jumeirah Zabeel Saray, Palm Jumeirah West Crescent, DubaiA chance to see the noted Canadian master guitarist, composer, and producer performing live. He's accompanied by Fethi Nadjem (violin, mandole), Dan Minchom (bass), Matt Sellick (guitar), and either Matais Recharte or Marito Marques (drums, cajón, percussion) – and there's [ ... ]
From AED 150Politically Incorrect Comedy
The Clavichord Signature Hotel, Barsha Heights, DubaiMad Cat Comedy returns to the Clavichord in TECOM with "Dubai's wildest comedy night ... raw, unfiltered, hilarious". The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
AED 80The Laughter Factory Premium Comedy Club
The Agenda Abdullah Omran Taryam St, Media City, DubaiThis month's Laughter Factory tour has another good crop of stand-ups. The acts: Marlon Davis effortlessly confident stand-up who began performing on the UK’s black comedy circuit and quickly graduated to a wider audience, including several Edinburgh Festival Fringes, the [ ... ]
AED 160LAST CHANCE Reynier Llanes: Reverie
Firetti Contemporary Unit 29, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiAn exhibition inspired by French philosopher Gaston Bachelard’s comment on 'reverie' – "Reverie is not a mind vacuum. It is rather the gift of an hour which knows the plenitude of the soul", a space where imagination and memory intertwine [ ... ]
LAST CHANCE Thomas Lélu: Calm Down It’s Just Art
Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery 796 Jumeirah Street, DubaiThomas Lélu’s practice interweaves photography, installation art, and textual elements, frequently featuring the appropriation and recontextualisation of imagery from popular culture and media to interrogate themes of contemporary society, consumerism, and media representation. His methodology of exploration, archiving, and contextualization [ ... ]
FreeLAST CHANCE Ahmad Kasha: Offerings – The War Series
Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesAhmad Kasha’s complete War Series (2018–2025) is presented here for the first time in association with Fann à Porter. Influenced by various traditions of war art, the series reflects on the psychological toll of violence on people, animals, nature, and [ ... ]
Artist Led Sessions with Chafa Ghaddar: Trace, Fragment, Ecosystem
Jameel Arts Centre Al Jaddaf, DubaiA two-day masterclass with Chafa Ghaddar on the fresco technique. Through a blend of theoretical discussion and practical hands-on exercises, this two-part programme invites you to examine how bodies and elements are held within and around surfaces, and to experiment [ ... ]
Free, but pre-registerLayered Dialogues: Society as Medium
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesSubtitled 'Objects as Anchors: Material, Narrative, and Memory', this panel discussion riffs on the recently-opened Layered Medium: We Are in Open Circuits exhibition at this venue (runs to 30 June and is well worth seeing). As the blurb puts it: [ ... ]
Free, but pre-register
