Katherine Ryan
Sharp, bright, quick-witted, award-winning and very funny, especially about her own life. One of the safer bets in this year's Dubai Comedy Festival.
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Dubai Opera
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight Anand Raman hosts Denise, Emaad, Sundeep, and Luca.
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Pitch Them Perfect: Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiAn interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival: as the audience arrives, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards, using the stories to spark jokes, conversations, and interactions [... more]
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Fridge Concert Series 50: That’s Julian | Josh Job
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiThe UAE really is building a good ecosystem of indie bands. Following PeachPuffs last week, the headliners this time are That’s Julian – a four-piece from the UAE who do a kind of West-Coastish indie-folk with top-notch melodies and good [... more]
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The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu DhabiMad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiSecond night of a week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight looks particularly good: Imah hosts, the bill [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Artist Residency Exhibition: Lynn Issa, Yang Lan, Yara Chaalan
Fann à Porter The Workshop, Villa 45, St. 23b, off Al Wasl Road (opposite Box Park), Jumeirah 2, DubaiAn exhibition of the works created by the first cohort of residents from Fann à Porter’s Summer 2026 artist residency in Dubai – Lynn Issa, Yang Lan and Yara Chaalan. Working across sculpture, painting, collage, and charcoal drawings on paper, [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY Fabian Philandrianos and Pascal Navarro: Beyond the Gaze
La Galerie, Alliance Française Dubai Alliance Française Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates"An exhibition exploring the perception and relationship between the viewer and the artwork ... an invitation to discover what may appear when we take the time to look beyond the surface." The two French artists offer a dialogue between the [... more]
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Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean
Louvre Abu Dhabi Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiThis spectacular exhibition follows a thousand years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond. It documents the evolution of navigation and the techniques that enabled adventurous sailors to explore the [... more]
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Spirited Away: dir Hayao Miyazaki (2001)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiA Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki classic, and an Academy Award winner – 10-year-old girl wanders into a mysterious world where a witch rules, and those who disobey her are turned into animals. A magical fable about courage, resilience and [... more]
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Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard’s popular 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 with [... more]
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe third session of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight Anand Raman hosts a bill featuring Valentina, Denise, Luca, [... more]
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Consolidation is Reconsolidation
Region MiZa, Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi is getting a new “curatorial platform dedicated to showcasing emerging artistic practices and cultivating new collector communities”, which in practice means opportunities for both early-stage artists to show work and “a new generation of collectors” to buy it. [... more]
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Dragon Ball Super – Broly: dir Tatsuya Nagamine (2018)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiAnimated martial arts fantasy adventure, the twentieth in the Dragon Ball franchise. Goku and Vegeta come face to face with Broly, a Saiyan of overwhelming and untamed power; the three warriors collide in one of the franchise's most explosive battles. [... more]
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Pitch Them Perfect: Confessions
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiAn interactive live dating comedy show for Dubai Comedy Festival: as the audience arrives, they fill out confession cards with their dating and relationship stories; host Akkaoui reads the confession cards, using the stories to spark jokes, conversations, and interactions [... more]
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiA week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight features Imah hosting plus Abz Ali and Tudor with the [... more]
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Ponyo: dir Hayao Miyazaki (2008)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiAnother Studio Ghibli / Hayao Miyazaki classic, a tender, dazzlingly animated tale of friendship and wonder with a magical goldfish princess (Ponyo) who befriends a five-year-old boy on the seashore. Her wish to become human sends her world out of balance [... more]
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Attack on Titan – The Last Attack: dir Yuichiro Hayashi (2024)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiThe epic finale of the Attack on Titan anime action saga arrives on the big screen for the first time. Eren Yeager unleashes Titans’ power and leads the Colossal Titans toward Marley; former comrades and enemies must unite in a [... more]
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Shane Todd: Hold Me Back
New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, DubaiThe Northern Irish comic (and radio presenter, actor and podcaster) is back in Dubai performing a brand-new stand-up show as part of Dubai Comedy Festival. Expect razor-sharp storytelling and a characteristic inability to take himself seriously ...
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Zarna Garg: Million Dollar Excuses
Dubai OperaThe outspoken Indian-American comedian offers raid-fire wit, sharp storytelling and laugh-out-loud observations on family, culture and modern life. She's returning to the Dubai Comedy Festival with her new show.
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Politically Incorrect Comedy
Xandros Singature 1 Hotel, Barsha Heights, DubaiMad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.
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UAENO: Harmony
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesA concert that suggests one of the reasons for the UAE National Orchestra's formation – the conversation between Arabic and Western musical traditions, delivered through classic Arabic and Western orchestral formations. It features the world premiere of Richard Dubugnon’s Double [... more]
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiTabarak hosts this session of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), tonightfeaturing Daniel, Abz Ali, Laurie, Reem, and Dinara.
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100 Years of Paul Guiragossian
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiA landmark retrospective for one of the key modernist painters to emerge from the Levant in the twentieth century. Alongside significant works drawn primarily from the artist’s estate, many travelling outside Lebanon for the very first time, the exhibition – [... more]
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Roots Before Petals
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiAn exhibition that brings contemporary UAE-based artist Lana Khayat into dialogue with Lebanese modernists Etel Adnan and Helen Khal, linking distinct practices across generations of Lebanese artists. Says the gallery: "Their work differs in scale and sensibility, yet each built [... more]
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Alfred Basbous: Sculpting the Line
Bassam Freiha Art Foundation Cultural District Saadiyat Island, Abu DhabiA selection of work by a pioneering figure of modern sculpture in Lebanon, presented in collaboration with the Alfred Basbous Foundation. Basbous worked across stone, marble, wood and bronze, responding closely to the particular qualities of each material rather than [... more]
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Laputa – Castle in the Sky: dir Hayao Miyazaki (1986)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiMiyazaki's soaring adventure is a timeless story of friendship, courage and the perils of unchecked power as Sheeta and Pazu are pursued by sky pirates and government agents seeking the crystal that unlocks the legendary floating city Laputa. In Japanese, [... more]
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Anime Memories
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu Dhabi"Both a celebration and a tribute to Japan’s globally cherished anime culture ..." The Japanese trio A (violin, cello, piano) will be joined by singer Noristry to deliver top tunes from Japanese animation – Miyazaki classics, Demon Slayer, and more.
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Joke Hub
Canopy by Hilton Dubai Al Seef Al Seef Street, Umm Hurair 1, DubaiA regular Mad Cat Comedy night – “Dubai’s wildest comedy show on Saturday” at “the first purpose built comedy room in the country”. The cover charge of AED 99 includes two F&B coupons.
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One Year of Pepperoni Live
Pepperoni Comedy Club is celebrating its first anniversary with a big-name star in Redouane Bougheraba (in French) supported by some of Dubai’s finest – Kris Fade (in English) and Nino Arial (probably in French), with Abz Ali and Noha Bashir hosting. [... more]
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe penultimate night of a week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival (DC) at Pepperoni Comedy Club (PPC), mostly featuring familiar faces from the local circuit (and none the worse for that). Tonight Denise hosts a bill featuring Tudor, [... more]
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CLOSING TODAY MONOCHROMA 2
Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesYou don’t see enough ceramic art outside the interiors business, and then it just tends to be bowls; so this show by Double J Collective (“the first project based in Dubai exclusively dedicated to exhibit, promote and sell fine craft [... more]
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Kiki’s Delivery Service: dir Hayao Miyazaki (1986)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiA warm coming-of-age story about independence and believing in yourself, from Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli: 13-year-old witch leaves home with her talking cat to spend a year training in a seaside town, where she starts a flying delivery service [... more]
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One Piece Film – Red: dir Gorō Taniguchi (2022)
Cultural Foundation Qasr al Hosn, Abu DhabiThe 15th feature in the One Piece Film series, based on the manga series of the same name. A new adventure begins for Luffy and his crew when mysterious pop superstar Uta unveils her identity — and launches a misguided [... more]
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Comedy at the Speakeasy
Moon Bar Mina Al Salam, Madinat Jumeriah, DubaiThe Mad Cat team does the rather cool Moon Bar at the Sana Restaurant in Mina Al Salam – a great venue: quite intimate, few distractions. Featuring surprise drop-ins, fresh material, and “the kind of intimate room where sitting in the [... more]
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Sunday Night Comedy
Social Distrikt The Pointe, Palm Jumeirah, DubaiDubomedy's highly successful comedy gig at Hushh in Social Distrikt. We're promised "an evening of big laughs and great vibes with your favorite comedy tribe"; and indeed much of that seems to be the case ... It's free, but there's [... more]
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Nathan Ellis: work.txt
Poetry House Al Arouba St, SharjahThis is a participative play about a person in an unnamed city who has stopped working; the audience must work together to figure out why. Performed entirely by the audience, work.txt – a sell-out show staged in nine countries in [... more]
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DCFxPPC Comedy Showcase
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe final night in this week of club standup for Dubai Comedy Festival. Tonight should be good: Denise hosts, and all three visiting headliners are on the bill (Reem Edan, Laurie Douglas, Dinara Kerey) along with Tudor and Anand Raman.
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Cineolio’s Cinenights
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesFounded by Emirati filmmaker and curator Nawaf Al Janahi in 2020, Cineolio exists to promote short films and expand their audience reach internationally. Its Cinenights screening series presents a diverse selection of short films on the big screen, celebrating cinematic [... more]
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Fridge Concert Series 50: Salalem | Wetgrass
The Fridge Warehouse Warehouse 5, Alserkal Avenue, DubaiSalalem have been part of Egypt’s independent music scene for 20 years; the Fridge says "their music sits somewhere between poetic songwriting and the direct emotional honesty of a conversation with friends". Wetgrass moves between indie, pop and rock ... Advance [... more]
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The Comedy Lab @ Easy Tiger
Al Ain Palace Hotel Corniche Road, Abu DhabiMad Cat’s standup team at their regular stop at the Easy Tiger bar in Abu Dhabi’s Al Ain Palace. The door price of AED 99 includes two drinks …
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SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi: day one
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiSCHLiNGEL is an international film festival for children that has been running since 1996 in Chemnitz, Germany, showcasing the most exciting new productions for young people. This year's Abu Dhabi edition, the third, runs on 21, 23 and 24 October. The [... more]
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Wednesday Night Impro: Maestro
Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesThe Courtyard’s popular 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 with [... more]
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Sharjah Animation and Comics Conference
Aljada SharjahThe fourth edition of SACC returns to Aljada from 22-25 October with more than 150 activities – masterclasses, workshops, seminars, talks and “hands-on experiences”. There are separate programmes for Animation and Comics, which rather begs the question of why the [... more]
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UAENO: Romantic Masters
The Arts Center @ NYUAD NYUAD Campus, Saadiyat Island, Abu Dhabi, United Arab EmiratesThe UAE National Orchestra continues its active schedule with a good-looking programme of contrasting music from three great Romantic composers – lively melodies from Rossini in the overture to The Barber of Seville, technical virtuosity and expressive range in Mendelssohn's [... more]
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Un Air de Famille
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesDubai's long-established bastion of Francophone theatre, Culture Emulsion, looks like it has picked another winner with this French comedy – the play by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri was a great success in 1994, and it was made into an [... more]
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The Comedy Lab
Radisson Red Dubai Digital Park, Dubai Silicon Oasis, DubaiMad Cat Comedy's regular Thursday stop in Silicon Oasis promises "insane laughs every week". The door price of AED 99 includes one drink and popcorn.
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SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi: day two
Cultural Foundation Sheikh Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum Street, Abu DhabiSCHLiNGEL is an international film festival for children that has been running since 1996 in Chemnitz, Germany, showcasing the most exciting new productions for young people. The film for 23 Oct is a reprise: A Butterfly's Heart dir Inesa Kurklietytė [... more]
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Joke Jam
Pepperoni Comedy Club 25 Jump Street 25h Hotel, One Central World Trade Center, DubaiThe Pepp's regular early-evening showcase of Dubai’s local comedy talent, always with four standups on stage.
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Un Air de Famille
The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai, United Arab EmiratesSecond performance of this Francophone comedy by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri . Every Friday the Mesnards gather at the family café before going to dinner; but for this night the unspoken tensions and buried frustrations are revealed ... SOLD [... more]
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