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World Stage Design

[various Sharjah locations]

The international festival of design for performance, held every four years, is coming to the UAE for its 2025 edition. It features exhibitions, performances, workshops, talks and panels where professionals share ideas and mingle with the consumers; read our preview [... more]

Day pass AED 50

The Ugly One

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

When the extent of his ugliness is revealed, Lette turns to a plastic surgeon for help – but when the bandages come off, Lette soon learns that there is such a thing as too beautiful ... The second day of [... more]

AED 130

Slava’s Snowshow

New Covent Garden Theatre Mall of the Emirates, Dubai

The second week for one of the best seasonal shows around – a whimsical blur of laughter, awe, and magic that has already been seen by more than 12 million theatregoers in80 countries around the world, including a near sellout [... more]

From AED 200

SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi: day two

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

SCHLiNGEL Abu Dhabi's return continues with a full day of films for the young, taken from the international film festival for children that has been running since 1996 in Germany. All films with dialogue have English subtitles. There are three [... more]

AED 25

Every Brilliant Thing

Shajar car park, Aljada Sharjah

Second of two performances for Ahmed El Attar's Arabic version of a touching, funny, and uplifting play originally in English.

Free, but pre-register

Floetry

One Life Kitchen & Café Building 5, d3, Dubai

Dubai's Poetryhood collective offers an evening of spoken word performances, mixing lyrical rappers from the hip-hop scene and mixing them with poets that bring a hip-hop flavour to the stage. The performers are Omar Awbu, Jaysus Zain and Aram Jameel.

Free