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Abu Dhabi International Book Fair

ADNEC Abu Dhabi

The 35th edition of the book fair is its most festival-looking yet, with more than 1,400 events in total and six stages for sessions alongside 1,350 exhibitors from 95 countries. The programme also brings together winners of this year’s major [... more]

Free (we assume)

CLOSING TODAY Tangerine Dreams

Ayyam Gallery B11, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Ayyam Gallery's summer collective exhibition focuses on the colour orange: "occupying a unique space between intensity and comfort, orange embodies both vitality and reflection. Associated with sunlight, fire, ripened fruit, and shifting horizons, the colour carries a rich spectrum of [... more]

Free

MONOCHROMA 2

Manarat al Saadiyat Abu Dhabi

You 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]

Free

Spider’s Web

The Junction Unit H72, Alserkal Avenue, Dubai

Agatha Christie's second most successful play (The Mousetrap is probably uncatchable) is a country-house thriller-comedy with clues aplenty and a good helping of plot contrivances – including a most convenient hidden door in the study that of course leads to [... more]

AED 120

Quiz Me Baby One More Time

Courtyard Playhouse Street 4B, Al Quoz 1, Dubai

“The music quiz that refuses to take itself seriously.” The Courtyard promises “a night of big tunes, tricky questions and questionable musical knowledge … Grab your team, pick a name and get ready to battle it out for the top [... more]

Free

The Marriage of Figaro Ballet

Dubai Opera

The Ukrainian National Ballet brings its version of The Marriage of Figaro to Dubai as a two-act comic ballet with a libretto by Yaremenko and Yuri Stanishevsky, choreography and staging by Viktor Yaremenko, and musical adaptation and additional composition by [... more]

From AED 250

Politically Incorrect Comedy

Xandros Singature 1 Hotel, Barsha Heights, Dubai

Mad Cat Comedy’s regular standup night at Xandros in Signature 1 Hotel, TECOM. The cover charge of AED 80 includes one drink.

AED 80