Mom Can't Cook! A DCOM Podcast returns to London's West End this Halloween for another riotous live recording! Join hosts Andy Farrant and Luke Westaway as they put Disney's deeply-cursed Halloweentown series in the ground where it belongs, with a recap of the fourth - and final - and worst - film: Return to Halloweentown (2006).

How Far Would You Go to Save Your Favourite Franchise? In this world premiere production of Fanatical, two die-hard fans, Gina and Stanley, take extreme measures to stop the ruin of their beloved sci-fi universe. However, their plan unravels into a wild, dark comedic tale of obsession, power, and unintended chaos.Once it’s out in the world, who owns the art, the artist or the fan?Age Suitability: 16+Warnings: Strong language / ViolenceWRITTEN BY Tom Hoefner – Broadway Play Publishing Inc. DIRECTED BY Jacqueline Carroll ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Gráinne Gallagher PRODUCTION MANAGER Geeske Juilfs LIGHTING DESIGN BY RC Bates SET DESIGN BY Aidan Judd, Colum McDaid & Jacqueline Carroll COSTUME DESIGN BY Geeske Juilfs SOUND DESIGN BY Jacqueline Carroll ORIGINAL MUSIC BY Oisín Cluskey CAST Fionn Bowes-Fitzpatrick, Jennifer Breslin, Orla Diamantino, Eidhne Gallagher,  Conor Hackett, Laurence Halpin, Conor Hanson,  Aaron Mahon, Dave McGowan, Will Murphy, Jason Nelson, Lemelen PaladTICKETS €19 | €17RUNNING TIME 2 hrs incl 15 min intervalABOUT THE COMPANYNo Drama Theatre Company has been running for the past 16 years. It has a long established relationship with Smock Alley Theatre, having had its Winter and Summer productions based there. It also runs weekly workshops, a bi monthly Monologue night, a writers group ‘Scribblers’ and a ‘Shindig’ event every few months which showcases new work.

Dublin Youth Dance Company (DYDC) is delighted to announce the return of the Irish Youth Dance Festival (IYDF), taking place on Sunday 5th July 2026 at Smock Alley Theatre.This year’s festival welcomes participating youth dance groups and artists from across Ireland including OKD Collective and Akasha Dance Company (Waterford), Laois Youth Dance Ensemble, FYI Youth Dance Company (Wicklow), Indian Dance Galway Gati Lasya, Aevum Dance Crew and UMA (Dublin). The festival will also showcase work by emerging dance artists Alice Gavigan (Donegal/Limerick), Sarah Curran (Wicklow), Max Caren (Dublin), and Katie Robb & Niamh Lynch (Belfast/London).IYDF 2026 is also proud to feature internationally renowned guest artists including Valencia-based contemporary dancer and choreographer Anna Mateu Blasco, a former DYDC member whose multidisciplinary practice combines contemporary dance, physical theatre, acro dance, and circus arts. Joining the programme is Berlin-based choreographer and performer Evgenii Livanskii and his Livanskii Dance Collective, presenting bold and innovative contemporary performance work shaped by his international career across dance, opera, and musical theatre.Alongside the festival performances, DYDC continues its commitment to artistic development through its annual Summer Dance Residency and International Dance Residency in partnership with Dance Ireland. Irish choreographer Alex O’Neill will lead the Summer Dance Residency creating a new original work with young dancers to be presented at the festival. DYDC is also excited to welcome Spanish choreographer Adrián Herrera, Co-Director of Cia Germen Dance Project, as guest choreographer for the International Dance Residency. DIRECTED BY Dublin Youth Dance Company LIGHTING DESIGN BY Gearóid ohAllmhuráin LIGHTING TECH & OPERATOR Marie Hegarty COSTUME DESIGN BY DYDC & Artists SOUND DESIGN BY Jack Hayes TICKETS €24 GROUP RATE - €20 tickets for groups of 4+ RUNNING TIME 2 hrs incl 15 min interval ABOUT THE COMPANY Dublin Youth Dance Company (DYDC) is Ireland’s flagship contemporary youth dance company (comprising three dance ensembles) which curates and hosts the Annual Gala & The Irish Youth Dance Festival providing a national platform for youth dance with a growing international focus. Its vision is to cultivate distinct artistic voices through the creation and performance of transformative repertoire uniquely embodied by young artists.  DYDC offers young dancers’ multiple platforms and opportunities to train, perform, choreograph and participate in an inclusive and diverse environment. DYDC & provides pathways of high-quality pre vocational training and ensemble performance for young dancers/aspiring dance artists, led by professional choreographers and dance artists/teachers extending the range and deepening the experience of their dancer selves.

Rediscover Richard Strauss’s Ein Heldenleben, alongside new vocal works paying tribute to Canada’s Indigenous peoples and work by Gabriela Ortiz.In the second concert of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal (OSM), Rafael Payare invites audiences to a conversation across time with a powerful programme of music culminating in Richard Strauss’s sumptuous tone poem Ein Heldenleben. With a stirring battle episode, ardent love music and playful quotations from the composer’s earlier works, it is a musical self-portrait both mischievous and deeply moving that takes full advantage of the possibilities of a large orchestra.This monumental staple of the late Romantic period is paired with carefully selected contemporary pieces. Indigenous Canadian sopranos Emma Pennell and Elisabeth St-Gelais join the orchestra for two powerful new vocal works confronting history, memory and the lived experience of Indigenous communities in Canada today.Alongside these, Gabriela Ortiz’s cello concerto Dzonot summons an evocation of the subterranean rivers, caves and stunning wildlife of Mexico’s Yucatán peninsula. Ortiz, also featured in the LA Phil’s programme, described it as a ‘form of protest’ responding to our neglect of these valuable ecosystems. It was written for cello soloist Alisa Weilerstein, who plays with ‘directness and insight… technical prowess and depth of feeling’ (The Guardian).Together, they encourage audiences to approach Strauss anew, inviting questions on voice, identity, and our relationship to the natural world.Supported by Léan Scully Endowed Fund with additional support from The Québec Government Office in London

The Scottish guitarist’s Festival debut explores Spanish and British music across five centuries. Sean Shibe’s recitals have become known for their startling originality: part concerts, part musical happenings. Described by The Guardian as a ‘truly compelling performer’, the multi-faceted Scottish guitarist frequently engages in a lively dialogue between past and present. This programme of Spanish and British music from across five centuries is no exception.The Renaissance is represented by the graceful fantasias and preludes of Alonso Mudarra, and the sweet melancholy of Shibe’s go-to composer, John Dowland. Joaquín Rodrigo ushers us gently into the 20th century with his exquisitely written Tres piezas españolas (Three Spanish Pieces).The contemporary composers in the programme take their lead from their forbears. Francisco Coll’s new work Sefarad draws on Sephardic folk music, while Thomas Adès’s restless Forgotten Dances suggests music heard long ago, not just rediscovered but reimagined.   Supported by Margaret Duffy and Peter Williamson 

Players from the Berliner Philharmoniker perform an elegant and intimate programme of 19th- and 20th-century chamber works.As part of their International Festival residency, players from the Berliner Philharmoniker perform a delightful programme of chamber works from the 19th and 20th centuries. Piano, strings, clarinet and horn join forces for a memorable close of The Queen’s Hall series. Czech composer Zdeněk Fibich added the rich sonorities of clarinet and horn to the traditional piano trio for his warmly lyrical Quintet in D, inspired by his love for librettist and critic Anežka Schulzová. Johannes Brahms’s soulful trio is one of his ‘autumnal’ late works, which masterfully intertwines the voices of clarinet, piano and cello.  Finally, Ernst von Dohnányi’s colourful sextet was composed for the unusual combination of piano, violin, viola, cello, clarinet and horn. It was written in 1935 when the composer was bedridden with illness, circumstances which make its zest, energy and swagger seem even more astonishing. In Memory of Peter Diamand

Smallpipes player Brìghde Chaimbeul and the genre-crossing Scottish Ensemble explore Celtic music and mythology.Brìghde Chaimbeul (pronounced Breech-huh Campbell) has set the world of Celtic music alight. She pairs mastery of the Scottish smallpipes with a creative, forward-looking approach to the Scottish Gaelic music tradition that has gained her a devoted international fanbase.  Chaimbeul joins forces with Scottish Ensemble, a group of string players renowned for their ambitious cross-genre collaborations. Stunning visuals are provided by filmmaker Jonny Ashworth, one of the creators of Brìghde’s haunting and memorable music videos.  Together, their performance blends new and traditional tunes, electronic sound and bewitching footage of the Scottish Highlands and Islands. It's an exploration of Celtic mythology and storytelling, music emerging from a deep, earthy soundscape of heavy drones. If you’re new to the distinctive sound of the smallpipes, there’s no better place to start.   Produced by Scottish Ensemble. Co-commissioned by Edinburgh International Festival and Eden Court, with support from PRS Foundation's Beyond Borders, the Leche Trust and the Cockaigne Fund, administered by Foundation Scotland. 

Join BBC New Comedy Award's Carwyn Blayney as he works out his first hour of stand-up. A journey full of nostalgia and niche references from rural Wales to the mean streets of London. Carwyn Blayney is a So You Think You're Funny finalist and Welsh Unsigned Stand Up of the Year 2024 winner, with appearances on BBC Three's New Comedy Awards, BBC Radio 4's Live From the UK and Radio Wales' What Just Happened?.

A solo show about a single woman with a dead parent and no prospects? Not another one! Yet here she is. Tilly's ferocity and Scottish humour provide a guise hiding her fragility. She's lost her Mum and broken up with the love of her life. Distraction appears to be the perfect solution to her problems, running away to London from her small town in Fife. In an attempt to escape, new problems arise; the misogyny of modern dating and classism. Oh and turns out, moving city doesn't cure grief. Can she really bury her head in the sand forever?

20th anniversary of the 2006 Edinburgh Comedy Award winning show. The unhinged re-telling of an Amsterdam trip gone wrong ending with an epiphany of epic proportions. 'You won't see many comedy shows that actually exert g-force. Exhilarating, incredibly funny and clever' (Scotsman). 'This is a show that makes you laugh and think while you are watching and then wakes you up in the night to laugh and think again' (Scotsman). 'Mind-blowing. Infectious joy' ***** (Scotland on Sunday).

Award-winning LBC radio presenter and author Iain Dale returns for a sixth Fringe season of in-depth interviews featuring audience questions, sharing his acclaimed, incisive insight on current affairs across 14 shows in five days. This show's guests are The Price of Football podcast hosts Kieran Maguire (football finance expert) and Kevin Day (comedian, writer and broadcaster). 'Forensic and mischievous interviewer with a deep sense of humanity' (Emily Maitlis). 'Makes me feel happier and cleverer every time I hear him' (Jeremy Vine). 'A great series for politics enthusiasts!' ***** (ThreeWeeks).

Join kabarett provocateur Bernie Dieter as her gin-soaked haus band soundtracks a debauched night of breathtaking circus, gender-bending aerial and fire-breathing sideshow at its most rebellious and hilarious best. Club Kabarett is more than just a show; 'it's an exuberant, juicy, guns-blazing performance that makes other cabarets look stale and tame' (ArtsHub.com.au). A triumphant middle finger held up against the mundane, this wickedly funny show is a life-affirming lightning bolt of pure, unadulterated joy! 'F#?king phenomenal' ***** (TheAge.com.au). 'Gloriously decadent and outrageously indecent' ***** (WhatsOnStage.com). 'Deliciously debaucherous, salacious Spiegeltent spectacular' ***** (Time Out).