Things To Do In London This Week: 21–27 September 2026

Several multi-week and festival events run through this week, giving you options whether you want theatre, fashion, photography, or river-based performances.

• Haymarket (21 Sept–12 Dec). Written by James Graham, it stars Rory Kinnear and Royal Ballet principal Natalia Osipova, and dramatizes the story of economist John Maynard Keynes.

• Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? opens at Soho Place (21 Sept–19 Dec), staging Edward Albee's play about the unraveling of a long marriage with a younger couple present.

Fringe Fix brings a curated selection of Edinburgh Festival Fringe shows to Underbelly Boulevard Soho until 26 September. Acts featured in the final week include Abandoman, Alfie Brown, and the Jolly Fisherman. The programme offers discounted tickets for multiple shows.

• I Looked at the Sky at Clapham's Omnibus Theatre (until 3 Oct) — a tender play about an elderly couple confronting an old promise on an 86th birthday.

• A disco-tinged Twelfth Night runs at the Drayton Arms Theatre through the weekend (until 26 Sept), blending Shakespeare's comedy with music, fashion, and dancing.

Music, musicals and stage biography

• I'm Every Woman, a stage telling of Chaka Khan's life and songs starring Alexandra Burke, runs at the Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre until 27 September. The show includes songs such as I Feel for You and Ain't Nobody.

• Totally Thames continues through 30 September with river-related programming including live performances of Shakespeare's The Tempest aboard the Golden Hinde and a contemporary dance performance in the Brunel Museum's tunnel shaft.

• Oktoberfest-style events are running across the city this season, offering German beer, oompah bands and themed food and menus.

Pubs, local projects and fundraising

• Pub of the Week: the former Peasant in Clerkenwell has reopened as the George & Dragon, with original tiling downstairs and an upstairs surf-and-turf restaurant called Island.

• Historic Towns Trust is crowdfunding a richly illustrated map project of Samuel Pepys's London as part of work towards a detailed City map just before the Great Fire.

• Janine Harouni participates in a charity comedy show on Monday 21 September (event listed under today's events).