A list of exciting events coming up in Richmond. If you would like to add your own event simply click the black Nub It button in our what's on section!

Richmond Theatre

Saturday, October 22 – Royal Family Dance Crew

The Dance Crew will be performing their brand new show in England for the first time.

With over a billion views on YouTube and having worked with the world's biggest artists, such as Justin Bieber and Jennifer Lopez, you are in for a treat with this high energy epic show.

Sunday, October 23 - Ladysmith Black Mambazo

South African vocal powerhouse Ladysmith Black Mambazo play their first UK tour for many years with Muntu Valdo.

Since they shot to global stardom on Paul Simon's Graceland album, Mambazo have been recognised as one of the world's great vocal groups.

https://www.atgtickets.com/venues/richmond-theatre/

Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond                                                                      

Until November 12 – The Solid Life Of Sugar Water

Alice and Phil lay bare every messy, painful, hilarious, irritating, delightful, loving detail of their relationship as it bends and shifts to everything life throws at them.

Writer Jack Thorne (Channel 4's Skins and This Is England) thrillingly amplifies disabled voices in this witty, impassioned and intimate play.

Following its 2015 premiere at Edinburgh Festival Fringe as a Graeae Theatre Company and Theatre Royal Plymouth co-production, The Solid Life of Sugar Water went on a UK tour and transferred to the National Theatre for a critically acclaimed run in 2016. 

* Recommended for ages 16+

https://orangetreetheatre.co.uk/whats-on

Crawdaddy Club, Richmond Athletic Ground

Saturday, October 21 – A tribute to Chess Records

Featuring the music of Bo Diddley, Chuck Berry, Little Walter, Elmore James, Etta James and more.

Led by Alan Glen, a Crawdaddy regular, the band includes Tim Hain, Bob Haddrell, Chris Belshow, Peter Miles with special guest Belinda Campbell.

http://www.crawdaddyclubrichmond.com/

Kew Gardens

Until October 31 - Mexico

Escape to the vibrancy of Mexico this autumn for a visual spectacular within Kew Gardens iconic Temperate House.

Discover bold new artistic and horticultural installations across the Temperate House by renowned Mexican artist Betsabeé Romero, designer Fernando Laposse and UK award winning garden designer Jon Wheatley. The works each reflect the beauty and colour of Mexican culture and its deep connection with plants and the natural world.

Halloween at Chiswick House & Gardens

Until October 31

From the creators of 'Christmas at Kew,' a spooky fun-filled trail for all the family – new for 2022!

As Halloween creeps closer and the days shorten, a mysterious mist falls across the gardens at Chiswick House & Gardens.

Join with family and friends to wander from dusk into darkness between one ghostly space to another. Watch out for flickering flames in a fiendish fire garden, daring fire artists and grinning pumpkins aglow. Wind your way through the illuminated haunted woods filled with creepy neon cobwebs, ghastly ghouls, wicked witches, larger-than life spiders and beastly bats.

Then discover a Secret Garden filled with more hidden surprises. Could it be a trick of the light or do things really do go 'bump in the night'?

https://chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk/event/halloween-at-chiswick-house-gardens/

OSO, Barnes

October 19-20 – The Party: A National Farce and/or Tragedy in One Act

Following critical acclaim and a sell-out run at the Camden Fringe Festival, this Offie-Award-nominated play is coming to the OSO.

It is the wine cellar of 10 Downing Street. Upstairs, the drink is flowing freely. But down here, two men are getting randy against the wine racks.

With political hypocrisy heavy in the air, both men are thrust into a crucible in which they must question their careers and their consciences.

https://www.osoarts.org.uk/

Barnes Common

Saturday, October 22 – Autumn Fair

The first annual Autumn Fayre is a community event filled with fun activities for everyone.

Bring your apples for juicing, while families can enjoy a nature based activity or join internationally regarded botanist, Dr Mark Spencer for a fungi walk.

There is a conker competition and plenty of cake from The Feel Good Bakery.

https://barnescommon.org.uk/eventbrite-event/barnes-common-autumn-fayre/

Ted Lasso Tours - The Quadrant, Richmond

Tour runs Saturday and Sunday at 3.30pm; Thursday at 6.30pm

Explore the locations featured in the hit Apple TV streaming show, Ted Lasso, starring Jason Sudeikis. The walking tour takes in Ted's local pub, front door and even his thinking bench!

https://www.tedlassotour.com/

The Exchange, Twickenham

Thursday, October 20 - Fairport Convention

The Exchange is thrilled to welcome British Folk Rock legends Fairpot Convention.

Fairport Convention have been entertaining music lovers for over half a century. This year's tour presents a mix of long-established Fairport favourites and some surprises from albums old and new including their latest album, Shuffle & Go, which was released just before 'lockdown' in 2020.

The band features founding member Simon Nicol on guitar and vocals, Dave Pegg on bass guitar, Ric Sanders on violin and Chris Leslie on fiddle, mandolin and vocals.

* This event is now sold out, but if you would like to be added to the waiting list please email [email protected]

October 22 - The Bubble Show

Join Mr Bubbles with his extraordinary soap bubbles in all shapes and sizes!

The Bubble Show is a unique blend of magic, storytelling, and bubble art! Enjoy bouncy bubbles, bubbles inside bubbles, smoke bubbles, square bubbles, giant bubbles, and even fire bubbles!

Actor, storyteller, and Guinness World Record holder, The Highland Joker, is one of the top bubble artists in the world, bringing you an interactive, fun, international award-winning bubble extravaganza!

https://exchangetwickenham.co.uk/

Eel Pie Club at The Patch, 67 London Road, Twickenham

Thursday, October 20 – The Rollin' Stoned

This magnificent band, described as the best tribute act in the world, returns for two hours of nostalgia, playing the best of 1964-1969 .

Get ready for Jumping Jack Flash, Brown Sugar, Paint it Black, Not Fade Away, Get Off My Cloud, It's All Over Now, Under My Thumb, Ruby Tuesday, You Can't Always Get What You Want and many more.

Endorsed by Keith Richards' mother as 'outstanding and suitably fit stand-ins for The Stones', Rollin' Stoned have also been described by The Times as 'The nearest thing to the real article'.

https://www.eelpieclub.com/

Mary Wallace Theatre, The Embankment, Twickenham

October 22-29 - The Hypochondriac

Enjoy the comical consequences as we enter into a haphazard household hilariously poking fun at a man obsessed by his own imaginary illnesses. A classic farce filled with trickery, greed, and delightful characters set in France during Louis XIV's era.

https://www.richmondshakespeare.org.uk/Shows/THE-HYPOCHONDRIAC

Turk's Head, St Margarets

Saturday, October 22 – Bearcat Comedy Club

This week's stand-up show features Andrea Hubert, Carey Marx, Dom LTR, Finlay Christie and Roger Monkhouse.

https://www.bearcatcomedy.co.uk/

Turner's House, Twickenham

Until October 31 - Between the Sheets: Turner's Nudes

There have been rave reviews in the national press for this exhibition concentrating on a rarely seen side of Britain's greatest artist.

Loved as the master of landscapes and seascapes such as The Fighting Temeraire, Hannibal Crossing the Alps and Norham Castle, few know that Turner's sketchbooks also contain depictions of the female form.

Yet Turner was a compulsive recorder of his life and travels, and produced drawings and watercolours of models, sexual encounters, literary fantasies, and his lovers such as Sophia Booth.

This small-scale exhibition is one of the first to look at Turner's engagement with the naked female form, specifically within intimate and erotic contexts and provides invaluable insight into the man, and his attitude to and relationship with women.

This exhibition is possible thanks to a generous loan from Tate.

https://twickenham.nub.news/whats-on/culture/exhibition-between-the-sheets-turners-nudes-40190