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

Until October 15 - Noises Off

Felicity Kendal, Jonathan Coy, Matthew Kelly and Tracy-Ann Oberman star in the 40th anniversary production of one of the greatest British comedies ever written.

Hurtling along at breakneck speed, Noises Off follows the antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through the fictional farce, Nothing On.

From the shambolic final rehearsals before opening night in Weston-Super-Mare, to a disastrous matinee in Ashton-Under-Lyme seen entirely, and hilariously silently, from backstage, before we share their final, brilliantly catastrophic performance.

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

Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond                                                                      

October 15-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

The Exchange, Twickenham

Saturday, October 14 - Lemn Sissay: My Name is Why – A reading and Q&A

The Exchange is proud to host acclaimed poet, playwright, broadcaster, and speaker, Lemn Sissay OBE.

The evening will begin with a 40 minute reading of Lemn's number one Sunday Times bestseller and Indie Book Awards non-fiction winner, 'My Name Is Why'.

After a short break, there will be a 20 minute question and answer session open to the audience.

Following the show, Lemn will be present for a book-signing with his work available to purchase at the venue,

https://exchangetwickenham.co.uk/

Eel Pie Club at The Patch, London Road, Twickenham

Thursday, October 13 – Catfish

International touring blues rock powerhouse, Catfish, are making waves on the music scene in the UK and Europe.

This year they were nominated for 3 UK blues awards, winning 2 of them - Band of the Year and Blues Instrumentalist of the Year (Matt Long).

In 2018 they won the UK Blues Award for Blues Act of the Year (England) to add to their 2016 British Blues Award.

Over the years, they have played at almost every major UK blues festival and have established themselves as a real force in the British Blues scene.

Their first two albums, 'Broken Man' and 'So Many Roads' both reached No. 1 in the IBBA airplay charts. The second of these, 'Broken Man' was also nominated for a UK Blues Award and was named album of the year by the IBBA.

Turk's Head, St Margarets

Saturday, October 15 – Bearcat Comedy Club

This week's stand-up show Andy Askins, Ian Stone, Kuan-wen Huang, Madame Chandelier and Otiz Cannelloni.

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

The Cabbage Patch Race

Sunday, October 16

The Cabbage Patch 10 mile race is one of the flattest and fastest 10 milers in the country.

Starting and finishing in Twickenham the course follows a loop, crossing the River Thames at Kingston Bridge and Richmond Bridge. This race has sold out for the last seven years.

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

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.

Richmond Library, Little Green,

Friday, October 14 - Fairytales for grown-ups, performance storytelling by Ben Haggerty.

Allow Ben Haggarty to lure you into 'The grateful & the dead', a full-blooded fairytale for grown-ups.

Dark, beautiful and startling by turn, this is a story of dreams, initiations and the repayment of debts, complete with epic journeys, bizarre marriages & strange companions. Firce, fast paced, and unashamedly magical.

https://www.richmond.gov.uk/talks_and_events_in_libraries

Halloween at Chiswick House & Gardens

Friday, October 14-31.

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

Friday, October 14 – The Comedy Store

The Comedy Store is delighted to be showcasing its best and brightest comedy talent at the OSO.

The London club that gave a leg-up to the likes of Eddie Izzard and Rhod Gilbert offers a night out like no other – and now you don't even have to leave Barnes to experience it!

* Over 18s only.

https://osoarts.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173622019

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/