The gigs
Ben Folds Five
Tonight
Brixton Academy, SW9
The alt-rock trio have reunited to tour their new album, The Sound of the Life in the Mind.
Capital FM Jingle Bell Ball
Saturday
O2 Arena, SE10
Bruno Mars headlines at the first of two seasonal fun nights.
The first nights
Julius Caesar
Tonight
Donmar Warehouse, WC2
Phyllida Lloyd’s eagerly awaited all-female production stars Frances Barber as Caesar and Harriet Walter as Brutus.
The Bodyguard
Tomorrow
Adelphi, WC2
Thea Sharrock directs Lloyd Owen and Heather Headley (pictured) in the stage version of the movie weepie.
Old Money
Tomorrow
Hampstead, NW3
Maureen Lipman is a woman determined to be a merry widow in Sarah Wooley’s tender comedy, directed by Terry Johnson.
The dance
Matthew Bourne's Sleeping Beauty
Tonight
Sadler’s Wells, EC1
A promise of hints of Twilight and True Blood in his reworking of the classic.
The premiere
Les Miserables
Tomorrow
Odeon Leicester Square, WC2
Hugh Jackman, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Amanda Seyfried and Helena Bonham Carter tread the red carpet for the big-screen adaptation of Victor Hugo’s epic, to be released in January.
