Here’s The Coolest Stuff To Do In London This Month

Welcome to spring (although there’s some debate about when the season officially begins). Perhaps you’re ready to exit hibernation? Here are the hottest exhibitions to see, the best of London’s plays, the newest books to devour, and everything else you really must catch in March 2025.

Best Things To Do In London In March 2025

See This Star: Cate Blanchett In The Seagull

Chekhov’s The Seagull is filled to the brim with names, names, names. Cate Blanchett, Tom Burke, Emma Corrin and Tanya Reynolds star in Thomas Ostermeier’s take on the classic drama about fame, artistic ambition and heartbreak.

Details: Until 5 April at the Barbican, tickets available at barbican.org.uk

This work of art, by Paula Rego, is one of many available to purchase as a print at the London Original Print Fair

Shop This Fair: London Original Print Fair

Bare walls begone – London Original Print Fair returns to Somerset House for its 40th edition. Europe’s largest works-on-paper fair, it champions printmakers from emerging talent to legends like Tracey Emin, Tom Hammick and David Shrigley.

Details: 20-23 March at Somerset House. Tickets available at londonoriginalprintfair.com

If I Die It’ll Be Of Love is a documentary challenging our preconceptions of what it means to love – and to feel pleasure – when we’re older, framed from a Queer perspective

Attend This Event: BFI Flare Film Festival

Now in its 39th year, the BFI’s LGBTQIA+ festival opens with Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet. This sure-favourite film premiered at Sundance and follows two couples – one gay, the other lesbian – setting up a lavender marriage to appease their traditional grandparents. The programme also includes Hot Milk, adapted from Deborah Levy’s Booker Prize-nominated novel, starring Emma Mackey, Fiona Shaw and Vicky Krieps, and If I Die, It’ll Be Of Joy by director Alexis Taillant, a touching rebuttal of our preconceptions about old age. Of the selection of fantastic documentaries, don’t miss Sally!, a powerful homage to Sally Gearhart, one of the most iconic lesbian activists of the 70s.

Details: At the BFI Southbank centre, from 19-30 March. Tickets and talks at whatson.bfi.org.uk

Read This Book: Dream Count

Americanah author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returns with her first novel in more than a decade. Dream Count weaves the stories of four women into a poignant tale of love and regret, questioning the nature of happiness.

Details: Published by 4th Estate, out now. £20 available at harpercollins.co.uk

Eat This: Greek Carnival Dining at Hera Restaurant

Greek Carnival night at Hera in East London promises debauched fun with good dining to boot – expect Greek goddess dancers, Mediterranean music and a killer cocktail upon entrance. Plump for a Helen of Spice (tequila, chilli mix, mango and agave) and then go onto a feast of grilled octopus, sea bass carpaccio and feta saganaki.

Details: Friday 28 March at Hera, Stratford. Cocktails and entertainment are complimentary for any diner booked for this night, reserve at herarestaurant.co.uk

Retrograde is set to be an explosive drama set in 1950s Hollywood

See This Play: Retrograde

Sidney Poitier (Ivanno Jeremiah) is on the edge of becoming a star. But at what cost to his integrity? Ryan Calais-Cameron’s Retrograde transfers to the West End in an explosive true-life drama. 

Details: Until 14 June at the Apollo Theatre. Tickets available at nimaxtheatres.com

Check Out This Exhibition: Grayson Perry at the Wallace Collection

Set to be the largest contemporary exhibition the Wallace Collection has ever staged, Grayson Perry: Delusions of Grandeur presents over 40 new works by the iconic artist, interrogating how (and why) we make and collect art, particularly in the wake of developing technologies. Expect ‘outsider art’ from the likes of Aloïse Corbaz and Madge Gill, too.

Details: From 28 March at the Wallace Collection, pre-purchase tickets at wallacecollection.org