Dedicated to Beyonce – who’s playing the first of six London-based ‘Mrs Carter’ extravaganzas tonight at The O2 – this is a ‘Countdown’ of the city’s most ‘Irreplaceable” cultural occasions you’ll remember till ‘The End Of Time’…

TODAY’S CABARET CHOICES

Forest Fringe presents… Dickie Beau and friends, Gate Theatre, 29 Apr – 4 May
Avant garde arts enablers Forest Fringe, who are curating a fortnight of goings-on at the Gate Theatre, programme this six-night homage to masked cabaret cad Dickie Beau. Adding to Beau’s bag of theatrical tricks will be special guests like Foxy & Husk, Joe Wild, Helen Noir and The Famous Lauren Barri Holstein. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S COMEDY CHOICES

Crying Duck Comedy presents… Sofie Hagen/Pat Cahill/Ed Caruana, Canal 125, 29 Apr
Amongst the many acts appearing as part of tonight’s Crying Duck line-up – which is a quacking one, to say the least – are Danish stand-up Sofie Hagen, “charming” comic Pat Cahill and Amused Moose Laugh Off finalist circa 2011 Ed Caruana. Read it, and weep. Details and tickets here.

TODAY’S THEATRE CHOICES

Venus & Adonis, Globe Theatre, 29 Apr – 4 May (pictured)
A bona fide hit at last year’s Cultural Olympiad, Cape Town’s Olivier-winning Isango Ensemble re-play their vibrant, carnivalesque take on Shakespeare’s classical ‘Venus And Adonis’. Details and tickets here.