TODAY IN LONDON, TW’s tipped events feature big-shot comics Micky Flanagan and John Bishop, French theatrics by Compagnie du Hanneton, and also from novelist Emile Zola…

COMEDY: Teenage Cancer Trust Gala feat Jason Manford/Micky Flanagan/John Bishop, Hal Cruttenden, Royal Albert Hall, 25 Mar
This charity gala finds a string of comics filing in to do their bit for the very deserving Teenage Cancer Trust. A ticket gains a vantage point to watch big-shot comedians like Jason Manford, Patrick Kielty, Micky Flanagan and John Bishop showing how it’s done. Details and tickets here.

DANCE: Compagnie du Hanneton/James Thiérrée – Tabac Rouge, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, 25-29 Mar
The creation of artist James Thiérrée and a meditation on dreams, ‘Tabac Rouge’ fuses circus, dance and theatre with ominous set design, the centrepiece of which is a moveable structure made of mirrors and tubes. Details and tickets here.

THEATRE: Thérèse Raquin, Finborough Theatre, 25 Mar – 19 Apr
A fleshed-out version of a script first workshopped in 2012, French novelist Emile Zola’s nouveau classic ‘Thérèse Raquin’ – the tale of a married shop-girl who begins an illicit and passionate affair – gains dance routines and a sung soundtrack. Details and tickets here.