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Millennium Performing Art's yearly showcase performance, featuring top class choreographers and directors creating their work for our young professionals.

Amateur Transplants frontman Adam Kay sits at a grand piano and sings smutty songs. With sell-out tours and Edinburgh Fringe seasons, his cutting-edge, darkly humourous re-imaginings of pop and rock classics have gained him a cult following across the UK. His songs have over 20 million hits on YouTube (including the iconic London Underground Song) and have been in the iTunes comedy top ten consistently since 2008. This show is probably not suitable for your elderly maiden aunt.

NB Unlike the majority of musical comedy, this is actually funny.

Only single seats. Call 020 7388 8822 to book.

2008 Edinburgh Comedy Award winner, 2010 Hot Press Irish Comedian of the Year, 1990 East Leinster under 14 triple jump bronze medalist, founder member of Destiny's Child, inventor of the iPad, star of 2Fast 2Furious, and until recently he always mispronounced the word 'hyperbole'. The number one ranked person called 'David O'Doherty' on Google returns to The Bloomsbury with small keyboards/talking.

The prolific and widely loved Welsh author, whose 1984 novel, Money, was adapted to a stellar two-part BBC drama in 2010, takes some time out to talk to us about his brand new novel, Lionel Asbo: State of England, about a violent young criminal who wins the lottery from within the confines of his prison cell. You can expect it to be as raw as previous material, as he deconstructs the fickle role of capitalism in western society. Presented by Time Out Live in association with Foyles. This evening will be followed by signing with Martin Amis.

Additional date on the 13th June due to popular demand.

With a voice that can caress or confront, embrace or exhort, Gregory Porter exhibits such an incredible degree of vocal mastery, that no less a jazz luminary than Wynton Marsalis has gone on record to call him 
“a fantastic young singer.” Born in Los Angeles, raised in Bakersfield, residing presently in Bedstuy, Brooklyn, Gregory performs around the UK, Europe, Russia and USA. A frequent guest performer with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Gregory also maintains a long-standing residency at Smoke Jazz Club in 
New York.

West London School of Dance presents Spring into Summer.

The tiniest stars from WLSD in their biannual variety show celebrating Spring into Summer.

Tickets £12, standing £8 (call 020 7388 8822 to book)
Maximum of 4 tickets per performance.

The world is full of problems, but it's also full of brilliant people, chipping away at those problems with their ideas and expertise.

Focus on the Positive is your chance to choose how to improve the world. Meet some of UCL’s inspiring researchers, who’ll tell you exactly how they want to tackle the big issues. With the help of our host, comedian James Acaster, you get to decide which one to fund. The winning idea, as voted for by you the audience, wins £5000 to fix the world!

Charity performance with Paul Tonkinson, Pajama Men, Paul Foot, Terry Alderton, Robin Ince, Alex Horne and Jen Brister.

In aid of Crisis.

Following stellar performances on BBC One's Live At The Apollo and Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow and Ch4's Stand-Up For The Week, don't miss hugely talented Canadian émigré Tom Stade on an extended leg of his nationwide tour.

His magnetic stage presence, irrepressible charm and first-class story-telling have established him as one of the finest stand-ups around. Join his inimitable, offbeat world for a truly unforgettable night of comedy.

Stars of BBC1's The Magicians and winners of the World Magic Awards: Best Comedy Illusionists, twisted warlocks Barry & Stuart will be stunning audiences with their amazing new show, Show & Tell. In the first half of the show, expect their trademark innovative tricks and devious illusions, then in the second half, be prepared to have your minds blown as they exclusively reveal all the secrets behind the magic, in showing you, for the first time ever, exactly how those tricks were done!