Two bleeding heart liberals are put to the test in this titillating and penetrating play about what happens when members of society’s margins take camp in a middle class couple’s back yard. NIMBY, a production by Gravel Theatre and Make & Bake, is on at the Old Red Lion Theatre until 25 June.

The Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged) at the New Red Lion pairs the shuddering mediocrity of Butlins style ‘ents’, with the niggling feeling that you’re watching a bunch of drama freshers tanked on cheap cider. Oh, and there’s a bit of Shakespeare in it too.

Alan Ayckbourn’s work is having a renaissance with a new production which combines black comedy and emotional drama, fringed with a lace of gothic suspense. Watch Snake in the Grass now at Notting Hill’s most innovative space, The Print Room.

For anyone interested in London’s trading past, the Museum of London Docklands – the rebellious sibling of the city’s Museum of London – is the perfect place to get a fuller picture of how the Thames transformed London over the centuries.

The Old Vic takes its theatre underground with Aftermath, a production exposing the repercussions of the Iraq war on its citizens, performed in the evocative tunnels under Waterloo station. Aftermath runs until the 17th July, and is not to be missed!

Once the underbelly of the East End, Limehouse is having a renaissance. Travel back in time to its murky, mysterious past in Limehouse Nights, a new play by the Kandinsky Company.

Vegetarian venues in East London are eccentric, unpredictable, and alarmingly good fun. I have been munching my way around these hotbeds of radicalism, environmentalism, and cupcakes to find the top five East End veggie haunts.