Menier Chocolate Factory, London SE1

Down-to-earth diva Maria Friedman — a refugee from big-production musicals like Chicago — performs a personal selection of show tunes and ballads, including numbers by Sondheim, Bernstein, and even Kate Bush. “I just want to find pockets of emotion,” she says. They are not so much pockets as fathom-deep wells.

Until May 4; Tel: 020 7907 7060