CFF25: Cotswold Comedy Collective This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room. After sold-out shows at Stroud Sub Rooms, the Cotswold Comedy Collective are back to make you (hopefully) laugh! The CCC are a variety of performers - from a drag queen to a retired home escapee. Each act has a maximum of 10 minutes to entertain, so if you don...

CFF25: New Beginnings This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. A nostalgic A-Level graduation party becomes a night of revelations, heartbreak, and self-discovery in New Beginnings . Eight friends, each grappling with insecurities, relationships, and dreams for the future, gather for one final summer celebration. What starts as a care...

CFF25: Jaz Mattu: Forever This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room bar. The lovable Kent comedian, Jaz Mattu, is back with his unique brand of absurdist, theatrical, multimedia stand-up comedy...forever. Join him as he explores the idea of independence vs attachment. Featured in SKINNYS TOP 10 ALT COMEDY ED-FRINGE PICKS 2024. "Ambiti...

CFF25: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Experience the psychological transformation of two intimately connected people as they search, in their own ways, for an elusive route to power. This presentation of one of Shakespeare's best known tragedies explores the themes of deception, ambition, and ultimate f...

A Cottage on Dartmoor PG UK | 1930 | 88 minutes DIRECTED BY Anthony Asquith STARRING Hans Adalbert Schlettow | Uno Henning | Norah Baring 2nd June 2025 MONDAY 19:30 GREEN ROOM Anthony Asquith was a contemporary of Alfred Hitchcock. Both British, Hitchcock went to Hollywood, while Asquith stayed at home, making British films, like The Importance of Being Earnest (1952). Often literary adaptation...

Go beyond the curtains and backstage at The Cheltenham Playhouse and learn how theatre productions are brought to life at this historic building. Matt Nolan will guide you through all the backstage areas, and you will learn about the operations of the theatre whilst exploring the buildings' interesting past. Fancy a dip into the history of the old Montpellier baths? Well, you'll even see the rema...

La Cage aux Folles 12 France/Italy | 1978 | 97 minutes DIRECTED BY Èduard Molinaro STARRING Ugo Tognazzi | Michel Serrault | R èmi Laurant 9th June 2025 MONDAY 19:30 AUDITORIUM This is the original, not the remake with Robin Williams. This is shorter and much funnier. It's a farce set in a drag bar (La Cage aux Folles), run by a gay couple: Renato, the owner, and Albin, the star attraction. Alb...

Peter Gill Rock 'n' Roll Big Band All your favourite rock n roll hits with a big band sound! You’re in for a rare treat with this amazing 10-piece Rock ‘n’ Roll Big Band fronted by Peter Gill on vocals and piano which also features some of the country's top brass players and a rhythm section filled with familiar names on the rock n roll circuit. Superb arrangements and fantastic musicianship ign...

Burning Rope are a band born from the ashes of multi award winning blues rock band Catfish following the sad loss of their frontman and guitarist, Matt Long, to cancer in October. The other three members of the band wanted to continue to play and write together, so have come together as Burning Rope along with excellent, Gloucestershire-based guitarist, Alex Voysey. Join us if you can!

Wanna Party? If you love the 80’s era then Kick Up The 80’s is the band for you… Not “just another” 80’s tribute band. Kick Up The 80’s put together a fun, high energy show featuring a varied set full of faithfully recreated 80’s classics from across the decade. Formed in 1999, with 25 years experience of performing sell out shows across the Country, Kick up the 80’s are the UK’s Premier, longes...