CFF25: Box of Frogs Children's and Young People's Show This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Montpellier Room. Please note: The Montpellier Room require walking up a flight of stairs. If this poses any difficulties regarding access, please let us know, and we can accommodate you. Improvised fun and frolics with the odd song! Event Length: 1 ...

CFF25: Tabletop Role-Playing Game: The Musical! This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. A brand-new, one-act musical about six adult friends playing a tabletop role-playing game, as the characters and their players navigate quests, demons and dangers, in the game and between themselves, with an ending no-one can predict. Suggested ...

CFF25: Box of Frogs Improv Comedy This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Hilarious scenes, sketches, songs, all based on suggestions from the audience. Event Length: 1 hour Any donations made will go directly to the Playhouse.

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...