Due to significant initial demand, an extra performance has been added on the 15th May 2025! PRIMARY SCHOOL ASSEMBLY BANGERS LIVE! Join James for an evening of pure nostalgia, stepping back in time with some joyous singalong tunes to take you back to your Primary School days. You won’t have to sit cross legged on the school hall floor, but you will be encouraged to sing along! As well as the asse...

Part of our season of fundraising performances celebrating 80 Years of Theatre at the Cheltenham Playhouse. Comic Sans Script presents: Whose Trophy is it Anyway – 3! Following the unrivalled success of 'Whose Trophy is it Anyway – 1 and 2, our intrepid comedy teams return from their intense mountain training retreats with new games, new challenges and a thirst to take home the comedy crown. If...

Slaminal Farm ! The 15th Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam Playhouse Theatre, Cheltenham, GL53 7HG Saturday 17th May 2025 Tickets £15 Get ready for the bardic battle of the year when 15 of the UK’s most exciting spoken-word artists go head-to-head for the prestigious Cheltenham Poetry Festival Cup and the coveted title of 2025 Slam Champion. Who will win this poetry power struggle and demonstrat...

Part of our season of fundraising performances celebrating 80 Years of Theatre at the Cheltenham Playhouse. Fund raising concert 11 am - 12 pm (no interval) - Robin A Smith (piano/keyboard/vocals). Renditions of some of the world’s most wonderful music and songs. Robin is a fabulous musician and a brilliantly spontaneous performer. Every penny of the ticket sales go to the lovely Playhouse who ...

Ammonite 15 UK | 2020 | 117 minutes DIRECTED BY Francis Lee STARRING Kate Winslet | Saoirse Ronan | Gemma Jones 19th May 2025 MONDAY 19:30 GREEN ROOM Mary Anning was a 19th-century palaeontologist who made some important and celebrated discoveries around Lyme Regis. As a working-class woman, her work was air-brushed out of scientific history and recognition came only after her death. Almost not...

The University of Gloucestershire presents Pinocchio: Geppetto, the puppet master, longs for a child and is granted his wish by a fairy who brings a wooden puppet to life. In order to become a real boy, however, Pinocchio must prove his worth, and so he sets out on a journey of self-discovery under the guidance of his conscience in the guise of a cricket! Told through musical theatre this piece ...

CFF25: Sonic the Hedgehog the Fanfic the Podcast: The Live Show! This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room bar. Comedian, Eddie O'Keefe, and Sonic the Hedgehog aficionado, LT Fletcher, decided to write the worst possible Sonic fanfiction to ever exist, one chapter at a time, without knowing what the other person had written. The end res...

CFF25: Extra Ordinary This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Rachel and Max are an ordinary couple, living ordinary lives until something extraordinary turns everything upside down. Now they have the single most important decision of their life to make. They piece together their thoughts, bit by bit, good and bad, speaking the thin...

CFF25: End Game This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room. Tickets to this event are Pay What You Can (rec. £5), and all the money will be going to the Cheltenham Playhouse's 80 for 80 fundraiser. Think you know the story of the Wooden Horse of Troy? Think again. Two miles from Troy, Odysseus dreams. Every night since the war began th...

CFF25: Once More, With Feeling This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Step into the supernatural world of Buffy the Vampire Slayer like never before with Once More, With Feeling: A Live Musical Tribute Concert . Get ready to slay the night away as talented performers bring your favourite characters to life through iconic song and da...