If you are visiting the Playhouse for the pantomime please arrive early to allow time for parking and visiting the bar before the show starts. GIANT show tiny prices! We've added a new public performance on Friday 20th at 10am! Tickets are available from £12 for this performance only! ( Please note, as this is a midweek daytime performance the show will not include the Junior Ensemble). "FEE-FI-...

Theatre Studio returns in Easter half-term 2025 celebrating 40 years of the drama school with their production of Everybody's Talking About Jamie: Teen Edition! Jamie New is sixteen and lives on a council estate in Sheffield. Jamie doesn't quite fit in. Jamie is terrified about the future. Jamie is going to be a sensation. Supported by his brilliant, loving mum and surrounded by his friends, Jam...

Matt Nolan Creative has joined forces with Theatre Studio to bring you a sensational production of Six: Teen Edition! Tickets selling exceptionally fast - book early to avoid disappointment! Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived! From Tudor Queens to Pop Icons, the SIX wives of Henry VIII take the mic to remix five hundred years of historical heartbreak into a Euphoric Celebratio...

Please note this event takes place at St Andrews Church, not at the Playhouse. Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra Saturday 11 January 2025 at 7.30 pm St Andrew’s Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham New Year Gala Concert Conductor: Katherine Stonham Soprano: Kathy Macaulay Leader: George Ewart ADMISSION All seats unreserved £23.00 to include a programme and a celebratory drink. Students free...

Murder Most Wilde (VERY loosley based on Oscar Wilde's 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime') Following our highly successful summer tour of The Importance Of Being Earnest, Rain or Shine Theatre Company is touring ‘Murder Most Wilde’ in winter 2024, a new adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s comic and quirky tale “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”, a delightfully silly Victorian comedy chock full of muddled murder a...

Simon Yates of Touching the Void returns to the Cheltenham Playhouse following sell-out performances. Please note two different shows are available on this page, information below: Early Bird tickets are now on sale, giving an automatic discount of 10% off until Sunday 8th December 2024! PLEASURE AND PAIN (New Talk) - Sat 18th @ 19:30 and Sun 19th @ 14:30 ‘Touching the Void’ mountaineer S...

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...

The Eclectic Cinema Presents: Unforgiven (15) USA | 1992 | 130 mins Directed by: Clint Eastwood Starring: Clint Eastwood| Gene Hackman| Morgan Freeman In the ABC of Cinema, we’re going to screen a film by Clint Eastwood – a Western. Eastwood’s film-acting career goes back to the mid-1950s, but he started directing in 1971 with Play Misty for Me . Since then, he has built up a roster of ov...

In addition to their regular monthly club nights, Howlers Comedy Club will also be bringing regular touring solo shows to The Cheltenham Playhouse Theatre. This month Howlers presents one of Canada's finest exports, Tom Stade. Star of Live at the Apollo, The John Bishop show & Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow, Tom will be bringing his unique brand of comedy to the Playhouse in January 2025. ...

Early Bird tickets are now on sale, giving an automatic discount of 10% off until the end of November 2024! The Rock Ballad Show pays tribute to one of the greatest periods in the history of music. We’ll take you back in time to when big hair and denim jackets were hot. Our journey down memory lane will take us through songs by singers and bands such as Bon Jovi, Rainbow, Whitesnake, Aerosmith, M...

Early Bird tickets are now on sale, giving an automatic discount of 10% off until the end of November 2024! Formed by veterans of the Queen tribute scene, Extreme Queen are here to turn your world inside out. Exploring this 70’s & 80s rock powerhouse’s eclectic repertoire, they will take you headlong on a journey across two decades of music. Delivering 2 hours of non-stop Queen fun, this is an ...

Please note this event takes place in the Green Room The Eclectic Cinema Presents: The Florida Project (15) USA | 2017 | 111 mins Directed by: Sean Baker Starring: Brooklynn Prince| Bria Vinaite| Willem Dafoe Sean Baker’s latest film Anora (released November 2024) just won the Palme d’Or at Cannes, and we screened one of his earlier (micro-budget) movies Tangerine last April. The Florida Projec...

'Stories are wild creatures', the monster said. 'When you let them loose, who knows what havoc they might wreak?' Patrick Ness' piercing novel is brought vividly to life in this innovative creative adaptation. Thirteen-year-old Conor and his mum have managed just fine since his dad moved. But now his mum is sick and not getting any better. His grandmother won’t stop interfering and the kids ...

Early Bird tickets are now on sale, giving an automatic discount of 10% off until the end of November 2024! THE VOX BEATLES - One of the UK's leading premier professional authentic Beatles Tribute bands Their passion, enthusiasm and superb musicianship capturing their famous counterparts, along with years of experience and professionalism will guarantee this great Beatles tribute performance...

Playhouse Company presents Much Ado About Nothing By William Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing is perhaps Shakespeare’s most loved romantic comedy, in turns witty, hilarious, dark and touching. This adaptation by the Playhouse Company is set during the Second World War, where a group of servicemen in need of some R&R (romance and recuperation) stay at a country manor house populated by women w...

The Eclectic Cinema Presents: Dreams (PG) Japan/USA | 1990 | 119 mins Directed by: Akira Kurosawa Starring: Akira Terao| Mitsunori Isaki| Martin Scorsese Dreams is mesmeric, challenging, and unique. It’s one of the final films, and a departure from his archetypal Samurai epics, of the legendary Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. In this extremely personal project, he presents an anthology of eigh...

Sallie Taylor - keeping the memory of Chapel Art alive Edward Derbyshire presents: An Overweening Rogue Or, ‘Malvolio between the Sheets’ Christopher Malvolio always dreamt of being a scholar and a playwright. Unfortunately, although he studied hard at his books, even gaining a place at Cambridge University at the tender age of 16, he was destined to enter service with the Lady of the Big...

Welcome to Howlers at the Playhouse, the home of great comedy in Cheltenham. Every month at Howlers we bring you the very best in stand-up with top notch line-ups from the UK and beyond! At Howlers we are serious about our comedy. With some of the brightest new talent appearing on stage alongside some of biggest names on the stand-up circuit, Howlers at the Playhouse is fast becoming one of the...

Casting the Runes Two ghost stories by M R James M R James wrote his ghost stories to perform to friends in the years leading up to WW1. Today they’ve lost none of their power to terrify and amuse. Now Nunkie Theatre Company returns with two more James classics, in another thrilling one-man show. In Casting the Runes we meet the unforgettable Mr. Karswell – magic lanternist, occult historia...

Please note this event takes place in the Green Room The Eclectic Cinema Presents: Dance Craze (12A) UK | 1981 | 91 mins Directed by: Joe Massot Dance Craze documents the phenomenon of 2-tone – the music genre that blended Jamaican ska and reggae with punk rock and new wave. It swept through the UK music scene at the end of the 1970s and into the early ‘80s - the start of Thatcher’s Britain. T...