Returning to the Cheltenham Playhouse in 2025, after sell-out performances in 2024!
23rd September 2025
4th March 2025
Stylish Jazz to Vintage Swing
The fabulous, Swing from Paris are a quartet of Violin (Fenner Curtis), guitars
(Andy Bowen and Sam Hughes) and double bass, (Tomasz Williams).
Inspired by the great swing bands - from Benny Goodman, Charlie Christian
and Artie Shaw to Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the master of
tango, Astor Piazzolla their Parisian-flavoured jazz and gypsy swing has been
delighting audiences wherever they perform.
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!
Mon 26 May
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...
CFF25: Happening 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. What happens when the creator of all living being fails their omnipotent purpose? Doesn't everything ...
CFF25: Yawn This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Eat. Sleep. Diarrhea. Spoons? A twenty-something woman with a high-flying career is suddenly struck down by the debilitating chronic illness, ME. Bed bound and thrust into a new world of strange symptoms, she quickly realises just how invisible her illness makes her. As she search...
CFF25: Poetry Night This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room bar. A selection of poetry readings from various poets. Event Length: 3 hours This is a free event but any donations made will go directly to the Playhouse.
CFF25: Whose Fringe is it Anyway? This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Cheltenham Playhouse's resident improvised comedy group, Comic Sans Script, are back this year at the Cheltenham Fringe. They've put together their A-Team to perform their unique brand of completely made-up-on-the-spot comedy. Think Whose Line is it Anyway? but...
CFF25: Disney Song & Dance Workshop 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. Reception - Yr 3 Event Length: 60 Minutes
CFF25: Fun Drama Workshops 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. Reception - Yr 3 Event Length: 60 Minutes
CFF25: Classical Guitar Recital 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. Music from the Elizabethan lutenists, the Bach family, and Spanish and South American ...
CFF25: Oh Crumbs Live This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room bar. A loose collection of performing artists who all live in the beautiful Forest of Dean who've been coming together to share the wit, warmth and wisdom of our unique home for about 6 years. Forest bard, author, playwright and comedian, Maggie Clutterbuck, fiery wordsmith...
CFF25: Film Night This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Green Room bar. A screening of short films from various directors and producers. Event Length: 3 hours This is a free event but any donations made will go directly to the Playhouse.
CFF25: Abridgd...Too Far! This event is part of our Cheltenham Fringe Festival 2025, and will be taking place in our Auditorium. Fast, furious, funny and frequently infuriating to the aficionado, Abridgd...Too Far! presents literature's most renowned and best-loved books in just 1,337 seconds. Leaving a hell of a lot out, making stark narrative choices and chucking in a fair number of jokes, it'...
CFF25: Wicked Workshop 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. Yr 4-6 Event Length: 60 Minutes
CFF25: Fun Drama Workshops 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. Yr 4 - Yr 6 Event Length: 60 Minutes
