This show is part of our Season of Fundraising at the Green Room Bar! For more information, or to see our other Season of Fundraising shows click here.
What endures when the world you know has been consumed by nuclear fire? What will be remembered seven days, seven years, and seven decades after the end? This is the question at the heart of Anne Washburn's daring Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, staging for one night only on Halloween in the Green Room Bar of the Cheltenham Playhouse, as part of the Season of Fundraising. An all-local cast and production team led by Rhiannon Olivaw and Louis Maxted explores the post-apocalypse in this stripped-down and re-orchestrated staging. Blackly comedic and surprisingly touching, Mr. Burns dares to threaten you with a good time.
"English rebellions by their very nature are generally bloodthirsty affairs." Hear ye, hear ye: Johnny “Rooster” Byron is in town. On St George's Day, the morning of the local county fair, Johnny Byron is a wanted man. The Council officials want to serve him an eviction notice, his son wants his dad to take him to the fair, Troy Whitworth wants to wreak his revenge and a motley crew of mates wa...
Night and the City PG UK | 1950 | 96 minutes DIRECTED BY Jules Dassin STARRING Richard Widmark | Gene Tierney | Googie Withers 15 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30 GREEN ROOM Here's another thriller from Jules Dassin - we screened Rififi (1955) in September last year. Exiled from the USA, Dassin first went to London where he made Night and the City . Filmed on location in London and at Shepperton Stu...
The Batman with Special Guest Stuntman Supreme, Rick English
Fri 19 Sep
The worlds greatest detective, reimagined for a darker age plus leading stuntman, Rick English, to tell us how its all done. We're thrilled to welcome Rick English, one of the UK's leading stunt performers, to Cheltenham for a special screening of The Batman . With over 200 film and TV credits, Rick has brought breathtaking action to the screen for more than two decades - including as a stunt dou...
This show is part of our Season of Fundraising at the Green Room Bar! For more information, or to see our other Season of Fundraising shows, click here. Behind the Curtain Theatre Productions returns to the Playhouse with a stripped-back evening of songs from one of theatre's most celebrated composers, Andrew Lloyd Webber. The cast of incredibly talented singers will perform a variety of solos, ...
This show is part of our Season of Fundraising at the Green Room Bar! For more information, or to see our other Season of Fundraising shows click here ! Go beyond the curtains and backstage at The Cheltenham Playhouse and learn how theatre productions are brought to life at this historic building. Your tour guide will take you through all the backstage areas, and you will learn about the operatio...
Tell Tale Heart with Special Guests Steven Berkoff and Stephen Cookson
Sun 21 Sep
Steven Berkoff returns to Cheltenham - a master of menace, a classic reborn, with stories to tell. Few performances can command a stage - or a screen - like Steven Berkoff. In Tell Tale Heart , Edgar Allan Poe's macabre masterpiece is tripped to its bone-chilling essence and reimagined with Berkoff's trademark physicality, precision, and dark humour. The story is as unsettling as ever: an obsess...
All About My Mother 15 Spain | 1999 | 101 minutes DIRECTED BY Pedro Almod ó var STARRING Cecilia Roth | Marisa Paredes | Candela Pe ñ a 22 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30 AUDITORIUM Almodóvar is famed for his family melodramas featuring a recurring cast of fine female actors. In this one, Cecilia Roth play Manuela, who witnesses Esteban's death in a horrific road accident early on in the film. Este...
From Django to Tango - Swing From Paris are an all-string jazz quartet of violin (Fenner Curtis), guitars (Andy Bowen & Sam Hughes) and double bass (Tomasz Williams), inspired by the music of the 1930s, '40s and '50s: from the cafés and cabarets of Montmartre to Artie Shaw, Django Reinhardt, Stéphane Grappelli and the master of tango, Astor Piazzolla. Their Parisian-flavoured jazz and vintage swin...
The Phantom of the Opera with Special Guest Neil Brand
Wed 24 Sep
Silent Night: A spellbinding live cinema experience with Neil Brand. A century on, the Phantom returns... Join us for a haunting centenary tribute to Rupert Julian's The Phantom of the Opera (1925), a landmark of silent cinema starring the legendary Lon Chaney. His unforgettable Phantom - cloaked in darkness beneath the Paris Opera House - is a masterclass in expressionist performance and early ...
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! This month, Jimmy Mcghie, Dan Tiernan, Cerys Nelmes plus one act TBC complete the line up for the September Club Show. At Howlers we are serious about our comedy. With some of the brightest new talent appearin...
The GUNS N' ROSES Experience are a true professional International touring act and bring 80's Guns to life with a full on High octane show as witnessed by 100's of thousands back in the day of the classic Line up. With a true Guns N Roses sound and stage show, Gn’RE meticulously recreate every visual detail and every musical note to capture that reckless spirit of the original Guns N Roses lege...
Please note this event takes place at St Andrew's Church, Montpellier, not at the Playhouse. Cheltenham Chamber Orchestra Saturday 27 September 2025 at 7:30 pm St Andrew's Church, Montpellier, Cheltenham Conductor: James Ross Leader: George Ewart Glinka: Overture 'Ruslan and Lyudmila' Duparc: Aux Ètoiles Borodin: Symphony No 3 in A minor 'Unfinished' Sibelius: Symphony No 3 in C major Tickets ...
Man's Favorite Sport? USA | 1964 | 120 minutes DIRECTED BY Howard Hawks STARRING Rock Hudson | Paula Prentiss 29 September 2025 MONDAY 19:30 GREEN ROOM A late screwball comedy from Howard Hawks, maker of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). You'll know Rock Hudson, but Paula Prentiss may be a revelation, despite being one of America's most highly-rated comedy actors in the 1960s. Hudson plays Roger...
The Playhouse Company presents: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie There can be few teachers more vividly drawn in literature, than Muriel Spark's creation, Miss Jean Brodie: "Little girls, I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders, and all my pupils are the cr è me de la cr è me." She has her favourites - her 'Brodie Set' - the beautiful Jenny, the timid Mary, the dramatic Monica...
Man with a Movie Camera U USSR | 1929 | 68 minutes DIRECTED BY Dziga Vertov STARRING Mikhail Kaufman | Elizaveta Svilova 6 October 2025 MONDAY 19:30 GREEN ROOM Vertov directs a silent classic documenting the lives of residents and workers in a typical day from dawn till dusk. Made shortly before the dead hand of control curbed imagination of Soviet cinema, this 'city symphony' takes the format ...
CODS return to the Playhouse in 2025 with tales of love and bank robbery in the compelling adventures of Bonnie and Clyde! When Bonnie and Clyde meet, their mutual cravings for excitement and fame immediately set them on a mission to chase their dreams. Their bold and reckless behavior turns the young lovers' thrilling adventure into a downward spiral, putting themselves and their loved ones in...
Peeping Tom 15 UK | 1960 | 101 minutes DIRECTED BY Michael Powell STARRING Karlheinz B ö hm | Anna Massey | Moira Shearer 13 October MONDAY 19:30 Green Room Another man with a movie camera, but with murderous intent! Michael Powell is best known for his collaboration with Emeric Pressburger in making such films as The Red Shoes (1948). Peeping Tom is much darker, but also features Moira Shearer...
This show is part of a Season of Fundraising at the Green Room Bar! For more information, or to see our other Season of Fundraising shows, click here . Drama, tragedy, passion, humour: opera has it all! Join Da Capo as they have fun exploring all these aspects and more, with a varied programme including some of the best known arias, duets and ensemble pieces of all time. The evening will include...
A Clockwork Orange 18 UK/USA | 1971 | 136 minutes DIRECTED BY Stanley Kubrick STARRING Malcolm McDowell | Patrick Magee | Michael Bates 20 October 2025 MONDAY 19:30 AUDITORIUM Another highly controversial film - even banned by its own director, shortly after release, only to re-emerge after Kubrick's death in 1999. Adapted from the 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, it chronicles the lives of Alex ...
The Snake Davis Gareth Moulton Duo is an established act. The pair reckon The Playhouse is the ideal venue for them - classy and intimate. Often at opposite ends of the globe playing huge venues with ‘big acts’ they’d SO rather be here, together. Mellow music infused with 80s pop, classic rock, soul, folk and original pieces. Snake - One of the most in-demand rock jazz and soul sax players in the...
