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So much happens in Sheffield every week! This is our comprehensive event listing page for every single event that gets submitted to our website, from small workshops and community events to international sporting fixtures and citywide festivals.
So if you're looking for something specific, please use the filter tags and date search below, to narrow the event listings for what you'd really like to see/find. Alternatively, visit our What's On page for seasonal highlights and roundups of the bigger events happening in Sheffield.
All Events in Sheffield
Calamity Jane
Meet the fearless, gun slingin' Calamity Jane – biggest mouth in Dakota territory and always up for a fight. She'll charm you hog-eyed though, especially when trying to win the heart of the dashing Lieutenant Gilmartin, or shooting insults at her best friend Wild Bill Hickock.
The Invincibles
Celebrating the history of woman's football
Helios
A story about the son of the god of the sun, Helios transplants the Ancient Greek tale into a modern-day myth wound round the winding roads of rural England.
Noughts & Crosses
Step into a world where the rules of society are flipped on their head and everything you thought you knew is challenged. Noughts and Crosses is a gripping play that explores racism, privilege, and a love that defies the boundaries of society.
A Night at the Musicals
Get ready for an unforgettable evening of show-stopping performances at A Night at the Musicals!
Drop Dead!
Drop Dead! is the murder mystery Agatha Christie wished she’d written! It's a non-stop physical comedy that turns the world of theatre on its head!
Dinosaur World Live
Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family!
Echoes of the Front Room: Origins
Step into the extraordinary world of 'The Front Room,' a comedy play that brings the front room secrets and hilarious twists of Caribbean households to life!
Kinky Boots The Musical
After inheriting his family's failing shoe factory and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to be very challenging for Charlie Price. That is until he meets Lola, a drag queen whose sparkle and unsteady heels might just hold the answer to saving the struggling business.
Side Quest
A hilarious fantasy tale where you choose the adventure!
Dish from Waitrose Live
For one night only Dish from Waitrose, the chart-topping podcast hosted by broadcaster Nick Grimshaw and Michelin star chef Angela Hartnett, will take to the stage for an unforgettable live podcast. Expect plenty of laughs, delicious food tips and unfiltered chat.
BudPod
Top stand-ups and best buds Phil Wang and Pierre Novellie return for the first BudPod Live! of 2025.
Dave Bainbridge & Sally Minnear
Dave Bainbridge and Sally Minnear return again to The Lantern. It's almost a residency! Their previous visits have been full of fabulous music and good humour. 2024 saw them introduce a Gentle Giant song into the repertoire – who knows what 2025 will bring!
Drunk Women Solving Crime Live
Catch the award-winning comedy podcast Drunk Women Solving Crime where hosts Hannah George and Taylor Glenn welcome a special guest to ‘solve’ a crime over a glass or two.
Nick Cope - I've Lost My Bobble Hat!
Help Nick find his beloved bobble hat in this fun filled musical hour with all your favourite Nick Cope hits and more! Nick Cope has been writing and recording his beautiful and totally unique songs for children and their families for over 10 years.
Not The Top 20 Live
In this live show, Ali Maxwell and George Elek chat with big names from the Sheffield football scene about some of the moments and matches that define its clubs.
Richard Herring's Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
Richard Herring has enjoyed phenomenal success as a writer and performer and is an innovator in the world of podcasts. Join the “Podfather” (Guardian), “King of the Internet” (Time Out) and “The UK’s online comedy pioneer” (The Times) as he chats with hilarious star guests.
We Need To Talk with Paul C. Brunson
Paul C Brunson, the world’s most influential matchmaker and TV star, brings his insightful commentary on how to create and sustain successful relationships through vulnerability, connection and understanding.
Fun Kids Science Weekly Live
Prepare to be Wowed as the hugely popular Fun Kids Science Weekly podcast visits Sheffield on its first UK tour! Fun Kids’ very own Dan brings the weirdest and coolest stuff in science to the stage.
On The Sofa Live
Colson Smith, Jack P. Shepherd and Ben Price are 3 best mates, a friendship formed on those famous Corrie cobbles, who catch up ‘On The Sofa’ to talk TV, Films, work and everything in-between.
Pod Save The UK
Pod Save the UK is your weekly fix of political news, big ideas and a shot of inspiration with comedian Nish Kumar and journalist Coco Khan.
The Political Party with guest Andy Burnham
The show where renowned politicians and experts open up and give their most honest, revealing and often hilarious answers.
Joseph And The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
Starring X-Factor winner Joe McElderry as the roof-raising Pharaoh, the smash-hit London Palladium production of Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat comes to the Lyceum!
An Evening Without Kate Bush
Whether you’ve been a fan for decades or recently joined the shoal via the ‘Stranger Things’ phenomenon, there has never been a better time to release your inner Bush and celebrate at this joyful, unique and mind-blowing show.
The Elmer Adventure
Join three friends on a joyful jungle adventure in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the much-loved Elmer books by David McKee.
The Vagina Monologues
Deafinitely Theatre proudly brings The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler) to life in BSL and Spoken English, directed by Paula Garfield.
Robyn Hood
Robyn Hood tells the story of Robyn, a little girl who lives in a big city. Robyn likes to play outside and on a small patch of green land she builds a den; a magical space all of her own, where she dreams big dreams of woodland adventures.
Together Festival 2025
A lively and welcoming free festival celebrating theatre and arts created with community groups across Sheffield.
Counting Sheeps
Two sheep think they know everything about sleep. They’re experts in the field. But tonight they’re wide awake.
Dear Young Monster
Dear Young Monster is Pete MacHale’s debut solo show, pulling apart fear, otherness, and what it means to embrace being the monster that the world keeps telling you that you are.
Twisted Roots
New Earth Theatre's Twisted Roots Festival celebrates British East and Southeast Asian arts heritage in the modern theatre landscape.
Tina - The Tina Turner Musical
West End mega-hit TINA – The Tina Turner Musical, comes to the Lyceum as part of its first ever UK and Ireland tour.
Julia Masli: Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
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Dancing at Lughnasa
On the outskirts of Ballybeg, County Donegal, the five Mundy sisters’ lives are bound by responsibilities and social expectations.
Far Gone
“If I invited you to come with me on a journey, a story, will you come with me?” Northern Uganda. When Okumu’s village is attacked by the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), he and his brother’s lives are changed forever.
Witness For The Prosecution
Witness for the Prosecution, Agatha Christie's gripping courtroom drama, is a unique blend of legal thriller and psychological suspense. It tells the story of Leonard Vole, who is accused of murdering a wealthy widow.
Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell
In 1930s London ordinary people emerge from cheap boarding houses nightly to pour out their passions, hopes and dreams in the pubs and fog-bound streets of Soho and Fitzrovia. Step inside The Midnight Bell, a tavern where one particular lonely-hearts club gather to play out their lovelorn affairs of the heart.
Consumed
Four generations of Northern Irish women, reunited under one roof. A house full of hungry ghosts, with more than one skeleton in the closet. Turn off your phones at dinner.
Buffy Revamped
Funny, satirical and bursting with 90s pop-culture references, Buffy Revamped is the perfect parody for Buffy aficionados and those who never enrolled at Sunnydale High alike.
Angel Snow
Over the last decade or more, American country/ folk/ pop/ blues/ Americana (the list goes on somewhat..!) artist Angel Snow has been bringing her music to these shores, building up a deserved reputation for delivering standout emotive performances.
The Everly Pregnant Brothers Reyt Proper Sit Down Gig
It’s been several years since the Everly Pregnant Brothers did a theatre gig, but off the back of doing several festival shows this summer they felt you deserved a good sit down.
Jane Austen's Emma
The 250th anniversary of the birth of Jane Austen is celebrated in fitting style with a new stage adaptation of her dazzling comedy of manners, Emma, produced by the historic Theatre Royal in Bath where Jane Austen spent many happy years.
The Blackheart Orchestra
The Blackheart Orchestra is returning to The Lantern, bringing their ethereal, folky/electronic/progressive music back to Sheffield. Their performances in 2023 and 2024's sell-out shows were phenomenal. They filled the auditorium with such wonderful sounds as Rick and Chrissy crisscrossed each other to create their music. It was a mesmerising show, an aural delight.
Three Acres & A Cow
A history of land rights and protest in folk song and story, the show connects the Norman Conquest and Peasants’ Revolt with current issues like the housing crisis, reparations, climate breakdown and food sovereignty via the Enclosures, English Civil War and Industrial Revolution.
Chris Addison's Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music
Chris Addison (The Thick of It, Mock the Week) joins Ensemble 360 to bring his infectious enthusiasm for classical music to the Crucible.
Family Concert: The Storm Whale
A brand-new musical version of Benji Davies’ modern-classic The Storm Whale, which tells the story of a boy, a whale washed up on the beach and friendships that will change their lives forever and echo down the generations.
Nigel Kennedy: Heart & Soul
Nigel Kennedy, the best-selling classical violinist of all time, takes to the Crucible Theatre stage for this electrifying evening of music for violin and cello.
The Little Unsaid
A firm favourite, The Little Unsaid return to Sheffield, and it's our pleasure to welcome them to The Lantern. John Elliott has used this moniker for well over a decade now, gaining recognition for genre hopping combinations using elements of alt-folk, electronica, alt-rock and string arrangements.
The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe
Get ready for the adventure of a lifetime as the West End smash-hit production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe comes to the Lyceum.
Gwenda's Garage
1980s Sheffield, Thatcher’s Britain: politics, passion, protest... where anything might happen and usually does. Three female mechanics set up their own garage in a run-down area of the city, naming it after Gwenda Stewart, a pioneering racing driver.
Black is The Colour Of My Voice
Inspired by the life of Nina Simone, and featuring many of her most iconic songs performed live.
Dear England
It’s time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. The England men’s team has the worst track record for penalties in the world, and manager Gareth Southgate knows he needs to open his mind and face up to the years of hurt to take team and country back to the promised land.
Jen Brister: Reactive
Jen Brister is reactive - or so she's been told. Apparently you don't have to respond to every little thing around you.
Boo Hewerdine
From his band The Bible in the 80s, countless projects (including his work with Fairground Attraction's Eddi Reader), and, of course, his solo work, Boo Hewerdine is well known and celebrated for his songs and performances across the UK and further.
Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts
A chilling mystery unfolds when a young actress suddenly dies on stage during a performance, and Detective Chief Inspector Morse embarks on a gripping investigation.
Sara Pascoe: I Am A Strange Gloop
Have you ever been awake in the middle of the night and thought something so smart and astute that you couldn’t wait for the world to wake up so you could tell them? This show is that thought.
Joel Dommett: Happy Idiot
Joel returns to his stand-up roots with a brand-new show. With glamorous tales from behind the camera and less glamorous anecdotes of first-time fatherhood, Joel remains a charming, exhausted, happy idiot.
Northern Ballet's Merlin
Two kingdoms at war. A pair of star-crossed lovers. One boy with a whole lot of magic. Discover how the world’s most famous sorcerer mastered his powers in the epic adventure you’ve been waiting for.
Null Hypothesis
Ellie and Mark, a sharp and wisecracking couple, are brought back together for one final job—though things are far from simple. This new assignment seems routine at first.
The Band
In 1992, for five 16 year-old girls, ‘The Band’ is everything. 25 years later, the girls, once inseparable, reunite to see their heartthrobs one last time.
Here & Now
Happiness is only a heartbeat away with Here & Now, the hilarious and heart-warming new musical based on the songs of the multi-million-selling pop phenomenon, Steps. Don’t miss this sparkling celebration of love and friendship when it comes to the Lyceum after its record-breaking world premiere this year!
Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift
Murder comes to the countryside in the theatrical world premiere of the critically acclaimed television favourite Midsomer Murders. Spend an evening in England’s deadliest county…
Main Character Energy
A high camp cocktail of comedy and cabaret, written and performed by Temi Wilkey.
A Christmas Carol
On a bitter Christmas Eve, the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge shuns festive cheer and human kindness, content in his cold, solitary world.
Aladdin
Sheffield Lyceum's 2025 spectacular, fun-filled, family pantomime will be... Aladdin! Panto legend Damian Williams will return for his 18th year. Aladdin will run from 5 December 2025 to 4 January 2026.
The Genius of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven – a true genius, and one of the greatest composers to have ever lived – is celebrated in this concert showcasing the ingenuity and inventiveness of his chamber works.
It's A Wonderful Life
This Christmas, rediscover the magic of one of the most beloved stories of all time. It’s A Wonderful Life follows George Bailey, a man who has always put others before himself, only to feel like the world has passed him by.
Carlos Acosta's Nutcracker in Havana
A Cuban take on the favourite festive classic, the production explodes onto the Lyceum stage, featuring new choreography by Carlos Acosta CBE and performed by his Cuban company, Acosta Danza.
The Rocky Horror Show
Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical, The Rocky Horror Show returns to the Lyceum as part of a new world tour.
Top Hat the Musical
You’re invited to the musical equivalent of the finest vintage champagne. Effervescent, elegant and exhilarating, Top Hat is a heady romantic cocktail laced with sparklingly witty dialogue, stunning choreography, lavish sets and gorgeous costumes.
To Kill A Mockingbird
Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic.
Crown of Blood
A powerful retelling of Shakespeare's Macbeth set during the civil wars of 19th-century Yorubaland.
The Bodyguard the Musical
Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – what they don't expect is to fall in love.
Chris Mccausland
He's been called an "overnight success" - Even though he's been doing this for bloody yonks! Chris McCausland is hitting the road again with another masterclass in stand-up comedy that has literally been yonks in the making...
Chris McCausland - Yonks!
Chris McCausland is hitting the road again with another masterclass in stand-up comedy that has literally been yonks in the making...
Uncanny: Fear of The Dark
The first Uncanny live stage show I Know What I Saw was one of the best-selling paranormal shows in theatre history.
The Tiger Who Came To Tea
The doorbell rings just as Sophie and her mummy are sitting down to tea. Who could it possibly be? What they certainly don’t expect to see at the door is a big, stripy tiger!
The Ladies Football Club
With World War 1 forcing men onto the front line to fight, the women of Sheffield take their place in the factories, constructing the bombs and the bullets. When they start kicking a football around on their lunch breaks, it soon becomes clear that it’s not just positions on a factory floor these women can fill; it’s on the football pitch too.
Legally Blonde the Musical
The iconic international West End and Broadway smash hit musical comedy Legally Blonde the Musical is back in fashion with a huge new production.
Agatha Christie's Death On The Nile
Bitter Rivals. Buried Secrets. A Love to Die For. On board a luxurious cruise under the heat of the Egyptian sun, a couple’s idyllic honeymoon is cut short by a brutal murder.
English Touring Opera - The Gondoliers
The Gondoliers, Gilbert and Sullivan’s last great success, is a fizzing comedy of mistaken identity that marries joy and chaos with a sharp satire of monarchy and class.
English Touring Opera - Pagliacci
When Canio, leader of a theatre troupe, sees his life reflected in rehearsals for an upcoming opera, he becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair. Can Canio temper his spiralling emotions, or will his jealousy get the better of him?
Fawlty Towers The Play
Join Basil (Danny Bayne), the delightfully bumbling Major and Polly (Joanne Clifton), with an 18-strong cast as they bring to life all your favourite moments from the show’s unforgettable twelve episodes.
Operation Mincemeat
Operation Mincemeat is the 2024 Olivier Award-winning Best New Musical. It’s London's biggest hit with 77 five-star reviews making it the best-reviewed show in West End history. Now also a Tony-nominated Best Musical on Broadway!
Summer Holiday The Musical
Aboard a double decker bus, Don and his friends are on a fun-packed trip to Paris, The Alps, Italy and Greece, in search of a good time and a brilliant summer. On the way they encounter pop bands, runaway pops stars and of course holiday romance.
The Last Laugh
Direct from a sell-out run at Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Last Laugh is a brand new laugh-a-minute play which reimagines the lives of three of Britain's all time greatest comedy heroes - Tommy Cooper, Eric Morecambe and Bob Monkhouse.
The Year of the Runaways
Sunjeev Sahota’s award-winning novel is adapted for the stage in this triumphant story of dignity and human spirit against all the odds.
