Theatre listings
Bat Out Of Hell
Bat Out of Hell makes a triumphant return to the UK in 2025, with a thrilling spectacle of a show where the timeless music of Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf reigns supreme! Get ready for an electrifying experience that will ignite your passion for rock 'n' roll.
The Roaring Girl
Forge Light Theatre presents an electric adaptation of Dekker and Middleton's farcical comedy, featuring original music from a live band.
New Writing: The Shorts
Discover the latest in fresh storytelling and creative talent with New Writing: The Shorts, part of our annual New Writing Festival. This celebration of emerging talent is a unique opportunity to experience original, thought-provoking theatre.
Into the Woods
SUPAS Presents..... Into The Woods! by Stephen Sondheim
A Very Dark Imagination
An isolated cottage in the Welsh countryside. A storm raging overhead. A mass murderer on the run from the near-by institute for the criminally insane. A sudden knock at the door...
Little Women
Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women was an immediate critical and commercial success. The book was inspired by Alcott’s experiences growing up and is one of the best loved novels of all time.
Steel
On the wet West Cumbrian coast, James and Kamran have been mates for more than a decade. At seventeen, the world should be theirs but Workington’s a ghost town – an unemployment blackspot where lasses drink Bacardi by the pint and boys don’t cry.
…Earnest?
Say It Again, Sorry? presents a one-of-a-kind, different-every-night comedy sensation, perfect for fans of The Play That Goes Wrong and Noises Off!
& Juliet
Created by the Emmy-winning writer from Schitt’s Creek, this hilarious new musical flips the script on the greatest love story ever told and asks, what would happen next if Juliet didn’t end it all over Romeo?
The Detective Dog
Tiny & Tall Productions accessible and imaginative adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s award winning book, The Detective Dog, features puppetry, song and magical scent technology, bringing the story alive on stage for audiences of all ages.
Peter James' Picture You Dead
Having recently been proclaimed as Her Majesty Queen Camilla’s favourite literary detective, Superintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead.
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
Bluebelle
Bluebelle from Theatre Re is a fully accessible, new folk story on stage.
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.
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!
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.
Dancing at Lughnasa
On the outskirts of Ballybeg, County Donegal, the five Mundy sisters’ lives are bound by responsibilities and social expectations.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
