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Bring Your Own Baby Comedy

Tue 22 Sep - Thu 3 Dec 2026

Come along for an afternoon of side splitting comedy, where you can relax and have a good laugh at some hilarious comedians without needing childcare!

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Screening

NT Live: The Misanthrope

Tue 22 Sep 2026

Sandra Oh leads the cast in Martin Crimp’s witty dark comedy The Misanthrope, filmed live from the National Theatre.

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Comedy Stand Up

Ian Stone is "Looking for the Wow"

Thu 24 Sep 2026

Life can’t just be the humdrum, the mundane and the routine before the inevitable slide to disease, decay and death. Why can’t we sneak in a bit of awesome, a tad of amazing and maybe a smidge of wonderful?

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Comedy Improv

Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunit

Fri 25 Sep - Sat 26 Sep 2026

Welcome aboard Locomotive for Murder: The Improvised Whodunnit, the totally improvised, totally hilarious murder mystery, where killing the cast and cracking the case is in your hands!

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Comedy Stand Up

Tim Key: Loganberry

Sun 27 Sep 2026

Tim Key again pops his suit on, plods about, in a brand new show. This show has poems in, and he’ll stamp and howl.

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Musicals

Blood Brothers

Tue 29 Sep - Sat 3 Oct 2026

The captivating and moving tale of twins separated at birth, who grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.

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Talks

Russell Watson

Sun 4 Oct 2026

Russell Watson takes you on a journey through the highs and lows of his extraordinary life – from chart-topping success to surviving not one, but two life-threatening illnesses.

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Comedy

John Shuttleworth: It's Nice Up North

Sun 4 Oct 2026

This 20th anniversary screening of It’s Nice Up North follows the legendary comic character John Shuttleworth - on a gently absurd journey through the Shetland Islands to test the theory that the further north you go, the nicer people become.

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Talks

Enter THE CASTLE with Jon Ronson: Mystery, Crime and Unmoored Men

Mon 5 Oct 2026

In this brand-new live show, Jon brings the book’s extraordinary stories to life on stage with astonishing footage and online clips, including jaw-dropping material that has long since vanished from the internet.

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