Shaggers: Valentine’s Day Special
Following sell-out shows at festivals and theatres all over the UK, Europe, Asia and Australia, the popular worldwide hit comedy show Shaggers makes it’s way to Plymouth Valentine’s Day special.
Laura Evans
Welsh singer-songwriter Laura Evans plays a special one-off hometown show this February with her full band to celebrate her acclaimed new album, Out of the Dark. This exclusive performance promises an intimate night of soulful blues-rock, heartfelt Americana, and songs that have defined a remarkable year for the Aberdare artist.
Jack Rhodes
From finishing runner-up on last year’s Britain’s Got Talent, Jack Rhodes is bringing his debut comedy magic show to the The Quad Theatre, Marjon Plymouth!
Suzi Ruffell: The Juggle
The Juggle is a brand new tour from confessional multi-award winning comedian Suzi Ruffell.
Networking Event
Join our first Pathways networking event! Discover the new programme and mingle with new and familiar creative faces.
Scratch Night
Scratch Nights • New Work, New Voices
Discover new theatre in the making at our quarterly Scratch Nights. Each event features four short work-in-progress performances and one headline residency act, showcasing emerging artists from Plymouth and the South West.
The Chris Stapleton Experience
Join us for an evening dedicated to the incredible music of the Multi-Award-Winner, Chris Stapleton!
Vittorio Angelone: You Can't Say Nothing Any More
Vittorio Angelone has always denied any involvement in stand-up comedy or stand-up comedy related activities. Despite this, after two completely sold-out tours in 2023 and 2024 - with over 100 packed-out shows - he's heading back on the road with a brand new show. One of the fastest-rising names in comedy, Vittorio has built a loyal and attractive following with stand-up clips and podcasts racking up millions of views. He co-hosts Mike & Vittorio's Guide to Parenting with fellow comedian Mike Rice, and is a co-creator of Fin vs The Internet. As seen on the internet unless your algorithm hasn’t blessed you thusly.
The Celine Dion Project
One special night of the very best in musical talent and voice you will ever see anywhere, as the brilliant Angie Lang and her dancers, treat you to the Celine Project, which includes a wonderful backdrop of the Titanic on film, with the added addition of bagpipes on stage in the form of Lorcan Drysdale.
John Kearns: Tilting at Windmills
Tilting at Windmills is the brand-new stand-up show from Taskmaster alumni and double Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner, John Kearns.
Blackbeard's Tea Party
Folk-rock rebels Blackbeard’s Tea Party celebrate 10 years of their seminal album ‘Reprobates’, a collection of stories about wrong’uns
Omid Djalili: Namaste
The Persian Comedy Powerhouse performs his critically acclaimed new show NAMASTE where Omid peacefully bows to his inner anger and unleashes a torrent of comedic vitriol upon the current state of this dangerously messed up planet.
No government gets a green card. No tyrant avoids a take down. No audience member leaves the theatre with an ounce of laughter left in them.
You have been warned.
ADHD & Women: Misunderstood, misdiagnosed & moving forward for change
Join us for an insightful talk exploring how ADHD uniquely affects women – from late or missed diagnoses to the emotional toll of being misunderstood.
Mark Simmons: Jest to Impress
WINNER Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2024
As Seen on Mock The Week, BT Sport and ITV, ‘Master of one-liners’ Mark Simmons had a groundbreaking 200+ date sell out debut tour lasting two years, spanning the UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.
Mark is back on tour in 2026 with Jest To Impress, a brand new show packed with even more expertly crafted one-liners, alongside his trademark off-the-cuff jokes based on random audience suggestions.
Alasdair Beckett-King: King of Crumbs
ABK is the crumbliest comedian in the game: a multi-award-winning stand-up comic and (occasionally) an internet sensation.
The West End Tenors
The cast of The West End Tenors have starred in musicals such as Les Misérables,The Phantom of the Opera,Mamma Mia and Miss Saigon, as well as performing at Windsor Castle for the Royal Family, the BBC Proms and the Eurovision Song Contest.
An Evening with Toyah: Songs and Stories
A singer and actor, a TV host and author, a BRIT Award winner and a film star – Toyah has worn many hats during a remarkable career spanning more than 50 years.
Chris McCausland: YONKS!
You might have seen him on Strictly Come Dancing, Would I Lie to You, Have I Got News for You, The Royal Variety, QI, Blankety Blank, The Last Leg, and tons more as well.
He's been called an "overnight success" - Even though he's been doing this for bloody yonks!
Top Secret: The Magic of Science
This is your opportunity to surround yourself with the mystery of magic, cleverly fused with wondrous and miraculous feats of science
Matt Parker: Getting Triggy With It
Matt Parker talks a lot of maths.
He's a NYT best-selling author and sold-out stand-up performer. But now it's time he does the maths. Really gets in there and gives the maths a good doing. It's time he programmes his own Christmas tree lights and then 11,184,024 people watch his downfall (and counting). It's time he shares his hand-crafted maths code online only for viewers to improve it by 40,832,277,770%.
It's time he shaped-up and crawled out from under the square named after him.
Come watch Matt Parker do the maths. (Every audience member will get some free maths.)
Gary Delaney: Gary On Laughing
All new jokes and utterly splendid filth. Come along. It’ll be fun. Don’t bring the kids or people who like to get their knickers in a twist. Do wear a TENA pad or dark trousers.
Kate Butch: Choose Your Own Cabaret
Hot on the heels of her smash hit Wuthering Shites tour, Kate Butch is back, with her trademark wit, campery and vocal stylings.
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. Finding herself in a constant state of exacerbation at the state of the world and people in general, Brister has been told she needs to chill the hell out. Can Jen find her zen? It seems unlikely to be honest…
Jen is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian and writer, as seen on BBC's Live at the Apollo, Frankie Boyle's New World Order, QI and Mock The Week. Following a sold out 2022 tour, Jen is back on the road with her highly anticipated new show.
The Merry Wives of Windsor
Women take the upper hand in Shakespeare’s comedy of English life. Sir John Falstaff is seeking two woo Mistresses Ford and Page for their rich husband’s money – but they are having none of it and turn the tables on him. Meanwhile Mistress Page’s daughter Anne is being courted by not one, but three suitors. Who will she choose? Will she even be allowed to choose.
Jessica Fortekew
A monster’s guide to tolerance and temperance. Jess can feel herself becoming an emotional wildebeest right when her world (and the whole world, thanks) demands cool, collected ultra detached saint-like kindness and understanding. S**t.
She goes digging around in her DNA for answers and finds so many beautiful horrors. Witness her effort to become a brand new, mythical, mystical ‘coper.’ OR NOT. She gets cancelled, she gets touched and she gets a dolphin-based epiphany all in one show. The silliest of comedy for the scariest of days from Edinburgh Best Show Award Nominee.
This Is Floyd
This Is Floyd - experience the mesmerising sounds of Pink Floyd like never before.
Join us on a captivating journey Through The Years with timeless classics that defined an era.
Clinton Baptiste: Spectral Intercourse
Hot on the heels of his fourth sell-out UK tour, the nation’s favourite clairvoyant medium, from Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix Nights’, Clinton Baptiste is back with a new live show for 2026 and beyond!
In a rudderless world, mankind needs an envoy to gather solutions from the all-knowing, all-seeing Afterlife.
But who should it be?
Of course, there’s only one man for the job – Clinton Baptiste.
Scratch Night
Scratch Nights • New Work, New Voices
Discover new theatre in the making at our quarterly Scratch Nights. Each event features four short work-in-progress performances and one headline residency act, showcasing emerging artists from Plymouth and the South West.
Making A Killing
The ropes are ready, the crowd is waiting, and the hangman has a new apprentice. When Claus Kohler is apprenticed Frantz Schmidt, Nuremberg’s seasoned executioner, the two men are thrown together in a world where duty, morality, and power collide, and every decision leaves a mark. But as the gallows fill and suspicion takes root, their fates become dangerously entwined, until both must decide who they are, and which side of the rope they stand on.
Performed by just two actors, Making a Killing is a razor-sharp, dark comedy about justice, corruption, and the cost of survival in a world disturbingly like our own. Bold, biting and impossible to ignore, the play takes inspiration from The Journal of Master Frantz Schmidt, Public Executioner of Nuremberg, 1573 - 1617. A remarkable historical record that lays bare the humanity and contradictions of a man who killed for a living.
Craig Revel Horwood: Revelations, Songs, Boys Don't Sing
Revelations - Songs Boys Don’t Sing
Craig Revel Horwood is a national treasure. The longest-serving judge on BBC One’s Strictly Come Dancing is the master of the Glitter Ball.
Craig’s also a remarkable singer, and to celebrate the release of his debut solo album – and new book, Revelations - he’ll reveal his own, hidden talent during a Fab-U-Lous night of big songs, tall tales, and glamour.
Matt Forde: Defying Calamity
In his biggest live tour to date leading political comedian Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, HIGNFY, British Scandal) finds positivity in life despite all the evidence to the contrary in politics and his own health.
The Invisible Man
A thrillingly funny adaptation of H.G. Wells
The thought of invisibility, and the advantages it could bring to someone, has captured the imagination of millions since HG Wells’ classic story was first published. The Invisible Man has been adapted many times for film, but rarely for the stage.
This theatrical, comedic re-telling is brought to you by Our Star Theatre Company, after their hugely successful 2023 UK tour and critcally acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Tom Davis: Spudgun
Tom Davis is back on the road, firing out his freshly cooked observations on life's hot topics.
Co-host of the mega-hit podcast Wolf and Owl with Romesh Ranganathan, star of BAFTA and Royal Television Society award-winning comedy series Murder in Successville and BBC One smash-hit comedy King Gary, Tom also has his own special Underdog available to watch on Sky and NOW TV.
Tamsyn Kelly: Hot Titty Bungalow
A hilarious, demented hour of family, fresh starts and questionable decisions.
★★★★★ Ed Fringe Review
★★★★★ Lost in Theatreland
★★★★ The Herald
WiFi Wars
Interactive Comedy Game Show
From classic TV game shows to zen-like word puzzles, from retro video games to modern first person shooters, WiFi Wars has something for everyone in its truly original whistlestop tour of all the ways you can have fun, in public.
Harry Baker: Tender
As in ripe for the taking.
As in a heart swelled to twice its size.
As in soft. As in delicious. As in ready.
World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker brings his characteristic warmth, wit and wonder to new parenthood. From introducing his baby to a horse for the first time, to trying to work out if the GP really did drop them on purpose to test their reflexes, Tender contains poems from the first hundred days of new life and celebrates all of the euphoria, panic and vulnerability that come with it.
Touched
Britain didn’t collapse overnight—it just slowly came apart. Jobs disappeared, trust faded, and people stopped looking each other in the eye. Then the Urban Regeneration Programme arrived. Not a government. Not a revolution. Just a system that slipped quietly into people’s lives and called it order
Danny Ward: The Holiday
Meet Danny, before he was an award-winning stand-up comedian he worked on the Hollywood movie The Holiday.
Julie July Band
Julie July and her band bringing their distinctive blend of folk-rock, expressive vocals and evocative storytelling.
The Wonder of Stevie
Some Kinda Wonderful presents The Wonder of Stevie
Celebrating the genius of Stevie Wonder throughout his entire career, the mesmeric vocalist, Noel McCalla, and award-winning saxophonist, Derek Nash, have put together a band of top musicians to play a wide-ranging back catalogue of classic hits, from 1970’s Signed, Sealed, Delivered through to hits from Talking Book, Innervisions, Songs in the Key of Life and Hotter than July. Playing hit after hit, from the dance floor classics I Wish and Superstition to beautiful arrangements of My Cherie Amour and Overjoyed, the set will also include compositions by Stevie Wonder that others have had massive hits with.
Daniel Foxx: How Lovely
Daniel was determined to handle his Big Breakup with the grace of Julia Roberts. He didn’t. Join him as he navigates dating in your 30s, Le Creuset addiction and 12-step skincare routines, all while trying very hard to emanate love and light.
Described by Rolling Stone as ‘utterly hilarious and effortlessly charismatic’, award-winning stand-up Daniel is best known for his viral comedy videos, which are enjoyed by millions of women and gays online.
Scott Bennett: Stuff
Our society loves stuff, it’s who we are and who we want to be. But this is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. Star of Live at the Apollo, News Quiz “Live comedy’s best kept Secret.” **** - Evening Standard.
As heard on BBC Radio 4!
As a society we love stuff, it’s a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We’re now struggling to balance these worlds, to focus on the things that bring us real connections and nourish the soul. Award-winning Comedian and Award-winning Product Designer, Scott Bennett is desperately trying to cleanse his life of stuff, but is this even possible anymore?
Mike Wozniak: The Bench
New stand-up tour show from Mike Wozniak in which a story about a bench will be prominent. Previous experience of or strong opinions about benches not required. Let Mike worry about that.
As seen on Taskmaster, Man Down and Junior Taskmaster. As heard on Three Bean Salad podcast.
Maisie Adam: Whatsherface
Straight off the back of Taskmaster, A League Of Their Own, and Last One Laughing, Maisie Adam is back with her brand new show Whatsherface.
Dom Joly: Trigger- Happy TV 25th Anniversary Tour
It’s been twenty-five years since Trigger Happy TV burst onto our screens, transforming the hidden camera format with its surreal universe of characters and unforgettable pranks.
Now, to celebrate a quarter-century of chaos, Dom Joly is bringing his most iconic characters and sketches to the stage in the Trigger Happy TV – Live! 25th-anniversary tour.
WISHBONE ASH - THE TIME WAS TOUR 2026
It says it all! One of the most celebrated bands of the British Rock era, sounding as fresh as ever, delivered with a twin guitar sound that has become part of rock history.
Henry Cole: An Evening with Henry Cole
Henry will be taking a break in between his busy schedule to bring to provincial theatres his “An Evening with Henry Cole - Happy Days” theatre show hosted by his good friend and prankster Steve “Stavros” Parrish.
Henry Cole was educated at Eton at the same time as Boris Johnson and David Cameron has gone on to forge a career spanning some 32 years in the TV and movie industry.
Rock Anthems with Kerry Ellis
Rock anthems were the inspiration for award-winning singer Kerry Ellis, who is one of the greatest stars of musical theatre. And in this new show, she will explore her love of Rock Anthems as she pays homage to Queen, Meatloaf, Bonnie Tyler and the other rock legends who inspired her.
Ellis will sing a juke box full of classic rock anthems.
She Will, She Will, Rock You.
The Phantom Rasberry Blower of Old London Town
Something is rotten in Old London Town…
In Victorian England, a rotten, raspberry blower is claiming the lives of the upper-classes. The dark alleyways and moonlit graveyards of London are alive with the repetitive dins of the Phantom.
Celebrating the 50th anniversary since its original broadcast in 1976, this newly adapted stage play brings the Phantom back to life like never before.
Presented by Hambledon Productions with the kind permission of Spike Milligan Productions Ltd and Handles for Forks Ltd.
Michael Spicer: Hope All's Well
Michael Spicer, the online sensation who brought you the award-winning viral hit The Room Next Door, brings another hilarious and brilliantly entertaining satirical stage show packed with sketches, short films and stories about why we’re witnessing such a gigantic political and global shitshow, featuring characters from his BBC Radio 4 show ‘No Room’ as well as some old friends too.
Sound of the Sirens
Sound of the Sirens are a singer-songwriting duo based in Exeter, Devon comprising of Abbe Martin & Hannah Wood.
Life Is A Drag
Has life been a Drag for you recently?
Then why not be a queen!
With your trusty local legend Virina Flower who will be making sure your ride on this show goes smooth!
Murder: Staged - with Cheish Merryweather
Did you know that 90% of people believe they can get away with murder - are you one of them? There will be a live psychopath test on the night to find out!
Kavus Torabi
Kavus Torabi is a British/ Iranian composer, multi-instrumentalist, performer, author, artist, broadcaster and DJ. His largely autobiographical solo work marries the human with the celestial.
Seed Talk: Folklore & Women
The power of folklore in reclaiming female stories.
How can myths, legends, and fairytales help us to reclaim the voices, experiences, power, and desires of women in the past?
Bridget Christie: Jacket Potato Pizza
A kidney stone. A stray cat. An eyet-themed fetish. Bridget Christie hits the road again with a brand new show. Creator of Channel 4’s smash hit sitcom The Change and BBC Radio 4’s Mortal. Star of Taskmaster, Ghosts, Uncanny, and Off Menu.
“One of the brightest and best around.” - The Independent
“Razor sharp, consistently hilarious, expertly paced and structured set.” - The Telegraph
BT Youth's Festive Shenanigans
Get ready to kick off the Christmas season in style! Join us for BT Youth’s Festive Shenanigans, a joyful end-of-term celebration bursting with talent, creativity, and festive cheer.
The Snow Beast
Test tubes bubble, experiments explode and new inventions whirr for the Science Academy’s Final Exams. But Faina’s got a problem… her project has unexpectedly burst into flames! Join Faina and her owl assistant Maude as they set off on an action-packed exploration, encountering extraordinary spectacles and mountainous obstacles as they battle through the wild, wintry wilderness in search of the truth about the Snow Beast.
A captivating collision of storytelling, original music, beautiful puppetry and interactive science experiments, inspiring budding scientists of all ages.
Time and Tide
25th Anniversary ‘Christmas’ Edition.
A comical look at the past 1000 years of Plymouth’s association with the sea.
Time and Tide
25th Anniversary ‘Christmas’ Edition.
A comical look at the past 1000 years of Plymouth’s association with the sea.
The Christmas Orchestra
The Christmas Orchestra is back! After a wonderful run of sold out shows in 2024 we are excited to bring you more shows and locations in 2025. Get ready to discover the magic of the festive season with our unique concert experience.
Gothic Fiction and the Female Writer
Join Dr Monica Germanà in exploring Gothic Literature through the lens of female “monsters”. Guided by Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), we will dive into the complex gender politics of these characters. This literary journey will reveal how these figures of resistance embody self-determination through subversive challenges to sexism and gender norms.
The Skids
The Skids - Known for hits like “Into the Valley,” “The Saints are Coming,” “Masquerade,” and “Working for the Yankee Dollar,” The Skids have left an indelible mark on the punk scene since their formation in 1977. Their recent album, Destination Dusseldorf, topped the vinyl charts, reaffirming their enduring appeal.