Born to circus folk preferring trapezing over parenting, Felix grows up alone. Surviving extraordinary encounters and heart-breaking experiences, the clown - the Buffoon - is born.

Now Felix is stepping into the spotlight to perform his unique but universal life-story; searching for family, self and love.

Award-winning Canadian playwright and novelist, Anosh Irani’s darkly funny, deeply human solo-show.

Love, loss and the magic of clowning.

Find out what really happens when a group of young people go on a school trip to the seaside.

First of all, they need to get the bus in time. Even then, what a bunch of kids from Sheffield will make of donkey rides, the amusements and seagulls the size of dogs is genuinely anyone’s guess.

Co-created and performed by members of Sheffield Theatres Youth Theatre.

Someone once asked Sindhu Vee a very stupid question. She wants to tell you about it.

From the award-winning star of Live at the Apollo comes a brand-new stand-up show about falling through the cracks you didn’t make, avoiding the friendships you don’t want, and embracing the self-love you definitely need.

Sindhu Vee is taking her “outspoken, frank and funny stand-up” (Evening Standard) across the country for her first UK tour in five years.

In recent years, the Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominated comic has appeared on QI, Have I Got News For You and Would I Lie To You? as well as starring in Netflix’s Sex Education and Matilda the Musical as well as Amazon Prime’s Pradeeps of Pittsburgh and Picture This.

Now, having become one of the most exciting comedy talents internationally, UK audiences can get ready for her most sophisticated, intimate and swanky show yet.

Get your dessert spoons ready for a tale of perseverance, princes, palace balls, glass slippers and, um, ice cream?

Over the last four decades, Cinderella’s has become the kingdom’s most beloved ice cream company, with a parlour on every street corner. But how did a humble ice cream maker with not a penny to her name end up as a multimillionaire business woman with her own ice cream empire?

In this new musical for families and children, join Talvi and Caldwell, loyal employees of Cinderella’s, as they share her rags to riches tale, and confront their own desires, hopes, and the magic that lies within each scoop of Cinderella’s legendary ice cream.

Perfect for children and families alike, this exciting musical retelling of a fairytale classic promises a delightful blend of storytelling, stunning live music, and theatrical magic that will capture your heart and tickle your taste buds.

A STORY ABOUT THE GODDESS AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON

A radical explosion of an ancient myth about the moon from the internationally award-winning company behind HELIOS, ORPHEUS and THE GODS THE GODS THE GODS.

A young girl watches the moon landings on repeat. A teenager makes a list of all the things they are not. A young adult starts to discover who they are.

A story about the light sides of us, the dark sides of us, and the things we grow up in the orbit of. Andabout the stuff inside us, all the wild stuff inside us.

This Autumn, we throw open our doors for a bold celebration of artists. From world premieres to scratch nights, rehearsed readings, masterclasses and industry panels, Open Works is where stories are born and the future of theatre is shaped.

Imagine being dragged into a wild camping trip with your politically outspoken uncle out of social awkwardness.

No technology allowed. Just beer, fishing rods and jerky.

A new comedy show by Sam Danson which investigates the painful reality of being between the generation that had no internet growing up, and the one that had all the internet...

Set in the midst of a reluctant camping trip, the show explores generational divide, binary politics and how the online world is rapidly changing our society.

A recent sellout show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Amazons presents a compelling and mesmerising retelling of the stories of women from the world’s largest forest.

Plant-sitting and live-streaming from her friend’s flat in the U.K., Gayara unearths the untold histories of her Amazonian ancestors, from those who watched the first Europeans lay claim to her land, to the women fighting to defend the forest today.

Winner of the Guimarães Rosa Institute & Summerhall Arts Award 2025. Developed with the support of Norwich Theatre and King’s College Global Cultures Institute.

A clinic waiting room. Two Somali teens. One awkward meet-cute. Najma has been in treatment for years. Zakariya’s just starting out. She sketches. He writes poems. Neither of them is ready to talk. Until they meet each other.

As their sessions continue, so do the chats. And the jokes. And the secrets. Crush is a tender, funny and honest story about identity, connection and the messy path to healing. Longlisted for the Tony Craze Award 2025.

Imagine being born in an oven and the first person you meet wants to dunk you in his tea!

Come and see the adventure of the deliciously smelling Gingerbread Man who finds his feet fast and sets off on the journey of a lifetime!

Up and down and into town our Gingerbread Man must use his wits to escape anyone who finds him tasty. Is he faster than a Goose? Can he cross a river using a Fox as a raft? Are Gingerbread Men allowed on trains?

Come and join in his epic quest and meet the bravest biscuit of all times!

A New Comedy Show by Daniel Kitson.

“You open the door into this club. And the noise and the smell and the heat hit you. It smothers you. Jumps all over you. Gets right in. All that new and adventure and mischief.”

New Year’s Eve, 1997. Manchester. In Déjà Vus’, Spin Jim is on the decks and ready to take you into the new year. The whole place is electric.

Three girls are on the dancefloor. Polly and Angie are ready for a big night. Jean is lost and alone. The future awaits. New Labour, New Year, new horizons. After decades of grey, this is their time. But as midnight beckons, and darkness falls, will they find their light?

Set to a live soundtrack of 90’s classics, How Soon is Now? is an indie musical about mates, music and magic – finding your place and finding yourself.

There’s a club. Would you like to go?

A salt and pepper pot for the king and queen. A ruler for the prince. A spoon for the servant. Lighter fluid for the Innkeeper. A water bottle for the messenger.

In Selected Works two performers create condensed versions of six of Shakespeare iconic plays, creating lovingly made miniatures played out on a one metre table-top using a collection of ordinary everyday objects.

Each work re-tells the story of a Shakespeare play. A performer sits at a table and using a collection of household objects as stand-ins for the characters explores the dynamic force of storytelling in a simple, unique and highly accessible way.

An urgent new play about memory, belonging and the shadows of war.

Two lives. One past. A hundred years apart. A story that refuses to stay buried.

Berlin, 2022. Artur, a 19-year-old refugee, is stuck in a city that doesn’t feel like home - caught between worlds, between roles and haunted by the ghosts of his escape from the Syrian civil war.

When someone from that journey suddenly reappears, what begins as a joyful reunion soon becomes a reckoning with identity, memory and the question of how to be free.

From the deserts of 1915 to the chaos of today, Bones in the Desert traces the long shadows of war and the lives it still shapes. With raw honesty and urgency, it confronts mental well-being, racism in contemporary Europe and the devastating cost of silence.

A panto like no other – loud, silly and completely off its beanstalk!

Family theatre and rock star legend Kid Carpet is back with a totally brand new show!

Kid Carpet hates panto. The Noisy Animals absolutely love it. So guess what they’re doing? Yep. A panto. Now there’s a beanstalk in the middle of everything and nobody’s quite sure what’s going on.

Featuring Bear, Gorilla, Badger and Hedgehog, this is Jack & the Beanstalk like it’s been thrown in a blender with a drum machine and dodgy celebrity lookalikes. Part air guitar workshop, part magical mess, this lo-fi, hi-tech, big-beat bonkers panto is stuffed with songs, silliness and surprise grannies.

It’s loud, proud and completely off its bean(stalk)!

Sally and Susan aren’t your average suburban women. They're business women. And you’re invited to the most prestigious seminar of the year that could help you get filthy rich!

Step into the glittery, unhinged world of multi-level marketing mayhem with Fag Packet, Kheski Kobler and Holly Wilson-Guy, the award-winning cabaret and theatre double act.

Equal parts corporate seminar and queer fever dream, DYKE Systems Ltd is a sharp, subversive takedown of pyramid schemes, ruthless heteronormativity and corporate feminism.

Bring your wallets, your carabiner and get ready to find your inner (D)ynamic! (Y)oung! (K)nowledgeable! (E)ntrepreneur!

A memorial garden destroyed.
A family buckling under the weight of silence.

Belfast 1990, and Gerry is barely keeping his life together.

His brother's killer has just been released from prison, and now a stranger has arrived in town. An adolescence of kickabouts with his mates and tagging the chippy wall is about to change forever.

Winner of the Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2025,Sapling by Georgina Duncan explores what grows when deep-rooted pain is left untended.

Tobi and Jay, the only two Africans in the class, are lambs to the slaughter.

Newly arrived to England, Sheffield, they are forced to navigate a new life alongside the quiet ache of home.

As they struggle to hold onto their names, and themselves, they find connection in unexpected places and in the bonds they form with one another.

A coming of age story about what it means to grow up between different worlds.