Live performances and entertainment 🎭

📖 Article updated 19 February 2025.


Here you'll find a selection of some of the very best live performances and entertainment that Sheffield city centre has to offer in 2025 👏  

Click the link below to take you straight to the month you're most interested in, or simply scroll down to see the latest listings for the year ahead. 

📅 January | February | March
📅 April | May | June
📅 July | August | September
📅 October | November | December

For further information on each event, click the 🖱️ icon.  

💡 As new performances are confirmed, event details will be added to this page, so make sure you check back to this page through the coming weeks and months. 


For the very latest on live shows and theatrical performances, including information on performance dates and ticket, please visit the following dedicated venue websites: 
Sheffield Cathedral 
🎙️ Sheffield City Hall
🎭 Sheffield Theatres
🎶 The Leadmill
🎭 The Montgomery Theatre


Little Shop of Horrors  🎭

A Sheffield Theatres Production

📅 Saturday 7 December 2024 to Saturday 18 January 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre

📝 When flower shop assistant Seymour acquires a mysterious new plant, he names it ‘Audrey II’ after his crush and co-worker. As the succulent grows and grows, it offers Seymour the kind of success he could only ever dream of…as long as he keeps feeding it!

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

📖 Meet Seymour and Audrey from Little Shop of Horrors

🖱️Little Shop of Horrors | Sheffield Theatre

Colin Ryan (Seymour) and Georgina Onuorah (Audrey)

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of)  🎭

By Isobel McArthur after Jane Austen

📅 Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 January 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Direct from its triumph in the West End, where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and the Evening Standard Award, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) returns to Sheffield by public demand and is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Pride & Prejudice* (*Sort Of) | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Bull  🎭

📅 Thursday 16 to Saturday 18 January 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 A brilliantly savage play about workplace bullying, Mike Bartlett’s smash hit BULL returns to Sheffield to celebrate a decade since its Olivier-award winning transfer from Sheffield's Playhouse to London’s Young Vic in 2015.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️BULL | Sheffield Theatres

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Cinderella  🎭

📅 Friday 17 to Saturday 25 January 2025
📍 The Montgomery Theatre

📝 Back for their 80th annual pantomime, Wales Community Theatre Players present the magical, spectacular, fairy godmother of all pantomimes...Cinderella 👠

🖱️Cinderella - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre

🆕 For the very latest on productions and performances at The Montgomery Theatre please visit What’s On - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre


Room on the Broom 🎭

Based on the best-selling picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler.

📅 Thursday 23 to Saturday 25 January 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Jump on board the broom with the witch and her cat in Tall Stories’ fun-filled adaptation of Room on the Broom. 

🖱️Room on the Broom | Sheffield Theatres

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BBC Philharmonic 🎻

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

📅 Friday 24 January 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 A regular guest to the series, the BBC Philharmonic return to Sheffield for a concert of works by two composers, Beethoven and Shostakovich.

💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.  

🖱️ BBC Philharmonic


Chicago 🎭

Starring Faye Brookes, Brenda Edwards and Kevin Clifton.

📅 Tuesday 28 January to Saturday 1 February 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 “Murder, greed, corruption, exploitation, adultery and treachery…all those things we hold near and dear to our hearts” So begins the international multi-award-winning musical, Chicago.

🖱️Chicago | Sheffield Theatres

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Endurance 🎭

📅 Friday 31 January and Saturday 1 February 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 Returning after a sell out run at PUSH Festival 2021 and an acclaimed run at Battersea Arts Centre.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Endurance | Sheffield Theatres

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Robin Hood  🎭

📅 Wednesday 29 January to Sunday 2 February 2025
📍 The Montgomery Theatre

📝 Handsworth and Hallam Theatre Company present Robin Hood. The fine folk of Sherwood Forest are terrorised by the mounting taxes imposed by the wicked Sheriff of Nottingham who’ll stop at nothing to seize the throne of England and claim the fair Maid Marian as his bride.

🖱️Robin Hood - The Montgomery Theatre and Arts Centre - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre

🆕 For the very latest on productions and performances at The Montgomery Theatre please visit What’s On - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre


Death and the King's Horseman 🎭

A Sheffield Theatres and Utopia Theatre Production

📅 Monday 3 to Saturday 8 February 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre

📝 Set in Nigeria in the late 1940’s and based on a true story, Elesin, the king's horseman, is tasked with carrying out a sacred ritual upon the death of the king, however Elesin is overtaken by the allure of earthly desires. 

🎧 Hear the audio flyer for this production here.

🖱️Death and the King's Horseman | Sheffield Theatres

📸 Sheffield Theatres

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Murder on the Orient Express  🎭

Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig

📅 Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 February 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops The Orient Express dead in its tracks. A murder. A train full of suspects. An impossible case. Trapped in the snow with a killer still on-board, can the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case before the train reaches its final destination?

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here and visit the official tour website here

🖱️Murder on the Orient Express | Sheffield Theatres

https://www.sheffieldtheatres.co.uk/events/murder-on-the-orient-express-2025

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


The Leadmill Comedy Club 😂

📅 Thursday 5 February 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 Back for a night of top quality stand-up; starring four of the UK’s finest up-and-coming comedians.

🖱️The Leadmill Comedy Club | The Leadmill, Sheffield, UK

🆕 For the very latest events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill


Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment 🎻

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

📅 Friday 7 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 A baroque-tastic evening celebrating even more of the 18th century's 'greatest hits', exploring why the masterpieces of the time became so popular and why these tunes are still everywhere today.

💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.

🖱️ Sheffield Int. Concert Season - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment


Driftwood  🎭

By Tim Foley, Directed by Neil Bettles (ThickSkin) & Elle While (Pentabus)

📅 Friday 7 and Saturday 8 February 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 An inspiring story about hope, love and belonging.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Driftwood | Sheffield Theatres

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Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist 😂

📅 Sunday 9 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 With the 3rd millennium almost 2.5% complete, Andy Zaltzman, one of the UK's leading satirical comedians, assesses the state of Planet Earth and its most famous and controversial species...the human race.

🖱️ Andy Zaltzman: The Zaltgeist

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Ghost Stories  🎭

Written by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman

📅 Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 February 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 A truly terrifying theatrical experience created by The League of Gentlemen’s Jeremy Dyson, and Andy Nyman, co-creator of Derren Brown’s television and stage shows. Ghost Stories mixes the very best of theatre with the buzz of a thrill-ride, delivering something truly unique.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Ghost Stories | Sheffield Theatres

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Wrestleladswrestle  🎭

📅 Wednesday 12 to Saturday 15 February 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 A new live performance by acclaimed artist and choreographer Jenni Jackson, combineing theatre, dance, judo and pro-wrestling to transform the studio theatre into a battleground of joy and reclamation.

🖱️WrestleLadsWrestle | Sheffield Theatres

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Sophie Duker 😂

📅 Sunday 16 February 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 The Taskmaster champ is back on tour and dealing with her (sugar) daddy issues in a hilarious new stand-up show.

🖱️Sophie Duker | The Leadmill, Sheffield, United Kingdom

🆕 For the very latest on events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill.


Keeping Up Appearances  🎭

A Tudor Players Production

📅 Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 February 2025
📍 Sheffield Library Theatre

📝 'Keeping Up Appearances', the classic BBC comedy, has been adapted for the stage by the original author Roy Clarke with this original adventure for Hyacinth Bucket, (pronounced 'Bouquet'). Featuring many of the well-loved characters from the TV series, this is guaranteed to cure the winter blues.

🖱️Tudor Players | News

📸 Tudor Players

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang  🎭

A truly scrumptious new production

📅 Tuesday 18 February to Saturday 1 March 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 The most fantasmagorical musical of all time flies into the Lyceum for two weeks only. 

🖱️Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Sheffield Theatres

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The Halle 🎻

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

📅 Friday 21 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Andrew Manze is well-known as a leading interpreter and one of the composer's biggest advocates of Vaughan Williams, a composer with whom he has a particularly close affinity. He conducts the Hallé's performance of several of Vaughan Williams' much-loved pieces, including his Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis and Fifth Symphony.

💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.

🖱️ Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25 - The Halle


Katherine Ryan - Battleaxe 😂

📅 Saturday 22 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Katherine Ryan makes a hugely welcome return to the stage with her brand-new live show, Battleaxe. 

🖱️ Katherine Ryan - Battleaxe

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Swan Lake 🎭

Raymond Gubbay presents Varna International Ballet. 

📅 Sunday 23 and Monday 24 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The greatest romantic ballet of all time is brought to life by Tchaikovsky's haunting and unforgettable score.

🖱️ Swan Lake - Sunday 23 February 2025
🖱️ Swan Lake - Monday 24 February 2025

💡 Visit the Sheffield City Hall website.for information on this year's other events.  


Pig Heart Boy 🎭

A Sheffield Theatres, Unicorn Theatre and Children’s Theatre Partnership Production

📅 Thursday 27 February to Saturday 15 March 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Cameron is thirteen, and all he wants is to be normal – have friends, go to school, and dive to the bottom of his local swimming pool. But he desperately needs a heart transplant and time is running out. When he’s finally offered a new heart, Cameron must choose how far he’ll go to get his life back...

🖱️Pig Heart Boy | Sheffield Theatres

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.


🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Russell Kane - HyperActive 😂

📅 Friday 28 February 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Whirlwind, FitBit-breaking comedian, presenter, actor and author Russell Kane is out on the road again, setting it on fire with his unique recipe of sharp wit and 'storming physical comedy' (Mail on Sunday).

🖱️ Russell Kane: HyperActive

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


A Streetcar named Desire 🎭

A Sheffield Theatres Production

📅 Saturday 1 to Saturday 29 March 2025
📍 Crucible Theatre

📝 In the sultry back streets of 1940s New Orleans, fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois seeks solace with her estranged sister Stella.

📝 Full Cast Announced for A Streetcar Named Desire | Sheffield Theatres (27 January 2025)

🖱️A Streetcar Named Desire | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


The Girl on the Train  🎭

Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin.

📅 Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 March 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Adapted from Paula Hawkins’ novel – an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide – this gripping new play will keep you guessing until the final moment.

🖱️The Girl On The Train | Sheffield Theatres

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The Leadmill Comedy Club 😂

📅 Wednesday 5 March 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 Back for a night of top quality stand-up, featuring Tom Wrigglesworth, Nina Gilligan and Jacob Nussey. 

🖱️The Leadmill Comedy Club | The Leadmill, Sheffield, UK

🆕 For the very latest events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill


Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez - Speakeasy 💃

📅 Monday 9 March 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Expect exhilarating live music and breath-taking choreography with Karen and Gorka's newest offering, which follows their debut tour Firedance, which toured the UK in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

🖱️ Karen Hauer & Gorka Marquez - Speakeasy

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Ghost the Musical  🎭

Based on the Paramount Pictures film written by Bruce Joel Rubin.

📅 Tuesday 11 to Saturday 15 March 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 The timeless love story, the Oscar winning film and now a musical classic – the global smash hit Ghost the Musical returns to the Lyceum for one week only.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Ghost The Musical | Sheffield Theatres

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Lou Sanders - No Kissing in the Bingo Hall 😂

📅 Thursday 13 March 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 A show about being human-can you relate? Just like Tom Cruise does all his own stunts, Lou's going to do all her own jokes! A 'deep, dumb show for the masses'.

🖱️ Lou Sanders - No Kissing in the Bingo Hall

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


John Bishop: Back At It 😂

📅 Saturday 15 March 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 After two years spent TV presenting, stage acting, podcast hosting, dog walking and decorating the spare room, John is back doing the thing he loves most; standing on stage and making people laugh.

🖱️ John Bishop - BACK AT IT (3pm)
🖱️ John Bishop - Back At It (BSL Show) (7pm)

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Rock of Ages  🎭

Amateur production presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.

📅 Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 March 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Let Croft House Theatre Company’s electrifying production of Rock of Ages transport you back to the 1980s – complete with huge rock hits, epic guitar solos and even bigger hair. 

🖱️Rock of Ages | Sheffield Theatres

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Chuckles for Charity 😂

📅 Thursday 20 March 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 A brave line-up, brand new to the world of stand-up comedy, raising money for the Sheffield Hospitals Charity. 

🖱️Chuckles For Charity | Sheffield Hospitals Charity

🆕 For the very latest events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill


Toxic 🎭

A Dibby Theatre Production

📅 Thursday 20 and Friday 21 March 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 Pulling back the glittery curtain of the modern pride movement, Toxic reveals a place where many still suffer the devastating impact of generational HIV stigma, racism, homophobia and toxic gender norms.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Toxic | Sheffield Theatres

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The Halle 🎻

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

📅 Friday 21 March 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The Hallé and its new Principal Conductor, Kahchun Wong, in his first season taking over the reins from Mark Elder, are thrilled to be opening the Classical Sheffield Weekend festival with this programme of carefully considered firsts.

💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.

🖱️ Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25 - The Halle


Classical Weekend 🎻

📅 Friday 21 to Sunday 23 March 2025
📍 Various locations across Sheffield city centre

📝 Festival | Celebrating Sheffield’s talented music makers in a range of performances across a packed weekend.

🖱️ Classical Weekend | Classical Sheffield | Live Music Events


Bangers 🎭

By Danusia Samal

📅 Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 March 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 It’s club night and the tracks are spinning. Two headliners crossfade between stories of love, sex, and the power of music – set against a backdrop of precarious lives in urban London.

Featuring original tracks inspired by early noughties and present-day R&B and Garage, Bangers follows the highs and lows of two strangers struggling with their own pasts, while hurtling towards the future.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Bangers | Sheffield Theatres

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There's a Monster in Your Show  🎭

📅 Monday 31 March to Tuesday 1 April 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Tom Fletcher’s interactive adventures for big imaginations are leaping from page to stage, as the beloved Who’s in Your Book? series makes its debut as a brand-new musical show.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️There's A Monster In Your Show | Sheffield Theatres

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Dear Evan Hansen  🎭

The Olivier, Tony® and Grammy® Award-Winning Best Musical

📅 Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 April 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Meet Evan: an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more than to fit in. The thing is, on his way to fitting in, he didn’t tell the whole truth. And now must give up on a life he never dreamt he’d have. As events spiral and the truth comes out, Evan faces a reckoning with himself and everyone around him.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Dear Evan Hansen | Sheffield Theatres

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An Inspector Calls 🎭

J B Priestley’s Classic Thriller

📅 Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 April 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s classic thriller returns after a record-breaking, sell-out tour in 2022.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️An Inspector Calls | Sheffield Theatres​​​​

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Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre 🎭

📅 Tuesday 15 to Saturday 19 April 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 With choreography by Cathy Marston, and live music Northern Ballet’s brilliant dance actors bring this tale of romance, jealousy and dark secrets to life.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️Northern Ballet's Jane Eyre | Sheffield Theatres

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Greg Davies - Full Fat Legend 😂

📅 Wednesday 23 to Saturday 26 April 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Greg Davies is heading back out on tour for the first time in seven years with his brand-new 2025 stand-up show Full Fat Legend. Star of shows such as Taskmaster, The Inbetweeners, The Cleaner, Never Mind The Buzzcocks, Man Down and Cuckoo, this is Greg's biggest live tour yet.

🖱️ Greg Davies - Full Fat Legend (23 April)
🖱️ Greg Davies - Full Fat Legend (24 April)
🖱️ Greg Davies - Full Fat Legend (25 April)
🖱️ Greg Davies - Full Fat Legend (26 April)

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Bat out of Hell 🎭

📅 Monday 28 April to Saturday 3 May 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 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. 

🖱️Bat Out Of Hell | Sheffield Theatres

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Jamali Maddix 😂

📅 Wednesday 30 April 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 Best known for appearances on Hate Thy Neighbour, Spent, Break Clause, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Mock The Week, Live at the Apollo, and much more writer and actor, Jamali Maddix returns to The Leadmill with his new show. 

🖱️Jamali Maddix | The Leadmill, Sheffield, United Kingdom

🆕 For the very latest events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill


Little Women 🎭

📅 Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 May 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Anne-Marie Casey’s masterful new adaptation of the classic story offers a captivating rendition of Little Womenthat breathes new life into a cherished classic.

🖱️Little Women | Sheffield Theatres

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Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake 🎭

📅 Tuesday 13 to Saturday 17 May 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre
🖱️Matthew Bourne's Swan Lake | Sheffield Theatres

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Charlie and The Chocolate Factory 💃

A Manor Operatic Society Production

📅 Wednesday 14 to Saturday 17 May 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Expect exhilarating live music and breath-taking choreography with Karen and Gorka's newest offering, which follows their debut tour Firedance, which toured the UK in 2020, 2022 and 2023.

💡 Visit What's On? | manor-operatic for further information on Manor Operatic Society. 

🖱️ Manor Operatic Society presents Charlie and The Chocolate Factory

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2025 🎶

📅 Friday 16 to Saturday 24 May 2025
📍 Playhouse and Crucible Theatre

📝 Celebrating 20 years of music-making with resident musicians Ensemble 360. For their 20th anniversary Festival, they have guest curated an unmissable programme of 20 events, taking place over nine days.

🖱️ Sheffield Chamber Music Festival 2025 In The Round


Gary Barlow 🎶

📅 Tuesday 20 May 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The Songbook Tour 2025, is set to be a huge celebration of Gary's illustrious four-decade-spanning career, and will see him perform an array of songs from his much-celebrated back catalogue of hits with both Take That and as a solo artist.

🖱️ Gary Barlow

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Nish Kumar 😂

📅 Sunday 20 May 2025
📍 The Leadmill

📝 Nish Kumar, one of The Guardian and The Telegraph’s 50 Best Comedians of the 21st Century, is back on tour with his brand new politically charged stand-up show, Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe. 

🖱️Nish Kumar | The Leadmill, Sheffield, United Kingdom

🆕 For the very latest events at The Leadmill please visit Events | The Leadmill


& Juliet 🎭

📅 Tuesday 20 to Saturday 31 May 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 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?

🖱️& Juliet | Sheffield Theatres

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Only Fools and Horses The Musical 😂

📅 Monday 26 to Saturday 31 May 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The smash hit show Only Fools and Horses The Musical - direct from a record-breaking four-year sold-out run-in London's West End - featuring Del Boy, Rodney, Grandad, Cassandra, Raquel, Boycie, Marlene, Trigger, Denzil, Mickey Pearce.

🖱️ Only Fools & Horses The Musical

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


The Detective Dog  🎭

Supported by Arts Council England. Commission by ARC Stockton and Barnsley Civic.

📅 Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 May 2025
📍 Playhouse

📝 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.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️The Detective Dog | Sheffield Theatres

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Peter James' Picture You Dead 🎭

📅 Tuesday 3 to Saturday 7 June 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre
🖱️Peter James' Picture You Dead | Sheffield Theatres

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The Blindboy Podcast Live 🎙️

📅  Thursday 5 June 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The Blindboy Podcast LIVE returns on its biggest tour yet, with polymath, bestselling author, screenwriter, songwriter, musician, producer and academic Blindboy Boatclub.

🖱️ The Blindboy Podcast Live

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


The Halle 🎻

Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25

📅 Friday 8 June 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 The Sheffield International Concert Series season finale. Under the baton of the Hallé's charismatic Choral Director, Matthew Hamilton, the massed forces of the Hallé and the Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus will be joined by a trio of exceptional soloists to breathe hope and joy into Haydn's divine masterpiece, The Creation.

💡 For other Sheffield International Concert Season performances visit the Sheffield City Hall website.

🖱️ Sheffield International Concert Season 2024/25 - The Halle


Calamity Jane 🎭

📅 Tuesday 10 to Saturday 14 June 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre
🖱️Calamity Jane | Sheffield Theatres

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Sophie Ellis Bextor 🎶

📅 Wednesday 11 June 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Sophie Ellis-Bextor has announced her biggest ever UK headline tour in May and June 2025, including a headline show right here in the heart of Sheffield. 

🖱️ Sophie Ellis Bextor

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Tim Minchin 😂

📅 Friday 13 June 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Tim Minchin is back with his ironically titled new show, Songs The World Will Never Hear. The tour marks the 20th anniversary of his explosive arrival onto the British comedy scene in 2005.

🥂 Make your night extra special with the City Hall's Arches Bar Champagne Experience

🖱️ Tim Minchin - Songs the World Will Never Hear

📅 Tim will also be performing the show in July. Tickets released Thursday 20 February 2025. 

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


A Night at the Musicals  🎭

Organised and staged by Roundabout, South Yorkshire’s youth homeless charity. 

📅 Wednesday 18 June 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 This spectacular event brings together some of the region’s top musical theatre talent, alongside special guests from the dazzling worlds of musical theatre and television.

Hosted by the fabulous Dan Walker, this year’s show will take centre stage at the iconic Lyceum Theatre in Sheffield for the very first time.

🖱️ A Night at the Musicals | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Kinky Boots The Musical 🎭

📅 Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 June 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre
🖱️Kinky Boots The Musical | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Crossed Wires 🎧

📅 Friday 4 to Sunday 6 July 2025

📝 Back for 2025, Sheffield's Crossed Wires Festival will be bringing some of the UK's top names in podcasting from your headphones to the stage for one bumper weekend.

🖱️ Crossed Wires Festival


Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat 🎭

Multi award-winning show. 

📅 Tuesday 8 to Saturday 12 July 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 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. 

🖱️Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Anything Goes  🎭

Woodseats Musical Theatre Company

📅 Wednesday 9 to Saturday 12 July 2025
📍 The Montgomery Theatre

📝 Anything Goes is a fast-paced comedy musical that takes you back to the Golden Age of high society on the high seas.

🖱️Anything Goes - The Montgomery Theatre and Arts Centre - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre

🆕 For the very latest on productions and performances at The Montgomery Theatre please visit What’s On - The Montgomery Theatre & Arts Centre


Tim Minchin 😂

📅 Thursday 17 July 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Tim Minchin is back with another performance of his ironically titled new show, Songs The World Will Never Hear. The tour marks the 20th anniversary of his explosive arrival onto the British comedy scene in 2005.

🥂 Make your night extra special with the City Hall's Arches Bar Champagne Experience

🖱️ Tim Minchin Announces Sheffield Show

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


The Fringe at Tramlines 🎸

📅 Friday 25 to Saturday 27 July 2025
📍 Sheffield city centre

📝 Taking place across outdoor spaces, pubs, bars and music venues in Sheffield city centre and beyond, The Fringe is a true highlight in the city centre's vibrant events calendar. Supported by Sheffield BID. 


August's highlights include:


Riverdance💃

📅 Saturday 16 to Monday 18 August 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 To celebrate the show's 30th anniversary, Riverdance embarks on a special tour in 2025, bringing its magic to audiences around the world.

🖱️ Riverdance

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


September's highlights include:


Rob Beckett: Giraffe 😂

📅 Sunday 7 September 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

🖱️ Rob Beckett: Giraffe

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Elis & John: That Feels Significant Live! 😂

📅Thursday 18 September 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Elis James, John Robins and Dave Masterman are hitting the road! Yes! Britain's 'youngest and most relevant podcast-first broadcasters' are coming to a theatre near you, and this time...they're bringing Dave.

🖱️ Elis & John - That Feels Significant: Live!

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


Float Along 2025 🌊

📅 Saturday 27 September 2025

💡 Float Along Festival makes a return to Sheffield in 2025 for a fourth year.

🖱️ Float Along

📸 Float Along Festival

October's highlights include:


Sensoria 🎞️

📅 Thursday 2 to Sunday 5 October 2025

📝 Sheffield's festival of film and music.

🖱️ Home - Sensoria

📸 Sensoria

The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe  🎭

Direct from the West End.

📅 Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 October 2025
📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 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. Step through the wardrobe into the magic kingdom of Narnia where a world of wonder awaits.

🎬 Watch the trailer for this production here.

🖱️The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | Sheffield Theatres

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield Theatres please visit What's on | Sheffield Theatres and click here to be added to the Sheffield Theatres mailing list.


Dara O'Briain - Re:Creation 😂

📅 Friday 31 October 2025
📍 Sheffield City Hall

📝 Dara O Briain is back with a brand new live show! Ireland's finest live comedians back doing his favourite thing: standing in a theatre, telling stories and creating madness with the audience.

🖱️Dara O' Briain - Re:Creation

🆕 For the very latest on productions at Sheffield City Hall please visit the Sheffield City Hall website.


November's highlights coming soon...


December's highlights include:


Aladdin 🎭

A Sheffield Theatres Production

📅 Friday 5 December 2025 to Sunday 4 January 2026

📍 Lyceum Theatre

📝 Panto legend Damian Williams will return for his 18th year in a show written by Paul Hendy and produced by Evolution Productions, the same team behind Sheffield Theatres' recent panto hits Beauty and the Beast and Snow White.

🖱️Aladdin | Sheffield Theatres

📸 Sheffield Theatres

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