Showing next week

Going The Distance

Digital Online Performance: March 2020. Theatres across the country go dark. Hundreds of cherished arts centres face the prospect of permanent closure. But that isn’t going to stop the Eggborough Community Theatre… as they fight to save their local venue with a genius idea.

4 October to 17 October

Showing next week

Slow Violence

An absurd comedy about attitudes to climate change. It’s Peter’s first day at Happy Holiday's office. Unfortunately this office isn’t looking like the best working environment. The fact that everyone seems to be ignoring these facts is even more worrying.

8 October

Showing next week

Extra Time

A rousing theatrical feast for any football fan or theatregoer, Extra Time is a pitch-perfect tribute to Derby, its people and Derby County Football Club. This is a must-see, uplifting show to bask in the glory and nostalgia of the 1946 FA Cup win, and to celebrate DCFC and our great city.

9 October to 17 October

Showing next week

Tez Ilyas: Populist

The brand-new stand-up show from the star of The Tez O’Clock Show (Channel 4), TEZ Talks (BBC Radio 4) and the multi-award-winning Man Like Mobeen (BBC Three).

9 October

Sorry, I Disappeared

Available from Monday 11 October: Sorry I Disappeared has been created as a Walk This Play® experience for Derby, simply download the Walk This Play® app, plug in your headphones and press play.

11 October to 11 April

Our White Skoda Octavia

Written by Shamser Sinha and directed by Sameena Hussain, this moving new play shines a light on the struggles of contemporary life as one family juggles bills, dreams and taxi-driving schemes.

15 October to 16 October

Dracula: The Untold Story

Unfolding on stage as a live graphic novel, Dracula: The Untold Story by imitating the dog is a chilling new version of Bram Stoker’s classic gothic vampire tale that you thought you knew so well.

19 October to 23 October

Dane Baptiste: The Chocolate Chip 2021

Baptiste is back on international tour with a brand new stand-up show. Join one of the nation’s most exciting stand up stars as he presents another brilliantly hilarious and boldly provocative show.

22 October

SESSIONS

Tunde’s 30th birthday is fast approaching. So, he’s just started therapy because he hasn’t been able to get to the gym for weeks and a recent one-night stand ended in tears – his. SESSIONS by Ifeyinwa Frederick is a raw, funny, bittersweet deep-dive into the complexities of masculinity, depression and therapy.

23 October

My Song Of Love

Presented by Present Company: A nostalgic cavalcade by Sigmund Romberg, Franz Lehár and Rudolph Benatsky to captivate all lovers of romantic light operas of the pre-war era.

28 October

Sherlock Holmes

Your Chance Productions will be taking on classic stories and iconic (traditionally male) characters and giving them a woman's touch. Their first venture will be the great detective (her)self SHERLOCK HOLMES!

29 October to 30 October

A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum

Presented by Present Company: Stephen Sondheim’s, fast-paced, witty, irreverent farce is one of the funniest musicals ever written.

29 October to 30 October

An Evening with Pam Ayres 2021

Part of Derby Book Festival: Pam Ayres has been entertaining the nation with her poems and stories for over 40 years. Join her for an evening featuring her work, old and new, from her many books.

9 November

Luminosa

A brand new Circus cabaret for the 21st Century. Luminosa from Jacksons Lane and Lost In Translation is a sizzling, scintillating night of daring feats with fun and fantastic performance.

12 November

David Suchet: Poirot And More, A Retrospective

Join us in conversation with Sir David Suchet, the actor behind the detective Poirot and many characters portrayed on stage and screen over a career spanning five decades.

13 November

Culture Cares Conference 2021

In the context of the current Care Review (England), this is our second conference bringing the cultural and care sectors together for insightful and lively conversations, presentations and workshops. The day features a brand-new performance co-created with care-experienced young people, commissioned by Arts Council England for this event.

16 November

The Pasadena Roof Orchestra

With an unparalleled reputation across the UK, Europe and beyond, for over 50 years the Pasadena Roof Orchestra have been re-creating the sounds of a golden era of music from the 1920s and 1930s to widespread acclaim.

17 November

Treasure Island: Christmas 2021

Set sail on the high seas for a spectacular swashbuckling adventure at Derby Theatre during Christmas 2021. Theresa Heskins’ award-winning adaptation is inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale of buried treasure and buccaneers. A pirate-filled production perfect for the whole family.

26 November to 31 December

The Palace of Varieties

Love him or hate him, Dennis Skinner, ex-miner and fifty years a Socialist M.P. is not a man to be ignored. But beneath the hard-line political image, is a man with a passion for Nature and a soul who loves to sing. The show is driven by politics and a-cappella, in a fast-moving, entertaining night out down the miners’ welfare.

22 January to 5 February

Andy Parsons: Healing The Nation

As seen on Mock the Week, Live at the Apollo and Q.I. and repeated on Dave. "Cracking adlibbing…a joke-rich rallying call for a better Britain" (The Guardian)

9 February

Sindhu Vee: Alphabet (Rescheduled 2022)

A brand-new show about the hair we want, the friends we have, and living the vast difference between virus and viral. As seen on Live at the Apollo, QI, Have I Got News for You and Sex Education.

13 February

Count Arthur Strong: And This Is Me 2022

A Twentieth Anniversary Tour. After many years of giving his wonderful lecture talks of his he does, Count Arthur Strong has at last bowed to substantial pubic demand and allowed himself be talked into making the show about himself for once.

5 March

The Bone Sparrow

Subhi and Jimmie live in an Australian permanent detention centre and must find a way to freedom. But not until each of them has been braver than ever before. The Bone Sparrow follows Pilot Theatre's critically acclaimed adaptations of Noughts & Crosses and Crongton Knights for young audiences.

15 March to 19 March

Sheila's Island

The Office meets Lord of the Flies meets Miranda. Sheila’s Island is a sparkling, sharp-witted new comedy from writer Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots, The Band), starring Olivier Award winner Sara Crowe and Judy Flynn.

22 March to 26 March

Blood Brothers 2022

Willy Russell's legendary musical returns to Derby Theatre following a sold out run in 2019. Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides of the tracks, only to meet again with fateful consequences.

19 April to 23 April

Stewart Lee: Snowflake/ Tornado (Rescheduled 2022)

Including new material for 2022, a Double-bill of two new 60 minute sets, back to back from “the world’s greatest living stand-up” (Times).

28 April

Mark Watson: This Can’t Be It 2022

Spiritual enquiry meets high-octane observational comedy as the Taskmaster survivor, multi-award-winner and No More Jockeys cult leader attempts to cram a couple of years of pathological overthinking into an evening of stand-up.

4 June