Roll up, roll up as An Evening of Burlesque is coming to town.
A scintillating night out of sparkling entertainment, the UK’s longest running Burlesque show is back touring the nation and it’s bigger than ever.
Join us for the good old-fashioned night out as we bring you the ultimate variety show, blending stylish cabaret, comedy, music, circus and burlesque to light up all your senses.
One of the most celebrated stars in British comedy, Tez Ilyas, is back with his hilarious new show.
A lot has changed in the last two years for Tez. He got married, he bought a house, and he’s became a stepdad… to two rabbits. Trying to make sense of his new life, the changing world around us and wrestling the big questions, like: why is Lotus Biscoff in everything now?
Star of Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and QI, Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with a brand new tour, her funniest and most personal to date.
‘Prepare for a joyous and uplifting show from a comedian known for making powerhouse stand-up from the thorniest of subjects’
Guardian
‘Expect sequins, social commentary, and massive laughs from the renaissance woman of UK comedy’
Rolling Stone
Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Join Ed Byrne as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
★★★★★
‘Hilarious, extremely dark, profoundly touching and resolutely unsentimental. Ed Byrne has plumbed the very depths of his soul and found something verging on greatness.’
Rolling Stone
★★★★★
‘This is no misery memoir, Byrne is too talented a comic for that’
The Arts Desk
After a complete sell-out first run in 2023, Ruby Wax‘s rawest, darkest, funniest and most compelling stage show yet comes to City Varieties in 2024, thanks to enormous demand.
Sofie Hagen is bringing her brand-new stand-up show and her brand-new book on tour.
‘Country, the UK, lost its way, seeks life partner/mentor/inspiration. Good sense of humour essential. No timewasters, tedious show-offs or offend-o-trons need apply. HR free zone.’
Standing up so you don’t have to take it lying down anymore, the Pub Landlord is back to make sense of the questions you probably already had the answers to.
You know what they say: There’s no school like the old school, with the dodgy overflowing toilets.
★★★★★
‘A supremely polished performer’
Mail on Sunday
As seen on the BBC, brace yourself for this award-winning smash-hit Girls Night Out with Flat and the Curves, the comedy girl band that’s leaving a trail of sequins across the UK in 2024! This powerhouse, glittery cabaret is a fierce blend of outrageous vocals, rip-roaring humour and unapologetic horniness. They’ll chat inflatable d**ks, hen-do blackouts and dance-floor finger-b**ging… No subject is off limits!
If you like fast-paced, edgy one-liners then get ready to be happy. Jimmy Carr is going back on tour with his brand-new show JIMMY CARR: LAUGHS FUNNY.
Jimmy tells jokes, and jokes are like magnets.
Jokes attract people, but they can also repel.
Some people are repelled by Jimmy’s dark brand of comedy. This show is not for them.
But if it’s the kind of thing you like, then this is the kind of thing you’ll like.
Paddy McGuinness returns with Nearly There… his first stand-up tour in eight years.