WHAT'S ON AT THE OCTAGON THEATRE, BOLTON
What's On at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Most Popular Shows and Events at Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Thu 23 May - Sat 1 Jun 2024
What's On at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Little Shop of Horrors
Tuesday 14 - Saturday 18 May 2024
The mean green monster musical explodes into Bolton! Downtown on Skid Row, weedy flower shop assistant Seymour is down on his luck until he stumbles across a mysterious new plant with killer potential. Fame and fortune follow but will this ...
Octagon Comedy Club - 17th May 2024
Friday 17 May 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Theatre Club: Little Shop of Horrors
Saturday 18 May 2024
Theatre Club is a chance to chat about Octagon productions in a relaxed and informal discussion group. In our May meeting, we'll be discussing Little Shop of Horrors. If you would like any further information please contact participation@oc...
Testmatch
Thursday 23 May - Saturday 1 June 2024
Cricket's past & present collide in this compelling new play It makes the whole of western history make sense, this weather. If I had to live in this, I'd get off this island as fast as I possibly could, And take over whatever land I came a...
Half Term Musical Theatre Workshop
Thursday 30 May 2024
Join us at the Octagon for a special half term musical theatre performance opportunity! Spend two days exploring songs from the Octagon's production of Little Shop of Horrors. You'll work the Octagon engagement team and West End professiona...
Family Saturdays
Saturday 1 June - Saturday 3 August 2024
Join us at the Octagon on selected Saturday mornings for FREE family storytelling sessions, sharing stories in creative ways to spark imaginations! There will be a small soft play area for families with little ones under 4....
Theatre Club: Testmatch
Saturday 1 June 2024
Theatre Club is a chance to chat about Octagon productions in a relaxed and informal discussion group. In our June meeting, we'll be discussing Testmatch. Theatre Club is open to anyone aged 18+. If you would like any further information pl...
Octagon Comedy Club - 7th June 2024
Friday 7 June 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Liberation Squares
Saturday 8 June 2024
Three teenage girls forge an unlikely friendship when they meet at a creative writing workshop at a hip new caf?/workspace which used to be their library. They challenge each other with ideas, Tik Toks, lyrics, dance routines. But when they...
Liberation Squares Writing Workshop
Saturday 8 June 2024
About Workshop Leader, Shareefa:Shareefa Energy is a poet, writer, activist, workshop facilitator originally from Highfields in Leicester. She is the author of the poetry collection Galaxy Walk, endorsed by the late Benjamin Zephaniah. Her ...
Dracula: The Bloody Truth
Tuesday 11 - Saturday 29 June 2024
A hilarious and madcap comedy retelling of the iconic gothic classic It's 1900. Dracula, the best-selling novel by Bram Stoker was released three years ago and Professor Abraham Van Helsing is not happy. He was there. He knows The Truth. Th...
Book Club: Dracula
Wednesday 12 June 2024
We're excited to be back with our second edition of the Octagon Book Club! In these sessions, we'll be exploring the original stories that have inspired upcoming Octagon productions. Join us on 12th June where we'll be discussing Bram Stoke...
Octagon Comedy Club - 21st June 2024
Friday 21 June 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Theatre Club: Dracula
Saturday 29 June 2024
Theatre Club is a chance to chat about Octagon productions in a relaxed and informal discussion group. In our June meeting, we'll be discussing Dracula. If you would like any further information please contact participation@octagonbolton. c...
The King's Voice - Gordon Hendricks as Elvis
Sunday 30 June 2024
The King's Voice transports you through time from the '68 special to the Vegas era, breathing soul into ballads and those iconic jumpsuit numbers that set the stage on fire. Crowned the Worlds Ultimate Elvis Tribute by Elvis Presley Enterpr...
Beautiful Evil Things
Thursday 4 - Saturday 6 July 2024
Beautiful Evil Things is a high-energy one-woman show from Ad Infinitum, combining physical storytelling with cut-throat wit. Coming hot on the heels of their multi award-winning hit Odyssey, this acerbically comic, thrilling and poignant ...
Octagon Comedy Club
Friday 5 - Friday 19 July 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs! Join us one Friday a month and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. To see who is performing, more details can be found h...
Collaborator - A work in progress by Daniel Kitson
Sunday 7 - Monday 8 July 2024
Perrier Comedy Award-winning Yorkshire comedian and Phoenix Nights star Daniel Kitson dislikes audience participation. He thinks it's creatively bankrupt, ethically questionable and if he sees it mentioned in the blurb for a show, he will n...
Dara Ó Briain
Friday 12 July 2024
Dara O Briain is one of the UK & Ireland's favourite stand-up comedians and television presenters. He is best known for hosting Mock The Week, Robot Wars, Three Men in a Boat, Dara and Ed's Great Big Adventure, Stargazing Live, Dara O Briai...
Sophie Duker
Friday 12 July 2024
The sexy baby from Taskmaster is all grown up. Back in 2019 she was a Babybel - round, sweet, pure. Now she's vintage cheddar - extra mature and hiding in your fridge. As seen on Live At The Apollo and literally everywhere else. Hag is her ...
Chloe Petts
Friday 12 July 2024
Fresh from her smash hit Edinburgh Fringe run and Soho Theatre sell-out debut, rising star and "very funny" (Guardian) "very gay" Kent comedian Chloe Petts returns with her latest tour. Everyone complimented her on how polite she was with b...
Fingers on Buzzers
Friday 12 July 2024
A live recording of the popular podcast Fingers on Buzzers from comedian and keen amateur quizzer Lucy Porter, alongside The Chase's very own Jenny Ryan. Whether you're a Pointless armchair aficionado, nostalgic for the days of Going for Go...
Lucy Porter
Friday 12 July 2024
Lucy Porter has been an Edinburgh Fringe favourite for over 20 years. She's appeared on countless TV shows including QI, Live at the Apollo and Would I Lie to You, as well as being a regular on Radio 4's News Quiz, The Unbelievable Truth an...
Mixed Bill
Friday 12 July 2024
To finish off the first night of the Festival a special mixed bill, hosted by Phil Ellis(top 20 best reviewed shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2023). With, Oliva Lee (regular on NBC?s The Tonight Show with Jay Leno), a special guest from elsewhere...
Justin Moorhouse
Saturday 13 July 2024
The hilarious Manchester comedian and Phoenix Nights star is back: still funny, yet middle aged. Stretch & Think is his new show, directed by Henry Normal, which may contain: Yoga, getting older, Madonna, shoplifters, Labradoodles, middle-a...
Ania Magliano
Saturday 13 July 2024
You know when you're trying to wee on a night out, and you're interrupted by a random girl who insists on telling you all her secrets even though you've never met? Imagine that, but she has a microphone. After two critically acclaimed sell-...
Emmanuel Sonubi
Saturday 13 July 2024
The Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee presents a whistle stop tour through the jobs that have led him to become one of the hottest stand-ups on the circuit in the brand-new show, Curriculum Vitae.   Emmanuel will take the audience on a...
Huge Davies
Saturday 13 July 2024
Huge Davies was nominated for the Edinburgh Best Newcomer Awardfor his first show ?The Carpark? and his second show ?Whodunnit? receivedmultiple five star reviews. He is the creator and star of the Channel 4 sitcom?The Artists? and has been...
Ryan Cullen
Saturday 13 July 2024
If Milton Jones is the Obi wan Kenobi of one-liners then Ryan Cullen is Darth Vader. He delivers with an economy of words, an unapologetic style and surgical precision. An act you?ll be talking about long after seeing him....
The Bolton Mislaid Comedy History Walking Tour
Saturday 13 - Sunday 14 July 2024
A textiles boomtown, a royalist stronghold, one of the first market towns of the north and the happiest people in the UK - Bolton is brimming with interesting history. But what of comedy history? Surely the place has turned out too many foo...
Dylan Moran
Sunday 14 July 2024
How can it be you have spent a whole ten minutes staring at a banana? Why do you always do stuff like that? Why do you never do the other really great things where it's much, much better - and afterwards you don't want to saw off your own f...
Catherine Bohart
Sunday 14 July 2024
Catherine Bohart's back and older than ever with her new show "Again, With Feelings." And adulthood frankly isn't living up to her expectations. Join this "effortless" (Chortle) "star in the making" (Skinny) for a hilariously twisted second...
Steve Bugeja
Sunday 14 July 2024
The creator and star of ITV2's hit sitcom, Buffering, is back on the road following a sell-out 2022 tour and a critically acclaimed run at the 2023 Edinburgh fringe festival with his new show Self Doubt (I Think). He's appeared on Stand Up...
Harry Stachini
Sunday 14 July 2024
Most of us are carrying honesty grenades. Some are small, like farting in a lift and owning up to it. But some are truly massive. Harry?s was medium to large and once he pulled the pin; it destroyed an eight-year relationship, a mortgage an...
Johnny Pelham
Sunday 14 July 2024
The son of two therapists Jonny has been in and out of therapy all his adult life. However this year he's quit. In this candid and bitingly funny new show, Jonny looks at what it means to be diagnosed as ''neurdiverse'', what''s normal and ...
Star Crossed Summer School 2024
Monday 22 July 2024
StarCrossed! Summer School 2024 - a 90s reimagining of Romeo &Juliet Our summer school is back for 2024! Bounce back to the 90s, to a time of Posh and Becks,britpop and Blockbuster. Dust off your tracksuit, double your denim and getready to...
Wonderland In Alice
Friday 16 - Saturday 17 August 2024
Ready to fall down the rabbit hole? British Youth Musical Theatre, in collaboration with Christopher Tendai Company present Wonderland In Alice, a brand new musical that re-imagines Lewis Caroll's classic tale of self-discovery and escapism...
James Martin Cookery Demo
Monday 26 August 2024
Mr Food and Drink, James Martin returns to Bolton Food & Drink Festival for his 14th year to teach you some brand new recipes! James Martin made a great impact with his television debut in November '96 and has rarely been off screen since....
Basil Brush Unleashed
Wednesday 28 August 2024
Showbiz legend, national treasure, fox. Children of the 2000's, 1970's (and everything in-between) this one's for you as Basil goes prime time! Join him as he takes to the road following his much-talked about and totally sold out run at l...
Basil Brush: Unleashed
Wednesday 28 August 2024
Showbiz legend, national treasure, fox. Children of the 2000?s, 1970?s (and everything in-between) this one?s for you as Basil goes prime time! Join him as he takes to the road following his much-talked about and totally sold out run at las...
Brassed Off
Thursday 5 - Saturday 28 September 2024
Based on the smash-hit film, Brassed Off, this production of the much-loved modern classic by Octagon Theatre Bolton, Theatre by The Lake and Stephen Joseph Theatre is full of grit, heart and northern humour, and will feature live music fr...
Octagon Comedy Club - 6th September 24
Friday 6 September 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Octagon Comedy Club - 20th September 24
Friday 20 September 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Theatre Club - Brassed Off
Saturday 28 September 2024
Theatre Club is a chance to chat about Octagon productions in a relaxed and informal discussion group. In our June meeting, we'll be discussing Brassed Off. If you would like any further information please contact participation@octagonbolto...
Jenny Ryan
Wednesday 2 October 2024
Jenny Ryan - better known as the dream-crushing Bolton brainbox The Vixen on the hit ITV quiz The Chase - breaks away from teatime telly and invites you to an evening of song, storytelling and even some showbiz secrets. Join Jenny on a jour...
The Gruffalo
Thursday 3 - Saturday 5 October 2024
A mouse took a stroll through the deep dark wood... Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories' magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. Searching for h...
Octagon Comedy Club - 4th October 24
Friday 4 October 2024
After sell-out shows, the Octagon Comedy Club is back for even more laughs!Join us and enjoy a hilarious night of live stand-up from some of the best names in comedy. It's guaranteed to be the funniest night in Bolton!Line-up to be announce...
Joy Unspeakable
Saturday 5 October 2024
It?sall about food and nothing to do with food. Chancesare someone you know has an eating disorder. So why don?t you know, and why dowe think they?re about skinny women who can?t eat? Groundedin an ethos of care, Joy Unspeakable presents th...
Bolton on Film
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Bolton on Film offers the unique opportunity to explore the archive's collection of films showcasing Bolton's industries, cultures and traditions as captured by local film-makers over the last 100 years....
Austen's Women: Lady Susan
Wednesday 9 October 2024
From Dyad Productions, the award-winning creators of Austen's Women, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic, and A Room of One's Own. Austen's Women are back - in a brand-new solo show! Devil-may-care Lady S...
Most Popular Shows and Events at Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Thu 23 May - Sat 1 Jun 2024