WHAT'S ON AT THE ALEXANDRA, BIRMINGHAM
What's On at The Alexandra, Birmingham
Most Popular Shows and Events at The Alexandra, Birmingham
Mon 14 Dec 2026 - Sat 2 Jan 2027
What's On at The Alexandra, Birmingham
Paranormal Activity
Friday 30 - Saturday 31 October 2026
The chilling theatrical experience will give audiences a chance to witness the haunting phenomenon that has taken the West End by storm. The tour news news follows the recent announcement that, following phenomenal demand, Paranormal Activ...
Theatre Tour - Ghost
Saturday 31 October 2026
Have you ever wanted to explore one of the most haunted venues in the Midlands? Join us on a spine-chilling ghost tour of our historic home and discover the mysteries of our 125-year-old theatre....
Jersey Boys
Monday 2 - Saturday 21 November 2026
The internationally acclaimed stage sensation Jersey Boys is working its way back around the UK! The boys are back as the original Tony®-winning sensation returns for its 20th Anniversary Tour! Go behind the music and inside the story of ...
Theatre Tour - History
Saturday 7 November 2026
Have you ever wanted to go backstage at one of the most historic theatres in the West Midlands? Led by our expert tour guides - our History Tours offer a truly unique insight into life at The Alex over the last 125 years....
Christmas in Ireland
Monday 23 November 2026
This Christmas, experience the heart, humour and spirit of Ireland, with Christmas in Ireland. Be transported to a magical Christmas Eve inside a traditional Irish pub, where friends, old and new, gather to share songs, stories and memorie...
The Music of Fleetwood Mac by Candlelight
Wednesday 25 November 2026
Featuring a cast of West End singers and a live band, this 'landslide' concert is jam packed with Fleetwood Mac hits as you have never heard them before! This incredible show will feature best loved songs including 'Little Lies', 'The Chai...
Chris Ramsey
Friday 27 November 2026
Chris Ramsey is a critically acclaimed Stand Up Comedian and regular face on TV. He has hosted two series of his own show The Chris Ramsey Show on Comedy Central as well as Chris Ramsey's Stand Up Central and the panel show Virtually Famou...
Austentatious - An Improvised Jane Austen Novel
Saturday 28 November 2026
The award-winning West End smash-hit comedy Austentatious comes to you on a strictly limited tour. For a delightful evening, the all-star Austentatious cast will improvise a hilarious new Jane Austen novel, inspired entirely by a title fro...
Adam Rowe
Sunday 29 November 2026
Host of the global smash-hit podcast Have A Word & star of Live At The Apollo, Adam Rowe is hitting the road across the UK with his brand-new stand-up tour Fashionism. ...
What's Love Got To Do With It - A Tribute to Tina Turner
Sunday 6 December 2026
After a sensational 2025 that saw over 60,000 Tina Turner fans across the UK singing, dancing, and having the time of their lives, What's Love Got To Do With It? is back and bigger than ever for 2026! This electrifying tribute show celebra...
An Orchestral Tribute to Tim Burton & Dark Fantasy by Moonlight
Tuesday 8 December 2026
An Orchestral Tribute to Tim Burton & Dark Fantasy by Moonlight - An enchanting live performance of whimsical and otherworldly dark fantasy film music, brought to life by the Illuminated Orchestra, beneath the glow of a giant moon. A spell...
The ELO Experience - Tribute to Electric Light Orchestra
Friday 11 December 2026
The ELO Experience have been bringing the music of Jeff Lynne and The Electric Light orchestra to the live stage since 2006. The legacy left by Jeff Lynne & The Electric Light Orchestra barely needs any introduction - suffice to say that b...
James B Partridge - The Big Christmas Assembly 2026
Saturday 12 December 2026
What began as playful performances for his pupils has grown into a nationwide phenomenon - from TikTok fame to closing the field at Glastonbury Festival. With recent appearances on Virgin Radio, BBC Radio 2, The One Show and Songs of Prais...
Mean Girls
Monday 14 December 2026 - Saturday 2 January 2027
Direct from the West End, MEAN GIRLS is the smash-hit musical comedy from an award-winning creative team including Tina Fey (30 Rock, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Saturday Night Live). Faye Tozer* - Steps icon, TV personality and West End ac...
The Silence of the Lambs
Tuesday 5 - Saturday 9 January 2027
Dr Hannibal Lecter will see you now... Come face to face with the chilling cultural phenomenon THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS as it makes its world stage premiere in 2026. Based on Thomas Harris's gripping literary masterpiece, and starring ...
Agatha Christie's The Hollow
Tuesday 12 - Saturday 16 January 2027
Following sell-out tours of Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Fiery Angel reunites with director Lucy Bailey to bring this darkly seductive new staging of one of Agatha Christie's most compelling mysteries The Ho...
The Night Sky Show
Sunday 17 January 2027
Look up, and discover a universe bursting with possibility... The Night Sky Show - A Sky Full of Hope is a spectacular, inclusive journey across the universe with astronomer and author Adrian West. Following the phenomenal success of The N...
Dirty Dancing
Tuesday 19 - Saturday 23 January 2027
Dirty Dancing returns with a UK and Irish tour. Exploding with heart-pounding music, breath-taking emotion and sensationally sexy dancing. Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnn...
Luther Live & Velvet Voices
Sunday 24 January 2027
Step into a world of soul, romance, and unforgettable grooves with Luther Live & Velvet Voices - the ultimate live theatre experience celebrating the golden era of R'n'B. This electrifying show brings the smooth sounds of Luther Vandross, ...
Queen by Candlelight - The Ultimate Tribute to Queen
Thursday 28 January 2027
Featuring a live cast of West End singers and a live rock band, experience Queen as you have never heard them before at this tribute night of Queen anthems, performed by candlelight. The concert will feature some of the most iconic songs o...
The Dinosaur That Pooped
Saturday 30 January 2027
When Danny and Dino's favourite rock band are playing their last ever concert, they go on a quest to get the last two tickets. But with a villainous band manager lurking, nothing goes to plan. Will the band perform? Will Danny rock out? Or...
Ed Gamble
Sunday 31 January 2027
Everyone's annoying cousin, Ed Gamble, is going back on tour in 2027 across the UK & Ireland with some more of his stand-up grot. So come and see the self-appointed Crown Prince of Visualised Companion Podcasts harrumph about the stage. Co...
Murder, She Didn't Write
Thursday 4 February 2027
Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your 'finger of suspicion' at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe favourites, Degrees of Error, are bringing back their multiple sell-out show for your sleuthing pleasure. They'll cre...
Thank You For The Music - The Ultimate Tribute to ABBA
Saturday 6 February 2027
Calling all Dancing Queens, this is your night to say, Thank you for the Music! This international smash-hit tribute show brings all ABBA's number one hits to the stage. The hugely popular show, now in its 20th year, with a brand-new show ...
The Rocket Man - A Celebration of Sir Elton John
Sunday 7 February 2027
 Pack your bags, strap yourself in, for a night like no other and celebrate Sir Elton John with Jimmy Love. The Rocket Man is the world's favourite celebration to a musical icon, playing to audiences all around the world. So, catch a sta...
Strangers on a Train
Tuesday 9 - Saturday 13 February 2027
Two strangers meet on a train. Charles Bruno has an idea: the perfect crime. Two murders. Two strangers. No motive. No connection. No consequences. Guy Haines dismisses it as a joke. But Bruno isn?t joking. As Bruno?s obsession spirals out...
A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 February 2027
The Cornley Amateur Drama Society are back with tidings of chaos and joy, ready to tackle the Charles Dickens' classic, A Christmas Carol.A new production of CHRISTMAS CAROL GOES WRONG smashes into Aylesbury Waterside Theatre direct from a...
Vanessa Williams
Sunday 21 February 2027
Join the legendary New York singer, actress, model, producer, and dancer Vanessa Williams as she takes to the road with her first full UK concert tour. Accompanied by her incredible band of world-class musicians, Vanessa Williams will ta...
Revision on Tour: Macbeth
Monday 22 - Tuesday 23 February 2027
In this inventive adaptation, Shakespeare?s Chorus becomes our narrator, guiding audiences through the tangled web of ambition, betrayal and dark prophecy. Performed by an ensemble of just six actors, this fast-paced production brings the ...
Dickens Theatre Company - Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde
Wednesday 24 February 2027
 Dickens Theatre Company present an exciting new stage adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Victorian gothic masterpiece as part of their Revision on Tour programme, which comprises unique stage adaptations of compulsory GCSE texts to...
Nathan Carter
Thursday 25 February 2027
Quickly becoming one of the UK's most prolific touring artists, wowing crowds with his sensational live show, Liverpudlian Irish country pop star Nathan Carter returns. One of the UK's most exciting live performers, his energetic showmansh...
Maisie Adam
Friday 26 February 2027
Straight off the back of Taskmaster, A League Of Their Own, and Last One Laughing, Maisie Adam is back with her brand new show Whatsherface. Join the "tall, chaotic one with the weird hair"* as she returns with her trademark wit, fire...
Giovanni Pernice - Unstoppable
Saturday 27 February 2027
He's back... and more unstoppable than ever. Giovanni Pernice returns in 2027 with his electrifying newlive tour - UNSTOPPABLE. The Strictly Come Dancing champion and BAFTA winner hascaptivated audiences across the UK with his extraordinar...
Henning Wehn
Friday 5 March 2027
With his new show, Acid Wehn, award-deserving German Comedy Ambassador Henning Wehn takes an unbiased look at climate change, a topic sure to delight audiences and no surprise. After all, everyone loves talking about the weather. Rain or s...
Lost In Music - One Night at the Disco
Sunday 7 March 2027
Get ready to recreate the Magical 70's and let us take you on a musical journey straight to the heart of Disco!Relive some of the greatest songs of all time from artists such as Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Earth, Wind & Fire, Sister Sledg...
The Good, The Bad & The Rugby
Monday 8 March 2027
The UK's top sporting podcast, The Good, The Bad & The Rugby is back on tour, with hosts England Rugby heroes James Haskell and Mike Tindall, and former Sky Sports presenter Alex Payne sharing their own World Cup stories and recapp...
Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain
Thursday 11 - Saturday 13 March 2027
 We all want to meet people from history. The trouble is everyone is dead! So it's time to prepare yourselves for Horrible Histories live on stage! With amazing actors and eye-popping 3D effects, this astounding show is guaranteed to thr...
The Best of Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells I, II & III
Sunday 14 March 2027
The Best of Tubular Bells I, II & III, which celebrates the brilliance of these iconic and seminal musicalpieces, features an expansive live group, led and arranged by Oldfield's long-term collaborator Robin Smith, which will see extended ...
Heathers the Musical
Tuesday 16 - Saturday 20 March 2027
Welcome to Westerberg High, where popularity is a matter of life and death, and Veronica Sawyer is just another of the nobodies dreaming of a better day. But when she's unexpectedly taken under the wings of the three beautiful and impossib...
Phil Wang
Sunday 21 March 2027
UH OH. Phil Wang's back with a new stand - up show, and he's older than ever before. He's got a moustache now. It bristles with wisdom. His eyes shine with good humour. His shoulders groan under the weight of being the only cool millennial...
Pride & Prejudice (sort of)
Monday 22 - Saturday 27 March 2027
Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen's most iconic love story. Men, money and microphones will b...
'Phantoms of the Popera' starring G4
Monday 29 March 2027
Witness the UK?s No1 vocal harmony quartet and chart-topping original X Factor stars, who have sold over three million albums worldwide, unleash their unique trademark sound on the greatest showstoppers that musical theatre has to offer. F...
Cirque - The Greatest Show
Tuesday 30 March 2027
Where Musical Theatre Meets Circus It's time to step into the light. Escape with us for a night like no other, where we take you into a world where the very best of musical theatre showstoppers meets jaw-dropping circus spectacular.A world...
Adam Kay: This Is Going To Hurt - 10th Anniversary Tour
Wednesday 31 March 2027
Expect a mix of all-time favourites alongside some never told-before stories, followed by a Q&A as Adam reflects on how the NHS has changed in the ten years since his diaries first stuck an index finger inside it. This time it?s really goi...
Bianca Del Rio
Thursday 1 April 2027
Renowned for her snarky frankness, impeccable timing and politically incorrect humor, Bianca was crowned "The queen of all Drag Race queens" (New York Magazine's "Most Powerful Drag Queens in America") and is set to bring a comedy show lik...
Shoot From The Hip
Friday 2 April 2027
Shoot From The Hip's award-winning viral improvised comedy hits Lowry. Featuring chaotic games, epic scenes, and ever-so-slightly unhinged performances, their Metro, Evening Standard, and Time Out-recommended shows are completely unscripte...
Scott Bennett
Saturday 10 April 2027
As heard on BBC Radio 4!As a society we love stuff, it's a statement about who we are and who we want to be. But apparently, this message is at odds with the looming environmental crisis. We're now struggling to balance these worlds, to fo...
Before I Go To Sleep
Tuesday 13 - Saturday 17 April 2027
Acclaimed actor, author and podcaster Giovanna Fletcher stars in the world stage premiere of Before I Go To Sleep. Based on the international bestselling novel that became a hit film starring Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth, this thrilling ...
Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger's Drift
Friday 23 - Saturday 24 April 2027
When well-loved spinster Emily Simpson is found dead in the picturesque village of Badger?s Drift, her friend Lucy Bellringer refuses to accept it was an accident. DCI Tom Barnaby and Sergeant Gavin Troy are called in to investigate, uncov...
Pretty Woman The Musical
Tuesday 4 - Saturday 15 May 2027
It's time to head to Beverly Hills and experience one of Hollywood's most iconic romantic comedies of all time. This 'dazzling new stage show' (Daily Express) takes to the road again in 2027 following a record-breaking run in the West End ...
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
Tuesday 18 - Saturday 22 May 2027
Following a record-breaking three-year West End residency, two sold-out UK & Ireland Tours and Amazon Studios award-winning film, the smash-hit and critically acclaimed musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie RETURNS for the 10th Anniversa...
Count Arthur Strong
Sunday 23 May 2027
 An unmissable night of unbelievable entertainment for all the family (no pets), as character comedian Steve Delaney returns as everyone's favourite elderly, pompous, mostly out-of-work, deluded thespian from Doncaster, in the second pa...
That'll Be The Day
Tuesday 25 May 2027
Celebrate the golden age of Rock 'n' Roll and Pop from the '50s right the way through to the '80s from Trevor Payne and an exceptional cast of who combine hilarious comedy sketches and impersonations with brilliant vocals and superb musici...
Jimmy Carr
Wednesday 26 May 2027
In comedy, 'killing' is a good thing. Everywhere else, it's frowned upon. Jimmy has confirmed kills in over 50 countries and on 13 specials. Eyewitnesses describe it as 'a brutal, hilarious, life affirming night out'. The brand-new show is...
BMOS presents Shrek The Musical
Tuesday 15 - Saturday 19 June 2027
Based on the Dreamworks Animation Motion Picture and the book by William Steig. Everyone's favourite ogre is back in Birmingham! BMOS Musical Theatre Company proudly presents Shrek the Musical, the hilarious stage spectacle based on the Os...
Just For One Day - The Live Aid Musical
Tuesday 22 June - Saturday 3 July 2027
Experience the most powerful night of music you'll ever have at the theatre at JUST FOR ONE DAY: THE LIVE AID MUSICAL, featuring the most iconic songs from BOB DYLAN, DAVID BOWIE, THE WHO, U2, QUEEN, MADONNA, STING, ELTON JOHN, PAUL McCART...
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Most Popular Shows and Events at The Alexandra, Birmingham
Mon 14 Dec 2026 - Sat 2 Jan 2027
