Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard). Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives of those they love.

Actress Madeline Smith talks about her career working with comedy legends in this fundraiser for the Playhouse.

Join Theatre Studio this Easter for a re-telling of Shakespeare’s classic tale of love and mistaken identity.  Set in the Festival world of the 90s this production will transform the Cheltenham Playhouse into a midsummer fest of fun and frolics.  The perfect ointment to brush off the winter cobwebs and welcome the Summer.

A two-hander play where both actors play the landlord and landlady of a pub and their various customers - and we're setting it in our own bar!

A night of brass magic like no other!

John Hegley has captivated audiences all over the country and been described in Time Out as “fabulously funny” and in The Sunday Times as “scandalously talented”.

A talk by local author and historian David Elder

It’s the 10th, yes, 10th Cheltenham Poetry Festival Slam!  

Back for an ELEVENTH year, it's the very best in burlesque

Britain's No. 1 tribute show brings alive the magic of the sixties, with their tribute to over twenty five bands of that era and encompassing everything from the period, from the clothes that were worn to flashbacks from TV history.

Dr Evadne Hinge of Hinge & Bracket fame comes out of retirement to help celebrate the Playhouse's 75th birthday in this 1920s set comic opera.

The 2020 Season of concerts at St Andrew's Church:

Sat 26 September: Brtok, Sibelius & Vaughan Williams

The 2020 Season of concerts at St Andrew's Church:

Sat 17 October: Baroque including Vivaldi's Four Seasons