WHAT'S ON AT THE CRESCENT THEATRE, BIRMINGHAM
What's On at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
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Most Popular Shows and Events at Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
Crescent Theatre
Wed 17 Dec 2025 - Wed 23 Dec 2026
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Crescent Theatre
Fri 19 Dec 2025 - Fri 25 Dec 2026
What's On at the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
A Christmas Carol
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 13 December 2025 - Saturday 19 December 2026
?I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.?Dickens? timeless masterpiece returns to the Crescent at Christmas. Whilst Christmas cheer and goodwill abound across Victorian England, tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge g...A Christmas Wassail @ Hartlebury Castle
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 13 December 2025 - Saturday 19 December 2026
Begin your Christmas celebrations in the best way possible with the Crescent's ever-popular Wassail - a show with enough Christmas spirit to last the whole year through! A festival of choral music, solo songs, spoken word and comedy brou...Electra
Tom's Midnight Garden
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 13 December 2025 - Saturday 26 December 2026
From the novel by Philippa Pearce. Adapted for the stage by David Wood. Banished to his Aunt and Uncle?s house in order to avoid catching measles from his brother, Tom is not looking forward to the holidays. Convinced he is going to be bor...A Christmas Wassail
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Sunday 14 December 2025 - Monday 21 December 2026
Begin your Christmas celebrations in the best way possible with the Crescent's ever-popular Wassail - a show with enough Christmas spirit to last the whole year through! A festival of choral music, solo songs, spoken word and comedy brough...Happy Birthday Jane
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Tuesday 16 December 2025 - Tuesday 22 December 2026
Happy Birthday Jane!Come and join the fun at the Crescent Theatre for one night only as we celebrate the 250th birthday of one of England?s greatest novelists.250 years to the day since Jane Austen was born, we present an affectionate cele...The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Wednesday 17 December 2025 - Wednesday 23 December 2026
★★★★ The Muppets do Dickens with that trademark blast of irreverence, affection and tap-along tunes. ~ The Times. --- A Christmas cinema screening of Brian Henson's 1992 classic, starring The Muppets and Michael Caine. The Muppets ...Buy Little Buy Less Buy Nothing at All
The Holiday with Wine
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 18 December 2025 - Thursday 24 December 2026
Join wine geek Tony Elvin at The Crescent Theatre, as we present a unique showing of new Christmas classic, The Holiday, alongside a fun and festive wine tasting experience featuring five wines. Movie Synopsis: In London, Iris Simpkins wr...National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 19 December 2025 - Friday 25 December 2026
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland. After years in the 12-ste...A Christmas Wassail @ Middleton Hall
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Sunday 21 December 2025 - Sunday 27 December 2026
Begin your Christmas celebrations in the best way possible with the Crescent's ever-popular Wassail - a show with enough Christmas spirit to last the whole year through! A festival of choral music, solo songs, spoken word and comedy brou...Cinema: Frozen
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Sunday 21 December 2025 - Sunday 27 December 2026
"Let it go!"When their kingdom becomes trapped in perpetual winter, fearless Anna (Kristen Bell) joins forces with mountaineer Kristoff (Jonathan Groff) and his reindeer sidekick to find Anna's sister, Snow Queen Elsa (Idina Menzel), and b...White Christmas with Wine
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Sunday 21 December 2025 - Sunday 27 December 2026
Join wine geek Tony Elvin of The Wine Events Company as we make your day merry and bright with a festive wine tasting, alongside quintessential Christmas favourite White Christmas. As we screen one of the finest Christmas films ever made, ...Dick Whittington
THE FATHER CHRISTMAS SHOW - SAVE THE SLEIGH
Goldilocks
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 9 - Sunday 11 January 2026
Are you ready for the Pantomime that is ?Just right??Join Goldilocks and her curiously queer circus compatriots as they take on the dastardly Ringmaster Ivor Blackheart and his hypnotic and conniving crony: Seyonce. Will Goldilocks catch t...The Jury Experience - An Immersive Courtroom Case
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 16 January - Thursday 19 November 2026
Step into the heart of a high-stakes trial with The Jury Experience. In this live theatre show, YOU are the jury-the power to deliver justice is entirely in your hands. You'll examine every piece of the puzzle, from witness testimonies to ...Swive
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 17 - Saturday 24 January 2026
Time. Time is the thing. That's what creates the panic. They tell you you have to marry before your face runs out. You have to have babies before your body runs out. The only unmarried woman to rule England. She reigned for forty-four year...
Ballet of Lights
Ballet of Lights: Cinderella in a Sparkling Show
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 23 January - Thursday 12 March 2026
? After captivating audiences worldwide with Peter Pan, Ballet of Lights presents Cinderella! This classic fairy tale is reimagined in a ballet show where dancers shine in glow-in-the-dark costumes. Get your tickets for Ballet of Lights: Ci...We Call It Ballet
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 23 January - Thursday 12 November 2026
For Tickets, Click Here...OASIZ UK TOUR 2026
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 24 January 2026
All Under 18's must be accompanied by an Adult...D2 Showcase 2026
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Sunday 25 January 2026
D2 Studios Presents an electrifying dance showcase that celebrates creativity, passion and community. Featuring Dancers of all levels, the performances blend dynamic choreography with expressive movement across a variety of styles taking y...Divina De Campo
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 30 January 2026
Manchester Gay Village drag superstar Divina de Campo returns with I Do Think, an electrifying one-woman show that explores life's highs, lows, and everything in between. From orbiting the stars to becoming one, join Divina as she distills ...
National Theatre Live - Hamlet (12A)
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 31 January - Thursday 12 February 2026
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare's famous tragedy. Trapped between duty and doubt, surrounded by power and privilege, young Prince Hamlet dares to ask the ultima...
Cluedo
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 7 - Saturday 14 February 2026
It?s a dark and stormy night, and you?ve been invited to a very unusual dinner party. Each of the guests has an alias, the butler offers a variety of weapons, and the host is, well . . . dead. So whodunnit? Join the iconic oddballs known a...
Roses are Red - a Valentines Special from the Hidden Dragons Cabaret
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 14 February 2026
Birmingham's premier pole and heels dancers have got a stunning cabaret show in store... you are invited to join them for a romantic Valentines evening. The Hidden Dragons Cabaret present a Saturday night spectacle filled with sequins, spo...
When We Are Married
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 21 - Saturday 28 February 2026
Hilarity and pandemonium break out when three long-married couples ? respected pillars of society ? discover that the parson who married them was not authorised to do so... meaning they have been living in sin for 25 years. Three Yorkshire...Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty in a Sparkling Show
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 27 February 2026
? Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Beauty has arrived in Birmingham! This beloved tale is brought to life through classical dance, stunning choreography, and beautiful glow-in-the-dark costumes. Get your tickets for Ballet of Lights: Sleeping Bea...
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 21 - Saturday 28 March 2026
"When I placed my head on my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think... I saw?with shut eyes, but acute mental vision, ?I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideou...Nora: A Doll's House
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 21 - Saturday 28 March 2026
Nora is the perfect wife and mother. She is dutiful, beautiful and everything is always in its right place. But when a secret from her past comes back to haunt her, her life rapidly unravels. Over the course of three days, Nora must fight ...Dancing at Lughnasa
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 26 - Saturday 28 March 2026
An amateur performance by kind permission of Concord Theatricals Directed by Daniel Johnston Casting by Daniele Sanderson It's time for harvest in 1936's County Donegal. In a house outside the village of Ballybeg, Dancing at Lughnasa spans...
Backstage Theatre Tours
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 28 March - Sunday 19 July 2026
- ?5.00 per tour ticket- Accompanied Children - free entry (ages 5+)- Groups of 10 include 2 free ticketsMatinee Performances- Labour of Love on 1st March- Nora: a Doll's House on 22nd March- Murder on the Nile on 12th April- [title of sho...
Murder on the Nile
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 11 - Saturday 18 April 2026
Kay Ridgeway has led a charmed life. Blessed with beauty, enormous wealth, and a new husband, she embarks on a honeymoon voyage down the Nile. Fatal circumstances await when the idyllic surroundings are shattered by a shocking and brutal m...Kate Butch - Choose Your Own Cabaret
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Wednesday 15 April 2026
Hot on the heels of her smash hit Wuthering Shites tour, Kate Butch is back with her trademark wit, campery and vocal stylings. Join the star of RuPaul's Drag Race UK, Celebrity Mastermind, The Power of Parker, and at least three episodes o...National Theatre Live - Dr Strangelove (12A)
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 16 April - Saturday 2 May 2026
Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in this pre-recorded cinema screening of the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick's comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. When a rogue U.S General triggers a nuclear a...National Theatre Live - The Importance of Being Earnest (PG)
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 16 April 2026
Showing as though live, on the big screen, three-time Olivier Award-winner Sharon D Clarke is joined by Ncuti Gatwa (Doctor Who; Sex Education) in this joyful reimagining of Oscar Wilde's most celebrated comedy. While assuming the role of a...Pop Music
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 16 - Saturday 18 April 2026
A play for anyone that's ever been a dick on the dance floor.A wedding. A free bar. A blast from the past. G and Kayla's lives are a mess but tonight they're determined to Have It Large. As their veins course with adrenaline and cheap pros...
Leila Navabi - Relay
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Thursday 23 April 2026
A bold, joyful punk-musical one-person show about making a queer family on your own terms, written and performed by award-nominated comedian, writer and composer Leila Navabi.   The critically acclaimed show was included in The Guardian'...
COME FROM AWAY
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Saturday 25 April - Saturday 2 May 2026
7,000 stranded passengers. One small town. A remarkable true story. Winner of four Olivier Awards including Best New Musical, this smash hit show shares the incredible real-life story of the 7,000 air passengers from all over the world who...Princess Live
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Monday 27 April 2026
 Princess Live is the ultimate hour long princess pop party, featuring your favourite fairytale royalty in this all singing all dancing hour long concert show. The Princesses are tired of their royal duties. So they decided to come togeth...
The British International Amateur Film Festival
Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Friday 1 - Sunday 3 May 2026
If you book for The Friday Evening Cinema and Networking Event, The Saturday Cinema and the Award Winners? Show you will get ?10.00 off per person. The Friday Evening Cinema PLUS networking event(25th April)BIAFF 2025 launches its in-theat...How to get to the Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
Most Popular Shows and Events at Crescent Theatre, Birmingham
The Muppet Christmas Carol (U)
Crescent Theatre
Wed 17 Dec 2025 - Wed 23 Dec 2026
National Theatre Live - The Fifth Step (15)
Crescent Theatre
Fri 19 Dec 2025 - Fri 25 Dec 2026
