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
Wed 24 Apr - Sat 18 May 2024
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Thu 23 May - Sat 1 Jun 2024
What's On at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Bouncers
Friday 19 - Saturday 20 April 2024
Don't miss this classic comedy and northern favourite! Join Les, Ralph, Judd and Lucky Eric as they relive a night in a Yorkshire disco in the 80s. The original Bouncers is back in town. Everyone will be here: the DJ, the girls, boys and th...
Octagon Comedy Club
Friday 19 April - 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...
Wifi Wars
Saturday 20 April 2024
Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV's hit comedy/gaming show Dara O'Briain's Go 8 Bit) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer, WiFi Wars returns with the live interactive ...
Youth Theatre: 11-14
Tuesday 23 April 2024
Performers in this group are given the opportunity to experience a variety of texts and theatrical approaches that enhance their skills as actors. Young people are encouraged to work creatively and collaboratively, with an emphasis on ensem...
Little Shop of Horrors
Wednesday 24 April - 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 ...
ArtBeat
Wednesday 24 April 2024
ArtBeat is our group for over 50s who want to develop their drama skills, explore their creativity and meet new people. No experience of performing is needed to join - everyone is welcome....
Youth Theatre: 14-17
Wednesday 24 April 2024
Youth Theatre for our older participants aims to develop young people as sophisticated performers who feel confident to take creative risks in a supportive and engaging environment. We encourage actors to challenge themselves to work togeth...
Youth Theatre: 7-11
Saturday 27 April 2024
Our youngest performers will enjoy sessions that emphasise fun and celebrate the power of imagination!Youth Theatre at this age is fantastic for developing young people's confidence, as well as helping them to forge new friendships and make...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
Daliso Chaponda
Friday 11 October 2024
Hilarious Manchester-based Zambian-born Malawian comedian Daliso Chaponda shot to fame in 2017 when he finished third in Series 11 of Britain's Got Talent, and was the Golden Buzzer choice for Amanda Holden. As a result of his appearance on...
MANIA - The ABBA Tribute
Saturday 12 - Sunday 13 October 2024
Formed in 1999 - as ABBA Mania - and following an eighteen week run in London's West End in 2002, MANIA is accepted as the world's number one ABBA tribute show. A special concert which celebrates the music of ABBA in a respectful and enjoya...
The Jungle Book
Friday 22 November 2024 - Sunday 5 January 2025
A wild & wonderful adventure for Christmas 2024 Swing into the jungle this festive season and join man-cub Mowgli and his friends Baloo the bear, Bagheera the panther, a gang of mischievous monkeys and a pack of wily wolves in this enchanti...
Most Popular Shows and Events at Octagon Theatre, Bolton
Wed 24 Apr - Sat 18 May 2024
Fri 22 Nov 2024 - Sun 5 Jan 2025
Thu 23 May - Sat 1 Jun 2024
