Waterside Arts Centre

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350 seat theatre plus gallery and workshop spaces surrounded by an outdoor events plaza with bars and restaurant. Opened in 2004.

Current Productions

Kerry EllisQueen of the West End

Edy HurstEdy Hurst’s Wonderful Discoverie of Witches in the Countie of Himself

Mark ThomasGaffa Tapes

Clinton BaptisteRoller Ghoster

John Lydon

HarrietTrying To Get The Feeling Again Tour

Su PollardStill Fully Charged

Past Productions

8 Hours There and Back

Romeo and Juliet

Buzz Comedy Club

Michael McGoldrickAnd Friends

Owen Spafford and Louis Campbell

Lash

John Smith

Lodestar Trio

Buzz Comedy Club

Austen’s WomenLady Susan

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Northern Soul Train

A Tiger’s Tale

The Hidden Garden

The Magic of Terry Pratchett

Barbara NiceFun!

Johnny Hates JazzTurn Back the Clock

The Stars of Irish Country

Fishing for Rainbows

Julia Fordham

On Me

Vonda Shepard

Nick Heyward

Steve HarleyCome Up And See Me… And Other Stories

Tommy Blaize50 Years in Music

The Coral

Macbeth

Livewire AC/DC

Paul FootDissolve

Fleetwood Bac

Enid Blyton: Noddy, Big Ears and Lashing of Controversy

Alfie MooreA Face for Radio

Kathryn Tickell & The Darkening

Terry ChristianThe Word is Terry Christian

Irvine Welsh’s Porno

Irvine Welsh’s Porno

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Francis RossiTunes & Chat

ComedySportz

ComedySportz

The Unknown Soldier

Grooving with Pirates

Ballet Theatre UKThe Wizard of Oz

Buzz Comedy Club

Nick Cope’s Family Show

Casting the Runes

Brian Bilston

Pete FirmanTrik Tok

Henry NormalCollected Poems and Other Landfill

The Bubble Show

Nearly Dan play Steely Dan

ShylockShakespeare’s Most Controversial Character

Alice in Wonderland

Oh What a Lovely War

Justin MoorhouseStretch & Think

Red Hot Chilli Pipers

Paul Foot – Image Conscious

Private Parts Live

We Are Bronte

Mother’s Ruin – A Cabaret about Gin

On Behalf of the People

MARELus

Showstopper! The Improvised Musical

Make, Do & Bop – From Our Kids Social

Rob Kemp – The Elvis Dead

Dan Snow – An Evening with the History Guy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

John Bramwell

John Hegley – All Hail the Snail (and other creatures)

The Tale of the Cocatrice

Pride and Prejudice

War with the Newts

Tankus the Henge

Perfect

Paul Thorne – + Danny Pensive and Alexander Bennett

My Leonard Cohen

ComedySportz 4 Tots

The Midnight Gang

Elio Pace – Presents Elvis Presley

Sharon Shannon – Sacred Earth

Happy Hour

Cinderella – Ballet Cymru

Keepy Uppy

Juan Martin Flamenco Trio

Michael Rosen’s Chocolate Cake

Small Worlds

The Adventures of Andy Kershaw

Father Christmas

The Christians

Stuntman

Kast off Kinks

Sherlock Holmes: The Sign of Four

The Picture of Dorian Gray

ComedySportz 4 Tots

I Used to Hear Footsteps

Electric Strawbs

Best of Buzz Comedy

Richard Carpenter’s Close To You

Walrus & Carpenter

Chantry Dance Company – Dracula

He Ain’t Heavy

Turin Brakes – Invisible Storm 2018

Christina Bianco – Life of the Party

Aaaaaaaaaaaaagh! Dinosaurs!

Best of Buzz Comedy

Not: Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Henry Blofeld (OBE) – 78 Retired – The Farewell Tour

Anthem for a Doomed Youth

The Enormous Turnip

Gulliver Returns

One Man Shoe

Robin Ince – Robin Ince’s Chaos of Delights

Egg and Spoon

Guess How Much I Love You

Luca Rutherford’s Political Party

ComedySportz Improvised Panto

Andrew Lawrence

First Time

Barbara Nice – Festive Special

The Black Cat

Smile

Best of Buzz Comedy

The Pixies’ Scarf

The Joni Mitchell Song Book

Shackleton’s Carpenter

The South

Off the Grid

Macbeth – Director’s Cut

Lee Ridley – Lost Voice Guy

Absolute Bowie

Ian Hunter

Elmer The Patchwork Elephant Show

Rigoletto

#Storytime

Drip Drip Drip

Unsung

Mother’s Ruin

Woke

The Orange Peel

Offstage

Michelle McManus: Pop Goes the Idol

Seaside Terror

Bicycles and Fish

Same Same Different

Kast off Kinks

The Complete History of Pop Music in an Hour

Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70

Those Magnificent Men

Patrick Monahan – #Goals

Bouncers

Wolf

Ballet Central

Emergence

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly

The Gingerbread Man

Stella

Be Happy Harry Hippo!

ComedySportz 4 Tots

ComedySportz

Aly Bain and Phil Cunningham

IndepenDance – Four Go Wild in Wellies

Jack and the Beanstalk

Kite

The Lindisfarne Story

Dear Zoo

The Tiger Who Came to Tea

Ruby Redfort

Signals

Sinatra – Raw

Steve Harley

Stick Man

Gym and Tonic

Snake Davis

Marisha Wallace – Fight Like a Woman

Staying In

A Christmas Carol in Concert

Mr Popper’s Penguins

ComedySportz – Improvised Panto

ComedySportz 4 Tots – Improvised Panto (Tots)

Glisten

Chris Difford – Christmas Shopping with Chris Difford

Barbara Nice – Festive Special

Sleeping Beauty

Vonda Shepard

Paul Foot – Swan Power

Dean Friedman

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Terry Christian – The Word is Terry Christian

Dean Friedman

Steve Harley Acoustic Band

Henry Normal – The Escape Plan

The Clone Roses

Henry Normal – The Escape Plan

Vonda Shepard

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown

Terry Christian – The Word is Terry Christian

Daliso Chaponda – Apocalypse Not Now

Francis Rossi – I Talk Too Much

Mark Watson – How You Can Almost Win

Sofie Hagen – The Bumswing Tour

Ian Waite and Vincent Simone – The Ballroom Boys Act 2

Terry Christian – The Word is Terry Christian

Sophie

The Not So Ugly Sisters

When Another Dragon Roars

ComedySportz

Disco Tea Party

Rapunzel – A Tangled Tale!

Best of Buzz Comedy – Phil Walker/Rev Allan Finnegan/Pauline Eyre

Andy Fairweather Low – And the Low Riders

Lee Mead – My Band and Me

Conspiracy Theory: A Lizard’s Tale

Carousel

The Great Gatsby

Morgan & West – Unbelievable Science

Yours Sincerely

Paul Foot – Swan Power

George Egg – Moveable Feast

Belshazzar’s Feast

Best of Buzz Comedy – Scott Bennett/|Martin Mor/Matt Bragg

Emergence

ComedySportz 4 Tots

The Unremarkable Death of Marilyn Monroe

The Blues Band – 40th Anniversary Tour

Ian McNabb – Utopian

ComedySportz 4 Tots

Where is Mrs Christie? – The Mystery of Agatha Christie’s Eleven Lost Days

ComedySportz

ComedySportz 4 Tots

Eric & Ern

A Rock ‘n’ Roll Suicide

ComedySportz

Kris Drever

Ensonglopedia of Animals

The Damned United

ComedySportz

The Snow Queen

Best of Buzz Comedy – Nina Gilligan/Danny Pensive/Dave Twentyman

So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs?

Mr Stink

The Clone Roses – with DJ Cint Boon

Paper Aeroplane

Mischief and Mystery in Moominvalley

ComedySportz

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Gary Stewart – Graceland

The Simon and Garfunkel Story

Dr Richard Shepherd – Unnatural Causes

John Lydon – I Could Be Wrong, I Could Be Right

ComedySportz 4 Tots

ComedySportz 4 Tots

The Gingerbread Man

Best of Buzz Comedy – Sam Avery/Bobby Murdock/Ryan Gough

Best of Buzz Comedy – Bill/Woolland/Alex Boardman/Dominic Woodward

Laugh Riot – Paul Sinha/Jessica Fostekew/Josh Jones/Kerry Leigh (MC)

Steeleye Span – 50th Anniversary Tour

Harpy

Chantry Dance Company – The Little Mermaid

Slow Violence

Vonda Shepard

Absolute Bowie

The Man Who Thought He Knew Too Much

The Best of the Kendal Mountain Film Festival

The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Mark Thompson – Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show

Fleetwood Bac

Kate Humble – An Evening with Kate Humble

Toyah – Anthem 40+1 Anniversary Tour

The Smiths Ltd

Livewire AC/DC

The Bloody Chamber

Jeremiah

A Room of One’s Own

Joss Arnott Dance – Emergence 2022

Marti Pellow – Pellow Talk

Paul Young – Behind the Lens

Jon Gomm

180° Chord

John Martyn – The John Martyn Project

Buzz Comedy Club

Mother Tree

Let Me Count the Ways

The Noise Next Door – The Mysterious Mansion of Mystery

The Noise Next Door – Hometown Heroes

By The Waters of Liverpool

The Clone Roses25th Anniversary Tour

Gary Murphy’s Guitar Legends

Zoe Lyons – Bald Ambition

Mark Thomas – Black and White

A Christmas Carol

Something About George

Focus

The Chosen Haram

Teechers Leavers ’22

Looking for Me Friend – The Music of Victoria Wood

John Peel’s Shed

Romeo and Juliet

The Little Mermaid

Emmeline – The Suffragette Movement

A Perfect Likeness

The Totally Improvised Musical

John Hegley – Biscuit of Destiny

McGoldrick, McCusker and Doyle

Little Women

Mrs Churchill – My Life with Winston

Mister Magnolia

Yippee Ki Yay

Judy & Liza

Sherlock Holmes and the Valley of Fear

Shylock – Shakespeare’s Most Controversial Character

Geoff NorcottBasic Bloke

Mike Peters – Presents The Alarm

Gary DelaneyGary in Punderland

Bon Jovi Experience

Mark WatsonSearch

Tales from a Thousand and One Nights

Biggest stories of the month

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

Wicked movie: every musical easter egg we spotted in the film

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

A Streetcar Named Desire with Paul Mescal to return to the West End before New York run

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

Lead cast revealed for Hercules in the West End

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

New 620-seat Capital Theatre to open in London – beginning with Dirty Dancing

Latest Videos

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