What's on at Chelmsford Theatre

The award-winning stand-up and star of Saturday Night Live UK heads out on tour with a brand new show. Big Year for Pad. SNL (UK, but still a big deal), a bunch of awards (hate bringing them up), and plenty of bit-parts to boot. But what’s it all about?

Paddy Young: Will Sir Be Laughing Alone?

Tue 8 Dec 2026

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Comedy Crackers is a perfectly-wrapped night of comedy featuring household names Russell Kane, Dane Buckley, Lindsey Santoro, Elliot Steel!

Comedy Crackers

Tue 8 Dec 2026

Chelmsford Theatre

Join Ignacio Lopez, Star of Live At The Apollo, as he crafts an intricate story of mystery and suspense packed with sarcasm, silliness and huge laughs.

Ignacio Lopez: Nada

Thu 10 Dec 2026

Chelmsford Theatre

Funny Bones is Rob’s brand-new stand-up show: a relentlessly funny and daft evening of comedy, from a one-man whirlwind who pulls the audience into his craftily spun tall tales with bucketfuls of manic energy.

Rob Rouse: Funny Bones

Fri 15 Jan 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Get ready for the funniest, cheekiest, most wickedly fabulous adult pantomime you’ve always wished to see. Release your inner child and then leave them at home because this show is not for kids!

Tinderella

Sat 16 Jan 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Don't You Forget About Me is a percussive and poignant love letter addressed to anyone whos ever wished their life was a little more like a movie.

Don't You Forget About Me

Sat 23 Jan 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

A laugh-out-loud comedy whodunnit featuring four actors, a dozen characters and a whole load of chaos.

A Shoddy Detective

Thu 28 Jan - Sat 30 Jan 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

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Award-nominated stand-up and improviser Jon Hipkiss brings together the ultimate celebration of comedy and fandom in this one-man made-up movie parody.

Comedy Improv

A Star Wars Improv Show: The One-Man Made-Up Movie Parody

Wed 3 Feb 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Sophie Duker dares to get both sexy and political in her new show, reflecting on hypermasculinity, heavy-handed handymen and that old-chestnut Would You Rather: 'Man or Bear?’

Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection

Fri 5 Feb 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Mind Reader Alex McAleer isn’t psychic or supernatural, but after nearly 20 years studying people and perfecting the art of knowing what’s going on inside their heads…… you’d be forgiven for thinking otherwise.

Alex McAleer: Reads The Room

Thu 25 Feb 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Unleashed is Simon’s hysterical new show. Packed with outrageous punchlines and electric crowdwork, Simon rips into wild swimmers, vape shops, Greta Thunberg, religion and his wife’s friends Claire & Carl.

Simon Brodkin: Unleashed

Thu 4 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

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Join the vocal powerhouses, Flat & the Curves, as they piece together bygone years of revelry, from knee-defying slut-drops to toe-curling one-night stands.

Flat And The Curves: Rosé Tinted

Fri 5 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of this show. Celebrating 40 years in standup comedy, Jack takes us on a memoir of all his favourite old stories.

Jack Dee: Jack's Joke Show

Sat 6 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Ed just wants to live a life free of hassles or drama. He feels he’s earned it, but the world has other plans for him.

Comedy

Ed Byrne: No Dramas

Sun 7 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Mike Wozniak: The Bench

Fri 12 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Limited Tickets

Ross Noble is the Wizard of Waffle, The Rambler Royale, The Noodlers’ Noodler, and he’s back live on stage to tour a tornado of tangents.

Ross Noble: Cranium of Curiosities

Thu 18 Mar - Fri 19 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Expect tales of going into hiding after Celebrity Traitors, creating cow udder couture on The Great British Sewing Bee, and navigating life as someone for whom "normal" has never made much of an appearance.

Lucy Beaumont: Bad at Quiz Shows, Good with Weirdos

Thu 25 Mar - Fri 26 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

Acclaimed stand-up Kemah Bob returns with her much anticipated second show: Love Child.

Kemah Bob: Love Child

Thu 25 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre Studio

All the eleganza-extravaganza of the West End combined with the fierce and fabulous world of Drag! A night of sassy showstoppers, where the divas are anything but dull!

Dragged to the Musicals

Sun 28 Mar 2027

Chelmsford Theatre

To celebrate 25 years of Trigger Happy TV Dom Joly brings his most iconic characters and sketches to the stage in Trigger Happy TV – Live! 25th-anniversary tour.

Dom Joly: Trigger Happy TV, the 25th Anniversary Tour

Fri 2 Apr 2027

Chelmsford Theatre