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This page lists all the scheduled events at Buxton Opera House. If you would like to see all the shows between specific dates in the future then please select your preferred start and end date. Alternatively, you may filter by category.
Count Arthur Strong’s Command Performance
16 February 7:30 PM
Count Arthur Strong’s new show, Command Performance, is so new, not even he knows he’s doing it yet. Don’t worry about that though, it’s never stopped him before! So get your Maltesers out, roll your trouser legs up and sit back and enjoy this potentially wonderful show. Pausing only to glance up from your programme to ask when the interval is. I can guarantee you, you’ll have never seen anything like it, whatever it is. Read more about this event … or
Dave Spikey
05 March 7:30 PM
Words Don’t Come Easy
Inspired by the fantastic audience response to his deconstruction of song lyrics in his Best Medicine Tour, combined with his fascination with the vagaries of the English language, this hilarious new show examines many more situations in life where words really don’t come easy. These include tongue-tied parents explaining the facts of life, ridiculous newspaper stories, magazine poems, pathetic adolescent chat-up lines, weird hospital speak, learning a foreign language and an extended selection of song lyrics that range from the lazy through surreal to the ridiculous. Throw in a Champion the Wonder Horse sing-a-long, ancient Abyssinian contraception, rubbish school trips , epidural anaesthesia and The Last Supper and you have all the ingredients for a rich and spicy comedy casserole; a sort of Lexicon-carne! Sorry … Read more about this event … or
Jason Manford
29 April 8:00 PM
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Walk on the Wild Side, As Seen on TV, 8 out of 10 Cats, The Royal Variety Performance and The One Show, Jason Manford makes a welcome return to the Opera House. Read more about this event … or
Jason Manford
30 April 8:00 PM
As seen on Live at the Apollo, Walk on the Wild Side, As Seen on TV, 8 out of 10 Cats, The Royal Variety Performance and The One Show, Jason Manford makes a welcome return to the Opera House. Read more about this event … or