The Crescent Theatre

Adapted by Christie from one of her darkest novels, the play tells how ten strangers are tricked into visiting a remote island off the South coast of England. Each has a secret to hide; each is marked for murder. The weather turns and the group is cut off from the mainland, even by telephone. One by one, each is murdered…

Show regulars Dandy are one of the most sought after comedy acts. Husband and wife Alan and Glyn are always right on the button with their constantly refreshed routines. It is a great pleasure to welcome the band behind the Black Country Anthem,The Empty Can, who have performed all over the world but have their hearts…

Start your Christmas Celebrations with Annette Gregory, backed by her band. Annette will bring you the wonderful music of jazz at Christmas, with the sound of some special Christmas classics. Featuring Jazz music from many well know swing tunes and beautiful ballads to bring back wonderful memories of Christmas.

It's a performance with so much Christmas spirit, it will last you all year long! With mulled wine and mince pies. A festive feast of music, comedy and spoken word - all brought together to warm your spirits with the magic of Christmas. Join us for mince pies and mulled wine and be sure to get a ticket while you…

Founded by Singer-Songwriter Dan Whitehouse in 2010, The Birmingham Songwriting Circle are a group of songwriters that meet weekly to share ideas, skills and experiences. 'Circle on The Road' is a celebration of the group's work, featuring songs from past and present members. Expect an eclectic mix of musical genres, an…

Unplugged features performances by talented members of the Crescent Theatre Company along side guest performances from some of the best musicians, singers, and acts in the Midlands, all keen to showcase their talents to an appreciative audience. A cornucopia of acoustic instruments is always in evidence including guitars…

SECOND PERFORMANCE ADDED DUE TO POPULAR DEMAND! It’s been a big year for Doreen. Voted Midlands Entertainment Personality of the Year by What’s On readers, and then crowned Best Newcomer at the recent Great British Panto Awards in London, Doreen now returns to unveil her brandnew live show.

Seventeen year old Alan Strang, a passionate and obsessive horse-lover, has blinded six horses and is brought to psychiatrist Dr Martin Dysart for treatment. Through a series of interviews the play explores themes of passion, sex, religion and sanity to produce a taut, thrilling, psychological ‘detective’ story.

FORBIDDEN NIGHTS are skilled and professionally trained performers, hand-picked from around the UK with charisma, undeniable talent, sparkling personality and honed physiques in equal measure. They can sing, they can dance and they are VERY easy on the eye! Featuring a vocalist, aerial chain artist, acrobats and fire act…

Guys & Dolls takes you back to New York of the 1930s – a world populated by eccentrics, gamblers, and nightclub singers. It’s a world where a high-rolling gambler tries to seduce a straight-laced Salvation Army girl for a bet, and where a faded showgirl tries to hook her fiancé of 14 years, who happens to be the…

Stoppard’s superb translation of this highly amusing, deeply touching play sees three rather eccentric World War I veterans (and a stone dog) passing their days on a terrace of a French military hospital, run by nuns. As they while away their hours, engaging in verbal duels, malicious gossip, wishful thinking and sad…

Brighouse’s comedy is set in Salford, 1880, where bootmaker Henry Hobson, a pillar of local society, fond of his drink but miserly and tyrannical at home, runs a prosperous business. A widower, he steadfastly refuses to countenance the marriage of his three daughters – all of whom work unwaged in the family business. It…

Performers include legendary Elizabeth Strong (San Francisco), with her blend of Bay Area bellydance and Turkish Roman. Colleena Shakti (India) who has immersed herself in Odissi and Indian culture for more than a decade. Ashley Lopez (Portland) famed for her fusion of bellydance and contortion; and Tribal Fusion…

Prog Magazine - On IO Earth's 2016 Performance at The Crescent: "On a night when half of Europe has it's eyes on the Eurovision campfest in Vienna, IO Earth show the Euro-pap kids how to really put on an event." This weekend will consist of TWO full concerts on Saturday, May 5th, packed with IO Earth's signature…

Musical version of the Reese Witherspoon film in which a ditzy woman discovers she actually is bright and brave enough to study law at Harvard.

Oskar is a lonely, bullied, teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town, when a spate of sinister killings rocks the neighbourhood. Eli is a young girl who has just moved in next door. She doesn’t go to school and never leaves the flat by day. Sensing in each other a kindred spirit, the two…

In Glyn Robbins’ dramatisation of C. S. Lewis’ much loved classic fantasy, four children, Lucy, Edmund, Peter and Susan, venture through the back of a wardrobe into the magical Land of Narnia. Here they encounter talking animals and mythical beasts and with the aid of Aslan the lion, battle the evil that is the White…

Long Lost Home is mainly inspired by Ingushetia (Ghalghai Mokh), the lost home of Daria's Grandmother Fatima Akhrieva. A mountainous republic in the south of Russia, it is a land of immense beauty and harrowing tragedy, of fascinating culture and age-old traditions. But above all, Long Lost Home is an album for our times…

Returning victoriously from battle, the King’s General, courageous and respected soldier, Macbeth, is persuaded by prophecy that he will become King of Scotland. Spurred on by his wife’s ambition for him, he embarks on a spiralling course of violence – ever more brutal and senseless – leading ultimately to civil unrest…

Six friends on an annual camping trip are telling ghost stories in the woods, all the while a malevolent entity stalks its prey. Nexus: Whispers, explores the familiar conventions of Terror in film live on stage. The first play of a trilogy introduces a claustrophobic stage play in which long buried regrets, fears and…

Lulu Raczka's play of monologues in which the performers start the show each night not knowing what monologue they'll be performing.

Timberlake Wertenbaker’s disturbing, yet profoundly humane, humorous and uplifting play, is set in Botany Bay, Australia, 1789. It deals with true events surrounding a young marine officer’s struggle to stage a play with a group of transported convicts - including a leading lady who may be about to be hanged! Is…

David Hare's play about middle-class relationships.

Bringing the best of UK and international comedy to Birmingham. With an array of stand up comedy from some of the hottest acts on the circuit, Snap Comedy will have you chomping at the bit to come back again.

Comedy, Improvisational.

The story of how the life of a small Irish town is disturbed by the arrival of a Hollywood film crew.

This dramatisation of the true story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, takes a fresh look at the woman behind the headlines.

The sinking of the TITANIC in the early hours of April 15, 1912, remains the quintessential disaster of the twentieth century. A total of 1,517 souls — men, women and children — lost their lives. But the catastrophe had social ramifications that went far beyond that night’s events. The musical play TITANIC examines the…

How do you combine the most classic story of all time with a multi award winning musical? Well look no further, Fizzog’s Froggatts and Cotterills characters are back again with the surprise of the year. Lizzie Cotterill has put pen to paper (as she is the only one that can write) to create her latest master piece. The…

Drama-Link stages Kenneth Grahame's classic children's book, which follows loyal Mole, faithful Ratty and reliable Badger as they struggle to control excitable Mr Toad.