Fern began comedy while studying in Sheffield. Now she’s on Live at the Apollo and making a name for herself as one of the most acerbic comics on the circuit. In this caustic new show she explores sexuality, feminism, power and national identity.

A night of AfroBeatleMania, taking the classic album back to its blues roots to mark its 50th anniversary.

Jazz at the Lescar welcome to town one of the most exciting new line-ups on the UK jazz scene. Driving, expansive, interactive, purposeful, and intensely grooving yet rhythmically subtle music.

A commemoration of the 35th anniversary of the miners’ strike. With music, poetry, a reading of Barry Hines's recently rediscovered play After the Strike, and special guests including Ray Goodspeed from Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners.

Returning from his foster home in rural Lincolnshire to his birth mother in London, Femi struggles with the culture and values of his new environment. An emotionally charged search for self and identity, followed by a Q&A with director Shola Amoo.

A message from Syrian journalist Waad al-Kateab to her daughter, For Sama traces her life through the uprising in Aleppo as she falls in love, gets married and gives birth. A rare insight into this conflict and the life and love that survived it.

Frank Skinner won the Perrier award in 1991, beating Jack Dee and Eddie Izzard to the prize before becoming one of the British comedy’s most recognisable faces across the 90s. This is a rare chance to the legendary comedian live in an intimate space.

​​​​​​​A feminist and playfully subversive investigation into experiences of working in the arts, asking where individuals fit in hierarchical organisations.

Paris, 1978. In a predominantly male music industry, Ana uses new electronic machines to make herself heard, creating a sound that will mark the decades to come. A brilliant love letter to the unacknowledged women pioneers of French electronic music.

Celebrate 19 years of hyperdelia since Zogg blasted off in 2000.

Melodic indie rock from Sheffield. The show is in celebration of the band's new album Days of No One – drawing on both their northern roots and moody Americana. Catch these local lads done good at The Leadmill for what’s sure to be a great party.

Through historical pictures and a guided tour, get to know the history of one of the city's most popular green spaces – from 1885 when it was opened to the public to celebrate Queen Victoria’s Jubilee to the present.

A travel back in time – specifically to 1675. Visit Sheffield’s second oldest building and see what's going on in the garden, where this year’s crops will be harvested and healthy food will be cooked. History, food and fun for all the family.

Celebrate the Sheffield and Tinsley Canal's 200th birthday with one big day of fun on and around the water. With boat trips, canoeing, live street art and music by day, followed by more live music and DJs in Exchange Street into the early hours.

Ten days to explore heritage treasures across the city. Go, go, go!

A walk around places connected with the life and politics of Edward Carpenter – a vegetarian, sandal-making socialist and gay liberation pioneer.

Exchange house plants and plant knowledge over a cuppa and cake.

Birley Spa is Sheffield’s only Victorian bath house with a plunge pool. Learn about this Grade II listed building’s history and its importance to the city’s working class heritage on this tour. With luck, you may even see a kingfisher in the garden.

Explore the ruins of the place known for being where Mary Queens of Scots was held prisoner. Take a tour around the turret house and gardens, have fun enjoying the lavender labyrinth, take a picture in the stocks, and visit Sheffield’s oldest toilet!

A superband bringing together two of the most exciting and innovative bands from the northern creative music scene. Mixing jazz-rock rhythms, explosive improvisation and minimal melodic lines.

One big day of music – bringing amazing sounds to unexpected places and transforming the city centre into a stage for Sheffield's talents.

Astronaut Roy McBride (Brad Pitt) travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey uncovers secrets that challenge the nature of human existence.

In this uplifting comedy-drama, Chinese-born, US-raised Billi reluctantly returns to her hometown in China. Her grandmother has been given weeks to live, though the family has decided not to tell her – gathering under the joyful guise of a wedding.

"Hymns for the internet age" from Sheffield’s premier masked synth-pop artist. Expect an experience that’s equal parts disturbing, hilarious and incredibly fun, in the 16th-century timber surroundings of Bishops' House.

​​​​​​​Hope Works is celebrating its 7th birthday with a massive weekend of events that will feature some of the biggest names in the business along with new and emerging talent.

Ready, set, snap! Booking opens on Monday 29th July at midday – with a limited number of free places for under-16s.

A theatrical adaptation of Matt Haig's frank and funny bestseller, celebrating what it means to be alive.

An enchanting winter wonderland with Northern Ballet’s beautiful re-imagining of Cinderella.

Cheeky and wry observational comedy. Following a Netflix special, a hit Sky One show and a record-breaking 2017 tour, Russell Howard is one of the UK’s biggest comedy names right now and requires no introduction from me. Grab tickets while they last.

An exhibition of sculptural works by women artists from the Material Voice collective, responding to artefacts and stories from the museum’s displays and collections. Read our review.

The DIY comedy club above a fruit and veg warehouse returns – headlined by Kiri Pritchard-McLean, who made a name for herself with stand-up about sexism in comedy and gaslighting, and rose to prominence through appearances on Have I Got News For You.

Explore the city through 13 of its favourite independent pubs, all while raising money for charity. Ready, set, go!

A seven-piece band from Leeds, bringing a mix of jazz, soul and funk to their own original and vibrant music. Hosted by Jazz at the Lescar.

Hypnotic and endlessly fascinating piano music, complementing documentary films on two of the US’s greatest visual artists: Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning.

To coincide with his new exhibition 'The exhibition will be titled after its installation', artist Alex Farrar will be in conversation with Bloc Projects Director, David McLeavy.

After three decades as a touring club comic, Dave Johns found himself in the unlikely position of the BAFTAs red carpet after being cast as the main character in Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake. Now Johns is transforming these experiences into comedy.

Tasmin Little, BBC Music Magazine’s Personality of the Year 2019, and her recital partner Piers Lane, visit Sheffield for Tasmin’s last ever recital with Music in the Round before she retires from the concert platform.

Sheffield Jazz host Karen Sharp with her long-established lineup of Nikki Iles, Dave Green and Steve Brown – world class musicians who also happen to be great friends.

A mischievous look at bloodlines, breeding and the weight of inheritance in a radical re-imagining of Marquez's landmark novel One Hundred Years of Solitude.

Food, music, art. In a former warehouse. At night.

Sensoria Music and Film Festival returns for 2019, presenting a unique mix of live performance, film screenings, installations, exhibitions and music industry activity.

Queen and Ben Elton's mega hit comes to the Sheffield stage.

Sensoria host the premiere live performance by a group made up of John Grant and the dark analogue electro of Wrangler (Stephen Mallinder, Phil Winter, Benge).

You'll be spoilt for choice when this nationally touring festival makes its Sheffield stop at Trafalgar Warehouse, with over 60 different gins and 60 rums.

A solo storytelling show questioning the impact of big business capitalism on local communities, and asking questions about the other myths that unite and divide us in our shared spaces.

An evening of two Octets. Schubert's fuses the intimacy of delicate chamber music with grand outbursts on an orchestral scale, while Widmann's was conceived as its companion piece.

Join Site for a talk and workshop with Rachel Coldicutt, the editor of an anthology of speculative fiction from feminist perspectives.

Two hours of spectacularly camp comedy and cabaret hosted by Bob The Drag Queen, winner of RuPaul’s Drag Race Season 8. Also performing will be US comedian Jackie Beat, hilarious Australian Karen from Finance, and Liverpool drag legend The Vivienne.

A new film exploring the links between architecture, health and community wellbeing through the lens of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate.

The Canadian one-liner comedian's farewell tour. Known for winning Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe and his appearances on Mock the Week, Francis is quitting comedy to pursue a career as a cartoonist. This is his swan song to the stand-up world.

Drawing inspiration from the rich tradition of three-horn frontlines, evoking The Jazz Messengers, McCoy Tyner and Wynton Marsalis. Hosted by Sheffield Jazz.

A group show bringing together a variety of works in different mediums.

A group show, bringing to Cupola a mix of works on the theme of Not Safe For Work.

Susan Hill’s acclaimed ghost story comes to the Sheffield stage, with the story of a lawyer who becomes convinced that his family are cursed.

An exhibition by Alex Farrar about despairing bodies, collapsing under the weight of a climate catastrophe – which feels uncomfortably familiar. Read our Hannah's review and visit the flooded gallery to see it up close.

A weekend of bleeps, beats and sweaty grins. Bringing together music, visual art, poetry, and workshops.

Square Hole will soon clock up a decade of serving lovingly curated comedy and cakes in the Red Deer's function room. Their next headliner is acerbic misanthrope Michael J Dolan, whose last show was a bleak look at the politicisation of video games.

Using just his voice and an electronic drum kit, spoken word artist Antosh Wojcik explores the effects of dementia on speech, memory and family.

Known for the shows Modern Life Is Goodish, Are You Dave Gorman and Dave Gorman’s Googlewhack Adventure, Gorman is back on the road. Expect more of his trademark observational comedy meets consumer technology in a hilarious, inquisitively geeky show.

A re-staging of the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi, based on surviving court transcripts. It's the trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, but how much has changed in the last four centuries?

A big day of creative activities and an evening of projections, celebrating John Ruskin and Renaissance painter Jacopo Tintoretto – happening simultaneously in Sheffield’s Castlegate and Venice.

An evening of pianistic virtuosity.

A new group put together by the eponymous tenor saxophonist best known for playing in the MOBO award winning band Binker & Moses, hosted by Sheffield Jazz.

The first stage adaptation of the novel that inspired the Oscar-winning movie, The Last King of Scotland is an electrifying thriller about corruption and complicity set in Uganda.

The true love story of Gloria and Emilio Estefan, told in musical form.

Returning to Sheffield after a sell-out run, this is the story of walkers Thomas, Matthew and Richard. Out in the Peaks, they find themselves forced to walk backwards through two thousand years before they can move forwards.

Join the tea party and meet the Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit, Cheshire Cat and the Queen of Hearts.

Join potter Krishna Alageswaran for a six-week pottery course exploring abstract or figurative work in your own personal style.

The latest show from the anarchist cook. Famous for making pancakes on irons and chips on the back of a spade, this instalment of Egg’s DIY cookery comedy show teaches you how to cook with an engine and turn unexpected road-works into a picnic.

Join this pottery course and create a number of functional objects to come in handy around the home.

Join Sheffield Jazz and Music in the Round for this all-star band led by leading US drummer Jeff Williams.

Miss Genevive Pilley began working at the Ruskin Museum aged just 20, becoming Museum curator in 1931. Helen Parker provides an account of this exceptional woman who devoted so much of her life to the Museum.

"The committee from hell… and a fête worse than death!" One of comedy master Alan Ayckbourn’s most hilarious plays.

An exhibition of the work of Richard Hamilton, one of the founding fathers of Pop Art.

A cycle of the complete Beethoven violin sonatas, cello sonatas and piano trios.

How do we visualise the invisible? With this series of paintings and VR landscapes, Arantza Pardo explores the often subtle boundary between art and science. Plus, there's chance to join in a virtual reality painting session.

A new dark comedy about human connection, space exploration and Jaffa Cakes.

Use a potter’s wheel and make a small hand-built pot or model, which you can then decorate and have fired in the kiln.

Turned away from a nightclub for being “too black”, four women take to the stage with their own explosive true stories.

An exhibition of striking work by Stephen Carley and Nick Grindrod – each led by the way materials behave, self-imposed parameters, and intuitive mark-making. Read our Sean's review.

Marking Emily Brontë’s 200th birthday, The Unthanks turn a selection of her poems into song.

A hilarious whodunnit packed full of catchy songs, unforgettable characters and plot twists galore.

Bringing you all the best tracks from the decade. Think Blur vs Oasis, Fatboy Slim, Primal Scream, The Verve, The Chemical Brothers, Faithless, The Prodigy and a whole lot more.

String and piano quartets. Including Robert Schumann’s turbulent Piano Quartet, a piece that has been described as ‘a small piano concerto’ and is one of Ensemble 360’s favourite works.

Expect swing, fun, grooves and moods from this exciting new collaboration, hosted by Sheffield Jazz.

Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s magical family musical comes to Sheffield, retelling the Biblical story of Joseph, his eleven brothers and the coat of many colours.

A concert for families, telling the heartwarming story of Chutney the Chimp and celebrating the importance of love and happiness in everyone’s lives.

Sheffield Jazz host a saxophonist that Jazzwise describe as part of "the shape of jazz to come".

A solo exhibition of both real and imagined landscapes by a local painter.

A solo exhibition of paintings.

Turning the world of fairy tales upside down.

The first of Music in the Round's series of concerts dedicated to Beethoven's string quartets, with Ensemble 360. Part of worldwide celebrations of the composer's 250th birthday.

A weekend of nosying around some of the most fascinating artists' studios in town.

Over the past twenty years, the Canadian Jensen sisters have each shaped prolific careers in contemporary jazz –  as trumpeter and saxophonist respectively.

A moving exploration of the lives of four generations of women in one family, shifting back and forth in time through the huge social changes of the past century.

Over 60 paintings and drawings from the 50-year career of one of Sheffield's best-loved artists.

An entertaining lunchtime concert for flute, oboe and piano, featuring glorious Baroque music, a charming trio by British composer, actor and cartoonist Madeleine Dring, and champagne cork-popping Italian opera.

One of the world’s great cabaret singers, performing original arrangements of songs by Bob Dylan and Jacques Brel, as well as some of her own.

A spellbinding exploration of Schubert’s works for solo piano concludes with an unmissable trilogy of Sonatas.

Sheffield Jazz host a true European jazz super-group.

The hit West End musical brings the story of the record label's founder and legendary artists to the Sheffield stage.

Spend your lunchtime in the company of Music in the Round, and the sounds of a Brahms’s cello sonata and a piece for violin by Joseph Joachim.

Cellist Laura van der Heijden and pianist Tom Poster present a fascinating programme of the full range of tones and colours from cello repertoire spanning 200 years. Followed by an informal Q&A session.

Sheffield Jazz bring to town Fabled – the brainchild of saxophonist/clarinettist Sam Rapley, who has assembled a group of the UK's most exciting young musicians.

Cellist Laura van der Heijden and outstanding pianist Tom Poster lead two relaxed concerts for young children and their grown-ups, with bubbles, percussion and props.

A new film and exhibition by artist Ilona Sagar, exploring the links between architecture, health and community wellbeing through the lens of Sheffield’s Park Hill estate.

A festive treat for all the family, with live music and puppetry.

Panto time!

Tchaikovsky’s enchanting score comes to life in a suitably festive show from Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet.

Roll the dice and fall in love under the bright lights of New York city.

A menacing psychological thriller by Daphne du Maurier, adaptated by Joseph O’Connor.

Exploring alternative narratives on gender, power, ecology and community.

Mischief Theatre return with their riotous spin on a timeless classic.

The homecoming of Sheffield Theatres' smash hit musical.

An adventure of self-discovery, sassiness and acceptance.

Patrick Ness’s A Monster Calls is brought to life by visionary director Sally Cookson. A dazzling insight into love, life and healing.

The award-winning landmark musical comes to town – show-stopping choreography, dazzling costumes, iconic songs, and all.

Two young women, bound by vows of friendship, find themselves in the midst of a collision between East and West in this ballet based on a true story.

A spell-binding and uplifting story of hopes and dreams centred on two lost souls: a Dublin street busker and a Czech musician.

The master of mind control and psychological illusion returns to the stage with a brand new live show.