The world’s greatest celebration of the life and work of Neil Diamond. Evocative imagery, video and narration enhance the magic as the show takes on a musical journey through Neil Diamond’s glittering 50-year career.
From The Bang Years to the present day you’ll soon be singing along to all the hits, including Sweet Caroline, Cracklin’ Rosie, Forever in Blue Jeans, Song Sung Blue, Hello Again, Love on the Rocks, America, and many more.
Chameleon-like on stage, Camille will perform songs and stories about loss, love, joy, light and darkness. Some are hymnal, and some she will rock out, choosing music from her favourite writers Cave, Cohen, Bowie, Radiohead, Brel and Arcade Fire, plus new originals presenting a one-off intimate evening.
Star of Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News For You and QI, Kiri Pritchard-McLean is back with a brand new tour, her funniest and most personal to date.
‘Prepare for a joyous and uplifting show from a comedian known for making powerhouse stand-up from the thorniest of subjects’
Guardian
‘Expect sequins, social commentary, and massive laughs from the renaissance woman of UK comedy’
Rolling Stone
Following the sell-out success of last year’s production of The Addams Family, Leeds Grand Youth Theatre (LGYT) will be taking over The Varieties stage for the 11th year this summer with a brand-new revival of the ever-popular horror musical Little Shop of Horrors.
Attributed to Mark Twain, humour is defined as Tragedy Plus Time. Join Ed Byrne as he tests that formula by mining the most tragic event in his life for laughs.
★★★★★
‘Hilarious, extremely dark, profoundly touching and resolutely unsentimental. Ed Byrne has plumbed the very depths of his soul and found something verging on greatness.’
Rolling Stone
★★★★★
‘This is no misery memoir, Byrne is too talented a comic for that’
The Arts Desk
After a complete sell-out first run in 2023, Ruby Wax‘s rawest, darkest, funniest and most compelling stage show yet comes to City Varieties in 2024, thanks to enormous demand.
Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli are back together again thanks to a sensational musical experience, Judy & Liza.
Sofie Hagen is bringing her brand-new stand-up show and her brand-new book on tour.
‘Country, the UK, lost its way, seeks life partner/mentor/inspiration. Good sense of humour essential. No timewasters, tedious show-offs or offend-o-trons need apply. HR free zone.’
Standing up so you don’t have to take it lying down anymore, the Pub Landlord is back to make sense of the questions you probably already had the answers to.
You know what they say: There’s no school like the old school, with the dodgy overflowing toilets.
★★★★★
‘A supremely polished performer’
Mail on Sunday
As seen on the BBC, brace yourself for this award-winning smash-hit Girls Night Out with Flat and the Curves, the comedy girl band that’s leaving a trail of sequins across the UK in 2024! This powerhouse, glittery cabaret is a fierce blend of outrageous vocals, rip-roaring humour and unapologetic horniness. They’ll chat inflatable d**ks, hen-do blackouts and dance-floor finger-b**ging… No subject is off limits!