What’s on

Fri 8 & Sat 9 Dec • 3pm & 8pm • Full £18 Concs £16 • Magic/Comedy

Presented by SHOWMAN LIVE

A dazzling Christmas magic show, presented by the magician most famous for jamming the BBC switchboards after he correctly predicted the lottery!

This astonishing, enigmatic, five star rated magic show will leave you aching from laughter and dizzy in disbelief. Directed by the late Paul Daniels, the enigmatic show comes to the stage in a special Christmas edition… you’ll be transported to a jaw-dropping world of light-hearted hilarity, wonderment, and mystery.

Focusing on mind-bending feats of illusion, from making people forget their own names to transporting iPhones from the auditorium into blocks of ice, this sensational show is a sure sell-out and showing exclusively for a limited run.

Presented by the host of BBC’s Trickster: Live, ‘the most anticipated magician in a generation’, James Phelan is… The Greatest Magician.

★★★★★ “Leaves even the most seasoned magic go-ers dumbfounded” Fringe Magazine

Thu 25 Jan • 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy

Everything is taken so seriously now. If it’s going to be up to Andrew to point out how ridiculous it all is then he’s willing to take that job on!

After his TV appearance on The Russell Howard Hour Andrew supported Russell Howard on his massive national tour, including six straight shows at The London Palladium. He’s also supported Rhod Gilbert, Rob Brydon and Michael McIntyre on an entire arena tour, including Wembley and the O2.

“A brilliantly funny comedian” Russell Howard 
“Funny as hell” Rhod Gilbert 
“Truly an excellent comedian” Michael McIntyre 
“Very punctual” Rob Brydon

Sat 27 Jan • 7:30pm • Admission £14 • Comedy

To the hairdresser at [redacted] Salon: You can take my money. You can take my dignity. You can take too much off the ends. But you cannot take my right to talk about it on stage. This is a show about the worst haircut of Ania Magliano’s life.

Winner of Best New Show at Leicester Comedy Festival 2022, Ania sold out both runs of her critically acclaimed shows at the 2022 and 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Her second show I Can’t Believe You’ve Done This was ranked #1 in Time Out’s ‘The 11 Best Comedy Shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023’ list.

Ania has previously supported Marc Maron, Cat Cohen and Ed Gamble on tour, and writes for Amelia Dimoldenberg’s Chicken Shop Date.

★★★★ “Will have you crying with laughter” Guardian 
★★★★ Times
★★★★ Time Out
★★★★ iNews.co.uk

Tue 6 Feb • 7:30pm • Admission £12 • Comedy

Following a critically acclaimed sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival 2023, award winning writer, comedian, and actor Rob Auton brings his latest show The Rob Auton Show to the Rondo Theatre. Rob has written ten hit Edinburgh Festival Fringe comedy/theatre/spoken-word shows on specific themes, including the colour yellow in The Yellow Show, sleep in The Sleep Show, and hair in The Hair Show. In his most Autonbiographical show to date, Rob turns the pen on himself to explore the memories and feelings that create his life on a daily basis.

“A genuine original” Guardian
“Makes laughter out of wonder. We need him” Scotsman
“Charming, eccentric and uplifting” Independent
“Brilliant” Stewart Lee
“One of my absolute favourites” Daniel Kitson
“Rob Auton is the mother freaking greatest” James Acaster

Fri 9 Feb • 8pm • Admission £14 • Comedy

Alfie Moore brings a brand-new stand-up comedy work-in-progress to Bath ahead of recording Series 8 of his critically acclaimed BBC Radio 4 show ‘It’s A Fair Cop’.

Alfie will ‘swear in’ the audience as police officers, before revealing a brand new, real-life scenario from his ‘casebook’ and playfully challenging them with policing moral dilemmas.

The audience cops are invited to contribute to the decision-making process, making every show unique to that audience. Come along, enjoy the fun and find out what sort of cop you’d make.

“Brilliantly funny… genuinely hilarious” David Mitchell

Sat 10 Feb • 2pm & 8pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Comedy

WiFi Wars returns with the live comedy game show where you all play along! Log in with your smartphone or tablet and compete in a range of games, puzzles and quizzes to win the show, and prizes!

Hosted by comedian Steve McNeil (team captain on UK TV’s hit comedy/gaming show “Dara O’Briain’s Go 8 Bit”) and aided by Guinness World-Record-Breaking tech whizz, the award-winning Rob Sedgebeer!

There’ll be entirely different games and quizzes at each show, if you’d like to come to both!

“Not To Be Missed” The Guardian
Top Ten London Geek Nights Out – Metro

Watch the trailer!

Wed 21 Feb • 8pm • Full £17 Concs £15 • Comedy

Presented by Plosive Live in association with Ebdon Management

A brand new stand-up show about passion, pace and purpose from the critically-acclaimed star of BBC’s QI, Live at the Apollo and C4’s Travel Man.

Jess’ son’s joined a cult AND her cat’s learnt to talk – but despite all that she’s fine, actually. In fact she’s hurtling faster and hustling harder than ever for the things that she wants and needs.

Her last show Wench played a sold-out Edinburgh Fringe run and UK tour and is available now as a special. Her previous show Hench was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards and won Best Show at the Chortle Awards where Jess also won Best Act. It’s available to stream now on Amazon Prime.

Jess is a regular co-host of The Guilty Feminist podcast, host and creator of her own podcast about eating, Hoovering, and star and writer of BBC Radio 4’s Sturdy Girl Club

★★★★ “A loud, lively and vital voice” Evening Standard
★★★★ “She wears her smarts on her sleeve” Guardian
★★★★ “She finds a new fiercely funny strain of comedy that’s her own” Times

Fri 8 Mar • 7:30pm • Admission £12.50 • Comedy

Vertigo is a punchline-packed show featuring ugly dogs, relationships and the inevitable family drama. Hilarious, relatable, a bit rude in places of course, and all the while served up with superb material, brilliant delivery, and proper belly laughs.

This is Connor’s first UK tour and we are delighted to welcome him to the Rondo. If you love live comedy, then we recommend you check out this fantastic show. Support an exciting comedian and budding superstar early days – and remember where you saw him first!

Don’t miss Scotland’s fastest rising comedy star’s brilliant new show – on tour!

“If you want to see the future of Scottish stand-up, then see Connor Burns live – while you can still get a ticket” Daniel Sloss

Sat 23 Mar • 8pm • Admission £16 • Comedy

Presented by Plosive Live

Life is a stress: full of rushed breakfasts, angry people, internal conflict, and Jacob Rees-Mogg. But what happens when everything you thought was important – your problems, grievances against others, your very identity – simply disappears?

Multi-award-winning and trail-blazing comedian, Paul Foot, is back on tour with Dissolve, his most personal, surprising and ground-breaking show ever.

In the year 2022 AD something momentous changed for Paul, and in this show he will reveal how he discovered the secret of life on the outskirts of Lancaster.* Inevitably he does get distracted by King Tutankhamun, the House of Lords, Sir Cliff Richard, officious lollipop ladies, and what Jesus might have achieved if he’d been a plumber.

As seen on Would I Lie To You?, Never Mind the Buzzcocks and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown.

★★★★★ “Funnier and more daring than I’ve ever seen him… [has] the audience laughing so hard they’re about to leave their bodies” Chortle

*To be clear, Paul discovered the secret of life while he was located on the outskirts of Lancaster. Not the secret to living on the outskirts of Lancaster. There isn’t an answer to that.

Wed 3 Apr • 8pm • Admission £15 • Comedy

Presented by Berk’s Nest & Parkas

He’s hungry. He’s horny. He’s scared. He’s in the gutter but he’s looking down on all of you.

Join Northern powerhouse Paddy Young for his unmissable debut stand-up tour, fresh from a sell-out, award-nominated, smash hit run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

★★★★★ “Young is surely on the road to stardom” Rolling Stone
★★★★★ “Excellent … I advise you to buy a ticket before he sells out” EdFringeReview
★★★★ “Surely destined for greater things” The Scotsman
★★★★ “One of British comedy’s most intriguing new voices… a confident, breezy debut” The Independent
★★★★ “Among his clique’s most livewire and exciting performers… an extremely fun, buzzy show” Chortle