Paul Heaton and Jacqui Abbott released their new album Manchester Calling in Spring 2020 and will be out on tour in 2021.

Their fourth studio album, boasts all the hallmarks of Heaton’s beautifully bittersweet song writing, effortlessly catchy melodies allied with an everyman’s biting exasperation at the modern world alongside some truly heartfelt love songs.

Paul Heaton, one of the UK’s most successful songwriters with some 15 million album sales under his belt, first came to public attention in the early 80s as front man of Hull-based indie poppers The Housemartins (the same group that spawned Norman 'Fatboy Slim' Cook), best known for their third single Happy Hour and their number one acapella Isley Bros cover Caravan Of Love.

In 1988 Heaton formed The Beautiful South, who released 10 hugely successful albums, Jacqui Abbott was lead vocalist in The Beautiful South from 1994 to 2000 and she sang many of their signature hits including Rotterdam, Perfect 10, Don’t Marry Her and Dream A Little Dream. The Beautiful South called it a day in 2007 citing musical similarities. Since then, the pair have released a number of albums together. 

This is the new rescheduled date from Sunday 26 April 2020. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for this performance, even if they have an old date on them.

Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures.

The biggest change is you must have proof of your covid status to get into the hall. We are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.

For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
7 to 7:30pm - Standing, Rear and Upper Circles
7:30 to 8pm - Left, Right and Front Circles

For anyone who has booked a space in our customer car park, this will be open from 6:15pm to allow time to park in advance. Please note car parking for this event has now sold out.

For full information about our covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.

Please be aware that any of this information may change if national guidance is updated. We will keep these pages updated with the latest information.

Singing sensation Russell Watson performs an intimate concert of career highlights, including Caruso, O Sole Mio, Il Gladiatore, Nessun Dorma, You Are So Beautiful, Someone to Remember Me and Faith Of The Heart.

Russell will be joined on stage by his live band and choir to celebrate 20 years since his debut album The Voice was released.


This is the new rescheduled date and time from Tuesday 2 March 2021. All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for this performance, even if they have an old date on them.

Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures.

The biggest change is you must have proof of your covid status to get into the hall. We are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.

For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
2 to 2:30pm- if you are sitting in the Upper Circle, Rear Circle or Tiered Stalls rows P to X
2:30 to 3pm - if you are sitting in the Flat Stalls, Tiered Stalls rows A to O, or the Left, Right and Front Circles

For anyone who has booked a space in our customer car park, this will be open from 1:45pm to allow time to park in advance. Please note parking for this event has now sold out.

For full information about our covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.

Please be aware that any of this information may change if national guidance is updated. We will keep these pages updated with the latest information.

Riverdance: The New 25th Anniversary Show is a powerful and stirring reinvention of this beloved family favourite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the thrilling energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his mesmerising soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have completely reimagined the ground-breaking show with innovative and spectacular lighting, projection, stage and costume designs and many of the cast for this rescheduled tour are so young that they were not even born in the year that the show first opened; 1995 at the Point Theatre in Dublin!The 25th Anniversary show catapults Riverdance into the 21st century and will completely immerse audiences in the extraordinary and elemental power of its music and dance. The reaction from the UK audiences in the handful of shows that did run before the tour was curtailed was unbelievable.

Now - just a little more than twenty-five years on! - both new and devoted fans of all ages will once again fall in love with the magic of Riverdance – the original, the best.

It is Riverdance, but not as you have ever seen it before.


These are the new rescheduled dates -
Tuesday 19 May 2020  rescheduled to Sunday 31 October 2021 
Wednesday 20 May 2020 rescheduled to Monday 1 November 2021 (both matinee and evening show)
Thursday 21 May 2020 rescheduled to Tuesday 2 November 2021   
 
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for this performance, even if they have an old date on them.

Please read our FAQs before visiting where we explain all our covid-secure measures.

The biggest change is you must have proof of your covid status to get into the hall. We are also staggering entry times to avoid congestion.

For this event, we would appreciate it if you could try to arrive between the following times:
6:30 to 7pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the flat stalls, tiered stalls rows A to O or the left, right or front circle 

For anyone who has booked a space in our customer car park, this will be open from 6:15pm to allow time to park in advance. Parking for these performances has now sold out.

For full information about our covid-secure procedures, including where to go when you get here and what you can do, read the FAQs. Please take time to read them thoroughly before your visit and if you have any queries get in touch by email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk or calling 0116 233 3111.

Please be aware that any of this information may change if national guidance is updated. We will keep these pages updated with the latest information.

Evening performances
6:30 to 7pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
7 to 7:30pm - if you are sitting in the flat stalls, tiered stalls rows A to O or the left, right or front circle 

Matinee performances
1:30 to 2pm - if you are sitting in the upper circle, rear circle or tiered stalls row P to X
2 to 2:30pm - if you are sitting in the flat stalls, tiered stalls rows A to O or the left, right or front circle

When an evil fairy curse causes the Princess to prick her finger on a spinning wheel and fall into an enchanted sleep, can anyone rescue her from the magical slumber before it is too late?

Join us for a proper family pantomime jam-packed with songs, dancing, silliness and lots of slapstick.

Starring Coronation Street’s Wendi Peters, Children’s TV Presenter Maddie Moate and X-Factor finalist Andy Abraham. Leicester’s favourite dame Martin Ballard returns, with comedian Jarred Christmas and returning illusionists Matthew Pomeroy and Natasha Lamb.

Guaranteed great fun for young and old alike. Book early to get the best seats and make memories with the family this Christmas.

Join the nation’s favourite ballroom couple on their brand new tour.

Showtime is a glittering celebration that pays tribute to some of the world's greatest icons of entertainment as Anton and Erin present world class dance inspired by an array of classic performers including Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Charlie Chaplin, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones, Liza Minelli, Elton John and many more.

With stunning costumes, fabulous live vocals and a high energy West End dance ensemble.

Get ready for Anton and Erin... it's showtime!

This is the new rescheduled date from Friday 12 March 2021.

All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk

After nine sell out UK tours, over 600,000 tickets sold, and countless television and live performances Diversity have announced one of their biggest UK tours to date including two dates at London Palladium for spring 2021.

Last year marked 10 years since Diversity took the nation by storm when they won the third series of Britain’s Got Talent. Over the past 10 years thanks to the overwhelming support of their fans and the British public they have continued to wow audiences around the world with their innovative live tours and performances. They celebrated this incredible achievement with a critically acclaimed sell out 48 show UK tour, Born Ready.

This tour is set to be even bigger, and as Diversity promised their fans on the Born Ready tour, they will continue the legacy of Diversity and never let anyone tell them they cannot achieve something. To take them into the new decade of Diversity, Ashley has created a new show, Connected, which centres around the world of social media, the internet, and the digital era we now live in, but more importantly how this connects us all.

Creator and choreographer Ashley Banjo said of the forthcoming tour, "Every year that goes by, and every time we get to create a new touring show, I cannot believe we are still lucky enough to get to do this. But even after all this time, we are still growing, and this new decade and new chapter for Diversity is sure to be something even more special than the last. I truly do believe that we are all connected in mores ways than one and I cannot wait to bring this to life on stage."

Ashley Banjo has returned to the judging panel for his third series on ITV’s primetime show Dancing on Ice, the final airs this Sunday on ITV with fellow Diversity member Perri Kiely competing for the winner’s trophy. Ashley has also hosted, choreographed and starred in the BAFTA nominated The Real Full Monty (2017-2019) and International Emmy Award, Broadcast Award, and Royal Television Society award winning The Real Full Monty: Ladies Night (2018) and (2019). Ashley’s show Flirty Dancing on Channel 4 completed it second hit series last December.

Fellow Diversity member Jordan Banjo is currently hosting the second series of BBC 1’s primetime show The Greatest Dancer.

Diversity continue to inspire the next generation of dancers and cannot wait to launch their online dance classes 20DV and return to Butlins this summer to showcase their 20DV experience dance academies.

These are the new rescheduled dates -
Monday 17 May 2021 rescheduled to Monday 21 March 2022
Tuesday 18 May 2021 rescheduled to Tuesday 22 March 2022
 
All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk

Following on from their sell-out tour with their highly entertaining and innovative Remembering The Movies, Aljaz and Janette, will be returning with their brand new show Remembering The Oscars. Get ready to celebrate the Oscar winning songs in this exhilarating new dance spectacular with Strictly’s favourite couple, Aljaz and Janette.

Whether you are Wishing On A Star, Swinging On A Star or merely dancing in the City of Stars, this incredible production will take you from Disney family favourites, through to the Golden Ages of Hollywood and Bollywood, with songs from Lady Gaga, Adele, Prince, Queen, Eminem, Celine Dion and Barbra Streisand, as well as classics from legendary songwriters such as Burt Bacharach, John Barry, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Irving Berlin and many more.

With a cast of amazing dancers and musicians and stunning stage designs, costumes and huge LED screen this dazzling spectacular will be a night to remember.

Don’t worry if you can’t attend the Oscars this year, this show promises you the next best thing!

This is the new rescheduled date from Sunday 25 April 2021. 

All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk

Strictly Come Dancing and The Greatest Dancer reigning champion Oti Mabuse is creating a show like no other in 2021.

Prepare for a night of electrifying choreography as Oti is joined by some of the world’s greatest dancers and the West End’s finest singers and musicians.

I Am Here is a whirlwind celebration of the influences and inspirations that took her on a journey from growing up in South Africa to following her dream. From mesmerising jives and pumping sambas to South Africa’s exhilarating kwaito, this is an explosive night of dance and music that will set your heart racing.


This is the new rescheduled date from Friday 14 May 2021.

All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will remain valid for the new date. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk

Statement from Oti Mabuse:
"We have made the difficult decision to postpone my I Am Here tour until 2022. I would have loved to tour my first ever solo show this year but, as we can't be certain yet that we could present the show safely in the current climate, and the months of preperation that are needed ahead of it, it felt right to push it back to ensure that we can put on the best show possible for you.

I'm so grateful to the theatres and box office staff who are working extremely hard to reschedule so many productions, so please do support your local theatre once they open up again!

Thank you to everyone who has booked tickets, I promise that I Am Here will be worth the wait, and i'm so excited to show you next year what i've been working on".

Friendsical is an original and unique new parody musical inspired by the gang in Friends, the iconic TV show.

When Ross's wife leaves him for another woman, he fears he will never find love again. But then Rachel runs back into his life... will he end up with his one true love?

With original new songs such as (He's her) Lobster!, Richard's Moustache and You're Over Me, When Were You Under Me?, the gang take on naked Thursdays, a power cut, and a dinosaur convention! What could possibly go wrong?

Friendsical will feature a surprise guest star.

This is the new rescheduled performance replacing Friday 4 and Saturday 5 June 2021.

All tickets, including pre-booked venue parking, will need to be exchanged for this new date and we will be in touch with all bookers to confirm the process for swapping your tickets. If you need to contact us to discuss your booking please email dmh-office@leicester.gov.uk