Past Events (A-Z Archive) at Theatre Porto
AFTER ALL by Solène Weinachter
Date 4th October 2024, 7pm
Ages 12+
Showing Performance
Cost Tickets from £7
Al Harah UK Theatre Talk: A Voice for Theatre and Culture in Palestine – Marina Barham
Date Friday 5th July 2024
Time 3pm
Showing UK Theatre Talk
Cost Pay What You Like
CCSW – Strange Encounters
Date Tuesday 21st May 2024
Time 5pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Circus Skills with Splats Entertainment & Teatro Pomodoro!
Looking for a fun and exciting way to start your Saturday? Theatre Porto’s Saturday Family Hangout is always packed with creativity and play – and on 15th March, we’re taking things to the next level with a Circus Skills Workshop led by the fantastic Splats Entertainment and Teatro Pomodoro.
Club Origami
Date Saturday 13th April
Time 11.00am & 2pm
Ages 0-6 years old
Showing Immersive and interactive dance show
Coalesce Dance Theatre: Threads
Date Saturday 13th September, 7.30pm
Ages 12+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Crab Tragedy – A Greek Myth told sideways
Date Sat 25th March 2023
Time 2pm
Ages 7+
Showing Live Performance
Don’t Call Us, We’ll Call You
Dates
Wednesday 9th July 7.30pm
Saturday 12th July 2pm
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Drama Drop-In – KaBoom!
Date Fri 12th April 2024
Time 2pm & 6pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Drama Drop-In Showcase – Are You Sitting Down?
Date Fri 24th February 2023
Time 2pm & 6pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Eurovision Song Contest 2023 – Grand Final Live Screening
Date Saturday 13th May 2023
Time 6.45pm – late
Ages All
Showing Screening & Fun
Cost Donations Only
Evaluating Your Creative Arts Project
Date Thursday 13th March 2025
Time 13.00pm – 15.30pm
Showing Workshop
Cost FREE
Every Brilliant Thing
Date 6th & 7th February 7.30pm
Ages 14+
Showing Performance
Cost From £5
Exploring Creativity – Youth Arts Club
Dates 17th & 18th February
Time 11am – 4pm
Ages 11-19
Cost FREE
Exploring Creativity – Youth Arts Club
Dates 27th, 28th & 29th May 2025
Time 11am – 4pm
Ages 11-18
Cost FREE
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre – Celebration and Social
Date Wednesday April 2nd 2025
Time 2pm – 3pm
Type Celebration & Social
Cost Free
Fallen Angels Dance Theatre – Sharing Event
Date Monday 11th March 2024
Time 6pm – 7pm
Type Sharing Event
Cost Free
Family Hangout Special – Community Superpower
Dates Saturday 7th June 2025
Time 10am – 12pm
Ages ALL
Cost FREE
Fundraising for Freelance Artists
Date Thursday 6th February 2025
Time 13.00pm – 15.30pm
Showing Workshop
Cost Pay What You Like / Free
High Times and Dirty Monsters
Date 18 – 19th October 2023
Showing Schools & Community Groups Only
Indie Film Club
Date Thu 29th February 2024
Time 6pm – 9pm
Ages 16-25
Showing Film Screening & Club
Cost Free
Indie Film Club – April 2024
Date Thu 25th April 2024
Time 6pm – 9pm
Ages 16-25
Showing Film Screening & Club
Cost Free
Indie Film Club – June 2024
Date Thu 27th June 2024
Time 6pm – 9pm
Ages 16-25
Showing Film Screening & Club
Cost Free
Indie Film Club – March 2024
Date Thu 28th March 2024
Time 6pm – 9pm
Ages 16-25
Showing Film Screening & Club
Cost Free
Indie Film Club – May 2024
Date Thu 30th May 2024
Time 6pm – 9pm
Ages 16-25
Showing Film Screening & Club
Cost Free
Inevitable
Date Saturday 6th April
Time 2pm
Ages 11yrs+ and adults
Showing Performance & Workshop
Involving Children and Young People in Your Creative Projects
Date Thursday 23rd January, 2025
Time 13.00pm – 15.30pm
Showing Workshop
Cost Pay What You Like / Free
KIDS TALK CLIMATE
Date Saturday 28th June 2025, 1.00pm
Ages Children aged 8-10 and their parents, carers and teachers
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Make Some Noise – Dommy B
Date Tuesday 24th Oct, 2pm
Ages For children 5+ and their grown ups
Showing Performance
Cost FREE / Pay What You Like
Moonsmile – Friendship can be anywhere
Date Sun 21st May 2023
Time 2pm
Ages 4+
Showing Live Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Mortal Fools Present… FLUX
Date Wed 5th April 2023
Time 7pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
My Life with the Wave
Date 17th February 11.30am / 2pm / 4pm
Ages All
Showing Multi-sensory show
National Theatre Live – Best Of Enemies
Date Friday 21st July 2023
Time 7pm
Showing NT Live
National Theatre Live – Dear England
Date Friday 26th January 2024
Time 7pm
Showing NT Live
National Theatre Live – Fleabag | Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Date Thu 15th June 2023
Time 7pm
Showing NT Live
National Theatre Live – Prima Facie
Date Friday 20th September 2024, 7pm
Ages 15+
Showing NT Live
Cost Tickets from £10
National Theatre Live – The Importance of Being Earnest
Date Friday 28th February 2025, 2pm & 7pm
Ages 12A
Showing NT Live
Cost Tickets from £10
National Theatre Live – A Streetcar Named Desire
Date Friday 6th June 2025, 7pm
Cert. 15
Showing NT Live
Cost Tickets from £10
Othello by William Shakespeare – National Theatre Live
Date Thu 20th April 2023
Time 7pm
Ages PG
Showing NT Live
Pirate Princess
Date Friday 21st & Saturday 22nd March
Ages 5+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Pirate Princess by Gemma Bond
Dates
Friday 3rd May, 1.30pm (Schools)
Saturday 4th May, 1pm (Public)
Ages 5+ years old
Showing Indoor / Outdoor aerial circus performance
PORTmanteau
Date Tues 25th April 2023
Time 7pm
Ages ALL
Showing Video/Installation
Cost Pay What You Like
Porto’s Free Family Portraits
Dates 2nd, 3rd, 4th & 5th April 2024
What? A FREE professional family photo!
RAWD presents Jordan Connerty’s The Boy King
Date Tuesday 30th May 2023
Ages 7+ / Family Audiences
Showing Performance: 11am & Interactive Workshop 12pm (on stage)
Cost Pay What You Like
RAWD presents SUPER!
Date Wednesday 31st May 2023
Time 2pm
Ages 8+ / Family Audiences
Showing Live Performance (2pm)
RAWD’s Superhero Bootcamp!
Date Wednesday 31st May 2023
Time 11am
Ages 8+
Time Interactive Workshop (11am)
Refugee Week – 16th–22nd June 2025
Refugee Week is the world’s largest arts & culture festival celebrating the contributions, creativity and resilience of refugees and people seeking sanctuary.
Refugee Week 2025: Everyone’s Welcome – Community Is Our Superpower
Dates 14th, 16th & 17th June
Ages All
Cost FREE
Refugee Week 2025: Home Cooked with Love
Dates Friday 20th June
Time 5pm – 7pm
Ages All
Cost FREE
Refugee Week 2025: Theatre Porto Family Films – Paddington
Date Sat 21st June 2025
Time 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Samadhi – Fallen Angels Dance Theatre
Date Wednesday 29th January 2025, 2-3pm
Showing Dance Screening / Open Workshop
Cost FREE
Technically, Creative – Arts Installation
Date 15th April 2023
Time Walk-in (12pm – 2pm)
Ages All
Showing Installation / Free
The Chronicles of Atom & Luna
Date 18th – 19th October
Ages 6+
Showing Performance
Cost Tickets from £5
The Exchange – Hidden Stories from the Covid-19 Pandemic
Dates Saturday 14 – Thursday 26 October
Cost Free entry – just turn-up!
The Family Hangout Egg Hunt!
Dates Saturday 30th March 10am – Noon
What? The Family Hangout Egg Hunt
The Family Hangout with Porto’s Free Family Portraits
Dates Friday 5th April 10am – Noon
What? The Family Hangout & Porto’s Free Family Portraits
The Farmer & The Clown
Date Friday 9th & Saturday 10th May
Ages 3+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
The Greatest Robot Ever
Date Monday 19th Feb 11am & 2pm
Ages 3 – 10 years
Location Ellesmere Port Library
The Hidden Garden
Date 26th October 2024, 12noon & 2pm
Ages 6+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
The Shed
Date Weds 17th May 2023
Time 6pm
Ages ALL
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
The Story Forge: Make Your Own Myth
Date Saturday 15th February 11.00am and 2.30pm
Showing Performance
Ages 6+
Cost Tickets from £7
The Woman Who Crossed The Road
Date Monday 30th Oct, 7.30pm
Ages 14+
Showing Performance
Cost FREE / Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – ENCANTO
Date Sat 22nd April 2023
Time Super-Relaxed (10.30am) & Standard (2pm)
Ages TBC
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Frankenweenie
Date Sat 28th October 2023
Time 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Missing Link
Date Sat 18th May 2024
Time 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Muppets – Most Wanted
Date Sat 24th June 2023
Time Super-Relaxed (10.30am) & Standard (2pm)
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Paddington
Date Sat 25th February 2023
Time Super-Relaxed (10.30am) & Standard (2pm)
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Theatre Porto Family Films – Peter Rabbit
Date Sat 26th April
Time 12.30pm
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Sing
Date Sat 18th March 2023
Time Super-Relaxed (10.30am) & Standard (2pm)
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Theatre Porto Family Films – Smallfoot
Date Sat 27th January 2024
Time 12.30pm
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – The Garfield Movie
Date Sat 22nd February
Time 12.30pm
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – The Greatest Showman (Sing-A-Long)
Date Saturday 31st May 2025, 2.00pm
Ages PG
Showing Screening (Sing-A-Long)
Cost From / Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – The LEGO Batman Movie
Date Sat 23rd March 2024
Time 12.30pm
Ages U
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – The Secret Life of Pets
Date Sat 20th July 2024
Time 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Wonka
Date Saturday 28th December 2024, 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Theatre Porto Family Films – Wreck It Ralph
Date Saturday 28th September 2024, 12.30pm
Ages PG
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Tinsel on The Tracks
Date Sunday 8th December 4pm
Ages TBC
Showing Panto / Performance
Cost Tickets from £4
Topsy Turvy – Whitby Park Extravaganza 2023
Date 11th – 13th August 2023
Time Every Day
Ages All
Showing Live Performance
Topsy Turvy 2024 – BIRDIE (Mind The Gap)
Date Thu 8th August 2024
Time 12pm SEND Families & 2.30pm
Ages 5-11 & Families
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Topsy Turvy 2024 – The Beatboxing Show (James Lyons)
Date Sat 10th August 2024
Time 12.30pm
Ages All
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Topsy Turvy 24 – Story Forge: Make Your Own Myth (Rubbish Shakespeare Company)
Date Fri 9th Aug 2024
Time 12pm
Ages 5+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Topsy Turvy 24 Family Film Club Special – Encanto Sing-Along
Date Wed 7th Aug 2024
Time 5pm
Ages 6+
Showing Cinema Screening
Cost Pay What You Like
Topsy Turvy 25 – Now Booking!
Date Friday 8th – Sunday 10th August 2025
Ages ALL
What Topsy Turvy 25
Twixmas at Theatre Porto
Date Saturday 28th December 2024
Time 10am – 4pm
Ages All
Cost FREE
Ukrainian Stories & The Merseyside Connection
Dates 28th July – 23rd August
Time During Normal Opening Hours
Ages 12+
Cost FREE
Undercover Artists with Theatre Porto
Dates Thursday Afternoons 3.30pm – 5pm
Location Hope Farm Library, Ellesmere Port
What? Arts sessions for families
Up & Away
Date Saturday 5th April
Ages Family Friendly
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Voices of Generation Zed – by Kevin Dyer
Date Wed 19th July, 2023
Time 7pm
Ages 12+
Showing Live Performance
When we meet… 5 dances
Date Wednesday 5th February, 2-3:30pm
Showing Film Screening
Cost FREE
Where do the Noses Grow?
Date 14th – 17th December 2024
Ages 2+
Showing Performance
Cost Tickets from £5
Where do the Noses Grow?
Date 8th March 2025
Ages 2+
Showing Performance – Special Event
Cost FREE
Who the f-k is Shakespeare?
Date Friday 11th October, 1pm
Ages 14+
Showing Closed Performance
Cost Tickets are invite only
Writers’ Cafe
Date 15th November 2024, 7pm
Ages ALL
Showing Showcase
Cost Pay What You Like
You Know My Mum
Date Monday 2nd & Tuesday 3rd June
Ages Family Friendly / 7+
Showing Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Young Writers’ Showcase – Writing Goes Live
Date Tue 4th April 2023
Time 7pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Young Writers’ Showcase – Writing Goes Live
Date Fri 31st May, 6pm
Time 6pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Cost Pay What You Like
Young Writers’ Showcase – Writing Goes Live
Date Wednesday 16th April 2025
Time 7pm
Ages ALL
Showing Live Performance
Cost Pay What You Like