MANFORD'S COMEDY CLUB (14+)

Manford’s Comedy Club are back in 2026 to host the award-winning comedy club at the Forum! They will be returning in September and November 2026 with fantastic new line ups!

Manford’s Comedy Club was launched by comedian Jason Manford. The idea was to bring comedians from the UK circuit to small towns and cities across the country for a night of live comedy.

Every show has a different line-up of four top comedians, who are all personally chosen by Jason Manford.

September line up:

MC - Nina Gilligan - find out more about her here

Funmbi Omotayo

Kevin O'Brien

Alistair Barrie - find out more about him here

November line up:

MC - Barry Dodds - find out more about him here

Steve Gribbin - find out more about him here

Fab Goualin

Sam Avery - find out more about him here

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE MISANTHROPE (15)

Please note this is a cinema event

The Misanthrope

by Martin Crimp

after Molière

directed by Indhu Rubasingham

Award-winner Sandra Oh (Killing Eve) plays the title role in this razor-sharp reimagining of Molière’s classic dark comedy.

Telling the truth isn’t always that simple. Alice, a brilliant novelist, despises the carefully constructed lies of modern society. But the more she challenges those around her, the fiercer the backlash becomes. Soon, she must confront the price of speaking her truth in a world that would rather silence her.

Filmed live on stage at the National Theatre, Indhu Rubasingham directs Martin Crimp’s (Cyrano de Bergerac) highly anticipated play.

SEANN WALSH: THIS IS TORTURE (14+)

After his sell-out 2023 tour, the UK’s dishevelled king of stand-up, award-winning Seann Walsh returns with a brand-new hour of side-splitting comedy. Don’t miss his trademark high-energy exasperation and razor-sharp observations that leave audiences in stitches and on their feet all around the country. This year, he’s decided to name the show after the thing he says the most in life - THIS IS TORTURE.

'Unquestionably the best observational comic of his generation' - The Guardian

'A cracking good show' - The Telegraph

'One of comedy’s hottest properties... very talented, very funny' - The Evening Standard

'He remains one of the most entertaining observational comics on the block' - The Independent

TWIST AND SHOUT

An all-star cast from the West End deliver a musical powerhouse of a show that starts with the explosion of Brit Pop in 1962 through to the era of Flower Power and Free Love of the late Sixties.

Music lovers are invited to return to a time when skirts got shorter and hair got longer as an incredible cast revive the hits of The Beatles, Herman’s Hermits, Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Rolling Stones, Cilla Black, Manfred Mann, Dusty Springfield, Lulu, Sandy Shaw and many more.

Superb performances and beautiful, bespoke costumes return us to the sights and sounds of the Swinging Sixties. The non-stop, 40-song music feast includes She Loves You, Glad All Over, You’re My World, Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Something Tells Me I’m Into Something Good, Shout, Ferry Cross The Mersey and so many more.

It’s said that “If you remember the Sixties you really weren’t there”. Twist and Shout affords the opportunity to discover just what you missed!

Tony Hadley - Charity Concert

This concert has been aranged directly between Mike Carr and Tony Hadley.

Mike is currently battling with with a terminal brain tumour and is using this event to raise funds for future cancer research.

All profits from this event to:

Friends of the Friarage

Lincoln County Hospital Radiotherapy Department

Prostate Cancer UK

The Forum has a very limited number of tickets available (50) seats are unreserved on a first come basis.

£75.00 + booking fee

Doors 6:30pm with performance start 7:45pm