Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean Tickets at the Theatre Royal Haymarket

What Tickets Cost

Tickets start from around £20, and most seats cost around £45 to £120. Premium seats on Friday and Saturday evenings, and over Christmas, are around £140.

In January, the Tuesday, Wednesday and Sunday evenings are the cheaper nights for a good seat, with the best seats around £110. The matinees have the most choice.

All-in pricing, the price you see is what you pay. For a group, or if you'd like us to find the best seats for your budget, give us a call.

Performance Schedule

From January, a normal week looks like this:

There's also a 3pm matinee on Sunday 10 January.

Christmas and New Year are different:

• 4pm matinees on Saturday 19 and Sunday 20 December, Wednesday 23 December, Sunday 27 December, Wednesday 30 December, and Saturday 2 and Sunday 3 January
• An extra 8pm performance on Monday 28 December
• New Year's Eve, Thursday 31 December, is at 6pm, and it's the only show that day
• No performances on 24, 25 or 26 December, or on New Year's Day

The first performance is Wednesday 16 December at 8pm and the last is Saturday 6 February at 8pm.

Book your date

Book Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean Tickets

Seven weeks only, over Christmas and into February. Tickets from around £20, with all-in pricing, so the price you see is what you pay.

Find tickets • Call us on 020 7193 9050

Best Seats for Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean

Book the middle of the Royal Circle, rows B to E, for the best view in the theatre: close, a little above the stage and square on to it. The middle of the Stalls, rows D to K, puts you at eye level with the stage, and for a one-man show, some would feel these are better seats.

It's an old theatre that hasn't been modernised inside, so the seats are narrow and the legroom is tight on every level. The middle of the Upper Circle, from row C back, is the value, and the Gallery benches at the top are the cheapest way in, up 65 steps.

More on every level is in the Tickets and Best Seats tab.

Where to Sit for Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean

Tickets run from around £20 to around £140, all-in, and most seats are around £45 to £120.

Royal Circle

Rows B to E in the middle are the best seats in the theatre, and among the most expensive. Row A is good too. The ends of row A lose the front corners of the stage, and the end seats of rows G and H are sold as restricted view.

Stalls

The middle of rows D to K is the other top pick. Row A sits under a high stage. From about row R back, the Royal Circle above cuts off the top of the stage and you're a long way back.

Upper Circle

The middle block, from row C back, sees the whole stage for much less. Every seat in the side blocks is sold as restricted view.

Gallery

The cheapest seats, on benches with fixed armrests, at the very top. It's a long climb and a long way up.

Seat by seat, it's all on the Theatre Royal Haymarket seating plan. Call us on 020 7193 9050 and we'll find the best seats left on your date.

Who's Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean For?

Anyone who likes Bill Bailey's live shows: the long, odd stories, the jokes that turn into songs, and a lot of instruments. If you saw Thoughtifier here over the winter of 2024 to 2025, this is the follow-up, in the same theatre, and even if you've seen him before, his shows always feel fresh.

It also works as a Christmas night out for a family with older children. It's billed as family fun, and the theatre's age guidance is under-16s with an adult and no under-5s. With dates running into February, it makes an easy Christmas present for a fan.

What Is Vaudevillean?

Before cinema, radio and television, vaudeville was the big night out: a variety bill of comedy, songs, music and odd talents, all aimed at as broad an audience as possible. Vaudevillean is Bill Bailey's tribute to it. Expect comedy and stories, his own songs, and a lot of instruments: the billing calls him multi-instrumental and multi-lingual. It's a one-man show.

The name came from a passing comment during one of his West End runs, that his show was like watching vaudeville. As he put it, "that is exactly what I am, that is what I do".

Bill Bailey: Vaudevillean News and Reviews

Vaudevillean reaches the UK on 6 November 2026, when the arena tour opens in Plymouth, and the London run starts on 16 December. The reviews will follow from then.

Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey has been making Britain laugh for more than 30 years, and somewhere along the way he became something close to a national treasure. He was made an MBE for services to entertainment in the 2026 New Year Honours.

He grew up in Keynsham, between Bath and Bristol, and started out on the stand-up circuit in the late 1980s, including an Edinburgh show with his friend Sean Lock. His first solo show, Cosmic Jam, came in 1995. His 1996 Edinburgh show was nominated for the Perrier Award, and in 1999 he won Best Live Stand-Up at the British Comedy Awards. Since then he's toured the world with Bewilderness, Part Troll, Tinselworm, Dandelion Mind, Qualmpeddler, Limboland, En Route to Normal and Thoughtifier, including a sell-out night at Wembley Arena. Channel 4 viewers have twice voted him the seventh greatest stand-up of all time.

On television he played Manny in Black Books, alongside Dylan Moran and Tamsin Greig, and was a team captain on Never Mind the Buzzcocks from 2002 to 2008. He's been a regular on QI since it began in 2003, and he's popped up in Spaced, Hot Fuzz and the 2011 Doctor Who Christmas special. In 2020 he won Strictly Come Dancing with Oti Mabuse, and at 55 he's still the oldest winner the show has had.

Music runs through all of it. He's classically trained, has perfect pitch, and plays keyboards, guitar and the theremin among plenty of others, which is why so many of his jokes turn into songs. He's taken his Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra to the Royal Albert Hall with the BBC Concert Orchestra, played a heavy metal festival at Knebworth, and in September 2025 made his debut at the Last Night of the Proms, playing Leroy Anderson's The Typewriter on a real typewriter.

Away from the stage he's a keen birdwatcher and wildlife campaigner. He wrote Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to British Birds, and made Jungle Hero for BBC Two, about the Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.

Vaudevillean is a solo show, produced by Phil McIntyre Live.

Getting to the Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket is on Haymarket, London SW1Y 4HT, between Piccadilly Circus and Trafalgar Square. Piccadilly Circus, on the Bakerloo and Piccadilly lines, is about 3 minutes' walk, and Charing Cross is the nearest mainline station.

Buses 12, 88, 159 and 453 stop on Haymarket at Charles II Street, a couple of minutes from the door, and the 9, 23 and 139 stop at Jermyn Street. Haymarket is one way, so for buses north or west after the show, walk up to Regent Street, St James's.

Arrive 15 to 20 minutes before, no later. Tickets are e-tickets on your phone or printed, and the bars take cards only. There's no lift, and the Upper Circle and Gallery are 65 steps up.

Everything else, including access, is in our Theatre Royal Haymarket guide.

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