Events List

Explore Glasgow’s entertainment scene with our very own Judith Bowers! Join her for a guided walking tour through the city’s streets and uncover its theatrical past and hidden gems!

The Sons of the Desert return with another amazing collection of Laurel and Hardy classics.

Fresh from playing the title role in Lear at Pitlochry and just before assuming the part of the Headmistress in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie for the National Theatre of Scotland, the redoubtable Maureen Beattie will be revisiting one of her most colourful characterisations when she portrays Mary, Queen of Scots in a staged reading of W. Gordon Smith’s Marie of Scotland at the historic Britannia Panopticon Music Hall at 3pm on Sunday 13 th September.

We will be part of this year's Glasgow Doors Open Days Festival

Explore the World’s oldest surviving music hall auditorium in the world. Still retaining its original Victorian fixtures and fittings, it is a remarkable survivor and famed for the debut of Stan Laurel. Enjoy our captivating exhibition of historic ephemera connected to the history of this city, music and cinema.

Spiders On Mars return to the Panopticon for an un-plugged Tribute to the late, great David Bowie.
let's dance!

Judith Bowers uncovers Glasgow’s colourful theatre history, from ghostly pipers and dancing bears to flea circuses, early theatres and famous visitors.

Location: Mazumdar-Shaw Advanced Research Centre (ARC)

University of Glasgow, 11 Chapel Lane, Glasgow, G11 6EW

Keeping Music Hall alive!
Join us for our monthly summer fundraiser in Britannia Panopticon celebrating Music Hall old and new. Magic acts, singers, musicians, comedians and novelty acts - you never know what you will see next. 

Join five very strange magicians for an evening of Bizarre Magic Cabaret in Glasgow's most haunted venue. Halloween starts now. Do you dare? Doors open at 7PM and the show will start promptly at 7.30PM so do not be late! There is a licensed bar in the music hall auditorium which will be open throughout the show to steady your nerves.

Fortunes Told! Join us for another amazing Tea & Tarot event with tarot readers, angel cards, mediums, palmistry and traders selling esoteric goods. Admission is only £2 . Consultations cost extra.

The Sons of the Desert return with another amazing collection of Laurel and Hardy classics.

The Denton Deviants bring the Timewarp back to the Britannia Panopticon Music Hall.

Brothers! Sisters! Siblings All! Rejoice for The Grand Duke of Hell, Lord Astaroth, welcomes you to his Brotherhood.

Visit the esoteric realm of an ancient demonic cult with Edinburgh Horror Festival sell-out magician Ash Pryce: Paranormal Illusionist. Take part in a dark magick initiation ritual, and learn the secrets of the teachings of Astaroth..

Will you save your soul, or be damned to oblivion? Join the occult this Hallowe'en Season - PRAISE ASTAROTH!

For one night only, dare to listen?

Join us at the world’s oldest and most haunted music hall for an evening of truly horrifying stories beyond your wildest imagination. Our storytellers will bring spine-chilling folktales and ghostly tales to life. So grab a drink, grab a delightful snack, and dare to sit back and listen.

This October, join me — Lorenzo, Mind-reader and paranormal enthusiast — for a night of psychological chills and supernatural thrills in Glasgow’s Britannia Panopticon Music Hall. Once shuttered in the 1930s and lost to time, the Panopticon has creaked back into the light… just in time for Darker Material, an evening of Twisted Humour, Mind-Bending Mentalism, Darkly Immersive Storytelling, and perhaps a brush with something outwith our understanding; not everything that stirs in the dark is part of the show.
WARNING:
This performance has the potential to be psychologically distressing: it is not suitable for pregnant persons or those with heart problems

Gladstone's bag presents 'The Magician' for our Halloween film this year.

A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.

This October, join me — Lorenzo, Mind-reader and paranormal enthusiast — for a night of psychological chills and supernatural thrills in Glasgow’s Britannia Panopticon Music Hall. Once shuttered in the 1930s and lost to time, the Panopticon has creaked back into the light… just in time for Darker Material, an evening of Twisted Humour, Mind-Bending Mentalism, Darkly Immersive Storytelling, and perhaps a brush with something outwith our understanding; not everything that stirs in the dark is part of the show.
WARNING:
This performance has the potential to be psychologically distressing: it is not suitable for pregnant persons or those with heart problems.

The Halloween Market returns with 14 stalls of spooky, kooky, Halloweeness.

£2 upon entry which gives you a free ticket to our terrifying tombola

12:30pm - 18:00pm