Janet Street-Porter - Is Still Off The Leash at 80!

Janet Street-Porter comes to Derby Theatre on Wednesday 21 April 2027, playing the Main House. The show is called Janet Street-Porter - Is Still Off The Leash at 80!, and it's a stand-up comedy set marking her 80th birthday.

Street-Porter draws on her life as a broadcaster, television executive and newspaper editor, which she describes as having always been colourful: from a bolshy child with a Welsh-speaking budgie to a National Treasure at the forefront of many of Britain's most enduring cultural moments. Now on the cusp of turning 80, she brings comedy, tragedy and gossip to the stage in a tour de force rant against growing old gracefully. Billed as the nation's favourite 'pissed-off pensioner', she's often imitated but rarely equalled; her good friend Elton reportedly described her as 'the bitch is back'.

It's a one-woman show, so the whole evening rests on her voice and her stories. The performance runs for two hours including an interval, which gives you a bit of a breather in the middle. Tickets are £33, and it starts at 7:30pm at Derby Theatre, 15 Theatre Walk, St Peter's Quarter, Derby DE1 2NF.