Robert Newman Live Dates 2026

ROB NEWMAN'S 21ST CENTURY SURVIVAL GUIDE

Hot on the heels of his new novel, INTELLIGENCE, Rob Newman returns to offer a 21ST CENTURY SURVIVAL GUIDE.

How do we defend ourselves from oil shocks, chatbots and billionaire Tech Bros inciting civil war? Or stop AI stealing half our water, and water companies poisoning the rest? From retrofitting our towns and cities for the climate of the future to proposing a national maximum wage, Newman explores what clues history offers us for when the rich and powerful go ape..

02 May 2026 BELFAST Black Box
Final date for 'Where The Wild Things Were' TICKETS

11 May 2026 LONDON Bloomsbury Theatre Resonance FM benefiit

26 May 2026 LONDON Always Be Comedy SOLD OUT

29 May 2026 LONDON Always Be Comedy TICKETS

05 July 2026 LONDON Tabard - Work In Progress TICKETS

12 July 2026 LONDON Tabard - Work In Progress TICKETS

06 Sept 2026 LONDON Tabard - Work In Progress TICKETS

13 Sept 2026 LONDON Tabard - Work In Progress TICKETS

17 Sept 2026 STROUD Sub Rooms - 21st Century Survival Guide TICKETS

26 Sept 2026 LYME REGIS Marine Theatre ON SALE SOON

03 Oct 2026 WORTHING Comedy Rooms TICKETS

09 Oct 2026 LIVERPOOL Royal Court Theatre Studio TICKETS

BOOK TALKS AND LITERARY FESTIVALS

03 May 2026 BELFAST >Green Room TICKETS

08 May 2026 CHIPPING CAMPDEN Literary Festival TICKETS

16 May 2026 BUDE Literary Festival TICKETS

"Gleefully jaunty and refreshingly intelligent… hugely entertaining." **** The Guardian

"Intellectually charged and adorably ambitious… a delightfully digestible dose of brain food."
**** The Times

"Every time Rob Newman comes up with a new live show, it is beholden on all observers of comedy to pay attention. Not merely because of his great track record... but because he sets himself intellectual challenges beyond the grasp of many stand-up comedians, and produces material that genuinely forces audience to approach the world in a whole new way... this time around, in The Brain Show, he's delving into the inner recesses of his cerebellum with a performance that mixes hard fact with dizzying flights of comedic fantasy." The Guardian

"He is one amazing comedian" Time Out

"Has it ever struck you that some of the odd things which neurologists tell us about our brains may be, not just odd, but actually mistaken, pure superstitions, inventions thought up by excited scientists out of outdated philosophy? That is what, after careful digging, Robert Newman has been finding… Read him!" Mary Midgley