Critically acclaimed and award-winning comedian Adam Riches returns to Park Theatre January 2026 with his hit one-man show Jimmy. Following a sold-out run at the 2024 Edinburgh Festival Fringe and a previous sell-out season at the Park Theatre earlier this year, Jimmy is back by popular demand. Tickets are on sale now at parktheatre.co.uk/event/jimmy.
The show tells the story of former tennis champ Jimmy Connors, and is a fast-paced, funny and intensely physical ride, deep inside the mind of an ageing, swaggering alpha. Written by Adam Riches and directed by Tom Parry, this is an unmissable one-man Grand Slam.
‘Raised by women, to conquer men’
In 1974, Jimmy Connors was the greatest tennis player on Earth. In 1991 he’s getting his ass handed to him at the US Open by the younger brother of his arch-nemesis. What happened next was one of the greatest comebacks in the history of sport, when Jimmy, fueled by the ghosts of his turbulent past, winds back the clock to remind the world what happens when you rattle the cage of a geriatric tiger, one last time.
Adam consistently proves to be a dynamic force on the comedy circuit with his unique delivery and fast-paced, character-driven style. Never one to shy away from a challenge or play it safe with his craft, this year he is ready to turn Park Theatre into his own personal tennis court and deliver a riveting and zealous rendition of ‘the brash basher of Belleville’, Jimmy Connors.
This is a great story about getting old, getting angry and getting even – or as Adam puts it “a tale that I hope can capture and entertain an audience in the same way it has captured and entertained me”.
After his success at the Edinburgh Fringe, winning the 2011 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Comedy Show, Adam is rightly viewed as the premier exponent of innovative live comedy. In 2019 he embarked on his debut UK tour with The Adam Riches Experience, before returning to Edinburgh with the sell-out murder mystery show The Beakington Town Hall Murders. In 2023 Adam performed two shows at the Edinburgh Fringe – the premiere of the long-awaited sequel to The Guy Who… The Guys Who and Dungeons n’ Bastards, his Sean Bean hosted medieval-flavoured gameshow.
Adam became familiar to UK television audiences through his exaggerated comic parody of actor Sean Bean on the panel show 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and has also appeared on Detectorists (BBC Four), Top Coppers (BBC Three), Horrible Histories (BBC One) and Drunk History (Comedy Central).
Earlier this year Adam was seen playing Michael Ball in the award-nominated, five-star comedy juggernaut Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE Ball & Boe – due to demand the show was extended multiple times including a date at Soho Theatre Walthamstow.