Peter Marinker

As the company celebrate Bilbo and Frodo Baggins' official birthdays, Artistic Director Paul Hart, Executive Director Claire Murray, and the whole team at Newbury's The Watermill Theatre have announced that their production of THE LORD OF THE RINGS has officially sold out. Learn more about the show here!

Get a first look at photos and video of The Lord of the Rings at the Watermill Theatre!

Newbury's The Watermill Theatre has announced the full cast of their upcoming musical; a brand-new production of THE LORD OF THE RINGS, a musical tale based on the classic trilogy by J.R.R. Tolkien, with book and lyrics by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus and music by A.R. Rahman (Bombay Dreams, Slumdog Millionaire), Värttinä and Tony Award winner and Grammy nominated Christopher Nightingale (Matilda the Musical).

It is chilling to think that The Melting Pot, a play that revolves around anti-Semitism in America and Europe, was first performed in 1908, decades before the atrocity of the Holocaust. The Finborough Theatre production marks the first time in almost 80 years that it has been staged in the UK, with its last production being in 1938 just before World War II.

In a rediscovery commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, The Melting Pot by Israel Zangwill runs at the Finborough Theatre, playing Sunday and Monday evenings and Tuesday matinees from Sunday, 3 December 2017. The classic story of a young Russian immigrant fighting to uphold his dream of a new life in a new country. After his family are massacred in a pogrom, Jewish composer David Quixano escapes to New York City, in search of a new life. There he falls in love with Vera, a beautiful Russian Christian.

Each month, Peter Marinker and friends present incisive, subversive writing from every era in READINGS.

The new season of Mapping Beckett starts with Beckett's relationship with religion on Sunday 25th September 2016 at 7 p.m. The monthly performed readings and discussion charting the iconic Irish writer's reference points, work and life continues at The Cockpit. Tickets: £7.

Gary Naylor sees Judas, or is it everyone else, on trial.

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of artist Augustus John, the first production in 24 years of William Douglas Home's Portraits opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of six Sunday and Monday performances from Sunday, 7 August 2011 (Press Night: Monday, 8 August 2011).

Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the death of artist Augustus John, the first production in 24 years of William Douglas Home's Portraits opens at the Finborough Theatre for a limited run of six Sunday and Monday performances from Sunday, 7 August 2011 (Press Night: Monday, 8 August 2011).

The Godot Company, London will present three short plays by Samuel Beckett, Rough for Theatre One, Play, and Not I in Wexford Opera House on Monday, February 14 at 8pm in the intimate Jerome Hynes Theatre.

The Godot Company, London will present three short plays by Samuel Beckett, Rough for Theatre One, Play, and Not I in Wexford Opera House on Monday, February 14 at 8pm in the intimate Jerome Hynes Theatre.