Upcoming Shows
Folding together heartache and humour, Anna rediscovers the joys of living, learning, and - most importantly - eating, one recipe at a time.HOW TO MAKE...
Highly-respected jazz musician Harry Sumner's world is turned upside down when Lorraine Tait, a complete stranger, arrives in his life. From the very moment she...
From the mind, and true lived experience, of Bonnie Oddie, That's Why Mums Go to Switzerland (Winner: Best Solo Show at Riverside Studios Bitesize Festival) is a blazing,...
After sold-out performances at the 2025 Bath Jane Austen and Chawton Pride and Prejudice Festivals, the Cohen-Wingfield Duo — creators of the acclaimed Einstein's Violin — bring Pride...
Got the blues? Well, step right up, because The Jive Aces are bringing their "Feelin’ Happy" Tour to town, and it’s gonna flip your frown upside down!...
Butterfly Eye Productions’ new totally absurd and slightly horrific Extravaganza comes to Upstairs at the Gatehouse for its premiere run this July. An imaginative, physical and...
The year is 2049: A lone pirate sails the Straits of Melaka under a red sky… until a storm throws seafarers from across time and...
Comedy producer Mike Reiss won four Emmys during his thirty-six years writing movie scripts, American TV shows and countless episodes of The Simpsons. ‘Entertainment Weekly’ called Season 4...
by Franco Milazzo - June 14, 2026
Death, it turns out, is an excellent alibi for a party, even one being held in your honour. Legendary magician, beloved family man and complete fiction Dieter Roterburg has sadly died and his wake is being held nightly in the tunnels beneath Waterloo train station....
by Cheryl Markosky - June 13, 2026
Vivaldi's Four Seasons is one of the most recognised tunes going, thanks to its ubiquity in advertisements, as lift music and hold music (which this piece wittily refers to), so it's difficult to hear it afresh. That's what makes this reinterpretation of it, through an electronic remix by DJ Walde a...
by Matthew Paluch - June 12, 2026
What did our critic think of SO ARE WE: LEÓN AND LIGHTFOOT at Royal Ballet And Opera?...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 12, 2026
Puccini's tear-jerker La bohème is always a crowd-pleaser for any opera festival. This production at The Grange Festival is the first opera from French actor-turned-director David Geselson who created it for Opéra National de Nancy Lorraine in 2025. Featuring some strong singing and exquisite play...
by Mica Blackwell - June 11, 2026
Whether you grew up with the 1968 film or are learning about it for the first time, this Chitty Chitty Bang Bang proves that with some imagination, theatrical magic can come from the simplest things....
by Clementine Scott - June 09, 2026
“It’s like vultures circling a carcass,” one character in Driftwood says of the uneasy situation in Trinidad a few years shy of independence. This is the febrile setting for Casualty actress Martina Laird’s debut play, a portrait of a nation told entirely within the walls of one Port of Spai...
by Clementine Scott - June 08, 2026
On her deathbed, US playwright Joshua Harmon’s grandmother granted him permission to write a play about their family, on the condition that it be as “brutal and vitriolic” as possible. The result is We Had A World, a Pandora’s Box of generational trauma – indeed, the actor playing Harmon b...
by Aliya Al-Hassan - June 08, 2026
A new version of Handel's 1724 opera Giulio Cesare is always an exciting prospect. The love story between Julius Caesar and Cleopatra, with the backdrop of war with Egypt, political ambition and domestic unrest is ripe for reinterpretation. Indeed, Handel and his librettist the librettist Nicola ...
by Louise Penn - June 08, 2026
The Lilian Baylis Theatre and associated spaces next door to Sadler's Wells is full of chatter and excitement on day 2 of the Dance Digital film festival. With short films, documentaries, social media pieces, and VR experiences, alongside networking and mentoring opportunities for professionals, thi...
by Franco Milazzo - June 06, 2026
Mae West famously asked, 'Is that a gun in your pocket, or are you happy to see me?' Well, at the beginning of the relationship, he will no doubt be very happy to see you. But, at the end of the relationship…
And that, my friends, is as good a summary of Mozart’s The Marriage Of Figaro as any....
Past Shows
Well-known local actor, Harry Meacher, entertains with tales from his life and long career - from being nearly thrown out of RADA, and then winning...
Marking the centenary of her birth, this world premiere imagines Marilyn Monroe at 100, looking back on the girl she was and the legend she...
Nobody waits like Mulberry. Waiting is his hobby. He waits whenever and wherever he can. Whilst waiting for a big yellow door of opportunity to...
Coming this winter, Moominvalley in November is a new musical based on the ninth and final story of the globally known Moomin books, by Finnish...
Sigmund Freud and Adolf Hitler never met. But what if they had? Would the world be a better place if the 20th century's greatest psychopath had...
In 1962 Frank Sinatra was his best buddy, Marilyn Monroe his best girl, and his brother in law was none other than the President.21 years...
OVATION presents the UK premiere of this fabulous Broadway musical. Winner of two Tonys and three Drama Desk Awards, this screwball comedy pokes fun at...
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