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To celebrate the 20th anniversary of her global No 1 bestseller, Kate Mosse is set to thrill audiences anew with her unforgettable one-woman show, Labyrinth Live: Unlocking the Secrets of the Labyrinth. With theatre at its most dazzling, immersive and dramatic, with music, imagery, and film, she will take us through history and mystery, on an epic journey across the breathtaking landscape of the Languedoc – of Carcassonne, Toulouse, Chartres and the Pyrenees.

In 1974 my father invested £750 (£9,800 in today’s money) in a Royal Worcester porcelain figure of The Duke of Wellington on horseback – made to celebrate his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo. He kept the figure we affectionately called The Duke, wrapped in sponge, in a big box, under his bed. After he died in 2001, my mother decided to take the figure out and display it on the table in the bay window. Since 2005 I’ve been working on a film script, which is in the very final stages of development. In the spring of 2024 I sit at my desk waiting for an email that will tell me what I need to do to the script to get it onto the screen. I turn the radio on. I listen to a report about the refugee crisis. My mother calls. She tells me she’s broken The Duke. My mother, my film script and the refugee crisis all need my attention.

The beautiful but icy Princess Turandot will only marry a man who can correctly answer three riddles. Those who fail are brutally beheaded. But when an unknown prince arrives, the balance of power in Turandot’s court is forever shaken, as the mysterious stranger does what no other has been able to.

Described as “a breath of fresh air on the swing scene” (Twinwood Festival) Down for the Count are regularly found in jazz clubs across the UK and abroad (Ronnie Scott’s London, Le Caveau de la Huchette Paris), at festivals including London Jazz Festival, and on BBC Radio. Now they are bringing the sounds and feels of the best jazz clubs to theatres around the country – with an electrifying show full of incredible energy, musicianship, and their own signature wry wit and humour. In the band’s new show for 2025, you’ll hear instrumental songs from the likes of Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Glenn Miller, vocal classics from singers such as Nat ‘King’ Cole, Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald, and original arrangements of jazz standards penned by musicians in the band.

Whether it’s finding a lost shoe or discovering who did a poo on the new gravel path, Nell’s ever-sniffing nose is always hard at work. So when the books at the school have disappeared one morning, Detective Dog Nell is ready to sniff out the culprit!

After receiving over 4 000 5* reviews for their events and selling out hundreds of shows all over the UK, the award-winning Teach Rex team are delighted to be bringing this unique, interactive show back to Canterbury in 2025. Teach Rex uses life-like dinosaurs to perform their 1 hour show, teaching children about the anatomy and life of one the most mesmerising creatures that have ever roamed our planet. The show is teamed with effects, music and gives children and their families the chance to get up close and personal with multiple, realistic beasts as they roam freely around the audience.

Acclaimed British tenor and lieder / oratorio favourite, James Gilchrist has developed a reputation “unsurpassed among lyric tenors”(‘The Independent’). He joins his long-established duo-partner Anna Tilbrook to perform repertoire which includes composers such as Quilter, Fauré, Mahler, Boulanger, and Muriel Herbert.

Emerging in the early 80s from their Whitstable folk club and Oyster ceilidh band days, Oysterband infused both the tradition and their own songs with a passion and energy that was electrifying for the time. Polkas, politics and a heaving dance floor seemed just right for Thatcher’s Britain. Signing to new roots label Cooking Vinyl, headlining English Roots against Apartheid, playing Glastonbury and the Fleadh several times each, touring with The Pogues in Europe and Billy Bragg in North America, hosting the Big Session Festival….. all gained them a large and loyal international following.

Who is the God of dog poo bags? How did the microwave get its ping? What ancient crime was Yorkshire the punishment for… And why was it inflicted upon us? Senior history professors (and rather silly men) Lee Hithersay and Robert Rhys Bond, forge three new myths from the unhinged minds of their audience – and a boatload of cardboard props!

When Beethoven’s Mass was played for its’ patron, Prince Nicolaus Esterhazy, the Prince let Beethoven know his displeasure – having expected something more akin to his teacher, Haydn. Likewise, when Poulenc’s work was first played in 1961, the words from the Mass are set to music of such freshness and vivacity that some critics suggested that it bordered on the sacrilegious. The critic, Claude Rostand, described Poulenc as “moine ou voyou” (“half yob, half monk”) describing the polarity between Poulenc’s devout Catholic faith and other aspects of his character. Today audiences will recognise and enjoy both these works as masterpieces of glorious choral and orchestral writing.