The Theatre Royal Bath is set to dazzle audiences with a remarkable roster of performances, blending timeless classics and fresh narratives. From the poignant return of 'Birdsong' to the enchanting 'A Christmas Carol', this season promises stories of love, intrigue, and adventure. Highlights include the all-male 'The Pirates of Penzance', the introspective 'A Man For All Seasons', and a chilling journey in 'Ghost Stories'. The program also introduces a delightful dance adaptation of 'The Snowy Day' and a suspenseful rendition of 'The Girl on The Train', ensuring a memorable theatrical experience.

Theatre Royal Bath Unveils a Spectacular Line-Up: A Blend of Classics and New Adventures

Join Jane Tapley for an illustrated talk on Charles Dickens, exploring the life and times of the most famous 19th century novelist in the world.

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What the Dickens!

Sasha Regan’s original All-Male G&S production has now been winning awards and playing to sold out houses around the world for 15 years.

The Pirates of Penzance

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One of the hottest tickets of last Christmas is back for a limited number of performances - Olivier Award winner Guy Masterson’s internationally acclaimed solo performance of Charles Dickens’s festive tale.

A Christmas Carol

Sebastian Faulks’s epic story of love and loss returns to the stage marking the 30th anniversary of the international best-selling novel.

Birdsong

Whirlwind, FitBit-breaking comedian, presenter, actor and author Russell Kane is out on the road again, setting it on fire with his unique recipe of sharp wit and “storming physical comedy” (Mail on Sunday).

Russell Kane: HyperActive

Walking back to their apartment late one night, a tragic encounter sees Sam murdered and his beloved girlfriend Molly alone, in despair and utterly lost. But with the help of a phoney storefront psychic, Sam, trapped between this world and the next, tries to communicate with Molly in the hope of saving her from grave danger…

Ghost the Musical

A heart-warming tale of friendship and re-connecting with loved ones. Two people meet,
tentatively at first, and journey through building trust and comfort with each other again.

Early Weaves

Amidst the heat of a Neapolitan spring, Filumena Marturano (Felicity Kendal) lies on her deathbed, waiting to marry the man who has kept her as his mistress for twenty-five years. No sooner than they are married, she makes a miraculous recovery, much to the surprise of her new, unwilling husband and his younger lover!

Filumena

Following the huge success of Ben Elton’s critically acclaimed sold-out UK tour in 2019, which marked his return to live comedy after a fifteen year hiatus, the undisputed godfather of modern stand-up is going back on the road with his new show – Authentic Stupidity.

Ben Elton

A planetary sphere rolls across the stage. Or is it an ark or is it a cocoon? The dancer explores the big wide world, one hand, one foot, one head at a time, until she is brave enough to emerge.

Chiffonnade

Packed with the iconic songs Jolene, 9 to 5, Islands in the Stream, I Will Always Love You, Here You Come Again and more, this lively and touching new musical tells the story of a diehard fan whose fantasy version of international icon Dolly Parton gets him through trying times. With her wit, humour and charm, Dolly teaches him a whole lot about life, love and how to pull yourself up by your bootstraps…even if your bootstraps don’t have rhinestones! This is one musical that is sure to make you smile.

Here You Come Again

The tale of an unlikely encounter between a Polar Bear and a Penguin. This is the story of polar opposite characters meeting for the first time, getting to know one another and learning how to survive in a world that is melting beneath their feet...paws...flippers. 

Polar Bear and Penguin

Join the Funny Mummy for this hilarious one women comedy show, all about the bonkers world of parenting. From pregnancy to playdates, WhatsApp groups to school runs – if you’re a parent, and you need a laugh, then this show is for you!

Funny Mummy

Football Freddie tells the story of Freddie Farren, a little girl who loves football but is too nervous to join in a game in her local park. Out of a magical photograph steps Freddie’s Great-Great-Great Uncle Fred, a real footballer from the olden days. Uncle Fred takes Freddie back in time and they re-live footballing glories of old. With Uncle-Fred’s encouragement, Freddie renews her confidence and enthusiasm and everyone joins in a good old-fashioned kick around.

Football Freddie

You’re invited to the edge of your seat, to the darkest corners of the night... Edward Dunning is a scholar and a sceptic, but when he crosses paths with the mysterious Mr. Karswell, his life becomes a waking nightmare.

Casting the Runes

Crossing between the past and present, Babi travels across Europe; from bon bons in Germany to the smell of the sea in Margate, she discovers how tiny acts of kindness can change the course of a person’s life.

Kinder

Joe Sellman-Leava and Dylan Howells embark on a quest to uncover how the economy wins elections and why the force that dominates our lives is so bloody complicated!

Armed with brown bags, an old board game and a pinch of theatrical magic, Joe and Dylan calculate how their lives have been shaped by the economies they grew up in.

It's the Economy, Stupid!

Join Siân Phillips in conversation with director Richard Digby Day for a fascinating evening looking back over her life on stage and screen. 

Presented alongside Siân’s appearance in Summer 1954, a double bill of plays by Terence Rattigan with Nathaniel Parker in the Main House, this is a unique opportunity to spend an evening in the company of a true theatrical legend. 

An Evening with Dame Siân Phillips

William’s school report is not good. But his piano tricks are so impressive, his teachers have picked him to play at the prestigious concert for Mozart’s birthday celebrations.

Do Not Play This Piano

A man wakes up in midlife to a broken marriage and the dawning fear that he has done nothing to make himself memorable. Packing away his life as he prepares for divorce, he is struck by an insane idea: why not pick up the French horn that defeated him in his youth...?

I Found My Horn

The atmosphere at The Beauregard Private Hotel, Bournemouth is one of repressed emotions and post-war gentility. In this world of hushed conversations and quiet anonymity, an unlikely friendship develops between a repressed spinster and a retired Army officer. But when a newspaper threatens to reveal the Major’s long-held secret, will the other residents cast him out for good?

Summer 1954

Come along for a fun, relaxed participatory theatre session with The Last Baguette theatre company.
There’ll be silliness, play-acting, games and music... Expect to play, move, watch and laugh.

Play Time: Gee-Whiskers!

Shôn’s 83-year old mother is waiting for some test results from the hospital. Shôn goes back home to the Isle of Anglesey to visit her. To relieve some pressure, she asks him to crack an egg on her head. All hell is let loose. Internet trolls appear in real life demanding Shôn stops abusing his mother and gets off the island...

Cracking

Birdboy is a trip inside his head. In his whirring mind, thoughts, worries, fantasies all compete for space in a world where fitting in is hard to do.

Birdboy

The fascinating story of Walter Tull, grandson of a Barbadian slave, orphaned at eight years old, who rose to prominence against all odds, combining a power packed drama with hauntingly original music.

The first black footballer to play at the highest level of the domestic game in the UK he went on to achieve yet another historic breakthrough as the first man of his heritage to be commissioned as an Officer in the British Army.

Our Little Hour

Ready to thrill you with fun and naughty moments, Richard O’Brien’s legendary rock ‘n’ roll musical returns having been seen by over 30 million theatregoers.

The Rocky Horror Show

Grab your compass and join our intrepid explorer across uncharted territories to discover a pre-historic world of astonishing and remarkably life-like dinosaurs! Meet a host of impressive creatures, including every child’s favourite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus!

Dinosaur World Live!

Catherine Shaw spent the 90s shocking the art world with her provocative performance art. She’s always called herself a feminist, but looking back through the lens of #MeToo, she’s questioning how much she enabled the culture she now sees being called out.

Indestructible

The year is 1897. Mankind is on the cusp of vast technological change, scientific mastery and media innovation. But poised between traditional beliefs, the threat of the unknown and the shock of the new world, an altogether darker fear is emerging...

Dracula

When Katie’s mum is diagnosed with cancer her life grinds to a stop. But when she meets an elderly man in a radiotherapy waiting room corridor, everything changes.

One in two of us will get cancer in our lifetimes. It can happen to anyone. People who run the marathon... They’ve only got themselves to blame.

The Long Run

Exploring the theme: 10 Ways To Say Goodbye, ‘Play Back’ will immerse you in the creative possibilities of ‘theatre of the mind’.

Play Back

Vincent died in 1890, John died in 1980, both of gunshot wounds. But what might have happened had the two greatest artists of their time met?

When Vincent Met John

Buckle up... You’re in for a hell of a ride! The quickest wits in comedy are here to take you on a totally improvised tour around YOUR weirdest and wildest ideas.

The Noise Next Door

A splendid dinner party in an Edinburgh mansion concludes with a murder mystery game created by the hostess. A murder needs to be solved. But the guests have secrets of their own, threatened by the very game they are playing. And among them is Inspector John Rebus. True crime is his calling. Is he playing an alternative game, one to which only he knows the rules? There are suspects, clues and danger with every twist and turn - and a shocking discovery will send this game called ‘Malice' hurtling towards a gasp-inducing conclusion.

Rebus: A Game Called Malice

Promoting her live-in-lockdown album The St Buryan Sessions, Cornwall-based singer-songwriter Sarah McQuaid returns to the Ustinov Studio for one night only.

The St Buryan Sessions, recorded  in the beautiful medieval church of St Buryan, made it onto ‘Best of 2021’ lists on three continents and features stunning performances by Sarah on acoustic and electric guitars, piano and floor tom drum, her lush, distinctive vocals echoing through the soaring space.

Sarah McQuaid

Embark on a whimsical journey with the Little Prince as he wanders the universe in search of the true meaning of friendship.

Enter a world of endless sunsets, where people are like flowers, and grown-ups are, well, pretty peculiar. They think serious things are silly and silly things are serious. They’ve forgotten how to look with the heart.

The Little Prince

Trapped in the Peruvian rainforest, having survived a plane crash and a fall of 10,000 feet, seventeen-year-old Juliane is utterly alone and hopelessly lost. But she’s the daughter of two Amazon zoologists - she knows what to do.

Her Green Hell

Play Time: - The Squeak-easy Party

Little Red Riding Hood is no longer little, she no longer wears a hood and she wants to be called by her real name. She’s questioning everything. And so are Mother, the Woodcutter and even the Wolf!

Little Red Riding Could

ROOM 101 … BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU … SUPER STATES … THOUGHT POLICE … George Orwell’s masterpiece 1984 creates a world where every action is painstakingly monitored and controlled by a powerful regime, where independent thought and choice are relics of an almost-forgotten past.

1984

Austen’s Women are back - in a brand-new solo comedy show! Devil-may-care Lady Susan, the coquettish black widow, hunting down not one, but two, fortunes; oppressed, rebellious daughter Frederica; long-suffering sister-in-law Catherine; family matriarch Mrs De Courcy; and insouciant best friend, Alicia.

Austen's Women:Lady Susan

Join the Moonstone Theatre Company for their latest  Murder Mystery . William Elliot’s body has been found in the grounds of Kellynch Hall, but who could have killed him? Was it Mrs Smith or Sir Walter Elliot or Mrs Clay? All of them had motives… Captain Wentworth takes on the role of investigator but can he and the lunch guests discover the truth and bring the killer to justice?

Murder at Kellynch Hall

Abbey Hotel

A statement from Dawn French: “This show is so-named because unfortunately, it’s horribly accurate. There have been far too many times I have made stupid mistakes or misunderstood something vital or jumped the gun in a spectacular display of twattery.

Dawn French is a Huge Twat

Award-winning local theatre company Bath Light Operatic Group return to the Main House with their new production of an undoubted all-time classic.


My Fair Lady

International opera and theatre director and Ustinov Studio Artistic Director Deborah Warner brings to life Schubert’s Winterreise (Winter Journey), a cycle of 24 songs for voice and piano set to poems by Wilhelm Müller, performed by renowned tenor Ian Bostridge and pianist Julius Drake. 

Winterreise

Join Mouse on a daring adventure through the deep, dark wood in Tall Stories’ magical, musical adaptation of the classic picture book by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler. 

Songs, laughs and monstrous fun for children aged 3 and up and their grown-ups, in the much-loved show that’s toured Britain and the world!

The Gruffalo

The award-winning Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society return to the Main House with a rip-roaring Rodgers & Hammerstein classic - a lively, tuneful musical full of cowboys, farmers, romance and fearless optimism!

Oklahoma!

The greatest, most powerful and dangerous figures who shaped English history are brought vividly to life in Robert Bolt’s award-winning play.

A Man For All Seasons

When Professor Goodman, arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted by a night-watchman, a teenage boy, and a businessman awaiting his first child – Goodman finds himself at the outer limits of rationality, and fast running out of explanations.

Ghost Stories

Ambition, power and political unrest explode onto the stage in The Merchant of Venice 1936, direct from selling out the RSC and London’s West End.

The Merchant of Venice 1936

Snow had fallen during the night. It covered everything as far as he could see.

Discover a world blanketed in wonder in this brand-new dance adaptation of ‘The Snowy Day’, inspired by the award winning picture book by Ezra Jack Keats. Join Peter as he crunches through the snowy streets of his New York neighbourhood, in this intimate and interactive icy adventure.

The Snowy Day

Pete the badger likes everything to be neat and tidy: the flowers, the leaves, even the other animals. But, when autumn comes, he gets a little bit carried away with cleaning up the forest and accidently destroys his own home!

Tidy

When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery in which she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.

The Girl on The Train

80s Liverpool. Chrissie, Loggo, George, Dixie and Yosser are used to hard work and providing for their families. But there is no work and there is no money. What are they supposed to do? Work harder, work longer, buy cheaper, spend less? They just need a chance. 

Boys From the Blackstuff

Mouse tries all kinds of tactics to move the pesky Bear but nothing seems to work. However, it isn’t long until the tables are turned and Bear finds himself with an unwelcome guest – the cheeky Mouse won’t leave his house!

There's A Bear On My Chair

FADE IN: The open ocean, 1974. Filming is delayed…again. The lead actors—theatre veteran Robert Shaw and young Hollywood hotshots Richard Dreyfuss and Roy Scheider—are crammed into a too-small boat, entirely at the mercy of foul weather and a faulty mechanical co-star. Alcohol flows, egos collide, and tempers flare on a chaotic voyage that just might lead to cinematic magic…if it doesn’t sink them all.

The Shark is Broken

Join me on my Diamond Jubilee lap of honour as I celebrate 60 Glorious Years of fun, laughter and low level disruption!

Marvel! As I offer new insights into the hot topics of the day such as the demise of the SCART lead, The Culture Wars, the differences between crab sticks and rhubarb and the origins of Tirimisu

Harry Hill: New Bits & Greatest Hits

Winter 1934 and an avalanche stops The Orient Express dead in its tracks. A murder. A train full of suspects. An impossible case. Trapped in the snow with a killer still on-board, can the world’s most famous detective, Hercule Poirot, crack the case before the train reaches its final destination?

Murder on the Orient Express

Join us for a unique theatrical journey inside the mind of Alfred Hitchcock, one of cinema’s legendary characters, the creative genius behind iconic movies including Psycho, Vertigo, North by Northwest, Rear Window, The Birds and many many more.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents - The Musical

Direct from its triumph in the West End where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy and the Evening Standard Award, Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) is a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story.

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of)

Multi award-winning star of stage, screen and music LILY ALLEN will star as the enigmatic and destructive Hedda Gabler, one of theatre’s most irresistible heroines, in a thrilling new version of Ibsen’s masterpiece which will open at the Ustinov Studio from Friday 25 July 2025.

Hedda

The Ralph Fiennes/Theatre Royal Bath Season continues with William Shakespeare's timeless comedy, directed by Ralph Fiennes, starring the legendary Olivier Award winner Dame Harriet Walter as Jaques and one of the hottest young stars of stage and screen Gloria Obianyo as Rosalind.

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Nov 25 - Dec 30, 2024

Birdsong

17 - 25 Jan, 2025

A Man For All Seasons

Jan 28 - Feb 1, 2025

Ghost Stories

10 - 15 Feb, 2025

The Merchant of Venice 1936

12 - 16 Feb, 2025

The Snowy Day

Dec 20, 2024

What the Dickens!

2 - 7 Dec, 2024

The Pirates of Penzance

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