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Sit back, relax, and let us entertain you with a season packed full of exciting performances. Whether its rising stars or established artists you're after, theatre in Durham has it all!
Number of results: 17
Performance
Consett
This feel-good performance is packed with show-stopping scenes, sing-a-long memories and spectacular footage as we take a nostalgic journey through the seventy year reign of Queen Elizabeth II.
Theatre
Durham
Based on the great American musicals, This "NHS, We Thank You" concert is raising money to support the physical and mental welfare of the staff at University Hospital, Durham
Theatre
Durham
Hadaway Harry is a true story about Harry Clasper, the man the Blaydon Races was written for, and the greatest sporting superstar the North East has ever seen.
Theatre
Stanley
Join Dorothy and her dog Toto as she goes on an adventure over the rainbow and down the Yellow Brick Road.
Theatre
Barnard Castle
The Comedy of Errors is a farce with a dark underbelly. Set in 1919, with a distinctly 'Peaky Blinders' feel, the play creates a richly comic world full of mistaken identity and wanton lasciviousness!
Local Events
Willington
Empire Theatre have tasked TaleGate Productions, who have brought you other howlers including 'Harry Panto' and Hocus Panto' with having the audience SCREAMING … with laughter and lifting the roof of Spectrum Leisure once more. Will you be part of…
Theatre
Barnard Castle
A playful, fresh and engaging new show aimed at children aged 4+ and their families. Meet a hedgehog waking up from hibernation to find the world is not as it once was. Come along on the adventure and see the world through tiny eyes!
Theatre
Durham
When Lennox finds herself sent to stay in Northumberland after being excluded from her city comp, she is certain there is nothing there for her. Far away from home, with a family she barely knows, she must rediscover herself and in doing so uncover…
Theatre
Chester le Street
The smash hit Broadway and West End Musical based on the best loved movie follows beautiful and popular sorority sister Elle Woods who loves to be pampered and is passionate about pink.
Theatre
Barnard Castle
A Way Home: The fight for a place to belong is a play by Christina Castling and a Carole Wears Production.
Theatre
Durham City
This hilarious play centres on a voluble cleaning woman who keeps telling the cops to mind their own business. She steps forward with the right evidence in every pinch.
Theatre
Durham
Zog, super keen student turned air-ambulance, still lands with a crash-bang-thump. Together with his Flying Doctor crew, Princess Pearl and Sir Gadabout, they tend to a sunburnt mermaid, a unicorn with one too many horns and a lion with the flu
Pantomimes
Blackhall
Roll up, roll up to see panto join the circus, A fun family light hearted story with lots of singing, dance and audience participation. Suitable for all ages, children are not a requirement to attend!
Theatre
Staindrop
Join us at Raby for a special theatrical adaptation of David Walliams' Awful Auntie.
Performance
Toronto, Bishop Auckland
Award winning shows, epic firework displays and one of the country’s biggest street parties will make a truly memorable weekend of celebrations for the Platinum Jubilee on Friday, 3rd June and Saturday, 4th June at 11Arches in Bishop Auckland.
Theatre
Durham
A Way Home is a new play rooted in the stories and memories of the very people who called those D villages home. A County-wide fight lasting over 25 years becomes a 12-month journey at Bet’s kitchen table as she confronts what loss really looks like.
Performance
Bishop Auckland
Travel through time and watch legends come to life.Two thousand years of history, myth and legend rush by in 90 minutes.
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