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Displaying events between 01 September 2025 and 30 September 2025
Backstage Tour: Earth Angel
A tour of the SJT taking you behind the scenes and into the hidden nooks and crannies of our historic building. We'll take you backstage, to areas which aren't open to the public and tell you the story of how an Art Deco Odeon cinema became a theatre in-the-round with a slightly smaller cinema upstairs. You'll also get a behind the scenes peek at the play we're currently producing.
Dates: Sat 27
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Circle Café
The Circle Café is an exclusive monthly Members' event to meet the people behind SJT – including actors, directors, and SJT staff - for a fascinating insight into your favourite theatre. Circle Cafés are free for Members to attend and include tea, coffee and sweet treats. You can arrive from 10am onwards, the talk starts at 10.15am and lasts 45 minutes including plenty of time for questions.
Dates: Thu 25
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Dementia Friendly: Evita (1996) PG
The hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.
Dates: Fri 19
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Earth Angel by Alan Ayckbourn
Gerald recently lost his wife of many years. Amy was the light of his life, almost heaven-sent.
It’s tricky thinking about life without her but he’s trying his best to put a brave face on things, accepting help from fussy neighbours and muddling along as best he can.
Then a mysterious stranger turns up at Amy’s wake. He seems like a nice enough chap, washing the dishes and offering to do a shop for Gerald, but is he all that he appears?
Alan Ayckbourn’s 91st play digs deep into one of life’s greatest mysteries – what makes someone a good person? And in this day and age, can you ever really be sure...?
Dates: Sat 13, Mon 15, Tue 16, Wed 17, Thu 18, Fri 19, Sat 20, Tue 23, Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26, Sat 27, Tue 30
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It's All Relative
Part of the Ayckbourn Fundraising Weekend. A talk from Alan's Archivist Simon Murgatroyd followed by an informal chat between some of the renowned writer’s favourite actors.
This is your chance to hear stories gathered from behind the scenes on some of Alan Ayckbourn's 90 plays. We haven't confirmed casting yet but there will be plenty of familiar faces.
Dates: Fri 26
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Kailey
Kailey’s mum’s been sent to prison, and she needs to grow up - fast. She’s just turned eighteen; first job, her own place, big nights out. This might just be freedom after all. But when you’re young and your parent is taken away, who do you turn to when things get a little too messy?
Inspired by writer Kerry Wright’s own lived experience, KAILEY is a bold new play that shines a light on society’s forgotten young people. Funny and searingly honest, KAILEY doesn’t ask for sympathy; it demands you look closer.
Dates: Tue 23
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Men, Meals and Me by Alan Ayckbourn
Men, Meals & Me is an eight-hander inspired by the 1981 musical revue Me, Myself and I, which Alan co-wrote with his then musical director, Paul Todd, in which the central character is represented by three actors playing different aspects of one woman.
Dates: Sun 28
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Moviedrome: Blood Simple (1984) (Directors Cut) (15)
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies, and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered
Dates: Fri 19
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Next To Normal (15) (LS)
Following its sold out run at the Donmar Warehouse, where it garnered four Olivier Award nominations, the critically acclaimed Next to Normal comes exclusively to cinemas this September.
Produced by David Stone (‘Wicked’) and featuring a thrilling rock score from composer Tom Kitt and Book & Lyrics from Brian Yorkey, the musical has won 3 Tony Awards® and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, one of only ten musicals to win the prestigious award.
Next to Normal is an intimate exploration of family and illness, loss and grief, with Diana at its heart, a suburban wife and mother living with bipolar disorder and haunted by her past.
Starring Caissie Levy (original Broadway Elsa in ‘Frozen’), Jamie Parker (‘Harry Potter’), Jack Wolfe (Olivier nominated for Next to Normal, ‘Shadow & Bone’ for Netflix), Eleanor Worthington-Cox (Olivier winner for ‘Matilda’), Trevor Dion Nicholas (‘Aladdin’, ‘Hadestown’), and Jack Ofrecio.
Dates: Thu 11, Sat 13
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Noises Off
One of the greatest British comedies ever written, Noises Off is a hilarious and heartfelt tribute to the unpredictability of life in the theatre.
Called “the funniest farce ever written”, Noises Off follows the on and off-stage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble their way through the fictional farce, Nothing On.
Across three acts we witness: the shambolic final rehearsals, a disastrous matinee seen entirely from backstage and their brilliantly catastrophic final performance.
We’re delighted to present the first ever in the round production of Michael Frayn’s comedy masterpiece.
Dates: Mon 01, Tue 02, Wed 03, Thu 04, Fri 05, Sat 06
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NT Live: Inter Alia (LS)
A searing new play from the team behind Prima Facie
Jessica Parks is smart, compassionate, a true maverick at the top of her career as an eminent London Crown Court Judge. At work she’s changing and challenging the system one case at a time. But behind the robe, Jessica is a karaoke fiend, a loving wife and a supportive parent.
While managing the impossible juggling act faced by every working mother, an event threatens to throw her life completely off balance. Can she hold her family upright?
Rosamund Pike (Saltburn) makes her National Theatre debut as Jessica. Writer Suzie Miller and director Justin Martin reunite following their global phenomenon Prima Facie with this searing examination of modern masculinity and motherhood.
Dates: Thu 25
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Pre-Order - The McCarthy
Dates: Thu 04, Thu 11, Sat 13, Fri 26, Mon 29, Tue 30
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Pre-Order - The Round
Dates: Mon 01, Tue 02, Wed 03, Thu 04, Fri 05, Sat 06, Fri 12, Sat 13, Mon 15, Tue 16, Wed 17, Thu 18, Fri 19, Sat 20, Tue 23, Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26, Sat 27, Sun 28, Tue 30
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Round the Horne
From the producers of the UK tour of Hancock’s Half Hour comes another radio comedy classic live on stage.
From 1965 to 1968 there wasn’t a bigger radio programme in Britain than the ground-breaking Round the Horne. For half-an-hour every Sunday afternoon, audiences of up to 15 million people would gather around the wireless to listen to Kenneth Horne and his merry crew get up to all sorts of mischief.
With its infamous movie spoofs and hilarious regular characters such as Rambling Sid Rumpo, Charles and Fiona, J. Peasemold Gruntfuttock, and Julian and Sandy, Round the Horne was one of the biggest and best radio comedy shows of all time, and still endures today, 60 years on.
So come and take a step back in time to the BBC’s Paris Studios and experience this comedy classic live.
Dates: Mon 29, Tue 30
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The Fantastic Four: First Steps (TBC)
Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of their family bond, the Fantastic Four must defend Earth from a ravenous space god called Galactus and his enigmatic Herald, Silver Surfer.
Dates: Mon 01
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