What's On

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 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

Dementia Friendly Movement Class Gentle creative movements that mobilise the body, singing and having fun in a friendly, non-judgemental environment.

Autumn term 2025:

11 Sep | 18 Sep | 25 Sep | 2 Oct | 9 Oct | 16 Oct | 23 Oct
(No session 30 Oct)
6 Nov | 13 Nov | 20 Nov | 27 Nov | 4 Dec | 11 Dec | 18 Dec Dates: Thu 18, Thu 25 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

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: Thu 18, Fri 19, Sat 20, Tue 23, Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26, Sat 27, Tue 30 Booking and More Information

Freakier Friday (PG) 22 years after Tess and Anna endured an identity crisis, Anna now has a daughter and a soon-to-be stepdaughter. As they navigate the challenges that come when two families merge, Tess and Anna discover that lightning might strike twice. Dates: Sat 20, Mon 22, Sat 27 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

Late Shift (12A) Floria, a dedicated nurse, tirelessly serves in an understaffed hospital ward. However, today her shift becomes a tense and urgent race against the clock. Dates: Wed 24 Booking and More Information

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore (12A) Explores Marlee Matlin's life as a groundbreaking performer. Dates: Sat 20 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

Pre-Order - The McCarthy Dates: Fri 26, Mon 29, Tue 30 Booking and More Information

Pre-Order - The Round Dates: Thu 18, Fri 19, Sat 20, Tue 23, Wed 24, Thu 25, Fri 26, Sat 27, Sun 28, Tue 30 Booking and More Information

Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn To celebrate the 60th anniversary of Relatively Speaking we'll be hosting a rehearsed reading of the play.

Greg and Ginny are living together, but Greg is becoming somewhat suspicious that he is not the only man in her life. He wonders about Ginny's plan 'to visit her parents' and decides to follow her. Ginny is really going to see a considerably older lover, but only in order to break with him. Greg mistakes the ex-lover and his wife for Ginny's parents. Ginny's arrival further compounds an already wildly hilarious situation. Dates: Sun 28 Booking and More Information

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 Booking and More Information

Story Maker Story Maker is a monthly series of story telling sessions for children aged 0-5 and their grown-ups. After each story there will be a creative activity for the children. Dates: Tue 23 Booking and More Information

The Life of Chuck (15) A life-affirming, genre-bending story about three chapters in the life of an ordinary man named Charles Krantz. Dates: Thu 18 Booking and More Information