Bookings are open for our Spring and Summer Season. Explore a fabulous collection of shows here on our website or by picking up a brochure from the Box Office.
The upcoming Spring and Summer Season is an exciting medley of all that our audiences love, with the usual high-quality drama, classical and popular music, stand-up comedy and contributions from our amazing community groups. We are also delighted to showcase talent from Richmond School and Sixth Form College as well as our own Youth Theatre.
We have the return of some real audience favourites, starting with the comedian Troy Hawke on Friday 25 February to open the season. Fresh from finding and proving decisive links between IKEA, the CIA and the Nazis, his new show - Sigmund Troy'd! - battles a new enemy on behalf of all people everywhere .... the evil saboteur that lurks in our own minds! If you've seen him before you'll know how entertaining this 1930's throwback, home-schooled investigator is!
Also hot on the comedy circuit are The Noise Next Door who are charging into their sixth national tour, arriving in Richmond on Friday 6 May. These boys are seriously funny so join them for an evening of finely tuned anarchy that puts the audience firmly in charge.
We also welcome back Buddy Holly and the Cricketers on Friday 4 March. This is a show that has eveyone singing and dancing in the aisles with hits that just keep on coming. Another critically acclaimed tribute show is Simon & Garfunkel: Through the Years on Thursday 31 March, who are, without a doubt, the most authentic tribute to Simon & Garfunkel touring the world today.
Staying with the musical theme, are the brilliant guitar duo Eduardo Martin and Ahmed Dickinson with The Bridge on Friday 22 April. Strap in for catchy feel-good rumbas, funk boleros and Cuban tumbas. Another fun night will be Australian pianist David Scheel's Don't Shoot Me, I'm Only the Piano Player on Saturday 30 April, with his hilarious send-up of classical music, including a medley of the 20 worst tunes ever written. We are also delighted to host Musica Poetica Freiburg for the Swaledale Festival on Wednesday 8 June. This much- admired period instrument ensemble from southern Germany will feature work from JS Bach and his German contemporaries.
Hard core drama fans will be delighted by Oscar Wilde's much-loved comedy of manners, The Importance of Being Earnest, brought to us by Hangfire Theatre Company on Saturday 19 March. Another classic big-hitter is Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit on Thursday 7 and Friday 8 April. This will be the debut performance of the Butler Company, the Georgian Theatre Royal's new professional theatre company - definitely one to watch.
Also back on the Richmond stage is the award-winning comedy duo LipService who combine live on-stage hilarity with stunning digital projections to create a multimedia haunted house thriller - Chateau Ghoul - on Saturday 12 March.
History fans will love to have an exclusive audience with King Henry VIII on Saturday 5 March with Divorced, Beheaded, Died. Find out first-hand about the life and reign of this notorious monarch. Another infamous, albeit more recent popular figure is Yootha Joyce - the glamorous sitcom legend who made her name as Mildred Roper in television series Man About the House and George and Mildred. She died at the height of her fame at the age of 53 from acute alcoholism and her life is the subject of Caroline Burns Cooke's solo show Testament of Yootha on Friday 10 June.
We are extremely lucky to have some exceptional community talent on our doorstep and both Richmond Amateur Dramatic Society and Richmond Operatic Society feature in our new programme. RADS bring us Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, a murderously funny adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comic story, from 24-26 March and then later in the season, they present Richard Harris's warm-hearted comedy Stepping Out from 28-30 July and 3-6 August. ROS will be treating us to Rodgers and Hammerstein's highly acclaimed musical Carousel from 18-21 May.
Last, but certainly not least, the season is enhanced by performances from the students of Richmond School and Sixth Form College and our own Youth Theatre. Please do support them. It is here that many professional careers and interests are forged.