Norwich Theatre Royal – Cultivated

The Red Shoes

James Goffin — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 22:00:24 +0000

The fairy tale and film get a new life in this 10-year revival of Matthew Bourne’s love letter to stage and screen.

Priscilla, Queen of The Desert

James Goffin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:56:07 +0000

In the story, Priscilla is a battered bus – but this production of Priscilla is a juggernaut of sparkles, songs, and stunning visuals.

Top Hat

James Goffin — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:01:28 +0000

Packed with some of Irving Berlin’s finest songs, a fluffy romantic comedy storyline, and the opportunity for more sequins and dance than you can shake a black cane at Top Hat should be a sparkling affair.

Midsomer Murders: The Killings at Badger’s Drift

James Goffin — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 23:14:47 +0000

This ribald romp is a perfectly pitched adaptation of the classic TV series, fully aware of its own absurdity and offering audiences a murderously good time.

Hamlet

James Goffin — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 23:36:47 +0000

There’s no risk that Rupert Goold’s production of Hamlet for the Royal Shakespeare Company might “lose the name of action”: it comes in at a rapid-fire two and a half hours, with the events of the play condensed into just one evening.

Carousel

James Goffin — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:16:08 +0000

Two parallel romances, with very different outcomes, circle each other in this energetic production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Carousel.

Festival unveils 17 days of events

Cultivated — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:13:12 +0000

This year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival will feature over 100 events – including 20 free shows – at venues reaching from King’s Lynn to Lowestoft.

MÁM

James Goffin — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 22:49:04 +0000

A scattering of wooden chairs, 10 adults clothed in funereal shades, a young girl in ghostly white: just one of a ‘handful’ of scenes in Michael Keegan-Dolan’s maelstrom of movement that is MÁM.

Dear England

James Goffin — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:30:18 +0000

Football is often about nostalgia – the legends, the curses, the inexhaustible supply of portentous stats – and James Graham’s Dear England is a time capsule of eight years of the national game.

2:22 A Ghost Story

James Goffin — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 23:56:34 +0000

Ghosts can’t be real – can they? Head and heart differ in this smart, modern ghost story that is becoming a familiar theatre fixture.

Spy thriller to play Norwich and Cambridge

Cultivated — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:01:59 +0000

An adaptation of John le Carré’s The Spy Who Came in From the Cold is set to visit East Anglia as part of its UK tour later this year.

Cinderella

James Goffin — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 23:18:58 +0000

Get ready to have a ball: Norwich Theatre’s 2025 panto is a fizzing cocktail of fun, colour, and groan-some dad jokes. In other words, perfect.

Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts

James Goffin — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 23:27:33 +0000

The Oxford detective was a mainstay of British TV for more than a decade, and now 25 years on Morse has returned in a new story written specially for stage.

First 2026 NNF tickets on sale

Cultivated — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 21:22:47 +0000

The first shows of the 2026 Norfolk and Norwich Festival have been announced, with tickets going on public sale tomorrow.

Northern Ballet: Merlin

James Goffin — Wed, 12 Nov 2025 23:27:33 +0000

It’s one of the country’s oldest stories – the mysterious wizard that put King Arthur on the throne – and Merlin’s early life is given a unique twist in this ballet revival.

War Horse

James Goffin — Wed, 29 Oct 2025 00:50:23 +0000

This story of a boy and his horse, separated by war, is a visually spectacular piece of storytelling – dominated by intricate and impressive puppeteering.

Norwich Hamlets

James Goffin — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 20:17:49 +0000

Shakespeare’s most ponderous play serves as inspiration for five short performances in this joint community project from Norwich Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Hamilton: An American Musical

James Goffin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 22:58:39 +0000

It seems spectacularly unlikely that a musical about establishing the fledging United States’ financial system would become a worldwide hit – but somehow that is (sort of) the story of Hamilton.

The Midnight Bell

James Goffin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:15:56 +0000

The Midnight Bell offers a seductive slice of 1930s Soho, served up through Matthew Bourne’s signature sharply characterised dance.

The Exoplanets

James Goffin — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:23:18 +0000

This world premiere performance mixed music and science in a high concept but very human production that took us to the outer reaches of space, and the inner lives of its protagonists.