Click on picture for current programme and all other information
Built on its current site in 1805, the Theatre Royal Bath is one of the oldest working theatres in the country.
Theatre Royal, Sawclose, BATH BA1 1ET
Also home to The Ustinov Studio and the egg
Box Office: 01225 448844
Click here for the history of the Theatre Royal
Review: RAPUNZEL – A TALE OF LOVE AND FREEDOM at the egg theatre, Bath
★★★★☆ Themes of love and adventure mix with talk of austerity and guilt . . . It’s a lesson in love, redemption, oppression and obsession as well as being a fast and fun show. ...
Review: TEN TIMES TABLE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★☆☆☆ Ten Times Table is one of Ayckbourn’s trilogy of plays written during winter months in the 1970’s, the others being Just Between Ourselves and Time and Time Again. Seen together they have come to repr...
Review: WILD GOOSE DREAMS at the Ustinov Studio, Bath.
★★★★☆ This highly original one-act play depicts the dilemmas faced by two characters who find themselves trapped in a lonely situation of their own making. Yoo Nanhee is a North Korean woman who has made the p...
Review: MY COUSIN RACHEL at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Despite its uncertainties of mood, this production of My Cousin Rachel offers much to enjoy. It has very high production values, it tells a fascinating story, and there are some excellent performanc...
Review: A TASTE OF HONEY at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The undoubted star of this show is Jodie Prenger, as Helen. Prenger portrays her as a woman who is all too aware that her best years are slipping into the distant past. She is determined to make the be...
Review: GASLIGHT at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ The action all takes place in the living room at 9 Thornton Square, London. Here the controlling master of the house enacts his preconceived plan to drive his dutiful and loving wife into a state of men...
Review: CRIMES ON THE COAST at Bath Theatre Royal
★★☆☆☆ Set in a hotel on an island somewhere off the English coast, Crimes is very much a play of two halves. The first comprises mostly a somewhat underwhelming scene-setting narration by the novelist/freelanc...
Review: THE MAN IN THE WHITE SUIT at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Stephen Mangan plays the hapless and bumbling lead character in this enjoyable stage adaptation of the 1950s Ealing comedy film of the same name. He has just enough of the floppy-haired, good-looking, i...
Review: TRYING IT ON at The Ustinov Studio in Bath
★★★☆☆ Fulfilling a personal ambition to write and perform in his own show, David Edgar, perhaps best known his memorable RSC production of The Life and Times of Nicholas Nickleby at the Aldwych Theatre in 198...
Review: THE ARGUMENT at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ All’s fair in love… or is it? William Boyd’s play examines the ironies lurking behind the respectable façade of marriage, where frustrations can bubble up and express themselves through seemingly...
Review: UNCLE VANYA at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ This Uncle Vanya is ravishing to look at, strikingly contemporary in its central theme, and frequently very moving. Ivan Voynitsky, ‘Uncle Vanya’, is a part that Rupert Everett had long wished to t...
Review: VIENNA 1934 – MUNICH 1938 at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Running in tandem with harrowing tales of political capitulation and betrayal, Vanessa Redgrave affectionately balances her story with personal tales of her family, centering mostly on her father Sir Mic...