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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
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MEET FRED at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Fred is intrepid. He wants to be like everyone else, just a regular sort of guy. In this he is exhorted by the show’s director, Ben Pettitt-Wade, to “be his own puppet”. But being made of fabric ...
Saint Petersburg CLASSIC BALLET – Swan Lake at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★☆ This production by the Saint Petersburg Classic Ballet company, under the direction of Marina Medvetskaya, opts for the romantic version of Tchaikovsky’s intricate ballet . . . Rothbart, the sorcerer,...
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★☆☆ Jane Austen’s book opens with one of the most famous, and possibly most sexist, lines in the history of English literature. Perhaps the concepts of men being in want of a wife, or marriage being the li...
JUST AN ORDINARY LAWYER at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ This one-man show has songs which thread through the piece, illustrating as they do Sowande’s first love - music. The atmosphere is for the most part congenial, delivered with the comfortable, measur...
CRIMES AGAINST CHRISTMAS at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ New Old Friends has teamed up with the Lichfield Garrick theatre to present a very adult take on the 12 Days of Christmas. A cast of just four peopled the Ustinov stage with 13 characters, circling each...
ALADDIN at the Theatre Royal, Bath
Jon Monie and Nick Wilton are entertaining us at the Theatre Royal Bath – so it must be Christmas! Mr Monie has become the consummate panto comic lead. His is the kind of performance that allows you to sink comfortabl...
TROUBLE IN MIND at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
Bravely, as it must have been in 1955, the play unravels some of the prejudices and preconceptions that bedevilled race relations in 50s America. Like many a notable work it plays out society’s tensions in the (unfulfi...
THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW at Bath Theatre Royal
A merry mash-up of spoof gothic horror, cheesy sci-fi and singalong rock, it’s as well-known as a Dad’s Army repeat. There was a time when its celebratory take on gender-bending was ground-breaking, but transvestism ...
HORRIBLE HISTORIES: BARMY BRITAIN at Bath Theatre Royal
As we awake to a new American president we can take a crumb of comfort by reflecting that however bad things may seem at the present it was by any measure worse at some stage in the past (take your pick). Terry Deary’...
RAMBERT Triple Bill at Bath Theatre Royal
You have to hand it to Rambert. For this, their 90th anniversary season, the company hasn’t flinched from producing challenging, sometimes esoteric works, including an ambitious reinterpretation of Macbeth on a split s...
English Touring Opera’s LA CALISTO at Bath Theatre Royal
English Touring Opera’s LA CALISTO is blessed with excellent singing in all the major roles, but director Timothy Nelson’s interpretation is too heavily weighted with symbolism. The central theme of this opera is sur...
STEPPING OUT at Bath Theatre Royal
The scene is a church hall (lovingly recreated in Robert Jones’ detailed set) in which Mavis (Tamzin Outhwaite) an unfulfilled dancer has arranged tap dance lessons for a motley group of women and one, slightly gap-in-...