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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
Box Office: 01225 448844
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THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ The National are at it again; knocking out a huge crowd pleaser with international appeal and bringing it home skipping as light on its feet as ever for a return national tour. I first reviewed the prod...
PLASTIC at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ This is comedy of manners toughened up for the twenty first century. The tone is set by Jean Chan’s bleak modernist set against which, like animals pacing out their neuroses in an old fashioned zoo, ...
THE MISER at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ Doing the classics can be a bit like navigating a minefield laid out by the keepers of the culture: deviate from the path of authenticity and woe betide you. Approaching without reverence on the other ...
FISH EYE at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★☆☆ Daniel Jameson’s current offering is a morality play. The moral is a simple one: a suspicious mind can eagerly twist innocuous and innocent behaviour into something nefarious, so don’t judge on su...
Matthew Bourne’s Early Adventures at Bath Theatre Royal
★★★★★ With Bourne’s work cresting with his current production of Red Shoes, following his stunningly successful interpretation of Sleeping Beauty, it feels entirely appropriate to revisit the original crysta...
THE CASTLE BUILDER at the Ustinov Studio, Bath
★★★★☆ Non-conformists everywhere, here is a show dedicated to you! . . . The RSC have recently gone into collaboration with Intel to produce high-end computer generated graphics to enhance their latest product...
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...