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Exeter Northcott Theatre and Exeter Phoenix announce return of Scratch Night collaboration

Applications are now open for the second round of this creative developmental opportunity for established and emerging creatives across the South West.

Following the huge success of their Scratch Night collaboration during Elevate Festival in October 2025, Exeter Northcott Theatre and Exeter Phoenix are teaming up once again to support South West-based artists through a continued Scratch Night partnership.

The second Scratch Night will take place at Exeter Phoenix Auditorium offering artists the opportunity to showcase work in progress in front of a live audience. The...

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Exhibition challenges perceptions of growing older

A new photography exhibition in the corridors of the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital challenges its viewers to think differently about ageing.

The ‘Growing Old Competitively' exhibition by Alex Rotas features a series of photos of athletes in their 60s, 70s, 80s and even 90s who still compete in international sporting events.

The exhibition has been organised by Exeter Health Care Arts, an ‘arts for health’ initiative designed to deliver a range of activities to improve the hospital environment, for patients, visitors and for staff. This inspirational exhibition fits into a...

Bob Dylan's art on show in Exeter

Internationally renowned music icon Bob Dylan will have a vibrant selection of his art on show in Exeter in a retrospective exhibition that brings together works released annually from 2008 to 2014, all from his critically-acclaimed collection: The Drawn Blank Series. All of the pieces are hand-signed by the artist.

The exhibition at Castle Galleries in the city will be showcasing the best of Bob Dylan’s art released over the last six years – inspired while he was on the road from 1989 to 1992 - and will be on display at the Cathedral Yard venue, from Saturday 28th February, for...

Queen II set to rock Tiverton

QUEEN fans in the Exeter area have been given an unexpected opportunity to see one of the UK’s leading tributes to the legendary rock band.

Queen II, a Sheffield-based band who have toured the UK and Europe since 2009, will be performing at Tiverton Golf Club, Tiverton, on Saturday 25 April.

Their show for members and friends on Friday 24 April sold out within two weeks, prompting the club to organise a second event the following night which is open to everyone.

Queen II have played a New Year’s Eve concert in Moscow, at Silverstone for the British Grand Prix and at...

Why Not? What If?

Studio 36 in the unlikely setting of an artist’s studio in St Leonards, Exeter, will host a lively tongue in cheek performance by skilful musicians, song writers, poets, & artists of various kinds challenging authoritarian notices on Saturday 28 February.

Do Not Do This! Watch Out for That! No guns, drugs, biking, ball games, jumping from bridges, dogs, parrots or balloons. Look out too for lethal electrics, biting donkeys, vertical drops, heavy seas and submerged objects!

These notices which have inspired the ‘ Why Not? What If?’ event have poured in from family and...

Kevin Bridges - Work in Progress

Kevin Bridges returns to the road trying out brand new material prior to embarking on his biggest tour to date A Whole Different Story… and he's at Exeter Corn Exchange for two nights - Sunday and Monday, 12 and 13 April.

Scotland’s biggest export, Kevin Bridges dubbed as “brilliant” by one of his comedy idols, Billy Connolly has had an astonishing rise to success. His 2012 tour Kevin Bridges – The Story Continues…. smashed box office records selling a staggering 45,000 tickets on the first day. Kevin went on to sell out an incredible nine-show run at the Glasgow SECC Arena. His...

WBW lawyers are flippin' great!

WBW Solicitors sent a crack team from their Exeter office to make a bid for the title of World Champions – in the field of pancake racing.

The global flip-off took place in Exeter's Princesshay Square on Tuesday (February 17), and four of WBW's finest lawyers banded together under the team name “Flippin' Lawyers” in a bid to outrun and outflip the competition.

Partner of WBW and team captain, David Charlesworth, said before the challenge: “We are feeling a little bit tense, this represents months and months of training and we take it very seriously.” Fellow team members,...

Comedy night at EGCC

Join us for a raucous evening of laughter at our Comedy Night with some great comedians live at Exeter Golf and Country Club with a delicious three-course dinner to start. Our Comedy Night is not to be missed!

With two fantastic comedians on the bill, this year should be even better than last year's sold out event. Our warm up act for this year is the outrageous, clever and unique, Arnold Gutbucket. His eccentric and delightfully silly songs will get the audience oiled up and ready for the huge main act, Kockov!

Kockov is Monrokvia’s greatest mind-reader and magician....

Nomadic Travel announce photo competition winner

Exeter-based Liz Joslin is the winner of local agency Nomadic Travel’s annual Travel Photo Competition with this wonderful close-up picture of a gelada monkey.

Liz took this photograph whilst travelling with her husband Lee in the Simien Mountains of Ethiopia.

Gelada monkeys are the world's most terrestrial primates, excepting humans.

Their closely-knit social groups offer a fascinating study in primate behaviour and Liz’s image captures superbly a feeling of a deeply thoughtful mammalian brain.

The team at Nomadic Travel unanimously voted for it as their...

Ablutions at The Bike Shed Theatre

24th to 28th February, tickets from £5

Ablutions by the award-winning FellSwoop visits The Bike Shed Theatre from 24th to 28th February following its sell-out run at Edinburgh Festival 2014. Adapted from the novel, by Man Booker Prize shortlisted author, Patrick deWitt – it is an inventive fusion of music and theatre. A heady mix of vice, violence and debauchery - Ablutions is a whiskey-soaked portrait of a bartenders descent into drink and divorce, the ultimate in dark modern drama.

Picture yourself as a Los Angeles bartender, sipping top-shelf whiskey and watching your...

Your guide to What's On this weekend

Your guide to the best music, events and activities taking place in and around Exeter this weekend.

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After the Accident Friday & Saturday, Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter Highly accessible and utterly engrossing, this award winning drama takes you on a highly charged journey where forgiveness and redemption are set against guilt, rage and despair. Through brilliant storytelling and recognisable characters, experience a fascinating insight into Restorative Justice; a process which tries to repair something of the harmful consequences of crime. This riveting production...

Entertainment & Reviews

Exeter Northcott Theatre and Exeter Phoenix announce return of Scratch Night collaboration

Exhibition challenges perceptions of growing older

Bob Dylan's art on show in Exeter

Queen II set to rock Tiverton

Why Not? What If?

Kevin Bridges - Work in Progress

WBW lawyers are flippin' great!

Comedy night at EGCC

Nomadic Travel announce photo competition winner

Ablutions at The Bike Shed Theatre

Your guide to What's On this weekend

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