A journey through the world of movies in a cavalcade of all time classic Hollywood songs with the singing star of the award-winning Fascinating Aïda. In Concert with Joseph Atkins & The Stardust Orchestra.
Liza Pulman (of Fascinating Aïda) brings you an evening of some of the greatest songs from the silver screen. Her glorious voice, charming personality and quirky comedic skills make her a unique entertainer. The evening will take you on a musical journey celebrating the golden age of Hollywood and beyond. From As Time Goes By to Moon River, through Hitchcock, the romantic...
Richard Alston Dance Company Tue 8 - Wed 9 March 2016 book now 7.30pm
Fresh from celebrating its 20th Anniversary, Richard Alston Dance Company leaps into its third decade with characteristic panache, and a programme of works bearing the Alston hallmarks of musicality and grace.Associate Choreographer Martin Lawrance, creator of Madcap and Burning, brings his latest work Stronghold. Made to an intense score by Julia Wolfe, Stronghold sees all ten dancers cutting through the space with gusto.
Alston’s newest work Mazur is a tribute to the music of Chopin, particularly his...
David Starkey, the UK’s leading constitutional historian, will be visiting the Exeter Northcott Theatre in October.
Known for his forthright views, David will be talking about the 13th century agreement that, imperfect though it was, limited for the first time the power of the monarch by stating the basic rights, privileges, and liberties of leading citizens and clergy.
There are few more stimulating thinkers, and few who understand better the way the most powerful have thought throughout our history.
His assessment of the situation then, and how our constitution...
The Olivier Award-winning English Touring Opera (ETO) is performing a new season of fully-staged Italian opera at Exeter Northcott Theatre this April and May.
Puccini’s masterpiece La bohème is joined by two rare Donizetti titles, The Wild Man of the West Indies (Il furioso all’isola di San Domingo) and The Siege of Calais (L’assedio di Calais). All three are sung in full costume, in Italian with English surtitles, accompanied by ETO’s chorus and 25-piece orchestra.
One of the greatest and most moving operas of all time, La bohème is a story of young love, starting on...
A chill will fall over the Exeter Northcott Theatre later this month as unsettling ghost story, The Mist in the Mirror, rolls into Devon.
In the mould of Susan Hill’s chilling hit The Woman in Black, The Mist in the Mirror is staged as if audiences are eavesdroppers to a fireside ghost story told in the manner of the master of the classic English ghost story writer, M.R. James.
Mr James Monmouth has spent most of his life travelling, following in the footsteps of his childhood hero, the explorer Conrad Vane. Returning to the England he left as a five year old orphan, James...
The Exeter Northcott Theatre has announced that Paul Jepson has been engaged as its new Artistic and Executive Director. Paul has an extensive background in the performing arts. He has been joint Artistic Director of two Arts Council funded new writing theatre companies and an associate of the Nottingham Playhouse. He is also an experienced dramaturg and a published playwright. He has directed at the Royal National Theatre, major regional theatres and in the West End, and has over twenty years of extensive public sector producing experience. Chair of Exeter Northcott Theatre Board of...
The Exeter Northcott Theatre is delighted to welcome The Birmingham Stage Company with their production of George’s Marvellous Medicine for Christmas 2014.
This acclaimed adaptation of Roald Dahl by Birmingham Stage Company and David Wood, shows a young boy who makes a marvellous new medicine to cure his grandmother of her terrifying temper. But when his grandmother drinks his special new potion, the most incredible things start to happen. And George's adventure has just begun!
Amongst the professional cast, nine girls from Exeter will take it in turns each week to play the...
After fantastic concerts performing with them in Sendai, Japan last year Kagemusha Taiko are extremely excited to welcome Kamo Tsunamura Daiko to the UK for a special concert on Sunday 16th November at the Exeter Northcott Theatre at 7.30pm.
Kamo Tsunamura Daiko bring to the stage all the joy, energy and excitement of the Japanese festival, or matsuri. The dance-like choreography of these drummers adds an extra dimension to the rhythms of traditional Japanese taiko, further augmented by beautiful, haunting melodies played on the bamboo flute.
Winner of Best Actress and nominated for Best Original Show at Reading Fringe Festival.
Viki is not coping. Seeing people is a strain. Reading a book is a battle. Going food shopping is a horse-race and she's in last place. It's time to stop pretending to be ok. It's time to ask for help.
HELP! is an engaging solo performance which questions what we know about ourselves. It is about falling apart, pulling yourself together and being surprised by what you are left with. Taking you from the dairy isle of Sainsbury's to the greens of Ascot, via a disco of dirty secrets with a...
Working with ENGAGE Associate Director Polly Agg-Manning and a skilled team of professionals at Exeter Northcott Theatre, the Summer School participants have devised a professional piece of theatre, JUST SO, based around the true story of a soldier in the First World War.
Before the night Jack Kipling went into battle he kept the troops spirits high with his father's magical stories. For just a few hours the trench was not an unbearable pit of devastation, but an imaginary escape into the Indian Jungle, to the stories of everyone's childhood and to a place of happiness and hope...
