What’s on

Thu 7th May • 7:30pm • Full £13 Concs £10 • Professional Theatre

Fresh from a sell-out run at the Edinburgh Festival, the new and acclaimed show embarks on its 2026 UK tour. Award-nominated stand-up and improviser Jon Hipkiss will improvise a brand-new Star Wars film all by himself – based solely on your suggestions!

“I was doubled over laughing the whole show”
“Fantastic show for Star Wars fans or not”
“Genuinely brilliant.”
“Hilarious with a highly skilled performer” EdFringe Reviews

Sat 30 May • 2pm • Admission £15 • Professional Theatre

Join Top Secret as they go on a High Voltage Adventure!

Fusing the mystery of magic with wondrous and miraculous feats of science. Hang on to your seats and experience a non-stop action packed interactive magical science show with experiments and magic that will capture the imagination.

Top Secret is a fast moving colourful magical science show suitable for the whole family filled with mystery, suspense, and lots and lots of mess!

Sat 13 Jun • 7:30pm • Admission £20 • Ballet

“Last night I dreamt I went to Manderley again…”

Haunting, ruthless, passionate and dramatic, NWBT is proud to present the return of our much loved production of Rebecca’s Tale. Alongside two other fantastical works – The Symphonists and the much anticipated, brand new interpretation of Sylvia by acclaimed choreographer and dancer Joseph Isaac Powell-Main.

Rebecca’s Tale delves into the dark and brooding tale of a naïve young woman, who’s new husband is hiding a terrible and foreboding secret, that could destroy them both. The specter of the past is always just behind them both. A story that silently screams of the self destruction of festering guilt and how to choose between what is right and what is easy.

The Symphonists is a superb breath of fresh air and a stunning execution of neo classical ballet at its best. Exploring the sounds, support and dynamics to music and sound within a classical orchestra, this abstract ballet promises to “hear the dancing and see the sound”.

Lastly a bright and uplifting tale set in the misty origins of the ancient Greek God’s, NWBT is ecstatic to bring you the premier of this exciting and sparkling new interpretation of the myth of Sylvia. One of the oldest ballet’s has a fresh new look and humanising examination. Bringing the lofty God’s down to the stage with a bump and sharp pirouettes for good measure.

This dynamic mix promises something for everyone and NWBT can’t wait to show you ballet as you have never seen, expected  or dreamt it could be.

Wed 24 – Sat 27 Jun • 7:30pm • Matinee Sat 2:30pm • Full £15 Concs £13 • Professional Theatre

“TELL ME EVERYTHING, HOLMES!”

1t’s 1906 – the Golden Age of Magic.  The Masked Magician bestrides London’s world of Magic like a colossus, UNTIL… one night, in mid-performance, the Magician vanishes. Dead? Kidnapped? In hiding?

After a month Scotland Yard is baffled (obviously) and call in Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of the Masked Magician’s disappearance. Holmes (with an excitable Watson in tow) plunges into the secret world of Edwardian Magic only to find that the Masked Magician’s identity is Magic’s best kept secret.

As they question the Magician‘s peers (seeing a lot of Magic), the mystery of his fate deepens. As they unravel clue after clue, Holmes comes to share Watson’s wonder and discovers that it can sit alongside his logical outlook.

When Holmes finally uncovers the startling and surprising secrets of the Masked Magician he, Watson and the audience have to decide…
…are some mysteries best left as… mysteries!

Sherlock Holmes – Peter Clifford
Dr. Watson – The Great Baldini
Director – John Nicholson
Designer – Fi Russell
Written by – Peter Clifford and The Great Baldini

Wed 1 – Fri 4 Jul • 7:30pm • Full £14 Concs £12 • Professional Theatre

“Star light, star bright,
First star I see tonight,
I wish I may, I wish I might,
Have this wish I wish tonight.”

Somewhere, deep in a forest, someone wishes on a star.

Every year, the creatures of the forest gather to pay homage to the two rulers of the forest, the Faerie King and Forest Witch, by singing songs, telling tales, and wishing on stars, in hopes that one day the two will reunite.

WhimsiCo is back with a brand new remount of their critically acclaimed production, in a haunting, ensemble-lead show, with beautiful music by folk duo Humm, and an uplifting message of hope, unity, and the power of once upon a time.

Thu 9 Jul • 7:30pm • Full £10 Concs £8 • Professional Theatre

The fearless Improv Wolves create completely new comedy characters, scenes and stories on the spot from audience suggestions.

Every show is different!

We might see a film noir detective pastiche, hear surprising confessions from some of the most famous names in history or have the dubious honour of being present for the debut of a brand-new improvised song.

Improv Wolves have appeared at venues around the UK including Bath Fringe Festival, Birmingham Comedy Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Leicester Comedy Festival, Beardy Folk Festival and Guildford Fringe Festival

Fri 10 Jul • 7.30pm • Full £15 Concs £13 • Professional Theatre

‘Quick, Watson, hide, if you love me! And don’t budge, whatever happens – do you hear me? Don’t speak! Don’t move! Just listen. Listen with all your ears…’

Two thrilling tales featuring the greatest double act in literary history. In The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, Dr John Watson ‘thrills with a keen zest’ as he accompanies Sherlock Holmes on a legally dubious quest to rid London of one of its nastiest criminals. In The Adventure of the Dying Detective he does all he can to save Holmes as he faces up to the most formidable foe of all: his own mortality. In both adventures Watson shows off those qualities of pluck, sincerity and humility that make him a paragon of friendship.

Hide, Watson! has been adapted and will be performed by Robert Lloyd Parry (The M R James Project; The Time Machine; The Archive of Dread), ‘one of the country’s most idiosyncratic and underrated performers…’  Times Literary Supplement

Wed 15 – Sat 18 Jul • 7.30pm • Full £16 Concs £14 • Professional Theatre

Directed by Bryony Morgan
Written by Gabrielle Finnegan 

They’ve found the house.
They’ve signed the papers.
They’ve carried the boxes over the threshold.
Now they have to learn how to live in it.

Ebb & Flow is an intimate, lyrical new play about what happens after the happy ending. When two people move into their first home together after years of love and laughter, they expect solid ground. Instead, they find shifting tides.

The play traces the undercurrents of a relationship navigating miscommunication, unmet expectations and the quiet ache of wanting to feel truly seen. Told through a striking blend of dialogue, poetry and movement, Ebb & Flow drifts between the spoken and the unspoken. Some relationships weather the storm. Others learn to swim.

Thu 3 & Fri 4 Dec • 7.30pm • Admission £18 • Professional Theatre

‘Put it down, you fool! Do you want to look through a dead man’s eyes?’

Two chilling and thrilling tales from M R James, the master of the English ghost story.

In A View from a Hill a pair of old binoculars reveal the grisly history of an idyllic stretch of English landscape. In The Treasure of Abbot Thomas a treasure-seeker comes face to face with unspeakable horror at the bottom of ancient well.