We’re thrilled to announce that this year we will indeed have a panto – The Snow Queen! What better way to lift all our spirits than the return, the redesign, the reimagining of the New Wolsey’s Rock ‘n’ Roll panto! It’ll be a little different to usual, mixing together live action, live music, pre-recorded film, […]

The new site of our Creative Communities department is now open! A beautiful and striking space, golden-roofed ‘NW2’ will house the New Wolsey Theatre’s youth and participation activities. The accessible building features a participation space, offices, a meeting room, editing suite and Changing Places facility, making sure everyone feels welcome and included. NW2 includes a […]

The New Wolsey Theatre are relaunching their Youth Theatre programme for the first time since all activity had to be shut down by the pandemic earlier this year. Jumping back to life in the week beginning Monday 9 November 2020, the New Wolsey Youth Theatres, run by the New Wolsey Creative Communities team, are a […]

The New Wolsey Theatre, the Barn Theatre, Cirencester, and the Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield, have announced today the remaining members of the cast for their co-production What a Carve Up! Casting announced today includes Jonathan Bailey as Henry Winshaw, Samuel Barnett as Michael Owen, Robert Bathurst as Thomas Winshaw, Celia Imrie as Joan Simpson and […]

Earlier this year the government promised £1,57billion in a ‘Culture Recovery Fund,’ aiming to support arts and culture venues through the pandemic. Today we were delighted to receive the news that we will be given £245,000 from the fund distributed by Arts Council England!  Sarah Holmes, our Chief Executive, said of the award: “This is […]

Jim Barne and Kit Buchan, writers of the 2019 musical The Season, which was co-produced by the New Wolsey Theatre and the Royal & Derngate Theatre in Northampton last year, have won the award of Best Composer or Lyricist at The Stage Debut Awards 2020. When nominated, The Stage wrote of this brand-new romantic-comedy musical […]

The New Wolsey is delighted to reveal casting news from its digital co-production of What A Carve Up! The theatre has teamed up with The Barn and Lawrence Batley Theatres to bring a new adaptation of Jonathan Coe’s acclaimed novel to a virtual ‘stage’. The novel has been adapted by Henry Filloux-Bennett (CEO of the […]

For Audio, Large Print, Easy Read, PDF and British Sign Language versions of a more detailed account of this article, please click here.   Campaigning cultural organisations We Shall Not Be Removed, Ramps on the Moon, Attitude is Everything, Paraorchestra and What Next? have joined together to create a new guide for the arts and […]

Have you known the New Wolsey Theatre since the beginning? Do you remember the iconic lime-green seats? Are you looking forward to our 20th birthday on 1st February 2021, the anniversary of our first performance? We’re delighted to have stumbled across an old newspaper article from the East Anglian Daily Times, dated twenty years ago […]

It’s time to stop that boxset binge, forget social media and finally silence the screen. We’re thrilled to announce that this September and October we are hosting a range of exciting Reconnect workshops for young people aged between 9 – 16 years. Take a look below to discover more about the workshops on offer throughout […]