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The artwork for the New Wolsey Theatre's main production in Spring 2024, 'Little Shop of Horrors.' Against a dark green leafy background is a man wearing glasses looking startled as he peers through the mouth of a Venus fly trap plant, with sharp teeth. At the bottom of the image, white text reads ‘Spring 2024 Season Announced.’

Stunning Spring 2024 season announced!

November 1st, 2023

We’re delighted to announce our unprecedented Spring Season for 2024, with a large-scale smash-hit musical, five new national partnerships and continued support of Ipswich’s emerging talent! Musical theatre fans will be delighted as the New Wolsey Theatre, Octagon Theatre Bolton, Hull Truck Theatre and Theatre By The Lake present Howard Ashman and Alan Menken’s smash-hit […]

The cast of the 2023 Rock 'n' Roll pantomime, 'Dick Whittington and his Cat.'

Returning and new stars cast for 2023 Rock ‘n’ Roll panto!

October 11th, 2023

We are delighted to announce the cast and creatives of our 2023 Rock ‘n’ Roll pantomime, Dick Whittington and his Cat! Dick Whittington and his Cat will feature the return of 2022 Goldilocks and the Three Bears panto favourites Elizabeth Rowe as Alice, Steve Simmonds – who cannot wait to be transformed from last year’s […]

Michèle Taylor appointed MBE for services to Theatre and People with Disabilities

February 6th, 2023

Michèle Taylor has been appointed MBE for services to Theatre and People with Disabilities as part of the New Year’s Honours list. Michèle works as Director for Change for Ramps On The Moon, the Arts Council-funded consortium aiming to change the theatre sector by bringing more Deaf and disabled people into the sector and making […]

Emerging Suffolk talent cast in production of Dennis Kelly’s ‘DNA’!

January 19th, 2023

“I’m thrilled to be back at the Wolsey after spending my teenage years with the Young Company.” The New Wolsey Theatre has announced the full cast and creative team for our upcoming new production of Dennis Kelly’s acclaimed play DNA, which will run here from 2-9 February 2023. The modern-day comedy with bite, which was […]

The photograph shows a group of young people sitting in a circle on the New Wolsey stage. They are in the middle of a workshop, all wearing masks and socially distanced.

Autumn relaunch of New Wolsey Youth Theatres announced

October 23rd, 2020

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 […]

In the centre is the title 'What a Carve Up!' in a yellow mix-and-match style font, under a gold magnifying glass and over the top of a portrait of an old man, his face mostly obscured by the letters. In the background is the dark brown of wooden beams. The image is split into four, around the title. From the top left image round clockwise, the images show photographs of Rebecca Front, Sharon D. Clarke, Sir Derek Jacobi and Stephen Fry.

Stephen Fry, Sharon D. Clarke, Griff Rhys Jones and Sir Derek Jacobi among stellar cast list for New Wolsey Theatre co-production of ‘What A Carve Up!’

September 25th, 2020

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 […]

The image has a white background and two landscape rectangles in the middle, the top one purple and the bottom a light green. '#7InclusivePrinciples' is typed in white text in the purple box and 'for the arts in Covid-19' is typed in black text in the green one. Along the bottom, from left to right, are displayed the logos for Ramps on the Moon, What Next?, #WeShallNotBeRemoved, Attitude is Everything and The British Paraorchestra.

UK Cultural Organisations Join Up to Promote Seven Inclusive Principles for Disabled People in Arts and Culture

September 15th, 2020

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 […]

What a Carve Up! world premiere screening

August 25th, 2020

The Barn Theatre in Cirencester, the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield and the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich have announced the world premiere of Henry Filloux-Bennett’s online play What A Carve Up, based on Jonathan Coe’s critically acclaimed satirical novel. The digital production, which will be directed by Tamara Harvey (Home, I’m Darling), chronicles the […]

Brand new Reconnect Workshops announced

August 24th, 2020

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 […]

The image shows a still from the video, depicting deep blue hospital scrubs tied neatly in red ribbon, folded on a table. The image has the effect of looking like it's been painted in watercolour.

New Wolsey Theatre releases ‘SCRUBS’ – a short film made as part of the StoryLine project

July 24th, 2020

We’re so excited to be releasing our first creative project based on work submitted to our StoryLine initiative by a member of the public. Scrubs (above) is the story of a seamstress who sews magical garments and who finds her calling in the midst of a pandemic. The 6 minute (approx) film has been transformed […]

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