The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich has won the award for Best Digital Pantomime in the UK, for their 2021 production of Jack and the Beanstalk. The award was given out by the UK Pantomime Association as part of the Pantomime Awards 2022, in association with holiday company Butlins. The individual award winners were named on April […]

Who says you can’t do a panto in summer? This joyous 5* show is back for one last time. Live in our auditorium and live streamed, The Snow Queen this half term is the perfect show to give the whole family an injection of Rock ‘n’ Roll panto fun. Running from Thu 27 May – […]

MT Fest is a new programme of up-and-coming work that will take place at the Turbine Theatre later this year, with online streaming versions of the shows available from the New Wolsey website between Mon 21 and Sun 27 June. The eight shows available have something for everyone, ranging from animal rock bands tackling climate change to exploring identity in […]

The New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich, the Barn Theatre in Cirencester, the Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield – the trio that created the acclaimed What a Carve Up! at the end of 2020 – were joined by Oxford Playhouse in Oxfordshire and Theatr Clwyd in Mold to co-produce this new digital adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s […]

*Dunkirk star Fionn Whitehead will play the dazzling, but dark, titular role.* The New Wolsey Theatre, the Lawrence Batley Theatre and the Barn Theatre have teamed up once again, this time joined by Theatr Clwyd and Oxford Playhouse, to produce a modern adaptation of Oscar Wilde’s iconic novel. Written by Henry Filloux-Bennett, who also wrote the ‘game-chang[ing]’ (The Telegraph) production of What a Carve Up!, The Picture […]

The Snow Queen is one of the most ambitious shows the New Wolsey Theatre has ever worked on. A production featuring a blend of live action, pre-recorded film, live music, recorded music, online audience interaction, in-house audience interaction as well as all the classic elements of a pantomime, the show was designed specifically for the […]

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 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 […]

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 […]