Past Performances

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One of the last surviving performers of classic Louisiana down-home blues, Lil’ Jimmy’s stinging guitar work, gritty vocals and haunting harmonica have been taking Europe by storm. His music has won him many awards and in 2014 he was inducted into the prestigious Blues Hall of Fame.

Join us as we give you a once-only opportunity to ask the questions you want the answers to!

England Football legends Lee Dixon and David Seaman make a special appearance at this Merlin fundraising event.

The Bolshoi’s sumptuous staging with its luxurious sets and costumes gives life to Perrault’s fairy tale unlike any other.

A must-see!

Due to technical problems this live streaming had to be postponed in the autumn. We are pleased to re-schedule the performance as an encore production.

A satire of Europe during the Roaring ’20s, The Golden Age makes for an original, colourful, and dazzling show with its jazzy score and music-hall atmosphere.

Simon Russell Beale returns to the RSC after 20 years to play Prospero in this groundbreaking production directed by Artistic Director Gregory Doran.

E.T.A. Hoffmann’s fairytale staged by Russian ballet master Yuri Grigorovich will transport children and adults alike to a world of magic and wonder for the holiday season.

Treat yourself to a festive evening of Christmas music and carols in the company of Frome Town Youth Band.

Following their hit run on Broadway, Ian McKellen and Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter’s No Man’s Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham’s Theatre, London.

After last year’s hugely successful award winning Little Mermaid, Merlin Theatre Productions returns this Christmas with a beautiful imagining of this timeless tale.

Revenge, forgiveness, friendship, folly, loyalty, treachery, and plain stupidity all join hands in this roller coaster of a ride. A modern spin on Shakespeare’s final play promises to keep you on your toes.

Award-winning stand-Up comedian Jo Caulfield takes a humorous look at life’s potential traps, what can go wrong and how to deal with them (and, in some cases, how to make everyone else suffer with you).

Multi-award winner Mark Thomas returns to where he first started to perform: a red wooden shed in Wakefield, the labour club, to celebrate its 50th birthday.

Vittorio Grigòlo and Leonardo Capalbo share the title role and lead an excellent cast including Thomas Hampson, Sonya Yoncheva, Christine Rice and Sofia Fomina in Offenbach’s fantastical operatic drama.

This powerful film re-imagines the challenge of climate change, portraying communities on the front lines around the world. Can we seize this crisis to transform our economic system into something better?

Through powerful Japanese drumming, music and dance, Taiko Meantime rampages through ancient Japan in a unique theatrical concert.

Audiences are invited to an optional talk by Rev.Shunjo Ono, head monk of Dojoji temple,in the Foyer from 6.45pm.

Alexei Ratmansky invokes the genius of Shostakovich’s score at the Bolshoi, creating a laugh-out-loud masterpiece with its bits of slapstick comedy, hilarious deceptions and false identities.

Due to unforeseen circumstances, Andrew Lawrence’s show is now cancelled. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

An evening of extracts from memoirs, with tapas and wine.

Our popular on-stage ‘platter’ nights return with an evening of memoir readings from acclaimed writer Rosie Jackson, who will introduce other local writers also with new books in this genre.

Ellen spent 6 months volunteering in Europe’s refugee camps.

She gave out clothes and blankets, she made many cups of tea. It gave her lots to think about…

Join one of the fastest rising stars in comedy as she attempts to tackle her inner and outer demons in this hilarious and very personal show.

Austentatious are saddling the horses for a Grand Tour! Join the all-star cast as they improvise a brand new Jane Austen work before your very eyes, based on a single audience suggestion.

We are unable to sell tickets on line for this screening. Please call the Box Office to book 01373 465949. Door tickets will be available. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Semyon Bychkov conducts a cast of young and up-and-coming talent including American soprano Corinne Winters in a new production of Mozart and Da Ponte’s opera on the nature of love.

One of the best loved classics for children comes to life, literally.

Crickets, cats, foxes and, of course, the world-famous puppet, will spring out of our collection of dusty, old, magic books…

This show is now sold out.

RSC Associate Artist Antony Sher is Lear, one of the greatest parts written by Shakespeare in this, one of Shakespeare’s most epic and powerful plays, directed by RSC Artist Director Gregory Doran.

Hammerpuzzle Theatre Company is back on tour with a distilled adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s romantic, rural novel. This is a co-production with the Everyman Theatre Cheltenham.

Tony Benn sits in a room faced with a collection of recording devices that he has collected over his long and eventful life. He pours himself the first cup of tea of the day, opens a drawer and takes out a pipe…

One of the best blues, roots and Americana singer-songwriters in the UK today. Williams is a man on a mission. He not only tours like a hellhound’s on his trail, but creates a super-charged music that is electrifying and fighting fit. His influences fly so fast and furious they blur… No one does it like Brooks Williams.

Cymbeline is a ruler of a divided Britain. When Innogen, the only living heir, marries her sweetheart in secret, an enraged Cymbeline banishes him.

Antonio Pappano conducts a wonderful cast led by Sonya Yoncheva, Joseph Calleja and Sonia Ganassi in a new production of Bellini’s operatic masterpiece.

In the ultimate love story of all time, Shakespeare and his maid, Mrs P, discover a masked ball, a barmy balcony scene, a crazy horse chase, and some serious sword fighting…

Being a teenager is hard enough, but when the ghost of your father sends you to avenge his murder, it would surely drive anyone mad! A hilarious journey of ghosts, duels, poison, murder and THAT skull routine…

A showcase full of all your favourite songs from well known musicals such as Grease, Les Miserables, Wicked and many more.

It will be a night filled with laughter, talent and a whole lot of singing.

Mack the Knife is back in town.

A darkly comic new take on Brecht and Weill’s raucous musical broadcast live from the stage of the National Theatre.

From “the country’s leading musical satirist” (The Times), Mitch Benn, a firm favourite on BBC R4’s The Now Show brings you his new critically acclaimed show.

Juan Martín, a truly awe-inspiring guitarist, composer and all encompassing musician returns to tour the UK with a new flamenco programme of music, song and dance direct from Spain.

Forget Me Not – The Alzheimer’s Whodunnit

Jim’s wife, a patient on a dementia ward, has died from what appears to be natural causes. Jim is a retired police detective and he smells a rat.

Written and performed by comic, poet and ex-psychiatric nurse Rob Gee, Forget Me Not has just completed a sellout run across Canada.

A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. Behind the fragile veneer of post-war civility burns a brutal sense of loss and longing…

The rise of “Bugsy Malone” and the battle for power between “Fat Sam” and “Dandy Dan” from the well-loved musical movie of the same name.

It is 6th April 1895 and Oscar Wilde waits at Cadogan Hotel for his arrest.

In this one-man play Oscar will talk openly about those he has loved and the actions that threaten ruination upon them all.

Join us for this live screening of Richard III from Almeida Theatre with Ralph Fiennes and Vanessa Redgrave.

This heady brew of Shakespearian confusion, magic and mischief is the perfect comedy for a summer evening.

A fabulous Festival finale.

In the newly formed Funka-Nova Quartet, Frome’s own Pee Wee Ellis and the acclaimed Berlin based vocalist/guitarist Peter Fessler present an acoustic fusion of music they are both passionate about: funk and bossa nova.

The royal chefs are helped by their vegetapals to collect the special nursery rhyme ingredients.

How many rhymes will it take to make a higgledy piggledy pie, and will it be ready before the dish runs away with the spoon?

Doctor, comedian, writer and broadcaster Phil Hammond makes a welcome return to the Frome Festival with a new show shortly to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Reuniting the stars of his celebrated film of Cinderella, Kenneth Branagh directs Richard Madden and Lily James as Romeo and Juliet, Sir Derek Jacobi as Mercutio and Meera Syal as the Nurse.

William Cheung FRPS has been a keen photographer for over three decades and has been a member of the specialist photographic press for 30 years.

He achieved his Associateship of the Royal Photographic Society in 1982 and his Fellowship in 1983.

TV journalists Dan Glazebrook and Neil Clark are joined by rapper Clayton Blizzard – described as a ‘lyrical genius’ – and internationally acclaimed performer Tayo Aluko in this highly amusing but hard hitting anti-war satire with music.