Performances

Can Clara and her brother Fritz bring the Nutcracker back to life and restore him to the throne? After last year’s hugely successful Hansel and Gretel, MTP returns with a beautiful imagining of this Christmas favourite.

Directed by Michael Mayer, this new production of Verdi’s timeless tragedy features a dazzling eighteenth-century setting that changes with the seasons.

Tom’s show will feature a number of favourite tracks from his beloved jazz as well as some new originals and of course those Christmas songs to get you in the festive spirit.

Pip Utton returns to the Merlin to perform again his entrancing reading of one of the best loved and most famous of all Christmas ghost stories. A magical way to get into the Christmas spirit!

“A masterful performance. Utton IS Charles Dickens” Edinburghreview.com

Broadcast live from the National Theatre, Ralph Fiennes and Sophie Okonedo play Shakespeare’s famous fated couple in his great tragedy of politics, passion and power.

Damian Wilson & Adam Wakeman embark on their second full UK tour. Great musicianship, great singing, great songs and a great atmosphere.

For the first time at the Met, soprano Anna Netrebko sings the role of Adriana Lecouvreur, the eighteenth-century actress whose real-life intrigues inspired Cilea’s tragic opera.

Simon Russell Beale returns to National Theatre Live screens following broadcasts of Timon of Athens and King Lear, and his recent role in the National Theatre’s critically acclaimed production of The Lehman Trilogy.

Multi-award-winning drama The Madness of George III will be broadcast live to cinemas, in National Theatre Live’s first ever broadcast from Nottingham Playhouse.

Tchaikovsky’s most ambitious opera receives star treatment in Stefan Herhelm’s staging, with a cast including Eva-Maria Westbrook, Felicty Palmer and Aleksandrs Antonenko. Based on a short story by Pushkin and comes to the Royal Opera House in a new production that has already garnered five-star reviews in Amsterdam.