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This year’s Ripon Theatre Festival will take place in July with five days and six nights crammed with events and activity.

This year’s Ripon Theatre Festival will take place from Tuesday 2 – Sunday 7 July with five days and six nights crammed with events and activity. With

TICKETS are now on sale for The Georgian Theatre Royal’s 2024 spring/summer season

As the Globe faces accusations of ‘cripping up’ with a new production of Shakespeare’s tragedy, disabled theatre-makers explain why the role should not be open to all

Talk about offering something for everyone - the Octagon Theatre has pulled out all the stops for its spring/summer programme which has been…

Less a bust up of two of the 20th century’s great British artists, Perfection, of a Kind: Britten vs Auden is a celebration of the artists’ curious friendship, and shared artistic virtuosity. Deftly curated musical and poetic extracts from Auden and a young Britten, it is left up to us to decide how much of Auden’s almost paternal influence rubbed off on the composer.

Paul Scofield, Ian McKellen and Glenda Jackson have all redefined Shakespeare’s unpredictable ruler – a role in which actors usually succeed

Actor, director and cultural champion of the North, Barrie Rutter OBE visits Ripon for one night only.

Exclusive Event from a Master of Words For one night only, actor, director and cultural champion of the North, Barrie Rutter OBE visits Ripon. In a memorable end to Ripon Theatre Festival’s 2023 season and the final event at Ripon Poetry Festival, the audience at Ripon Arts Hub on 1…

The signs were there early in Glenda Jackson's career that she would one day have what it takes to "ascend the Everest" (as the cliché has it) of Lear. So powerful was her performance as Ophelia in Peter Hall's production of Hamlet in 1965 that there was talk afterwards of her being cast as the prince himself. Two years later she was another disturbed woman playing Charlotte Corday unforgettably whipping Marat with her hair in The Marat/Sade.