Events at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
43 upcoming events·Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
Legally Blonde Jr
Bursting with energy, humour and heart, Legally Blonde Jr. is a vibrant musical adaptation of the much-loved story of Elle Woods – a fashion-loving, pink-obsessed sorority girl who surprises everyone by earning a place at Harvard Law School. Determined to win back her ex-boyfriend, Elle soon…
Red Robin's Winter Song
"Red Robin’s Winter Song By Manjeet Mann | Presented by Tutti Frutti Productions Join us for a tale that will warm hearts, spark imaginations, and leave your little ones singing all the way home. Step into a twinkling, snow-dusted world with Red Robin’s Winter Song – a gentle and joy-filled winter…
Musical Theatre Masterclass: The Addam's Family
"Spend a morning on our stage as you are put through your paces, experiencing a morning as a professional musical theatre performer. The session will begin with a physical and vocal warm-up before moving on to learning songs and dances from the stage show The Addams Family! There will be a range of…
Mark Thomas: 40 in Stand-Up Years
"What?! Mark Thomas has been ‘standing up’ for 40 years? Impossible!! But how old does that make you…? Alas it is true; one of our oldest surviving alternative comics celebrates 40 years at the mic. So, here’s what he has done so far in numbers; performed comedy for 40 years, won 8 awards for…
Oh What A Night
"OH WHAT A NIGHT! takes you back in time on a musical journey through the incredible career of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons. Valli’s unmistakable voice dominated the airwaves for more than two decades with classics such as Sherry, Let’s Hang On, Big Girls Don’t Cry, Can’t Take My Eyes Off You,…
Theatre Tour
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is a vibrant 200-year-old theatre designed by William Wilkins. Join us for a unique tour as we head back in time to discover the trials and triumphs of the last remaining working Regency playhouse in the country. Led by our enthusiastic team of Tour Guides, you’ll…
Anything Goes
"Irving Stage Company presents: It's de-lovely! Cole Porter's joyful musical comedy is set on an 1930s ocean liner bound across the Atlantic, where a stowaway is pursuing the love of his life, an heiress engaged to a peer. He's helped in quest to win her by a nightclub singer and a conman - get…
The Snow Queen
"Join Ballet Theatre UK in their beautiful re-telling of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale ballet, The Snow Queen. This spectacular production follows the story of Gerda and her quest to find her friend Kay, whom the Snow Queen has placed under an evil spell. Gerda’s fantastic adventure…
Dick Whittington
A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds production, written by Chris Hannon. Has anyone seen the Queen? Last night she went missing and now the streets of London are filled with rats who want the throne for themselves. The time has come - humanity must find a hero. This Christmas join Dick Whittington and…
Ed Patrick: Numb and Number
Ed Patrick NUMB AND NUMBER Following his hugely successful Catch Your Breath tour, comedian and NHS anaesthetist Ed Patrick returns with his new hit show Numb and Number. Get your appointment while you can. ‘Brilliantly funny’ Matt Lucas ‘Extremely funny’ The Telegraph ‘Packed with hilarious…
Theatre Tour January
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is a vibrant 200-year-old theatre designed by William Wilkins. Join us for a unique tour as we head back in time to discover the trials and triumphs of the last remaining working Regency playhouse in the country. Led by our enthusiastic team of Tour Guides, you’ll…
Radio GaGa
Have your finest hour, or two! As we bring you Radio GAGA. Be part of a night like no other as we bring you the concert you’ve been dreaming of! The ultimate celebration of one the biggest bands to have ever graced the stage – Queen. Break free with us and shake all over like a jellyfish as Radio…
Swing That Music
"Join the Down for the Count All-Stars, the UK’s hardest swinging band, for “one hellova celebration of vintage music” (TimeOut London) – it's time to Swing That Music! Described as “a breath of fresh air on the swing scene” (Twinwood Festival) Down for the Count’s 10-piece mini big band is…
Lunchtime Concert: Alfie Weingberg, Violin & Sebastian Williams, Cello
Our exciting young cellist from Ipswich, Sebastian Williams, returns, this time with fellow advanced Royal Academy of Music student, Alfie Weinberg, bringing violin and cello ‘gymnastics’ to warm up a cold February lunchtime at the Theatre, including the virtuosic and flamboyant Passacaglia by…
Royally Funny - February
MC – Stephen Diplacito Our opening act Peter Jones for Royally Funny 3rd Feb 2027 Peter Jones is a stand-up comedian from Australia now based in London. He has performed stand-up on the TV show Comedy Up Late, appeared in the Netflix series Why Are You Like This?, written for a bunch of TV series…
Jack Dee
A show by Jack about jokes. Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of this show. Celebrating 40 years in standup comedy, Jack takes us on a memoir of all his favourite old stories. Jokes and funny anecdotes have intrigued Jack for as long as he can…
Summer Season Launch
Theatre Royal’s Artistic Director, Owen Calvert-Lyons will take you on a whistle-stop tour of our fantastic Summer Season 2027 programme, sponsored by Ellisons. Get an overview of our shows, see previews of performances and discover our great offers. By attending the event, you’ll get special…
Luke Wright: Yes
Luke Wright used to think he had the answers. Now he's not so sure. For twenty-five years, Fringe First winner Luke Wright has been writing poems that wrestle with the world around him. In this new show, he discovers that certainty is rarely as useful as he once thought. As children grow up, heroes…
The Man Who Was Magic
★★★★★ ‘Magic is in his bones. Disbelief. Flabbergasted. Stunned’ (Henley Herald) ‘Joel Dommett meets David Blaine’ (The Sun) Dare to believe in magic as the UK's #1 magic show returns with a completely new and uplifting production for 2025. You're invited to a night of wonder, as secrets unravel…
Showstopper The Improvised Musical
Spontaneous musical comedy at its absolute finest – direct from the West End and now heading to Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds! Olivier Award winners – Best Entertainment and Family Show 2016! With fifteen years as an Edinburgh Fringe must-see phenomenon, a BBC Radio 4 series, a critically acclaimed…
Jack Skipper: Nothing Heavy
Jack Skipper: Nothing Heavy Tour Copy 2027 After a sell-out debut tour and an appearance on Live at the Apollo, Jack Skipper is back with his brand-new show, Nothing Heavy. Expect more of Jack’s brilliantly relatable stand-up, as he tries to make sense of life, getting older and everything in…
Dear Zoo
Dear Zoo the timeless children’s classic book returns to the stage! See our characters write to the Zoo. Who will be delivered? A cheeky monkey, a jumpy frog and of course a perfect puppy. Help your children learn as the book leaps onto the stage and share a magical experience as the story unfolds…
Son Of A Bitch
“She loved being a Mum… until he got a personality” Son of a Bitch is a brutally honest and darkly funny monologue about a woman who is caught on camera calling her 4 year old son a c*nt during an air-rage incident. When the video goes viral, Marnie's life violently unravels. Now the whole world…
Musical Theatre Masterclass: Mamma Mia
A Night To Remember: Motown Show takes you back in time to 1960’s Detroit. Be prepared for a high energy show, packed with the greatest Motown hits of all time. Starring The Voice UK finalist, Bizzi Dixon, and backed by the soulful vocal dynamics of The Motown Divas, this musical celebration is…
Albert's Boy
With Griff Rhys Jones and Joe Absolom - a darkly comic and moving play, shining light on one of history’s most enduring, scientific figures: Albert Einstein. A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds, Daniel Schumann and Lee Dean production.
Lunchtime Concert: The Beech Duo
Making their Theatre Royal debut, the versatile Beech Duo bring a varied programme of entertaining chamber music, from the Renaissance to 21st C. living composers and jazz-style improvisations. “Formidable performers whose remarkable adaptability must be emphasized” ~ La Montagne (Auvergne)
Lovedale
After her father’s brutal murder, Lara flees India for rural Wales to avoid testifying in court. She sets up a new life living under an assumed name until Ricky, local mechanic and Rhondda-mafioso, appears. Ricky has been digging. He knows who Lara really is and promises to redeem her father’s…
The Rachel Parris Songbook
The BAFTA-nominated comedian is back on the road, bringing some of her favourite songs from the last fifteen years of her comedy career, alongside brand new standup. Whether you are a Speedy Boarder, a Girl With A Diamond Finger, a Gym go-er, or part of a Hen Doo On A Train, there is Something…
The Wind in the Willows
Pack your picnics and join Mole, Ratty, Badger, and the wildly irrepressible Toad for an unforgettable journey bursting with mayhem, music, and mischief! From riverbank hijinks to a riotous battle to reclaim Toad Hall from the cunning weasels, this high-octane adaptation is packed with family fun…
Noori
Noori and her Fantastical World is a brand-new family dance theatre production brought to you by Sonia Sabri Company, the leading South Asian dance and music company in the UK. today. A little girl called Noori lives alone with her dad in a small house on a noisy, busy street. Despite all the love…
Curious Investigators
Scribble and Clipboard have a job to do: sort the recycling. But Scribble keeps finding new things to investigate. When she discovers a mysterious egg hidden in the rubbish, the pair need the audience’s help to rescue an unborn chick. Can we save a mysterious egg from a smashing? And what will we…
Theatre Tour April
Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds is a vibrant 200-year-old theatre designed by William Wilkins. Join us for a unique tour as we head back in time to discover the trials and triumphs of the last remaining working Regency playhouse in the country. Led by our enthusiastic team of Tour Guides, you’ll…
Oh Zeus
Kings of comedy Le Navet Bete - one of the UK’s most-loved comedy theatre companies and creators of smash-hit family shows Dracula: The Bloody Truth, King Arthur and Treasure Island - along with Olivier Award nominated comedy writer and director John Nicholson (The Time Machine: A Comedy,…
Lunchtime Concert: Derek Nash Organ Trio
A huge welcome to Derek Nash, renowned jazz saxophonist with Jools Holland’s Rhythm & Blues Orchestra, leads this swinging and blues-infused trio featuring organist, Jim Watson and drummer, George Double. “Smooth cool to groovy funk, the music fizzes with energy.” ~— The Guardian
The Turn of the Screw
A world premiere by Morgan Lloyd Malcolm Based on the seminal ghost story by Henry James Directed by Nicky Allpress England. A remote country house. A young governess, hired to care for two children, begins what appears to be an idyllic new life – but something about the children hints at a darker…
The Importance of Being Earnest
Local amateur group Irving Stage Company presents: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Oscar Wilde’s sparkling comedy of manners, misunderstandings and more than a little mayhem is as popular today as it was at its premiere in 1895. Wildean wit is at the heart of this romance with a touch…
Ross Noble - Cranium of Curiosities
Roll up, roll up! Or use a more conventional form of transport to get to the show. It’s entirely your choice. Unless you accidentally become trapped in a barrel*. Should that happen, then just find an incline and start rolling to see the one and only Ross Noble! He is the Wizard of Waffle, The…
Shrek The Musical
Based on the Oscar-winning DreamWorks Animation film, ‘Shrek The Musical’ is a Tony Award-winning fairy tale adventure bringing all the beloved characters you know from the film to life on stage, and proves there’s more to the story than meets the (ogre) ears. “Once upon a time, there was a little…
Julian Clary: Fully Dilated
Are you ready for some filth? Good! I’m going to be talking about things on this tour that would get me flogged in Dubai. And pointed at in Peckham. I have decided to open up to the public and reveal all. No more hiding behind a stage persona – I’m going to be myself. The question is will you be…
Matt Forde; Project Holy Moly
Another new Prime Minister. Another new government. Another set of black holes. Join leading political comedian and satirist Matt Forde (The Royal Variety Performance, Spitting Image, HIGNFY, British Scandal, The Matt Forde Focus Group) as he embarks on a mission across the political galaxy and…