What's on in Richmond, Yorkshire

Pygmalion.

Eliza Doolittle has big dreams.Henry Higgins has a big ego!  When a chance encounter sparks a daring bet, Eliza is catapulted from the rainy streets of Covent Garden to the top of Edwardian High Society. Can she pass for a Duchess or will the experiment expose more than just her...

Springsteen on Broadway

Experience Bruce Springsteen like never before in this intimate acoustic show from Graeme Richardson and Louise Howarth of The NE Street Band.Stripped-back arrangements, acoustic guitar, flute and beautiful harmonies bring the Boss’s iconic songs to life in a fresh and personal way.

Simon Yates: My Mountain Life

One of the most accomplished exploratory mountaineers of all time, Simon Yates is best known for ‘cutting the rope’ in the harrowing 1985 expedition to the Andes documented in fellow climber’s Joe Simpson’s bestselling book and later film and stage play sensation Touching the Void.

Scott Lavene

Scott Lavene is as English as pork pies an pasties, dunked in Yorkshire tea. 2024 album “Disneyland in Dagenham” was full of Essex, East End poetry, and classic English post punk. Following extensive touring, including many sold-out shows, Scott returned in August 2025 with an album entitled Cars, Buses, Bedsits...

The Mirror Crack'd

In 1960’s England, a wind of change is blowing through the land. It has even reached the sleepy village of St Mary Mead.There’s a new housing estate to make the villagers curious and fearful, and now the village has been thrown into a frenzy by the news that a glamorous...

When Vincent Met John

Vincent died in 1890, John died in 1980, both of gunshot wounds to the chest. But imagine what might have happened, had the two greatest artists of their time, met?Vincent van Gogh was a nineteenth-century Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history...

Tom McConville & Michael Biggins.

Tom McConville and Michael Biggins are two virtuoso musicians whose dazzling combination of fiddle, piano and song creates an unforgettable evening of traditional music at its very best.Both former BBC Musicians of the Year – in England and Scotland respectively – they are recognised as among the finest traditional performers...

The Invisible Man

The thought of invisibility and the advantages it could bring to someone, has captured the imagination of millions since HG Wells’ classic story was first published. The Invisible Man has been adapted many times for film, but rarely for the stage.This original, fast-paced and riotous adaptation boasts 15 characters, played...

Rob Rouse: Funny Bones

Since winning the prestigious Channel 4 'So You Think You’re Funny Award' at the Edinburgh Festival in 1998, Rob Rouse has toured the world for the last 27 years! Fortunately, over a quarter of a century in ‘the biz’ hasn’t made him (me – obviously I’m writing this) in the...

Making a Killing

The ropes are ready, the crowd is waiting, and the hangman has a new apprentice.When Claus Kohler is apprenticed to Nuremberg’s master executioner, Frantz Schmidt, the two are drawn into a world where duty, morality and power collide. As the gallows fill and suspicion grows, both men must confront who...

Tom Davis: Spudgun

Tom Davis is back on the road, firing out his freshly cooked observations on life's hot topics.Co-host of the mega-hit podcast Wolf and Owl with Romesh Ranganathan, star of BAFTA and Royal Television Society award-winning comedy series Murder in Successville and BBC One smash-hit comedy King Gary, Tom also has...

The Noise Next Door: Comedy, Improvised

Funny stuff, made up on the spot. No gimmicks, no tricks - just the quickest, wittiest improvisers in the UK putting on a show to make you laugh like nobody’s business. The formula is simple -1) You suggest ANYTHING.2) The Noise Next Door turn your suggestion into a miniature comedy...

Richmond Mayors Comedy Night

Get ready for a night of laughter at The Georgian Theatre Royal as four outstanding comedians take to the stage in support of the Mayor’s charities. 

Complete Works of Jane Austen - Abridged

One newbie and two self-professed Janeites, through almost all means imaginable, tackle the entire canon of Jane Austen’s works – in just 90 minutes.Come along for a fun, funny and fast-paced romp through the masterpieces of Jane Austen with The Complete Works of Jane Austen, Abridged.

Georgian Theatre Royal

Box Office: 01748 825252Built in 1788, The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond is the UK's oldest working theatre in its original form. Entering the pocket-sized auditorium is like stepping into another age - you can almost hear the rowdy antics of the lively Georgian audiences and smell the tallow from...

Reeth Memorial Hall

Richmond Town Hall