Black History Month Exhibition
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 01 Oct 25
In honour of Black History month we will be hosting an exhibition alongside Cultural Roots Sound System Museum, celebrating SoundSystem past, present and future. The month long exhibition runs from …
RENT
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 08 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 11 Oct 2025
Rent, a rock musical, with music, book and lyrics by Jonathon Larson, tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians struggling to survive and create in New …
Sunday Sound Bath
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 12 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 14 Dec 2025
Seeking relaxation and mindfulness in Bedford? My name is Yanni and I would like to invite you to join us for a relaxing Sound Bath at The Place Theatre. I …
Seizing the Skies
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 14 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 18 Oct 2025
Bedford Drama Company is excited to announce the opening production of the 2025-2026 season. Seizing the Skies, a brand-new play written by Oscar Aleman and Richard Moon to commemorate the …
The Lady in the Van
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 21 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 25 Oct 2025
Alan Bennett writes, “After Miss Shepherd drove her van into my garden in 1974 friends used to ask me if I was planning to write a play about her. I …
Dracula – The Panto
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 27 Oct 2025
There’s a Vampire behind you! ( Oh no , there isn’t ) This is a hilarious spoof of the Dracula story done in glorious and ridiculous panto style …. A …
Room to Shine: Musical Theatre Workshop for Ages 9–17
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 28 Oct 2025
Join our fun, inclusive musical theatre workshop designed especially for young people aged 9–17 with additional needs. Through music, movement, and storytelling, we help every child grow in confidence and …
Maisie and The Misfortune Teller
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 29 Oct 2025
‘Maisie has moved to town from far away, and doesn’t yet have friends with whom to play…’ Join Maisie as an encounter with a mysterious Fortune Teller (and companion …
A Noise Annoys
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 30 Oct 2025
“A Noise Annoys” is a poetry show for all the senses! It features rhymes, noises, songs, surprises and lots of audience interaction. Bursting with joyful humour and witty wordplay, Jude …
Exploring with Kaye Leidoskope – 2025/26
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 31 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 27 Feb 2026
Blending storytelling, nature-based crafts, and the rich tapestry of everyday stories, Exploring with Kaye sessions are a unique space where young children and their carers can slow down, connect, and …
Playwrights Circle
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 31 Oct 2025
- Until:
- 28 Nov 2025
A friendly and supportive writing circle in which playwrights can share their work and work-in-progress and actors can practice their reading skills, run by Bedford Playwright Hazel Fattorusso at The …
Black History Month Celebration
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 31 Oct 2025
End of Exhibition Celebration Join us on the 31st October 2025 as we celebrate Cultural Root's Black History Month Exhibition. Featuring Cultural Roots Sound and Light and a host of …
Jokes and Laffs November 2025
- Genre:
- Comedy
- Opens:
- 01 Nov 2025
Jokes and Laffs is back for Autumn 2025! Hosted by comedy legend President Obonjo, GMG Promotions once again present a stellar line up of comedy acts. Meet Peter Francis, a dynamic …
Read Poets – Autumn Season – Witchcraft and Wizardry
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 02 Nov 2025
Join us at the Eagle Bookshop as we explore Witchcraft and Wizardry in poetry and spoken word.
The Government Inspector
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 05 Nov 2025
- Until:
- 07 Nov 2025
“IT’S NOT GOOD, GENTLEMEN. THAT’S WHY I’VE GATHERED YOU ALL HERE. AN INSPECTOR IS COMING…A GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR!” The news that a government inspector is due to arrive in a small …
Father JC’s Holy Show
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 12 Nov 2025
Father JC – the Irish Drag Priest with mass appeal is taking a divine pilgrimage across the nation, bringing his big mass to the masses. ‘Father JC’s Holy Show’ is …
Journey to the Centre of the Earth
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 13 Nov 2025
Take a break Rick Wakeman, back to your trailer Brendan Fraser, watch and learn Jules Verne, Lamphouse are going on a journey all the way to the centre of the …
Shakespeare’s Battle of the Sexes: A Playful Theatre Workshop
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 14 Nov 2025
Step into the tension, passion, and power struggles that define Shakespeare’s greatest clashes between men and women. From the fiery flirtations of Much Ado About Nothing and The Taming of the Shrew, to …
We are The Lions, Mr Manager
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 18 Nov 2025
‘We Are The Lions, Mr. Manager!’ is the remarkable story of Jayaben Desai the inspirational leader of the 1976-78 Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike. She was recently amongst the women who …
Dial 1 for UK
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 20 Nov 2025
Every night in New Delhi, Uday Kumar (UK) answers panicked calls to the Goldmine Crypto GB Helpline fantasising about being British himself, filling his YouTube channel with visions of a …
Still Life
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 25 Nov 2025
- Until:
- 29 Nov 2025
Still Life (Brief Encounter) by Noel Coward “I shall love you always until the end of my life.” After a chance meeting on a railway platform, strangers Alec and Laura …
Coffee with Jam
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 30 Nov 2025
Coffee with Jam is back for 2025! Join us for our next Coffee with Jam event – chill out and listen to some music with a cuppa and cake! No …
Big Christmas Raise the Roof Quiz
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 05 Dec 2025
Join us for our last festive quiz of the year! Bar will be open and we might even throw in some mince pies!
Read Poets – Autumn Season – Eighth Midwinter Chill
- Genre:
- Poetry & Spoken Word
- Opens:
- 07 Dec 2025
Our final Read Poets of 2025 and our Eighth Midwinter Chill. It may be cold and dark outside but it is warm and welcoming in the Eagle Bookshop. We would …
Robin Hood
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 10 Dec 2025
- Until:
- 23 Dec 2025
Join utter legends Robin, Marian and the Merry Men in Sherwood Forest for a hilariously adventurous take on the timeless tales of everyone's favourite archer. Pernicious Prince John and the …
A Christmas Carol
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 15 Dec 2025
- Until:
- 21 Dec 2025
The critically-acclaimed Pantaloons Theatre Company present a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’ fantastical festive fable. It’s Christmas Eve and tight-fisted Ebenezer Scrooge is meaner than ever. He is shunning his …
The Big Bumper Book Sale Weekend
- Genre:
- Live Event
- Opens:
- 10 Jan 26 -
- Until:
- 11 Jan 26 -
Our first Book Sale of 2026 and this time we are making it a weekend event. Join us to browse a huge selection of fiction and non-fiction books, have a …
Almost Kate Bush
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 31 Jan 2026
“The more I got into presenting things to the world, the further it was taking me away from what I was, which was someone who just used to sit quietly …
A Winter’s Tail
- Genre:
- Fantastic for Families
- Opens:
- 01 Feb 2026
A Winter’s Tail is an interactive original musical production that is SEN and Neurodivergent inclusive and written with the younger audience in mind. Dottie Dormouse has invited Hettie Hedgehog over …
Yes, Prime Minister
- Genre:
- Creative Community
- Opens:
- 05 Feb 2026
- Until:
- 07 Feb 2026
RUFF Theatre brings to you ‘YES, PRIME MINISTER’. The UK is in crisis: debt is spiralling, unemployment is on the rise and the fragile coalition cabinet, led by Prime Minister …
A Walk in the Park
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 07 Mar 2026
70% of women in the UK have experienced sexual harassment in public. Meanwhile, a social media poll finds that, in a hypothetical world without men for a day, the overwhelming …
The Kerry George Show
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 18 Mar 2026
The Kerry George Show with special guest Joe Connors International vocalist Kerry George brings her powerhouse voice and captivating stories to the stage. From headlining the UK No.1 tour of Annie the Musical to leading …
A Knight of Terror
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 19 Mar 2026
‘What do you know of the west of England?’ ‘But surely that's a myth!’ ‘I assure you, Mr Winchester, it is very real.’ Embark on this hilarious Victorian ghost story …
Pixiematosis
- Genre:
- Professional Theatre
- Opens:
- 21 Mar 2026
Everything was perfect in the midnight garden. The flowers grew, the fairies flew, the grobbity grobbits danced a merry dance in the twinkly moonlight. Then one day, without warning, the …
Monologue Bootcamp
- Genre:
- Workshop
- Opens:
- 22 Mar 2026
Bring Your Monologue to Life Join us for a fun, supportive and practical workshop that gives actors of all levels the tools to make their monologues stand out. Across the …
Belle Voix
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 23 Apr 2026
Bringing you the timeless sounds of Motown & Northern Soul & featuring over 30 iconic hits including Red Light Spells Danger, The Supremes Do I Love you (Indeed I do) …
Lady Maisery
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 30 Apr 2026
The combined vocal and multi-instrumental talents of Rowan Rheingans, Hazel Askew and Hannah James make up the uniquely captivating band Lady Maisery who have for well over a decade enraptured …
The Lincoln Noel Four
- Genre:
- Music
- Opens:
- 09 May 2026
Back by popular demand, Lincoln Noel returns with his band to The Place Theatre in May 2026. Celebrate the brilliance of Lincoln Noel, affectionately known as “The Maestro,” with a …