This Easter, discover The Secret Garden and unlock the magic within. In a lonely manor house on the Yorkshire Moors, Archibald Craven is stifled by his manipulative brother, Neville, and yearns for his beautiful, late wife, Lily. All the while, he becomes more isolated and remote from his son, Colin who is wheelchair bound.

The killing doesn’t just happen in Christie’s play. It comes thanks to an announcement in the local paper, stating that it will take place at Little Paddocks, Chipping Cleghorn – the genteel home of Letitia Blacklock (Alexandra Elliott) on Friday the 13th at 6.30pm.

Written by Laura Wade. Directed by John Ghent. May 5, 2023 at The Little Theatre Review by Alex Thompson As director John Ghent asks in his programme notes “How would you like to turn back the clock and live in the 1950s?” As someone that was born in the nineties, I immediately imagine those incredible […]

The reviews are in for our family show – The Railway Children: A Musical

Four into three won’t go, except in Bedroom Farce, Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious, award-winning play about marital disharmony.

Recently voted as one of the best plays of the century, The York Realist had its last major outing as a joint staging at the Crucible, Sheffield and the Donmar Warehouse, London in 2018. Written just 20 years ago by Peter Gill, it is set in an impoverished farm cottage in rural Yorkshire in the 1960s.

Hello everyone! We’re very excited to announce our next season of plays starting in spring for you to enjoy. Everything is on sale now! Full details and lots more shows can be found in our brand new brochure. Available now.

Alphabetical Order is set in a 1970’s library office of a provincial newspaper – a scene of permanent and utter chaos – that issues constant moral support for needy journalists, run by head librarian Lucy (Emma Bamford), a disorganised earth mother in total disarray, she attempts to bring some semblance of order by recruiting Lesley (Rachael Humphrey), a young assistant with a passion for organisation to do just that.