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News
Nov 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth installs four new flag poles in celebration of its 40th anniversary
Nov 2022
“Never in a hundred years would I have thought I’d still be working here. How lucky am I?”
TRP Stories: Sadie Norsworthy
Nov 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth welcomes 12 new enthusiastic theatre-makers to join its training programme Lab Company
Oct 2022
“Performing on a stage that really inspired me, really feels like coming full circle”
TRP Stories: Theo Clinkard
Sep 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth launches new-to-industry technical residency in honour of lighting technician
Sep 2022
“Funky Llama has given me so much. I’m a whole new person”
TRP Stories: Ally Bryan
Sep 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth to stage new production of 40 Extraordinary Years this week, to celebrate 40th year.
Aug 2022
“I’ll be forever grateful for the avenues that TRP have offered me”
TRP Stories: Philippa Gunning
Jul 2022
“I’ve learned that if I put my mind to what I’m doing, I can focus really well”
TRP Stories: Zach Lauder
Jul 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth to take five co-productions to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2022
Jul 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth showcases its community work in a series of performances to help mark its 40th year
Jun 2022
“If Theatre Royal Plymouth wasn’t here, I very much doubt I’d be working in theatre”
TRP Stories: Laura Horton
Jun 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth to co-produce Ontroerend Goed’s Every Word Was Once An Animal
Jun 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth to co-produce new circus show Delicate with Extraordinary Bodies and Figurteatret i Nordland
May 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth to co-produce Happy Meal, a joyful queer rom-com, premiering at the 2022 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before heading out on UK tour
May 2022
“When I’m doing a performance, I’m able to talk in a way that I never could in real life.”
TRP Stories: Chris White
Apr 2022
“The theatre gave me aim to live, and hope. Before, I was hopeless.”
TRP Stories: Ferri Feredouni
Apr 2022
“There is such a need for theatre in Devon and Cornwall. It’s so rurally isolated that having access to theatre for young people here is so important.”
TRP Stories: Millie Brolly
Mar 2022
Theatre Royal Plymouth pilots new drama project for vulnerable and socially isolated over 50s in Plymouth
Mar 2022
TRP teams up with Cardboard Citizens to host a theatre project for people affected by homelessness in the South West
Mar 2022
“I’m a normal member of society now, thanks to the theatre. My children have got their mum back, and without it, I don’t know where I’d be.”
TRP Stories: Berni Molton
Feb 2022
TRP launches consultation to help shape the organisation’s artistic and creative leadership
Feb 2022
“Everybody has a story. It’s just about everybody having a voice. That’s what theatre should be about.”
TRP Stories: Voodoo Monkeys
Jan 2022
TRP and Voodoo Monkeys present Today I Killed My Very First Bird at The Drum, before a performance at the Edinburgh Fringe
Jan 2022
“Because I’m bipolar, I try and stay in the moment. That’s why theatre is good for me.”
TRP Stories: Clive Rowe
Jan 2022
Cast announced for our co-production Sorry, You’re Not a Winner with Paines Plough
Jan 2022
“I’ve done about a million different things since I left school but the skills I picked up during Young Company have massively informed all of it.”
TRP Stories: Tom Nicholas
Dec 2021
“Hopefully children who would never be taken to the theatre, can come and see a wonderful children’s show here.”
TRP Stories: Joan Lucas
Nov 2021
“Funky Llama gives me something to get up for. It gives me a really good drive and a passion to help others”
TRP Stories: Olivia Frost
Oct 2021
“I never thought theatre was for me but it’s opened so many doors in my career”
TRP Stories: Perry Johnson
Oct 2021
Paines Plough and Theatre Royal Plymouth announce Sorry, You’re Not a Winner by Samuel Bailey, a new play about friendship, class, and leaving home
Shows Press Releases
Dec 2022
Multi Olivier Award-Winning West End production of Life of Pi is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2024
Nov 2022
Frantic Assembly Production, Metamorphosis, co-produced with Theatre Royal Plymouth, is coming to TRP next year!
Nov 2022
Hit musical Heathers is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2023, as part of its UK and Ireland tour.
Nov 2022
The iconic song-and-dance spectacular 42nd Street is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in August 2023.
Nov 2022
Hit children’s show Hey Duggee is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth next year, packed with non-stop fun, laughs, singing, dancing and even more fun!
Nov 2022
Full casting has been announced for the smash hit The Bodyguard, coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2023.
Nov 2022
Royal Ballet Principal Vadim Muntagirov will guest perform with Birmingham Royal Ballet in Swan Lake for two nights only at Theatre Royal Plymouth next March
Oct 2022
Full casting for The Ocean at the End of the Lane has been announced, with EastEnders star Charlie Brooks joining the cast
Oct 2022
The Spongebob Musical is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth next year as part of its UK Premiere Tour
Oct 2022
Full casting has been announced for Complicité’s Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in December
Oct 2022
Is That a Bolt in Your Neck? a comedy horror bursting with thrills and chills, comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth
Sep 2022
The world’s most successful rock and roll musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth in 2023
Aug 2022
Stuff & Nonsense Theatre Company bring festive family fun to Theatre Royal Plymouth with Pinocchio
July 2022
Casting has been announced for 30th Anniversary UK and Ireland tour of JB Priestley’s classic thriller An Inspector Calls, coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2023.
July 2022
Gareth Snook will take on the role of ‘Willy Wonka’ in the forthcoming UK and Ireland tour of the new production of Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – The Musical.
July 2022
Shane Richie will be leading the cast for this year’s spectacular Pantomime, Sleeping Beauty, which comes to Theatre Royal Plymouth in December 2022.
July 2022
Rambert have announced casting for Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby, coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2023.
July 2022
TV dancing sensation and international champion Johannes Radebe is bringing a brand-new production, Johannes Radebe: Freedom Unleashed, to Theatre Royal Plymouth in May 2023.
Jun 2022
Agatha Christie’s iconic thriller The Mousetrap is coming to Theatre Royal Plymouth in March 2023 as part of it’s 70th Anniversary tour.
Jun 2022
New production of Shrek the Musical heads out on UK and Ireland tour, starting at Theatre Royal Plymouth in summer 2023
May 2022
Maisie Smith to join Kevin Clifton in the cast of BZ Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom The Musical 2022/23 tour directed by Craig Revel Horwood
Feb 2022
First look: Trailer released for Rambert’s Peaky Blinders: The Redemption of Thomas Shelby