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‘Pour yourself a cup of ambition’ and book your tickets, as Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) meets Dolly Parton in this hilarious and heart-warming tale of friendship, female empowerment and fighting for what’s right!
20 November 2024 - 23 November 2024
7:30 PM - 10:00 PM
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre
Walkabout returns with an innovative, thrilling, immersive take on the beloved Dickens classic, beating their record for the UK’s largest work of immersive student theatre.
29 November 2024 - 30 November 2024
Dunelm House
This concert will take you on a tour celebrating European national identity. From the tone poems of Sibelius’ Finlandia and Smetana’s Vltava, to the Russian folklore of Borodin’s Symphony No. 2.
30 November 2024
Elvet Methodist Church
A musical about the most infamous bank robbing & murdering duo in American history - romance, crime, and an incredible soundtrack.
04 December 2024 - 07 December 2024
Join Durham University Big Band and Durham University Jazz Orchestra for their yearly Jazzy Christmas charity gig at the Assembly Rooms Theatre for an evening of festive classics, blazing solos and Christmas cheer!
08 December 2024
7:30 PM - 9:30 PM
Christopher Marlowe’s seminal ‘Doctor Faustus’ sees ambition meet the supernatural in a gripping tale of power, temptation, and tragedy.
12 December 2024 - 14 December 2024
Durham University Light Opera Group (DULOG) Musical Theatre return with the all-singing, all-dancing Golden Age romantic-comedy Crazy For You!
28 January 2025 - 01 February 2025
7:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Gala Theatre
Join the reigning two-time UK Champions of A Cappella, Northern Lights A Cappella, along with their sister A Cappella groups, Foot Notes A Cappella, Durham Dynamics and Full Score Barbershop Choir, for a night of outstanding vocals and showcase of fun at the Gala Durham.
06 February 2025
Gala Durham
Durham Drama Festival 2025 will be a week long celebration of new student writing from Sunday 16 - Sunday 23 February.
16 February 2025 - 23 February 2025
Various locations across Durham City
Based on her incomplete novel, this witty play looks under the bonnet of Jane Austen and asks: what can characters do when their author abandons them?
01 May 2025 - 03 May 2025
Things are about to get a little wild in "Little Shop of Horrors," at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre! Watch as an ambitious florist faces a killer plant with dark humour and unforgettable songs. Don’t miss this twisted night of fun!
08 May 2025 - 10 May 2025
Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms
Join Durham University for its annual summer concert, showcasing the very best of student performing arts talent. Exploring the luminous experience of ‘Let There Be Light’, the concert takes the audience on a journey of hope and discovery through some of the world’s best stories, featuring choirs, orchestras, bands, and musical theatre.
06 June 2025
Durham Cathedral Durham DH1 3EH
Come along to one of many theatre and music performances this summer by our students.
06 June 2025 - 28 June 2025
Various locations around Durham - see individual listings for details.
Durham University Classical Theatre proudly presents Noël Coward's 'Hay Fever' - 100 years after it was first performed! Step into the eccentric world of the Bliss family where drama, romance, and absurdity collide in a weekend of hilarious misadventures.
09 June 2025 - 10 June 2025
7:30 PM - 7:30 PM
Join Durham University Orchestral Society in the beautiful Durham Cathedral for the climactic enormity of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
13 June 2025
Durham Cathedral
For one night only, the Durham Revue are joined by the Bristol Revunions and Manchester Revue to bring you a summer sketch show extravaganza!
15 June 2025
‘Let’s do the Time Warp again’ as DULOG presents the ultra-camp cult classic sci-fi satire and celebration of self-expression: The Rocky Horror Show!
19 June 2025 - 21 June 2025
7:30 AM - 11:00 PM
Join the Chapel Choirs of Durham University as they come together in Durham School Chapel for a summer evening of beautiful and uplifting choral music, raising money in support of local mental health charity RTMinds.
21 June 2025
Durham School Chapel
18 of Durham's finest musical theatre performers welcome you for an evening of them being Miscast in roles they wouldn't normally get to play.
22 June 2025
In the London Blitz of WW2, Alice’s life is turned upside down, and she and her friend Alfred are forced to shelter in a tube station bunker. When Alfred is quarantined, Alice encourages him to escape with her into their cherished book and journey down the rabbit hole to Wonderland.
26 June 2025 - 28 June 2025
Gothic classic set to the stage, taking a delve into the scariest monster of all for the Halloween season - oneself.
29 October 2025 - 31 October 2025
Blithe Spirit is Durham Student Theatre's 2025 Freshers Play, a witty farce where novelist Charles Condomine’s séance summons his mischievous first wife’s ghost, unleashing chaos as his current wife joins the haunting. Noël Coward’s classic sparkles with sharp humour and supernatural twists.
06 November 2025 - 08 November 2025
Terry Pratchett’s infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society.
11 November 2025 - 12 November 2025
7:30 PM - 11:00 PM
Returning to London after wrongful imprisonment, a barber hell-bent on revenge sets out to enact his own justice with a clean-cut shave.
18 November 2025 - 22 November 2025
Join Durham University Choral Society for their inaugural performance of the season, bringing the reverence of Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem" and the radiance of Poulenc's "Gloria" to the stage of Newcastle Cathedral alongside a 60-piece orchestra.
19 November 2025
7:45 PM - 9:15 PM
Newcastle Cathedral
Join Durham University Orchestral Society's Chamber Orchestra for the society's first concert of the year bringing a vibrant programme of Poulenc, Mendelssohn and Mozart to Durham's historic St Oswald's Church.
21 November 2025
St Oswald‘s Church
Join the Orchestral Society’s Symphony Orchestra for their first concert of the year, featuring Elgar’s Enigma Variations alongside works by Ruth Gipps, Mussorgsky, and Gershwin.
29 November 2025
The timeless classic parable of mass hysteria draws a disturbing parallel between the awful high strangeness of 1692 Salem and our own paranoid society.
03 December 2025 - 06 December 2025
Join Durham University Chamber Choir in an evening which explores the expectation and preparation for light and celebrates its glory and power in an array of exciting and reflective choral music, sung by the University's most celebrated choral ensemble.
05 December 2025
St Godric‘s Church
Join Durham University’s Big Band and Jazz Orchestra for an evening of jazz in the name of Christmas: bop to Bublé, sway to Sinatra, marvel at Mingus!
Redhills Durham Miners Hall The Miners Hall, Flass St Durham, DH1 4BE United Kingdom
Join the Palatinate Ensemble for their first concert of the year - a journey through the 20th century featuring works by Gustav Holst, Jean Absil, and more!
06 December 2025
A powerful historical drama and literary biopic that follows the sisters’ lives from their childhood through to their ultimate deaths as they navigate personal struggles and creative ambition amidst the oppressive patriarchal limitations of the 19th century.
10 December 2025 - 12 December 2025
Durham University Palatinate Orchestra’s Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of brilliant rhapsodies and legends, including Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2’, Sibelius’s ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’ and music by Rossini and Glazunov.
10 December 2025
Funny, frank and upbeat, Grease has remained one of the world’s most popular and enduring musicals since its electric Broadway and West End debut in the early 1970’s.
27 January 2026 - 31 January 2026
The forces of Durham University’s Orchestral and Choral Societies will come together to present Verdi’s mighty Requiem in Durham Cathedral this January.
30 January 2026
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