After year-on-year record-breaking success, Exeter Northcott and Le Navet Bete team up once again to bring you this fabulous modern take on a classic story. With laugh-out-loud fun, great music, stunning costumes and sets, and amazing special effects, you’ll soon be telling everyone about the unmissable family panto Cinderella.
In a plot to overthrow the kingdom, Cinderella’s Wicked Stepmother has cast eternal winter over Exeter. Advised by the mysterious Sage, the Prince throws a ball to save his Kingdom. Will Cinderella be able to break free and go to the ball with the help of...
Exeter Northcott Theatre is celebrating its one-year anniversary of re-opening the beloved city centre Barnfield Theatre this September.
Exeter Northcott took over management of the Barnfield in January 2022 with a three-step plan: protect the historic building, broaden its range of creative activities and people engaging with them, and transform the Barnfield into a vibrant cultural hub for the people of Exeter, Devon and beyond.
Exeter Northcott re-opened the Barnfield to the public in September 2022, welcoming nearly a thousand people through its doors on its first...
Exeter Northcott Theatre and Le Navet Bete announce today the full cast for their new family Christmas pantomime Robin Hood , which runs at the Northcott Theatre from 9 December 2022 until 7 January 2023.
Matthew Heywood ( Peter Pan , Octagon Theatre) takes on the role of the titular outlaw, with Samara Rawlins ( Aladdin , Trinity Arts Centre) as Marian; Al Dunn (Le Navet Bete, A Christmas Carol ) in dual roles as the dastardly Sheriff of Nottingham and King Richard; Jodie Micciché ( Alice in Wonderland , Folksy Theatre) as Morgana; Matthew Freeman (Le Navet Bete, A Christmas...
Between 17-18 June, Exeter Northcott Theatre are hosting local inclusive performance company Extraordinary Bodies’ brand-new hybrid multimedia experience Human .
‘Human’ expresses the small moments of life that shape us. The stage is set with a trapeze, circus rope and a set of drums that the performers use to convey delightful stories of their lives alongside dance, original music and film. Music and binaural sound are played to the audience through silent disco headphones. All the performances are relaxed, BSL-interpreted, captioned and audio described.
Footlights is Exeter University’s largest Musical Theatre society, now in its 32nd year. Each year, we strive to create show-stopping student productions to a professional standard. Following four consecutive sell-out shows at Exeter’s Northcott Theatre (West Side Story; Evita; The Phantom of the Opera; The Producers; Singin’ In The Rain), we are now looking forward to our 2018 Northcott production of the legendary Oklahoma!
Footlights proudly presents OKLAHOMA! - an illustrious classic propelled by love, community and integrity. One of Rogers and Hammerstein’s most beautiful but...
Year 10 pupils at Exeter School took part in an improvisation workshop delivered by professional actress and Webber Douglas graduate, Lucy Curtin, last week.
The workshop proved an ideal preparation for a day of workshops organised by the Northcott theatre taking place on Friday 24 June.
Head of Drama Jamie Brough said the pupils have looked at elements of 'clowning' as well as improvisation games and techniques this term.
"All of this work has not only helped them prepare for an exciting collaborative project with the Northcott theatre, ISCA and Dawlish schools at...
The award-winning Mark Bruce Company, whose critically acclaimed dance theatre production of Dracula performed to sellout audiences across the country in 2013 and 2014, including Exeter, bring their brand new production THE ODYSSEY to Exeter Northcott Theatre on April 11th and 12th.
THE ODYSSEY, Homer’s epic poem written over two thousand years ago, is given the Mark Bruce Company dance theatre treatment; a dramatic, rich re-telling of the ten year journey undertaken by Odysseus after the fall of Troy. During his struggle to return home the King, (Christopher Tandy) faces the wrath...
Following last year’s blockbuster production of Les Miserables at the Northcott Theatre, Stage by Stage, Exeter’s own theatre arts school, returns with the show voted the world’s most popular musical!
With a cast of over 70 students, aged 11 to 20, from across the city, this promises to be not only a theatrical spectacular, but also a triumphant celebration of Exeter’s performing arts talent! With a former Devon schoolboy having just won a Tony Award on Broadway, what could be more inspiring to this generation?
The student production of Evita at the Exeter Northcott Theatre is coming this January 29th-31st! This captivating story follows the rise and fall of a nation’s hero. It is based on the life of Argentine actress and political leader Eva Perón, who rose from nothing to become one of the most famous political figures in the country’s history. We caught up with Daniela Goldaracena Parkes, who plays the lead role in Evita, Eva Peron.
What made you want to audition for Footlights’ Evita?
I think the story of Eva Peron is just such an interesting one. She’s such an ambiguous...
There aren't many reasons to look forward to the end of summer, but Exeter Northcott Theatre are giving the people of Exeter a reason to look forward to the cooler Autumn months.
Booking is now open for three of the theatre's autumn dramas, meaning many may now be wishing for the sun to stay away so Autumn can begin.
The first fantastic drama on offer is Michael Morpurgo's ' An Elephant in the Garden'. Co produced by Exeter Northcott Theatre and Poonamallee Productions, the performance tells the story of Lizzie, her mother and an elephant from the zoo as they flee the...
