Calling all Steampunk aficionados!  Come along to the Apollo Theatre, dress up ‘steampunk’ and have a jolly time!

There will be a film, Hugo, for the kids in the afternoon and in the evening a ‘steampunky’ film, The Prestige, for the adults (film starts at 7.30; tickets £5 (members) or £10 (non-members)).

Steampunk fashion is a fascinating movement that draws inspiration from the past to create something new and different. It’s a bold artistic expression that allows for creating original and captivating outfits. Whether you are drawn to the extravagant clothing, ingenious accessories or simply the imaginative and creative atmosphere of this movement, stand out from the crowd and dive into a world of creativity, style and adventure with the Steampunk ‘look’.

For tickets for Hugo, copy this link into your browser: https://www.ticketsource.com/apollotheatre/t-plmjxzq; for Prestige, follow the ticket button below.

Gift vouchers are priced at £12 each, which is our normal ticket price for adults. They can only be purchased singly, so if you need 2 or more you may need to repeat the purchase – it’s a quirk of the Ticketsource system, sorry.

Ignore the date given. That is for internal use only as our vouchers do not have a ‘use by’ date.

Vouchers can be exchanged for a performance in one of 3 ways:
1) email boxoffice@apollo-theatre.org.uk giving your name and preferred performance;
2) turn up in person at our box office which is usually open every Saturday 10.30 to 12.30 and 45 minutes before each performance;
3) call 01983 210010 and leave your requirements, including your email. Someone will confirm your booking for you.

In all instances please quote your voucher reference.
Vouchers are only valid for Apollo Theatre productions.  They are not valid for visiting performers.
Vouchers are valid indefinitely and have no ‘use by’ date.

Lovesong is a tender and quietly powerful play by Abi Morgan that traces a marriage across decades, revealing how love evolves, deepens and endures over time. Moving fluidly between youth and later years, the play places two versions of a couple side by side, allowing past and present to unfold simultaneously on stage.

Please note that the Saturday 5th performance is an invitation only event.

Step into the heart of the jungle in this exciting production of The Jungle Book. The award-winning Apollo Youth Theatre brings you a brand new, raw, high-energy adaptation that incorporates the rich language of Kipling’s classic tale and features several original songs. 

Join Mowgli as he learns the ancient Laws of the Jungle, encounters the wise Baloo, the watchful Bagheera, the magnificent Kaa and the fearsome Shere Khan, on a journey of belonging, courage and identity.The Jungle Book offers an engaging theatrical experience for audiences of all ages. 

So join us as we head deep into the wild, where every creature has a story, every law has a purpose, and every path leads to adventure.

This production takes place in the evenings at 7.30pm on 23-24 October and 27-31 October, plus matinee performances at 2.30pm on 24, 28, 31 October and a special show on Sunday 1 November.

After a very positive reacton to our 2025 shows, the team are back, with their extravaganza Musical Magic: Stage and Screen.  Featuring nostalgic old favourites, modern classics and toe-tapping numbers from, among others, Grease, Chicago, The Greatest Showman, The Lion King, 42nd Street and The Sound of Music, there is sure to be something for everyone.  All the numbers are fully staged and costumed, offering dance, dialogue and an explosion of colour.  And in response to audience requests, there will be a couple of songs you are enthusiastically encouraged to sing along to!  So come and join us for an evening of melody, laughter, emotion, variety and boundless enthusiasm from a company of twenty talented individuals.

The performances on 7 November will be at 2.30pm and 7.30pm.

A full-length comedy play by Jack Sharkey which is a lighthearted send-up of classic horror stories and monster movies.  This comedic spoof is set in the Carpathian mountains in turn-of-the-century Transylvania, where a mad scientist and his evil assistant try to make the perfect creature in his gloomy castle complete with secret laboratory, scary cellar and disappearing villagers.  Not to be missed – or taken too seriously!

John Steinbeck’s classic, iconic and powerful 1937 drama.  The story follows George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant ranch workers, as they move from place to place in California, searching for jobs during the Great Depression.  Labourers in California’s dusty vegetable fields, they hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence.  For George and Lennie have a plan: to own an acre of land and a shack they can call their own.  When they land jobs on a ranch in the Salinas Valley, the fulfilment of their dream seems to be within their grasp.  But even George cannot guard Lennie from the provocations of a flirtatious woman, nor predict the consequences of Lennie’s unswerving obedience to the things George taught him.

The use of ‘mice’ in this context is taken from Robert Burns’ famous poem ‘To a Mouse’, in which he refers to a mouse whose nest was accidentally destroyed during ploughing.  The mouse was therefore a victim of accident and fate. A mouse of course is small and fragile and easily affected by nature (or a lumbering Scotsman). The famous line from the poem, ‘The best-laid plans of mice and men/gang oft agley’, equates the fate of men to the fate of something fragile and easily trampled, as happens in the play.

It is 1896, and Girton College, Cambridge, home to the country’s first female students, is an object of annoyance and derision to the rest of the university. The year’s intake of new women face economic difficulty, the distractions of men and radical politics, and the jaw-dropping prejudice that blights every aspect of academic life.  Meanwhile, there looms the prospect of a controversial vote to decide: should these ‘blue-stockings’ be allowed to graduate?

Developed by the National Theatre Studio and receiving its world premiere at Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, this glorious play is a moving, comical and eye-opening story of four young women fighting for education and self-determination against the larger backdrop of women’s suffrage.  This published text of Blue Stockings explicitly honours Malala Yousafzai and “all those who dedicate their lives to our education”.

This dramatisation of George Orwell’s terrifyingly prescient novel is book-ended by a discussion, taking place some time after 2050, about the meaning and authenticity of the text. Is Winston Smith’s account of the Party and its attempt to control our thought-processes the work of an unreliable narrator? Or is it an historical record of life in 1984 before the downfall of the Party and its desire for domination?  The framing device assumes change is possible, and that we ourselves have to take responsibility for resisting the erosion of individual liberty.