We’re pleased to share details for our final show of the 2025/26 season, directed by Emma Merchant. Written by Oscar Wilde in 1895, An Ideal Husband bubbles with romance, fashion, and society gossip. But underneath the froth lies a deeper story of political corruption, blackmail, and the dangers of holding people to impossible standards. Wilde’s heartfelt answer to all of these is love and forgiveness. It’s sad, then, and strangely ironic, that An Ideal Husband was to be Wilde’s last successful play before he himself was arrested, prosecuted and imprisoned in Reading G

The first production of 2026 for Wokingham Theatre is Abi Morgan’s Lovesong, a beautiful, modern drama about one couple’s 40 year marriage, told by both their younger and older selves. The play was originally staged by renowned UK physical theatre company, Frantic Assembly, and now is being brought to life on the WT stage by Director Sophie Pierce. We sat down with her to hear what audiences can expect from the first play of the new year. First of all, without giving too much away, what is the play about? Well, put simply, the play is about life and love. It is about one couple’s marriage, in

We are very pleased to share audition details for Romantic Comedy, by Bernard Slade, coming to Wokingham Theatre next June. This charming, witty play is about the complex relationship between two Broadway collaborators whose professional partnership evolves into something deeper over the course of nine years. The story begins on Jason Carmichael’s wedding day, when he meets Phoebe Craddock, a mousy Vermont schoolteacher who becomes his new writing partner. Despite Jason’s marriage to society belle Allison St. James, he and Phoebe develop an immediate creative chemistry that produces a string o

Steven Moffat is one of the great names in British contemporary writing, famous for his work on the BBC’s Doctor Who and Sherlock, among other things. So when you see his name as the playwright for Wokingham Theatre’s Christmas show, you know it’s going to be good. We sat down with ‘The Unfriend’ Director Fiona Rogers to hear how rehearsals have been going, once they’ve managed to stop laughing…  First things first, without giving too much of the plot away, what is The Unfriend about? In essence, the play is described as a comedy of manners. It explores British politeness and the extremes

Edward Albee’s masterpiece ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ is coming to Wokingham Theatre next April. This award-winning 20th Century drama was made even more iconic due to the 1966 film adaptation starring Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, which won five Academy Awards. We’re pleased to share audition details below on how to get involved in this modern classic, directed by Sophie Earle. The story Set on a college campus in New England, the play closely centres around a married couple, George and Martha, who have a dark, intense and loving marriage. The play is set in ju

Terence Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy opens at Wokingham Theatre in October, based on the true story of a famous Edwardian court case involving a 13-year-old boy wrongfully accused of theft.  We sat down with Director Jenny Brown to hear how she has found her first production at WT, why she believes in living and breathing every project she takes on, and what she sees as the universal themes contained within this beloved play. Without giving away the whole plot, tell us about The Winslow Boy. The Winslow Boy is about a middle-class family with a son at military college, who has been accused

Our 2025/26 season opens with the psychological thriller ‘Dead Guilty’ by Richard Harris. We sat down with director Chris Westgate to hear what audiences can expect from this production that is sure to open our new season with a bang… Without giving too much away, what is ‘Dead Guilty’ about? It’s a modern psychological thriller. Well, I say modern, it’s now 30 years old, but when it was written it was an incredibly contemporary, modern piece. But I’ve had to set it very much in 1994, because if you set it in the present day, you would have to introduce a mobile phone, and that would mean ther

We are very pleased to share the full cast for our Christmas Show, Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend. “Thanks to all who auditioned,” says director Fiona Rogers. “There was a lot of interest and we sincerely hope that those who were not cast this time will audition for some of the other fantastic plays in our forthcoming season.” The cast is as follows: PeterAdrian McDougallDebbiePenny DixonElsaRachel PearsonNeighbourDavid RileyPC JunkinPaul IttaAlexJack MitchellRosieAnnabel Brittain Fiona Rogers • Directorpinkfrogers74@gmail.com Sue De Quidt • Production Manager

We are very pleased to share the full cast for Wokingham Youth Theatre’s production of Frankenstein. An eighteen-year-old girl, Mary Shelley, dreams up a monster whose tragic story will capture the imaginations of generations to come. A young scientist by the name of Frankenstein breathes life into a gruesome body. Banished into an indifferent world, Frankenstein’s creature desperately seeks out his true identity, but the agony of rejection and a broken promise push him into darkness. Rona Munro’s brilliant adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Gothic masterpiece places the writer herself amongst

We are pleased to share audition details for our March 2026 show, Laura Wade’s hilarious and modern comedy, The Watsons. We’ve sat down with director Hedda Bird to hear what’s in store. The story Laura Wade’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel sparkles with Austen’s wit and humour. Every scene you would expect from a Jane Austen novel is here, but not in quite the way you might expect it. This is about what happens when the writer loses the plot and the characters resent discovering they are not real, but there must still be proposals, rejections, declarations of love and even a ball