Our Artistic Director Thomas Atkinson-Joy has revealed what plays are in store for the 2026/27 Season at Wokingham Theatre, which runs from September 2026 to July 2027. Announcing my first season as Artistic Director of Wokingham Theatre is a hugely exciting and humbling moment for me, and I am beyond excited to finally be able to share it. We read over 80 plays in the process of putting this programme together, and what has emerged is something I believe is genuinely bold, genuinely ambitious, and genuinely thrilling. At the heart of the season is a desire to bring together the very best of t

It may only be the middle of June, but we’re so excited to share audition details for our Christmas show, the incomparable One Man, Two Guvnors. This fast-paced, farcical comedy is based on Carlo Goldoni’s 1743 commedia dell’arte play The Servant of Two Masters and is perhaps best known for the National Theatre’s hughly-successful run starring James Corden. Set in 1960s Brighton, it mixes slapstick humour, mistaken identities, and quick-fire dialogue with a huge amount of ‘fourth-wall’ breaking and audience interaction. Definitely one for actors who like their action fast and fren

We are pleased to share the audition notice for the first of our new Studio Night productions. Death And The Maiden by Ariel Dorfman won the Olivier award for best new play in 1992 and is a fiercely intelligent, claustrophobic, and morally complex thriller. The story Set in an unspecified country that has recently transitioned from a dictatorship to a democratic government. The play depicts the conflict between a former political prisoner, her husband, and a doctor who may, or may not, have committed horrific crimes under the former regime. It questions how societies move forward after periods

We’re excited to announce that our ‘season extras’ are returning for our 2026/27 season, this timer under a new banner: Studio Nights. WT are thrilled to present these one-week only productions, presented in a black-box set on our main stage. Each performance will begin at 8:30pm, with time to enjoy a drink in our bar beforehand – there’ll be music to enjoy, plus specialty cocktails, and tickets are only £12! In November, we present Ariel Dorfman’s legendary Death and the Maiden, and in April 2027, Nick Payne’s Olivier Award-winning Constellations. We&

Bernard Slade’s Romantic Comedy opens at Wokingham Theatre in a few weeks. We’ve sat down with director Mel Hampshire to hear what audiences can expect from the penultimate show of the 2025/26 season at Wokingham Theatre First of all, without giving too much away, tell us what Romantic Comedy is about? It starts off in 1965 in a New York townhouse, the home of acclaimed playwright Jason Carmichael. He has recently fallen out with his writing partner and is about to get married, when Phoebe Craddock enters his life and there is an instant attraction between them.  Despite the c

We are delighted to share audition details for our October show, The Welkin, by Lucy Kirkwoord. The Story Rural Suffolk, 1759. Sally Poppy has been sentenced to hang for a brutal murder, but at the eleventh hour, she claims to be pregnant. The court is forced to pause her execution and summon a jury of 12 local, ordinary women to decide her fate. With a restless crowd gathering outside, the matrons must navigate conflicting testimonies, personal prejudices, and the weight of a system that was never designed for them to question. As tensions rise, alliances shift and suspicions grow… because

We are pleased to announce the audition notice for Hansard by Simon Woods, coming to Wokingham Theatre in September 2026. A sharp, witty and quietly devastating story over a single summer afternoon in 1988, when the Tory government were making swingeing changes to the fabric of British society, including the passing of Section 28. A marriage is at breaking point, where words are weapons, but silence can be just as destructive. Hansard premiered at the National Theatre in 2019. It explores how politics affects personal lives through the marriage of Robin, a Tory MP and Diana, his heavy drinki

Edward Albee’s modern classic, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is coming to Wokingham Theatre for the first time this Spring.  Set in one night, in one living room, in the 1960s, the play tells the story of a college professor George, and his wife, Martha, who have just returned home drunk from a party. They are joined for a nightcap by newlyweds Nick and Honey; he, the opportunistic new college professor and she, his seemingly naive new bride.  Drinks flow. Inhibitions melt. And secrets are revealed. We’ve sat down with director Sophie Earle-Thorpe to hear what audiences have in sto

As the final preparations are underway for our March production, we sit down with Director Hedda Bird to hear what we can expect from Laura Wade’s comedy, based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel The Watsons. First of all, without giving too much away, tell us what The Watsons is about? It starts clearly as an adaptation of Jane Austen’s unfinished novel – The Watsons. The play explores the same themes that Austen continually examined – the imperative to marry for love as well as financial security, and young women’s desire to be seen and heard, within the context of the period.&nbs

Wokingham Youth Theatre’s modern retelling of Mary Shelley’s classic gothic horror Frankenstein comes to Wokingham Theatre on Thursday 19 February. Ahead of this play coming to life on our stage, we sat down with Director Indigo Hogg to hear what audiences have in store. Frankenstein has always been a story about creation, ownership, belonging, and consequence. In Rona Munro’s bold feminist adaptation of this gothic classic, these questions are reframed through the woman who first imagined the monster. By placing Mary Shelley at the centre of the action, this version questions not