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

As the 2025/26 season comes to a close, we’ve sat down with outgoing Artistic Director Jerry Radburn to reflect on the last 12 months at Wokingham Theatre. My time as AD has drawn to a close and now is the time to reflect. It has been hugely successful both artistically and financially. Most productions sold over 90% and feedback from the audience haas been overwhelmingly glowing. Not everyone will engage with each play but I hope the balance of this season provided an enjoyable and satisfying experience. Before I start a whistle stop tour of the plays I would like to thank Janice, Hedda

Till The Stars Come Down, by Beth Steel It’s Syliva and Marek’s wedding. Over the course of a hot summer’s day, a family gathers to welcome a newcomer into their midst. But as the vodka flows and the guests hit the dance floor, passions boil over and the limits of love are tested. Set in Mansfield, Nottinghamshire in 2023, Beth Steel’s heartbreaking and hilarious portrayal of a larger than life family struggling to come to terms with a changing world, opened at the National Theatre in January 2024, and was nominated that year for an Olivier Award for Best New Play. Aunty Carol (F) 60sMarried t

The Swell by Isley Lynn is a fabulous story about what we are willing to do for the ones we love. The story Annie and Bel are building a life together. Wedding plans are underway, the future feels certain, if not entirely uncomplicated. Then Flo walks back into their lives. Annie’s oldest friend, restless, magnetic, and impossible to pin down, Flo brings with her a history that neither woman can ignore. As she settles in, old dynamics resurface and new desires begin to take shape, drawing the three women into a charged and increasingly fragile triangle. But this is only part of the story. Movi

Politicians’ corrupt pasts coming back to haunt them. Blackmailing secrets among the rich and elite of London’s high society. Societal demand for public perfection at all costs. No, this isn’t the latest scandal from Downing Street.  It is the plot of Oscar Wilde’s razor sharp comedy of manners, An Ideal Husband, which opens to a sold out audience at Wokingham Theatre next week. “What a wonderfully complex play An Ideal Husband is,” says the play’s director, Emma Merchant. “I don’t think I had realised what a huge production this would be when I took on the project. At first sight i

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