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2024 Season

Our Country’s Good

05 Sep - 05 Oct

In this brand new production, Timberlake Wertenbaker revisits her seminal play examining power and justice in the British justice system.

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2024 Season

A Raisin in the Sun

08 Oct - 02 Nov 2024

Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” broke barriers as the first play by a Black woman on Broadway. This classic family drama full of humour and heart, remains relevant and powerful in a world still divided by inequality.

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Panto 2024

Aladdin

16 Nov 2024 - 05 Jan 2025

Your wishes have been granted, for Aladdin is the Lyric’s 2024 panto!

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Little Lyric

Our work for little ones, aged 2-11. Includes Saturday morning and half term shows.

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The Museum of Marvellous Things

05 Oct 2024

Welcome to The Museum of Marvellous Things, where the impossible can happen!

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The Ugly Duckling

12 Oct 2024

Feeling different, teased by his friends and not accepted by his family, the Ugly Duckling is sad and lonely.

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A Global Vision of Black Freedom: a Q&A with Joi Gresham and Nicholai La Barrie

Saturday 12 October, 5.45pm

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The Great Big Dinosaur Show

19 Oct 2024

Which dinosaur had teeth as big as a banana?

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For The Newcomers

24 Oct, 6pm

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Bougie Lanre’s Boulangerie

24 Oct, 8.30pm

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For The Network: KiD iN YOU

24 Oct, 5.30pm

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For the Culture: Celebrations of Blackness

24 - 26 Oct

A festival honouring Blackness through art, performance, conversation, love, and joy

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For The Cabaret

25 Oct, 8pm

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For The Conversation: Tyrell Williams

25 Oct, 4pm

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For The Conversation: Audacious Creation with Nathan Bryon, Adjani Salmon and Candice Carty-Williams

25 Oct, 2pm

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ACTing UP

25 Oct, 6pm

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For the Comedy

26 Oct, 6pm

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For the Music: Natalie Lindi, Ashaine White & Gabrielle Sey

26 Oct, 8.30pm

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For the Conversation: Tinuke Craig and Dr Peggy Brunache

26 Oct, 11am

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For The Voice: Hazel Holder

26 Oct, 5pm & 7pm

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For The Screen: Nathan Bryon

26 Oct, 5pm & 7pm

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For The Body: Ingrid Mackinnon

26 Oct, 5pm & 7pm

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For the Musical Theatre: Musical Directors/Composers with Liam Godwin

26 Oct, 5pm & 7pm

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Windrush Adventures

26 Oct, 11am and 1pm

Sing and dance along with Dawn, from Jamaica to  England, in this interactive show for ages 4+.

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Groove Onto the Moon

29 Oct - 02 Nov 2024

Strap in and prepare to blast off on a cosmic adventure like no other as you venture into the thrilling music experience of Groove Onto the Moon!

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Christmas 2024

Raymond Briggs’ Father Christmas

20 Nov - 28 Dec 2024

Join Santa as he awakes from a dream of sun, sea and sand only to find it is the busiest day of the year: Christmas Eve.

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Live at the Lyric – Christmas Comedy Night

02 Dec, 7:30 - 10pm

Join us at Live at the Lyric for an evening of rib-tickling comedy from a selection of the UK's best comedy performers. Previous line ups have included Kerry Godliman, Shaparak Khorsandi, Ivo Graham and Darren Harriott. Full line up to be announced soon.

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A Merry Lyric Christmas

09 Dec, 7:30 - 10pm

Join us for an evening of festive fun and fundraising hosted by Gyles Brandreth & his Christmas Jumpers.

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Joe Stilgoe’s Christmas at the Lyric

16 Dec, 7.30pm

Joe is back at the Lyric for Christmas 2024!

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2025 Season

Play On!

28 Jan 2025 - 22 Feb 2025

Set in the jazz scene of New York’s Cotton Club, this stylish retelling of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night fuses the thrilling music of Duke Ellington with street dance choreography.

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2025 Season

Macbeth

28 Feb - 29 Mar 2025

A struggling and divided nation, tearing itself apart. So, when the Macbeths see their chance at the crown, why shouldn't they take it?

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