Durham Jazz Festival 2026 takes place from Friday 23rd to Sunday 25th October, filling venues across Durham with melody, rhythm and improvisation. Across three days, the festival celebrates the music and performance of North East and national jazz artists, bringing together established names and the next generation talent shaping the scene.

Borogravia's at war. To help her country, Polly disguises herself as a man and joins the army. She soon learns that not everything is as it seems.

A weekend party soon turns fatal when a body is found, covered in blood next to a smoking gun. To solve the case, a web of romantic obsession and deadly family secrets must be untangled...

Once upon a time… but never quite as expected. Venture ‘Into the Woods' this November in Stephen Sondheim’s critically acclaimed musical production, where familiar fairytales collide with unexpected consequences.

Secret feminist plots, an eccentric crew, and a dead body collide in ‘The Suffragette’s Murder.’ This hilarious 1857 farce brilliantly mixes screwball comedy with the fight for human rights.

A raw, explosive and unforgettable sung-through rock musical about love, loss and mental illness. As one family fights to hold itself together, how far will they go to find hope?

In late-nineteenth-century Norway, Nora and Torvald Helmer prepare for Christmas when they receive an unexpected visit from an old colleague who threatens to unveil Nora's deepest, darkest secret.

Murderer. Traitor. Villain. History has not been kind to Richard III, yet is such a reputation justified? Castle Theatre Company’s retelling invites the audience to answer that for themselves.

On a Mississippi plantation, a family gathers for Big Daddy’s birthday, but beneath the celebrations, unresolved tensions, secrets, desires and expectations threaten to tear them apart.