Terry Pratchett’s infamous city of Ankh-Morpork is under threat from a 60-foot fire-breathing dragon, summoned by a secret society.

Defending Ankh-Morpork against this threat is the entire underpaid, undervalued City Night Watch – a drunken and world-weary Captain, a cowardly and overweight Sergeant, a small opportunistic Corporal of dubious parentage… and their newest recruit, Lance Constable Carrot, who is upright, literal, and keen. Aiding them in their fight for truth, justice and the Ankh-Morporkian way are a small swamp dragon and the Librarian of Unseen University (who just happens to be an orangutan).

£10 Standard

£9 Concession

£7 Performing Arts Members

This production will take place in the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

The production will run for up to three hours with an interval. Further information on timings will be clarified closer to the time.

Doors will open 30 minutes before the performance is due to begin.

Durham Opera Ensemble and Durham University Palatinate Orchestra present a showcase concert including overtures, arias, duets and choruses from your favourite operas in the magical Great Hall of Durham Castle!

'Singers from the award-winning Durham Opera Ensemble accompanied by Durham University Palatinate Orchestra’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anthony Sutch, invite you to a night at the opera in Durham Castle’s spectacular Great Hall.

The music includes a dazzling array of arias, duets and quartets from world-renowned operas composed by the likes of Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, Bizet and others. The cast also come together to sing some of the great choruses from the operatic repertory. Opening each half of the concert, the Palatinate Orchestra play Rossini’s ‘Barber of Seville Overture’ and ‘March of the Toreadors’ from Carmen.

£12 Standard

£10 Concession

£7 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place in Castle Great Hall, Durham Castle, DH1 3RW.

The event will last 105 minutes with a short interval, and doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

Returning to London after wrongful imprisonment, a barber hell-bent on revenge sets out to enact his own justice with a clean-cut shave.

DULOG presents the legendary tale of ‘Sweeney Todd’, a grippingly gothic Sondheim musical that’ll tip you to the edge of your seat. Upon returning to London fifteen years after his wrongful exile, the reinvented Sweeney Todd takes up his old barber shop above Mrs Lovett’s pie shop. Faced with revelations of his past, the two work together to add a deadly secret ingredient to her pies.

This amateur production is presented by arrangement with Music Theatre International. All authorised performance materials are also supplied by MTI www.mtishows.co.uk.

Content Warnings: Sexual violence, murder, cannibalism.

£10 Standard

£9 Concession

£8 Performing Arts Members

This even takes place at the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

This event will begin at 7.30pm and last approximately 165 minutes. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Join Durham University Choral Society for their inaugural performance of the season, bringing the reverence of Vaughan Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem" and the radiance of Poulenc's "Gloria" to the stage of Newcastle Cathedral alongside a 60-piece orchestra.

'Durham University Choral Society, described as possessing "a warm and finely balanced" sound (The Guardian, 2024), join forces with the players of Durham University's leading Orchestras to bring a vibrant programme of choral and symphonic music to Newcastle Cathedral.

Conducted by Tim Burke (Chorus Director for Royal Northern Sinfonia Chorus and Musical Director of Tête à Tête Opera), our evening of music begins with the rousing "Gloria" by Francis Poulenc, a radiant work by the French 20th century composer that spreads joyous praise with a modern twist.  Our second half takes the audience on an extended journey influenced by the First World War from Vaughan Williams' perspective, with a choral-symphonic work entitled "Dona Nobis Pacem" (give us peace).  With introspective slower movements and the haunting fanfares of "Beat! Beat! Drums" Williams brings these tragic memories to life and depicts the light of peace emerging through the darkness.

With an evening of joyous, emotionally resonant music in the beautiful surroundings of Newcastle Cathedral, this event is not one to miss.

£17 Standard

£14 Concession

£12 Durham University Students and Staff

£10 Performing Arts Members

This concert takes place at Newcastle Cathedral, St. Nicholas Sq, Newcastle upon Tyne NE1 1PF.

The concert will begin at 7.45pm and last until approximately 9.15pm. Doors will open 45 minutes before the start time.

Join Durham University Orchestral Society's Chamber Orchestra for the society's first concert of the year bringing a vibrant programme of Poulenc, Mendelssohn and Mozart to Durham's historic St Oswald's Church.

Join conductor Zac Smith and the Durham University Orchestral Society Chamber Orchestra for an evening of vibrant music spanning three centuries of European tradition. From Mozart’s dazzling Magic Flute Overture to Mendelssohn’s enchanting Midsummer Night’s Dream - including the iconic Wedding March - this programme celebrates some of the most beloved music ever written for the stage. Finalist Madeleine Jablonowska takes centre stage in Mozart’s radiant Clarinet Concerto, and the concert culminates with Poulenc’s witty Sinfonietta, brimming with sparkling neoclassical brilliance.

£14 Standard

£10 Concession

£8 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place at St Oswald's Church, Church St, Durham DH1 3DQ.

The event will begin at 7.30pm and run for 90 minutes with a short interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, Wilde’s most beloved work follows a cast of ridiculous characters as they navigate love and well-meant deceit in Victorian society.

Jack Worthing, hoping to fulfil his dreams of marriage to the poised Gwendolen Fairfax, adopts the identity of his imaginary younger brother named Ernest. Algernon Montcrieff, intrigued by Jack’s whimsical ward Cecily, assumes the same identity, hoping to charm her. Chaos ensues when both women reveal they have their hearts set on marrying someone with the name “Ernest”, and to their dismay, neither man is being particularly earnest.

The Importance of Being Earnest’ is hilarious and engaging, offering a satirical snapshot of upper-class Victorian society.  Wilde’s most generationally beloved play, this razor-sharp comedy of manners is studied and celebrated for its secret identities, heightened characters, and legendary lines.

£10 Standard

£9 Concession

£7 Performing Arts Members

This production will take place in the Sir Thomas Allen Assembly Rooms Theatre, 40 North Bailey, Durham, DH1 3ET.

The performance will begin at 7.30pm and run for approximately two and a half hours with a short interval.

Doors will open 30 minutes before the performance is due to begin.

A farm’s dream of freedom unravels into tyranny in Orwell’s timeless allegory of power, corruption, and control.

The Collingwood Woodplayers proudly present George Orwell’s Animal Farm, a gripping theatrical adaptation of one of literature’s most powerful allegories. When the animals of Manor Farm rise up against their human master, they dream of freedom, equality, and a better life. But as their vision takes shape, cracks soon appear, and the dream descends into something far darker. Full of passion, tension, and biting satire, this production explores how revolutions can be corrupted from within. Animal Farm remains as urgent and relevant today as ever—a timeless story of power, control, and the human condition.

£8 Standard

£7 Concession

£6.50 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place at the Collingwood Arts Centre, Collingwood College, South Road, DH1 3LT.

The event will begin at 7.30pm (2.30pm matinee) and lasts approximately 2 hours. Doors will open 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Shaw’s sharp comedy of class, identity, and transformation - where a cockney flower girl is taught to pass as a 'proper' lady, with unexpected consequences.

Bailey Theatre Company presents George Bernard Shaw’s witty classic Pygmalion. When Professor Higgins wagers he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower seller, into a woman fit for high society, the experiment sparks comedy, conflict, and unexpected change. A biting satire on class and identity, this timeless play mixes humour with social critique, still resonant today.

£6 Standard

£5.50 Concession

£4.50 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place at Leech Hall, St John's College, 3 South Bailey, Durham, DH1 3RJ

This event begins at 7.30pm and lasts until approximately 10pm with a short interval.

Join the Orchestral Society’s Symphony Orchestra for their first concert of the year, featuring Elgar’s Enigma Variations alongside works by Ruth Gipps, Mussorgsky, and Gershwin.

Durham University Orchestral Society’s Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Michael Kohn, opens one of its most ambitious years yet at Elvet Methodist Church with Mussorgsky’s Night on Bald Mountain, depicting a night of pagan festival with fire and spirits. The programme continues with former Durham University alumna Ruth Gipps’ Knight in Armour and Gershwin’s vibrant Cuban Overture. The evening will conclude with one of British composer Edward Elgar’s most famous works, the Enigma Variations, with each variation portraying one of Elgar’s closest friends.

£14 Standard

£12 Concession

£10 Performing Arts Members

This event will take place at Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham DH1 3HL.

The concert begins at 7.30pm and will last approximately 75 minutes with a short interval.