The timeless classic parable of mass hysteria draws a disturbing parallel between the awful high strangeness of 1692 Salem and our own paranoid society.

When a group of girls are caught dancing in the woods, they begin accusing others in the town of witchcraft to avoid punishment. When these accusations spiral out of control, paranoia abounds.

Everyone must choose between integrity and their own survival.

£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.

St Cuthbert's society's Pantomime returns with the Wizard of Duz!

Follow Dorothy, swept away from her home at parson's field with her dog Toto. She finds herself on the bailey where she'll have to enlist the help of a Lion, a Tinman, and a Scarecrow to help her find her way home. Will, she be able to find her way home from the bailey cobbles, or will she be squandered by the wicked witch of the west?

£5 Standard

£4 Concession

£3.50 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place at St Cuthbert's Society Dining Hall, 12 South Bailey, Durham DH1 3EE.

The event will begin at 8.30pm and last approximately 120 minutes with a short interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the show starts.

Join the Palatinate Ensemble for their first concert of the year - a journey through the 20th century featuring works by Gustav Holst, Jean Absil, and more!

Durham University Palatinate Orchestra’s Palatinate Ensemble warmly invites you to their season-opening concert, ‘Voices of the New Era’, for an evening of vibrant and inspiring music making. Led by conductor Timothy Tsang, the 20-piece chamber orchestra will explore the sound world of the 20th century, performing ‘Petite Suite’ by Belgian composer Jean Absil and ‘St Paul’s Suite’ by English composer Gustav Holst. The concert will also feature performances by smaller ensembles.

£10 Standard

£8 Concession

£6 Performing Arts Members

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

This event will begin at 7.30pm and last for approximately 75 minutes. Doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

In Oswald's Players annual pantomime, Robin Hood does battle with the evil Sheriff to deliver justice for the people of Nottingham. Packed with laughs and original songs.

In the newest installment of Oswald's Player's annual student-written pantomime, Robin Hood roams Sherwood Forest to steal from the rich and redistribute the wealth to the poor. He is hunted every step of his noble quest by the evil sheriff of Nottingham, who will do anything to stop him. With original songs, hilarious new characters, and magical romance, this revisited tale is not one to miss!

£6.50 Standard

£6 Concession

£5.50 Performing Arts Members

£5.50 South College JCR Members

This performance is taking place at the Mount Oswald Hub, The Drive, Durham, DH1 3FP.

The performances begin at 7pm and run for approximately 2 hours with a short interval.

Rewind will see an unsuspecting person transported across the eras, meeting all kinds of characters on their journey back to their own time period - this production features lots of well-loved musical theatre songs wound together into a brand new jukebox musical showcase.

Guided by a charismatic performer who becomes unstuck in time during an audition for Back to the Future: The Musical, each number transports us to a different era with showstopping numbers from the likes of Back to the Future: The Musical, Hercules , Prince of, Six, Hamilton and Les Miserables. Blending together a multitude of different styles. With its mix of genres and creative charm, the show offers something for every generation of theatre lovers.

£10 Standard

£9 Concession

£7Performing 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 90 minutes 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.

Hill Orchestra invites you to join us at Elvet Methodist Church, on Sunday the 7th December, for our Michaelmas concert, 'Tis the Seasons, for an evening of classical  Christmas-themed music.

Join The Hill Orchestra for a heart-warming evening of orchestral music. Featuring Hely-Hutchinson's 'A Carol Symphony' (Movt. 1 and 2), Delius's 'Sleigh Ride', Tchaikovsky's 'The Seasons' (Sep-Feb), Anderson's 'Sleigh Ride', and a collection of small ensembles, this is an evening guaranteed to get you into the Christmas spirit!

£8 Standard

£7 Concession

£6 Performing Arts Members

This concert is taking place at Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL.

The concert will last approximately 90 minutes with a short interval.

The Durham University Classical Ensemble performs Mendelssohn’s thrilling Oratorio, Elijah. With a full chorus and both professional and student soloists, DUCE tells the story of Elijah’s life.

This incredible work, premiered in Birmingham in 1846, combines the grandeur of Bach and Handel’s Baroque Oratorios with the emotional and expressive qualities of the early-romantic era. It is an excellent display of Mendelssohn’s idiosyncratic blend of counterpoint and romantic lyricism.

The piece recounts episodes of the Old Testament Prophet’s life, including the resurrection of a dead child, the contest of the Gods, Baal and Jehovah, his persecution by Queen Jezebel and his ascension to heaven. It promises to be a fantastic evening and we look forward to seeing you there.

£8 Standard

£6 Concession

£5 Performing Arts Members

This event is taking place at Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL.

This event will begin at 7pm, and last until approximately 9.15pm. Doors will open 30 minutes before the show starts.

Volunteers Tristan and Connie bond during a depression drug trial. As researchers track their dopamine, the pair wonder if their growing connection is genuine affection or merely chemically induced feelings.

Fourth Wall presents Lucy Prebble’s 'The Effect', a sharp, moving drama set in an antidepressant drug trial. Tristan, charming and impulsive, meets Connie, analytical and cautious, and their unexpected attraction intensifies as the medication boosts their dopamine. They question whether their feelings are real or chemically driven. Overseeing them are Dr. James, compassionate yet struggling with her own depression, and Toby, ambitious and convinced of neuroscience’s power.

As professional boundaries blur, the play probes love, mental health, and scientific ethics. Dancing between humor and tension, ‘The Effect’ invites audiences to consider how human connection is shaped by biology and belief.

£6.50 Standard

£6 Concession

£5.50 Performing Arts Members

This event takes place at the Head of Steam, 3 North Road, Durham, DH1 4RZ.

The event begins at 7.30pm, and lasts until approximately 10pm. Doors open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

A powerful historical drama and literary biopic that  follows the sisters’ lives from their childhood through to their ultimate deaths as they navigate personal struggles and creative ambition amidst the oppressive patriarchal limitations of the 19th century.

Set in their isolated home on the Yorkshire moors, the play begins with the return of their brother Branwell, dismissed from his job and spiralling into addiction. As the sisters are left to care for their father and keep the household together through grief and hardship, they turn to writing as an escape, the result of which would become the infamous novels that came to define them and the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur as their characters begin to come to life and haunt their creators.

£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.

Two best friends, lyricist Hunter and composer Jeff, try to write a hit musical for the New York Musical Theatre Festival. The problem is that they have just three weeks.

Three weeks away from the deadline for a Musical Theatre festival, struggling writer friends Hunter and Jeff scramble to write a play in time. This one-act musical tells their story in a hilariously self-referential musical telling the story of "a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical".

£9 Standard

£7.50 Concession

£6.50 Performing Arts Members

This event is taking place at The Dowrick Suite, The Dowrick Suite, Trevelyan College, DH1 3LN.

The event will begin at 7.30pm, (or 2.30pm on the 13th) and run for 90 minutes with a short interval.

Durham University Palatinate Orchestra’s Symphony Orchestra presents an evening of brilliant rhapsodies and legends, including Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2’, Sibelius’s ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’ and music by Rossini and Glazunov.

The Palatinate Orchestra will open the concert with Rossini’s famed ‘Barber of Seville Overture’, bursting with sparkling wit and charm, before Glazunov’s richly evocative ‘Ballade for Orchestra’. Liszt’s ‘Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2’, in its fiery orchestral guise, forms the thrilling centrepiece, full of drama and orchestral fireworks.

The evening will culminate with Sibelius’s so-called ‘Symphony No. 0’, the ‘Lemminkäinen Suite’, featuring the haunting ‘Swan of Tuonela’, and a sweeping heroic finale. Conducted by Anthony Sutch, this promises to be a night of passion, orchestral marvel and symphonic storytelling you won’t want to miss!

£12 Standard

£10 Concession

£7 Performing Arts Members

This concert takes place at Elvet Methodist Church, 8 Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL.

The concert will begin at 7.30pm and last approximately 2 hours with a short interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.

Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is a two person show about a world where words become limited and their relationship becomes strained.

First Theatre Company presents Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, a dystopian romance about a couple navigating a world where speech is rationed to just 140 words a day. As language becomes limited, they must discover new ways to connect, argue and say the things that matter most.

£7 Standard

£6.50 Concession

£6 Performing Arts Members

This performance is taking place at The City Theatre, Fowlers Yard, 6 Back Silver st, Durham, DH1 3RA.

The performances will begin at 7.30pm and last for approximately 95 minutes without interval.

Dunelm Consort and Players presents Handel’s Messiah, an unmissable Christmas classic conducted by renowned conductor Gianluca Marcianò.

Celebrate the season with Handel’s timeless oratorio exploring Jesus' nativity, passion and resurrection through beloved choruses like 'Hallelujah' and soaring solo arias. Often programmed by larger choral societies, this more intimate performance – faithful to Handel's original scoring for small choir and chamber ensemble – promises to be an unforgettable experience, crowned with the 'unfailingly theatrical and idiomatic conducting' (Sunday Times) of guest conductor Gianluca Marcianò, Principal Conductor of the Orchestra Magna Grecia, Principal Guest Conductor of the Armenian State Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of Al Bustan Festival.

Join us for a fantastic and festive night of first-class music.

£16 Standard

£14 Concession

£10 Performing Arts Members

This performace is taking place at St Godric's Church, 2 Castle Chare, Durham, DH1 4RD.

The performance will last for 2 hours with a short interval.

Durham University Concert Band and Durham University Brass Band are having themselves 'A Merry Little Concert!' - full of Christmas tunes, carols and cheer!

Join Durham University Concert Band and Durham University Brass Band in spreading yuletide cheer at their annual Christmas collaboration concert at Elvet Methodist Church.

Conducted by Tomos Haine, Oscar Bovenizer and Timothy Tsang, this concert celebrates everything Christmas; featuring music from Prokofiev's 'Troika', to the overture from 'The Muppets Christmas Carol', and of course plenty of traditional carols and seasonal pop tunes!

£8 Standard

£7 Concession

£6 Performing Arts Members

The performance will take place at Elvet Methodist Church, Old Elvet, Durham, DH1 3HL.

The performance will begin at 7pm and alst for approximately 2 hours with interval. Doors will open 30 minutes before the concert begins.