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.

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.

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.