Beverley’s East Riding Theatre opened in December 2014 delivering high quality drama, music and entertainment. It is a community effort, run largely by over one hundred local volunteers.
Dame Judi Dench is Patron, and international film and television actor (and Beverley resident) Vincent Regan is Creative Director and an original founder of the theatre.
The ERT receives no public funding, relying on ticket sales and corporate sponsors to sustain its overheads. Its productions to date include: ‘Hamlet’, ‘As We Forgive Them’, ‘A Christmas Carol’, ‘Oliver Twist’, ‘A Steady Rain’ and ‘Sparrow.’ The ERT café bar is open Tuesday to Saturday 10.30 – 16.00
Two theatre productions from Hull and Beverley are set to take over the same award-winning venue in London this week with month-long runs in the capital.
Middle Child’s electrifying gig theatre show, The Canary and the Crow, transfers to the Arcola Theatre following success at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019, while East Riding Theatre’s production of Maxine Peake’s freewheeling play, Beryl, extends its sell-out transfer at the same venue for an extra month.
She Productions who are the company in residence at Beverley’s East Riding Theatre (ERT) are delighted to announce that their next production is Bombshells.
Bombshells which is written by Joanna Murray Smith and will be staged from the 23 January to 1st February 2020.
The waste and recycling team at East Riding of Yorkshire Council has lent a helping hand to an environmentally-themed Christmas musical being staged for children at East Riding Theatre.
‘The Fairy Who Fell Off The Christmas Tree’ is being performed at the Beverley theatre from 17 to 31 December and is aimed at youngsters aged three and over.
I Wanna Be Yours is a funny, lyrical, and tender play about the intricacies and complexities of finding love and the difficulties of holding onto it once found.
A debut play for one of the London Poet Laureates, Zia Ahmed, this touring production, coming to the East Riding Theatre on Saturday 16th November is grown from the internationally acclaimed theatre company, Paines Plough.
Following a sold-out return to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2019 as part of the British Council showcase, Breach theatre’s all-conquering Untapped, The Stage and Scotsman Fringe First award-winning production It’s True, It’s True, It’s True will now head on a UK tour stopping at the East Riding Theatre on Saturday 26 October
The East Riding Festival of Words includes the ever-popular Children’s Festival, and this year will see Drama Workshops for children delivered by She Productions in Beverley Library.
These interactive and inclusive drama workshops will encourage children to be creative, dynamic and empathetic, whilst also having great fun at the same time!
Businesses, communities and residents are invited to hear how they can get involved and support the Yorkshire 2019 Para-Cycling International which starts in Beverley next month.
The free roadshow, which will be held between 6.30pm and 8.30pm on Tuesday, 3 September at East Riding Theatre in Beverley, will include information about the route as well as the fun and free events planned in Saturday Market.
Beverley’s winter music festival, Stage4Beverley returns for its fourth year in February (12th – 16th ) and looks set to bring a quality line-up of artists to its host the East Riding Theatre.
As a festival offering winter cheer to the long, dark nights, it has proved highly popular for its innovative approach to programming and for bringing together audiences with a wide range of musical interests.
The East Riding is gearing up to host some of the world’s top para-cyclists to the area next month and businesses, community representatives and residents are invited to a roadshow in Beverley to find out about how to get involved.
On Saturday, 21 September, and running alongside the 2019 UCI Road World Championships, Beverley will host the start of the 2019 Para-Cycling International which will see world-class athletes leave Saturday Market and race through Bishop Burton, Market Weighton, Holme on Spalding Moor, Foggathorpe and Bubwith to the finish in Harrogate.
Following the success of previous sell-out family shows, She Productions present a revised version of their 2015 success The Three Kingdoms, one of the 4 musicals in their Young People’s Programme supported by Arts Council England.
East Riding Theatre’s Company in Residence will produce 4 family shows throughout 2019 to enable children to experience the magic of theatre from a young age. The programme also offers a professional mentorship scheme for young aspiring theatre-makers and childcare subsidy to support actors who are parents or caregivers.
East Riding Theatre in Beverley, East Yorkshire have been named as a finalist in the 2019 White Rose Awards, the largest tourism awards ceremony in the UK.
The theatre is in the Arts and Culture category, and it is the first time they have been up for such a prestigious award. This marks a significant achievement for this small professional theatre that opened in late 2014 that is run by volunteers from the local community.
East Riding Theatre’s Company in Residence, She Productions, are hosting their first festival She Fest this summer, creating a platform for other local female talents.
She Productions will take over East Riding Theatre for 2 weeks (9- 20 July) with She Fest 2019. Working alongside East Riding Theatre’s recently awarded Artist in Residence, Emma Garness, the theatre will be ‘hostess’ to workshops, art exhibitions, cabaret and comedy, all led by local female-identifying artists and business owners.
She Productions will take over East Riding Theatre for 2 weeks (9- 20 July) with She Fest 2019.
Working alongside East Riding Theatre’s recently awarded Artist in Residence, Emma Garness, the theatre will be ‘hostess’ to workshops, art exhibitions, cabaret and comedy.
East Riding Theatre’s Artistic Director, Adrian Rawlins, is directing Chippy, the Beverley based theatre’s latest in-house production opening on 19 June 2019.
Fresh from playing Chief Engineer Nikolai Fomin in the new, hit, H.B.O series Chernobyl.
Schoolchildren in Beverley have teamed up with East Riding Theatre (ERT) and a local artist to create a mural celebrating some of Yorkshire’s most trailblazing women.
Working with ERT’s all-female company in residence, She Productions, and artist Emma Garness, pupils from Molescroft, Keldmarsh, Tickton, and St Mary’s primary schools have created a mural depicting the Yorkshire Rose based on the achievements of the inspirational women.
An exhibition looking at the long history of boat building in Beverley opens at the Beverley Guildhall on Wednesday, 20 March.
The exhibition has been called ‘Trawling Through Time’. It will be linked it with the project of the same name currently underway in the East Riding Archives.
