We are one of the North East’s oldest Community Theatre groups. Providing a professional standard of Theatre and Entertainment to the City of Sunderland since 1925.
5th to 21st December 2025
Join us for our famous family pantomime and enjoy the adventure of our Dick Whittington. Fun for all ages.
The purr-fect adventure paved with gold.
Advanced booking recommended. Please be advised that Wednesday performances are relaxed performances which can be booked here
Tickets are now on sale for the remainder of the 2025-26 season.
We have received complaints regarding people parking in front of the theatre. The road in front is marked with double yellow lines so it should be clear to all drivers that parking here is not permitted.
The next audition night will be held on Friday, 21st November, for our production of Blithe Spirit. For more details, please visit the Audition page.
This year's panto is expected to be another great success. To avoid disappointment, we advise patrons to book early.

Entertaining Sunderland since 1925
Please Note: As a volunteer-run theatre, this line cannot be staffed at all times. We can usually only answer calls on show nights or when other events are on.
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17th to 21st February 2026
A smash comedy hit on London and Broadway stages, this much-revived classic from the playwright of Private Lives offers wit, conflict, and big laughs as a fussy, cantankerous novelist finds himself haunted by the ghost of his late first wife.
17th to 21st March 2026
Armed only with her iPad and a searing vision of the Future, Parveen is the spearhead of a telecoms revolution. Her Galahad is Ron, a conman on the run from the binmen. Can they find a way to overcome the fearsome Welsh Dragon, Owen Brecon and liberate his captive daughter, Dawn?
Signals is a comedy-drama with important things to say about the world we live in.
21st to 25th April 2026
Never has this master of farce been frenetically funnier! Henry A. Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally picks up the wrong briefcase full of money. Henry assumes it is illicit cash and he decides to keep it. Knowing that the former owner must have his briefcase, he rushes home to book one-way fares to Barcelona.
23rd to 27th June 2026
Frank is a tutor of English in his fifties whose disillusioned outlook on life drives him to drink and bury himself in his books. Enter Rita, a forthright hairdresser who is eager to learn.
A fantastic comedy-drama classic.