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If you want to be entertained or enlightened, appreciate art or make your own masterpiece, enjoy live music, take part in an open-mic night, or dance to the region's best DJs, then you will always find something in Exeter to suit your taste.

With such a wide variety of entertainment across the city there is bound to be something different happening in every part of Exeter on almost every night of the week. All you need to do is choose which of the many venues you would like to visit for a really great night out.

At the heart of the city, the historic and beautiful Exeter Cathedral provides a spectacularly atmospheric setting for concerts, exhibitions, workshops and lectures in a rolling programme of inspiring event programming, as well as playing host to charity concerts.

The city has four main theatres and numerous indoor and outdoor areas where performing arts feature within an annual programme of festival and events.

The Exeter Northcott theatre located on Streatham Campus of the University has an annual event programme that will delight and often inspire you to experience something different. With an intimate atmosphere, it provides a chance to get ‘up close and personal’ with many well-known actors visiting with touring production companies.

The Exeter Barnfield Theatre is Exeter's independent community theatre with a regular list of jazz, folk, rock, classical and live music, pantomime, drama and dance events. Now completely run by a charity, it supports local theatre and stage companies, and hosts many school events.

The Cygnet Theatre has its own unique theatre training school programme offering full-time professional training for thirty years, and where graduates have gone on to work successfully for stage, film, TV and radio. Encouraging new writing is one of its specialist features. Cygnet Theatre plays a key role in the region’s arts scene, supporting local artists to present their own work at the venue and introducing over 60 performances in professional venues in Exeter and on summer tours around the area.

The largest indoor venue is the University of Exeter's Great Hall, which offers a wonderful location for classical and contemporary music concerts, including the seasonal visit of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. On the University campus you will also find ‘The Lemmy’ – where DJ sets, rock and pop concerts are regularly featured and where current and up and coming music artists are often promoted.

The Exeter Corn Exchange is the city’s second biggest adaptable space, and offers a programme of all kinds of music, cabaret and other entertainment and trade shows. It also holds a good selection of weekly and monthly group activities to join and is now firmly established as THE place to see the best top-line comedians on the stand-up circuit.

Exeter Phoenix, located next to the city’s museum hosts a varied programme of contemporary and unusual events, including live music and DJ sets, dance, comedy nights, light entertainment, special film seasons, talks and workshops. Along with the Corn Exchange, you are sure to find great family events at Christmas and during school holidays here.

Based at Emmanuel Hall in Exeter, Theatre Alibi are contemporary storytellers and create exiting and imaginative work for audiences of all ages, performing at venues throughout the city as well as touring nationally. The company integrates a wide variety of art forms into its work and recent productions have featured animation, film, puppetry, photography and music both live and recorded, encouraging young people to discover and enjoy a of theatre. Theatre Alibi is an ‘Arts Award Supporter’ organisation.

Exeter is also well represented in performing arts with a large selection of dance and stage schools, including adding to its list recently, the prestigious Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts. You will often find young people from Stage by Stage, Razzamataz Theatre School or Stagecoach Performing Arts, or The Richard Dale Theatre School appearing in our venues in special productions.

The city is fortunate to have a collection of long established and highly regarded choral choirs, one of which was first established in 1846, plus several symphony and concert orchestras, chamber choirs and children’s orchestras and music groups. A Capella singing is also popular around the city. Watch out for a performance from Exeter University’s own Semi-Toned, winners of the BBC programme The Choir: Gareth's Best in Britain.

You may even be able to hear brass band music from the City of Exeter Railway Band (who regularly perform on the Quayside in the summer) or catch a glimpse of the City of Exeter Pipes and Drums parading down the High Street!

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Sam Morgans Improvisation Studio

Exeter

Sam Morgan is an experienced, BBC-certified actor, comedian, and Improv specialist.
His workshop will help you tread the boards with extreme confidence, or at the very least, crack witty off-the-cuff jokes to your friends! Spontaneity can go a long…

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The Cavern Beatles

Exeter

he show is a Magical History Tour through the works of the greatest pop music phenomenon, The Beatles.

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Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter

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1 Oct 2020
Exeter Meisner Workshop

Exeter

Create authentic performances using the Meisner Technique.
This simple yet powerful acting system equips the actor to live truthfully under given (imaginary) circumstances. Over a series of sessions, we practise and receive feedback on all the…

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How to Free Your Authentic Voice

Online

"How to Free Your Authentic Voice" illustrates how to connect with and unleash your authentic voice in your life and art to achieve happiness and success.
The course is led by AJ Langer, Countess of Devon and veteran of 25+ years as a television…

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6 Oct 2020to10 Nov 2020Various Opening Times
Counterfeit Sixties Show

Exmouth

Re-live the sounds of the swinging sixties, as Britain's No. 1 tribute show brings alive the magic of the sixties with their tribute to over twenty five bands of that era. The show encompasses everything from that period, from the clothes that were…

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8 Oct 2020Open 19:30 - 22:00
Jethro 2020

EXETER

Jethro is back again with his unique style of comedy.

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Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter

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15 Oct 2020
West End Extravaganza LIVE

Exeter

Stars from London's glittering West End will entertain you with classic and contemporary musical numbers. Expect to be wowed by outstanding vocals alongside spectacular storytelling. Enjoy the Entertainment whilst enjoying incredible food and drink…

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17 Oct 2020Open 14:00 - 17:00
West End Meets Animation LIVE

Exeter

West End Stars are singing you through a magical musical journey to find Elsa. They will entertain your entire family with classic and contemporary Animation film favourites.
Expect both children and adults to be wowed by outstanding vocals along…

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17 Oct 2020Open 14:00 - 17:00
Acting for film beginners weekend workshop

Exeter

This weekend workshop encompasses an extensive and significant body of knowledge and range of experiences within a relaxed and enjoyable structure. It is designed to allow participants to feel calm and composed whilst acting to the camera and…

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17 Oct 2020to18 Oct 2020Open 10:30 - 17:30
West End Extravaganza LIVE

Exeter

Stars from London's West End will entertain you with classic and contemporary musical numbers. Expect to be captivated by outstanding vocals

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17 Oct 2020Open 18:00 - 21:00
West End Meets Animation LIVE

Exeter

Let Milkshake's Channel 5 presenter David Ribi take you on an extraordinary Musical journey to find Elsa.
West End Stars will entertain your entire family with classic and contemporary Animation film favourites. Expect both children and adults to be…

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17 Oct 2020Open 14:00 - 17:00
14 Day Online Acting for Film Course

Online

This course is designed to replicate the intensity and pressures of the process of acting in films whilst also developing the casting skills of each individual participant.
Held over 14 consecutive days, the course includes the submission of 7 film…

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9 Nov 2020to22 Nov 2020Open 19:00 - 20:00
Music in the Castle

Exeter

Willshire Piano Duo – New Generation Artist Series
With Philippa Harrison & James Willshire
The internationally acclaimed Duo performs a wide variety of repertoire on one or two pianos, from Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals and Britten's works…

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13 Nov 2020Open 19:30 - 21:30
Mary: The pigeon who never gave up

Gandy Street, Exeter

Just keep flying, just keep flying…soon be home, soon be home’.
High above the English channel a small bird battles against the wind.
Visually beautiful, heartfelt and uproariously funny, Quirk Theatre tell the astonishing and true story of one…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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9 Dec 2020to16 Dec 2020Various Opening Times

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20 Dec 2020to27 Dec 2020Various Opening Times
Treasure Island

Exeter

It’s Christmas Eve in the The Spyglass Tavern and Jim Hawkins is serving ale to the one and only customer the pub ever has. Suddenly the door slams open and in strides Billy Bones, the infamous pirate, to change Jim’s life forever…

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Exeter Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

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9 Dec 2020to20 Dec 2020Various Opening Times

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2 Jan 2021to9 Jan 2021Various Opening Times
Music in the Castle

Exeter

Messiah - Handel
Back by popular demand - the 8 voices of Powderham Consort & Divertimento present probably the most loved oratorio of all time, in the unique and intimate setting of the James Wyatt Music Room. Early booking for this event is…

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18 Dec 2020Open 19:30 - 21:30
Beautiful Days Festival

Nr Fairmile, Ottery St Mary

Beautiful Days is the hugely popular Levellers music and family festival which takes place at Escot Park in the heart of Devon in August.

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20 Aug 2021to22 Aug 2021

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