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Theatre & Performing Arts

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, theatre, talks and workshops. Studio 74 is Exeter Phoenix’s solar powered cinema, the only independent cinema in Exeter showing the latest films as well as the best of World Cinema, documentaries and classic titles. 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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A Night at The Ivy

Exeter

This summer step into a world where West End magic meets Ivy elegance. A Night at The Ivy Musicals goes on tour to Exeter on 11th July, bringing beloved musicals to life. From 7pm to 10pm our restaurant transforms into a theatrical haven - alive…

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Jazz on the Quay

Exeter

Jazz on the Quay is back! A fun, FREE afternoon of music starting on Sunday 29th June and then every Sunday during July, until the 31st August (apart from the 27th July).

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Cobra presents Comedy at the Castle with Russell Kane

Exeter

After two amazing years at Warwick Castle, we are expanding the brand and coming down to Exeter THIS July!

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Powderham, Exeter

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19 July 2025Open 20:00 -
William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet

Topsham, Exeter

William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet
Performed as part of a national tour (& global streaming) of this classical Shakespeare drama, by a professional touring theatre company from Devon, which has previously won national and international awards for…

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26 July 2025Open 19:30 - 22:30

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AC/DC UK

Exeter

Tribute to the Australian rockers featuring classic anthems.

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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11 July 2025Open 19:30 -
Chop Suey Nu-Metal Anthems

Exeter

Chop Suey Nu-Metal Anthems is coming to Exeter Cavern for a huge nu-metal party on Friday 17th July

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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11 July 2025Open 21:00 -
Circus Funtasia

Exmouth

All-human circus with acrobatic, comedy and aerial performers.

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Circus Funtasia

Exmouth

Feel the thrill of Circus Funtasia 2025 as it transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary right before your eyes!
Step into a world where gravity is just a suggestion, and daredevils dance on the edge as they defy the odds. You'll be on the edge…

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Eden AJ

Exeter

Acoustic originals and covers across a wide variety of genres.

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11 July 2025Open 21:00 - 23:00
Exmouth Festival Silent Disco

Exmouth

Come and enjoy a Silent Disco in the beautiful surrounds of Manor Gardens (with all-weather stretch-tent cover) as two Silent Social DJs go head to head competing to win your ears. They’ll play all the hits to sing to, the dance crazes to get you…

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11 July 2025Open 19:00 - 22:00
Honiton Comedy Club Presents Andrew Maxwell

Honiton

Honiton Comedy Club Presents Andrew Maxwell
Running Time: 2 Hours Including the interval
Tickets Prices: General Admission £22
All tickets include a £2 booking fee
Honiton Comedy Club is back at The Beehive with another big night of stand-up,…

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Jazz, Joy & Joshua

Cullompton

Classical Cafe is back again, with some of our best songs from the last few years, and solos spots from Genevieve Frost and Kim Brooks.
The set includes these glorious favourites and a few surprises!
- Chatanooga
- Irish Blessing
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Romeo & Juliet

Exeter

‘These violent delights have violent ends.’
Shakespeare’s timeless tale of love and tragedy is our first ‘Made by Exeter Northcott’ production of 2025.
As Romeo and Juliet fall in love, defy their warring families and make their disastrous…

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Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter

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11 July 2025Open 19:30 - 22:10
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12 July 2025Open 14:30 - 22:10
The Planet and Us

Exeter

The Planet and Us is a fusion of short scenes that explore and address our relationship with, and impact on the planet. Contemporary and classic texts are threaded together to create a new scrapbook style production.
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Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

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The Rocket Man: A Tribute to Sir Elton John

Torquay

Join us on a musical journey, charting the rise to fame of one of the biggest selling artiste of all time. Combining breath-taking vocal and piano performances, flamboyant costumes, a dazzling light show -- all accompanied by an outstanding band and…

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A New Creation

Cathedral Close, Exeter

Join The Exeter Festival Chorus in a modern version of Haydns The Creation with associated music devised by Andrea Brown.
In collaboration with Devon Music Hub and with participation by local schoolchildren, providing arts, educational and…

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Exeter Cathedral, Exeter

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Cirque du Vulgar

Exmouth

Step right up and prepare to have your senses ignited! Enter our chaotic realm where the ringmaster's gavel is replaced by gales of laughter and gasps of awe. At Cirque du Vulgar, we take the traditional circus experience and flip it upside down,…

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12 July 2025Open 20:30 - 22:30
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Dartmouth Orchestra July Concert

Exeter

An afternoon performance of fabulous music with Dartmouth Orchestra.
Mozart 4th Horn Concerto
Brahms - Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn
Faure - Masques et Bergamasques
Open to all with opportunity for children to conduct the orchestra!

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12 July 2025Open 16:30 -
Dyjo End Of Season Concert

Exeter

DYJO 1 & 2 perform in the season finale at America Hall, Exeter.

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12 July 2025Open 19:30 -
Much Ado About Nothing/ Love's Labour Won

Topsham, Exeter

2014 Christopher Luscombe directed the innovative production of Love's Labour's Won (Much Ado About Nothing) at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre.

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12 July 2025Open 19:00 -
Music of the Sublime - Brahms, Dvok, Wagner

Exeter

Richard Wagner- Flying Dutchman Overture
Johannes Brahms - Violin Concerto in D major; soloist Simon Smith
Antonn Dvok - Symphony No 8 in G major

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