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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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St Agnes Fountain - Silver Jubilee Tour

Honiton

St Agnes Fountain - Silver Jubilee Tour 2026
Running Time:n2 Hours 30 Minutes (Including Interval)

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Thank ABBA for the Music

Exmouth

Grab your platforms and flares for a journey back in time to when ABBA dominated the charts and ruled the airwaves! Thank ABBA For The Music is a two-hour theatre spectacular that captures all of the magic and excitement of one of pop history’s most…

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Witness for the Prosecution

Longdown

By Agatha Christie

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Oh What A Night

Exmouth

Oh What a Night! takes you back in time on a musical journey through the incredible career of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons.
Valli’s unmistakable voice dominated the airwaves for more than two decades with classics such as Sherry, Let’s Hang On,…

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Altern8 - Black Friday

Exeter

Altern8 - Metal/Rock/Alternative Clubnight
Exeter's top rock/metal club night!
DJs playing the likes of Killswitch Engage - SOiL - Drowing Pool - S.O.A.D. Slipknot - RATM - Reuben, Slayer - Iron Maiden - Slipknot - Motorhead - Metallica - …

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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Big Special

Exeter

Following a new single 'This Here Ain't Water' hitting the BBC 6 Music A-List poetic post-punk duo Big Special headline.

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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The Orb & System 7

Exeter

Two legendary forces of electronic psychedelia return to the stage together for a limited run of immersive audiovisual events
After years apart on the live circuit, pioneering electronic visionaries The Orb and System 7 are reuniting for a special…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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The Uncertainty Principle

Newton Abbot

Award-winning playwright's play comes to Moretonhampstead.
The play takes place in an intimate and sparse setting, involving just two actors, a knife and one bar of chocolate. Over eighty minutes, we explore the connection and chaos that tie the…

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2026 Special Christmas Concert

Sidmouth

ISCA Ensemble Southwest
Musical Director Roger Hendy
Leader Antony Clements
- Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel Overture
- Camille Saint-Saens - Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah
- Richard Rodgers South Pacific (Orchestral Suite)
- George Gershwin…

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A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten - Chagford Singers

Chagford

Chagford Singers present A Ceremony of Carols by Benjamin Britten, along with a selection of carols by British composers and the world premiere of Of a Rose Synge We by renowned local harpist and composer Elizabeth-Jane Baldry. The choir will be…

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A Christmas Offering

Exeter

Join Exeter Festival Chorus for an evening of joyous and traditional Christmas music featuring harp, organ and audience participation in familiar carols. In the first half A Christmas Offering by Kristina Arakelyan, inspired by Britten's Ceremony of…

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A Star Wars Improv Show: the One-Man Made-Up Movie Parody

Exeter

Fresh from a sell-out residency at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the new and acclaimed show embarks on its 2026 tour. Award nominated stand-up and improviser Jon Hipkiss brings together the ultimate celebration of comedy and fandom. Based solely on…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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Curious Energy x Houseworx

Exeter

Houseworx unites with Curious Energy for a night of feel-good house music at Bomba, headlined by the incredible Lizzie Curious!

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Generation Rock

Honiton

Generation Rock
Running Time: 2 Hours 30 minutes (Including Interval)

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Hadestown

Topsham, Exeter

The record-breaking sensation by singer-songwriter Anais Mitchell and director Rachel Chavkin is now playing to critical acclaim at the Lyric Theatre, London.
'Big, beautiful and emotionally blasting'(The Guardian), HADESTOWN is the winner of 8…

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Pinocchio

Exeter

Following the record-breaking success of ‘The Wizard of Oz’, the gang are back with another fantastic, brand-new family pantomime: PINOCCHIO.
When you wish upon a panto star, you’ll be granted amazing songs, spectacular costumes, a hugely messy…

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Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter

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Samantics

Exeter

Samantics is a one man machine of honesty, energy, words and noise. Using lyrics to portray his own unique vision of the world were all wandering, he speaks and shrieks from the centre of his erratic heart. Using a trolley full of sounds, including…

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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12 Dec 2026Open 19:00 -
Stan Hacking Concert Band - Christmas Concert 2026

Exeter

Join us for a fabulous evening of Christmas music to start your holiday season.

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Swing Into Christmas With the Exeter Jazz Orchestra!

Exeter

Swing into Christmas with a night of jazz classics, golden age groovers and cool carols, as the Exeter Jazz Orchestra make their triumphant, trumpeting return to Exeter Library with another Swingin' show following 3 sold-out annual performances.
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The 'Big Christmas' Silent Disco

Exeter

80s / 90s / 00s special
Exeter phoenix
Sat 12th December
Brought to you by top Silent Disco purveyors; Silent Social. Bringing their foot-stomping, sing-a-long anthems back to Exeter Phoenix.
Two channels of music led by Silent Social DJs in…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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12 Dec 2026Open 19:45 -
The Louis & Ella Christmas Show

Exeter

Returning to the Cygnet theatre after a great concert last February. The Louis & Ella Music Show performs the songs/duets recorded & performed by Louis Armstrong & Ella Fitzgerald, from the Great American Songbook (George Gershwin, Irving Berlin,…

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Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

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12 Dec 2026Open 19:00 -

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