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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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The Smyths

Exeter

Accurate Smiths soundalike outfit.

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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20 June 2025Open 19:30 -
Vibe

Exeter

Get ready to step into something real.VIBEis back and its not your average night out this is where music meets freedom, and every beat speaks to the soul. Were taking overBombafor a night of raw energy and unapologetic expression, pushing the…

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20 June 2025Open 21:00 -
2025 Summer Concert With The Young Virtuoso Violinist Joel Munday

Sidmouth

ISCA ENSEMBLE SUMMER CONCERT
with
JOEL MUNDAY
"A truly remarkable violinist and musician who really holds the future of classical music in his hands." Zsolt Bognar
Mendelssohn : 'Hebrides' Overture (Fingal's Cave)
Philip Glass : Violin Concerto…

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21 June 2025Open 19:30 -
Adventure Awaits

Kingsteignton, Newton Abbot

A show for the leavers to celebrate their time at Two Sisters and wish them luck in their future.

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21 June 2025Open 19:00 -
Bless Up

Exeter

Bless Up returns to Bomba on Saturday 21 June for a night of FREE ENTRY Dub, Reggae, and Steppas! We've managed to get the incredible Ishan Sound booked to headline this one, if you don't know him already here's a link to his instagram page where…

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21 June 2025Open 22:00 -
Creative Street Festival

Exeter

A Summer Street Fair with the theme of creativity. There will be stalls and continuous demonstrations of creative activities from Singing to Weaving, from Printing to Playing music and painting, and the public will be able to join in. Food, drink,…

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21 June 2025Open 12:00 - 18:00
Electric Eel Shock

Exeter

Electric Eel Shock are a three-piece garage rock band, formed in Tokyo in 1994. They first toured the United States in 1999.

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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21 June 2025Open 19:00 -
Funk & Disorderly

Exmouth

Enjoy free live music in Exmouth this summer as Exmouth Pavilion brings weekend performances to the Pavilion Gardens all completely free!
Dance floor filling disco funk covers band Guilty of dancin' & singin' and movin' to the groovin'!
Bring a…

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21 June 2025Open 13:00 - 17:00
John Hackett Band

Honiton

John Hackett Band
Running time: 2 Hours & 10 Minutes (Including Interval)
Ticket Prices: General Admission £18
All ticket prices include a £2 booking fee
The John Hackett Band embodies the spirit of progressive rock. From John’s pastoral flute…

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21 June 2025Open 19:30 -
Krafty Kuts

Exeter

Back To The Beats and Bomba Breaks presentsKRAFTY KUTSwith an extended 3-hour set this June at Bomba Exeter.

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21 June 2025Open 14:00 - 22:00
Mark Travis Eagles Acoustic

Exeter

Mark Travis makes hit return to Exeter Phoenix, this time to Studio 1. It’s intimate, up close and personal with no safety net, one vocal, one guitar. A singer songwriter by nature, Mark performs a handful of his originals alongside classic songs…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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From:
21 June 2025Open 19:00 -
Midsummer's evening Piano Recital

Widecombe In The Moor

Music by Ravel, Brahms and Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition

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21 June 2025Open 18:30 -
Stillyano

Exeter

Come and celebrate the 20 year anniversary of Stillyano live at the Corn Exchange. Experience the energy of this superb international 3-piece rock band delivering the ultimate tribute to classic stadium artists

Venue

Exeter Corn Exchange, Exeter

Dates

From:
21 June 2025Open 20:00 - 22:30
Summer Outreach Concert

Cathedral Close, Exeter

Tickets available soon

Venue

Exeter Cathedral, Exeter

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21 June 2025Open 16:30 -
The Best Of Queen

Exeter

Get ready to Break Free with the UK’s biggest Queen Tribute band – Majesty, in a brand-new show – The Break Free Tour!
Join Freddie, Brian, Roger and John as they take you on a magical journey performing The Best of Queen, whilst celebrating the…

Venue

Exeter Northcott Theatre, Exeter

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21 June 2025Open 19:30 - 21:50
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22 June 2025Open 14:30 - 16:50
The Exmouth Shanty Men

Budleigh Salterton

The Salterton Drama Club presents a special evening with The Exmouth Shanty Men.

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21 June 2025Open 20:00 -
The Making of the Mass

Topsham

Join the Exeter Bach Choir, to conclude its 30th anniversary, with an entertaining exploration of the music that led to J S Bach's great masterpiece, the Mass in B Minor. A narration featuring musical excerpts from various cantatas by J.S. Bach,…

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21 June 2025Open 19:30 -
Filth

Exeter

Brace yourselves - FILTH is bringing their crushingly heavy sound to the UK as part of their massive 2025 European Tour!

Venue

Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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From:
22 June 2025Open 19:00 -
Hello Beckett

St Leonards, Exeter

Living Room Theatre presents *The End Is in The Beginning*
A compilation/remix of 16 of Samuel Beckett's plays, prose and poems.
A brush with Beckett, his characters and their words.
In this intimate 80 minute 2-hander performance, our approach…

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22 June 2025Open 11:00 - 18:00
Rock The Night

Exmouth

Enjoy free live music in Exmouth this summer as Exmouth Pavilion brings weekend performances to the Pavilion Gardens all completely free!
Rock The Night are a classic rock covers band from Exmouth, paying tribute to a wide range of the ULTIMATE…

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22 June 2025Open 13:00 - 16:00
Brits Abroad: Banned

Exeter

Comedy, physical theatre, live music and biting satire combine for a rowdy, rip-roaring holiday you won't forget, from NotThatButThat.
After being banned from going anywhere abroad, yes even Benidorm. British tourists are forced to go on holiday to…

Venue

Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

Dates

From:
23 June 2025Open 19:30 - 20:30

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