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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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Goldilocks*

Exeter

Cygnet welcomes the Ambitious Performers in a riotous alternative panto from a brilliant neurodiverse ensemble from Exeter. Goldilocks like you've never seen her before - surreal songs, twisted tropes and chaotic comedy collide in this hilarious,…

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Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

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St Agnes Fountain (25)

Honiton

St Agnes Fountain
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Bad Manners

Exeter

Fronted by Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle), the band was formed in 1976 while the members were at school together, and among their early incarnations were known as Stoop Solo and the Sheet Starchers.
None of the members had any formal…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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Man In The Mirror

Exmouth

Join us for a Thriller of an evening, as we celebrate the legendary music of the KING OF POP!
This is the “Man in the Mirror” – The brand new must-see, electrifying tribute concert to Michael Jackson.
Starring CJ, one of the world’s greatest…

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Nic Cage Against The Machine

Exeter

Love Thy Neighbour presents Nic Cage Against The Machine
Presented by Love Thy Neighbour Music.
This is an 18+ event

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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Sleeping Beauty

Torquay

TuckShop are BACK for their THIRD West End season of their hilarious all-drag panto!

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The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde

Topsham, Exeter

In a steampunk (Victorian science-fiction) re-imagining of this chilling 19th Century tale, the brilliant doctor, Dr Jekyll, becomes fascinated with researching the nature of the human psyche, and the duality of good and evil, using forbidden…

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Miki Berenyi Trio

Exeter

Miki Berenyi Trio (aka MB3) are Miki Berenyi on vocals/guitar (Lush), Kevin Moose McKillop on guitar (Moose) and Oliver Cherer (Gilroy Mere, Aircooled). The three musicians first worked together during Piroshka's 2021 tour Miki and Moose being…

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Exeter Cavern, Exeter

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Seth Lakeman

Honiton

Seth Lakeman is a British folk singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist known for his narrative-driven songs and energetic live performances.

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Steampunk Yule Ball

Exeter

A Winter Festival of Fantastical Delight
Dust off your goggles, fire up the flux capacitor, and prepare for a night of chronological chaos, festive enchantment, and mechanical mischief! The Steampunk Yule Ball is back — and this year, we’re…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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The Fifth Step: Evening

Topsham, Exeter

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses,Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit,The Responder)in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
After years in the 12-step programme of…

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The Fifth Step: Matinee

Topsham, Exeter

Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses,Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit,The Responder)in the critically acclaimed and subversively funny new play by David Ireland.
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Santa and the Pirates

Tiverton

Father Christmas has a problem,somebody has robbed his reindeers, theyve nicked his naughty list AND theyve elped themselves to his elves!When some very naughty pirates head to the North Pole and pinch the plunder of the century, is Christmas about…

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Step Into Christmas

Exmouth

Step Into Christmas for the most magical show of the year. This Christmas concert feel good show, brings all the magic of the season to life, with all you favourite songs, you will know and love! So Step Into Christmas! as we give you something…

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Grace Will Lead Me Home

Exeter

Angeline Morrison, Cohen Braithwaite-Kilcoyne, Jon Bickley and John Palmer Present Grace Will Lead Me Home
Grace Will Lead Me Home tells the story of two men whose lives followed astonishingly similar paths, but whose experiences were astoundingly…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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Beyond the Barricade

Exmouth

A selection of the best-loved songs from new and classic West End shows like The Phantom of the Opera, Mamma Mia, The Lion King and Les Miserables.

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The Jolly Christmas Postman

Exeter

A festive treat for little ones and their grown-ups!
Following last year's hugely popular Elves and the Shoemaker, join us this Christmas season as Exeter Northcott and PaddleBoat Theatre Company unite once again for a magical theatrical adventure…

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Exeter Barnfield Theatre, Exeter

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Harry Baker

Exeter

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker's heart and humour has been watched by millions online and allowed him to perform all over the world, until suddenly he couldn't. From reviewing toilet seats online to writing falafel-based diss tracks for…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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Harry Baker – Harry Christmas

Exeter

World Poetry Slam Champion Harry Baker loves Christmas. And he loves Exeter Phoenix so much he’s coming back for his third show here this year. Last year he did a boldly titled Christmas show in London called Harry Christmas and it went so well he’s…

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Exeter Phoenix, Exeter

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Hmrmb Concert

Exmouth

Exmouth Pavilion welcomes HM Royal Marines Band back for another fantastic concert.
The Band's principal role is to provide musical support of the highest professional standard to the Naval Service. They perform in a wide variety of musical…

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Blue Vanguard

Exeter

The Blue Vanguard is a monthly jazz club dedicated to bringing the finest national and international guests to our home town of
Exeter. The club has run successfully since
September 2011 and has a loyal following.

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Cygnet Theatre, Exeter

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