Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th January 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 24th January 2:00pm

It’s 1593, it’s Elizabethan London and aspiring playwright William Shakespeare has writer’s block. His latest play, Romeo and Ethel the Pirate’s Daughter, does not seem to be going anywhere and contemporary friend and dramatist Kit Marlowe is writing the plays that the audience want to see. Hounded by theatre impresario, Philip Henslowe, who needs a new play to clear his debts, not to mention Queen Elizabeth I who wants a comedy with a dog in it – Will is despairing. Then he meets his muse.

Tuesday 25th November - Saturday 29th November 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 29th November 2:00pm

Larkin With Women is an intriguing and illuminating play that explores the surprisingly complicated, interwoven and secretive affairs that Philip Larkin conducted with three key women in his life from the mid-1950’s until his death in 1985.

Presented by Next Stage Youth Theatre Company
Wednesday 29th October - Saturday 1st November 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 1st November 2:00pm

Mrs Kay’s remedial class are out for the day from their inner-city Liverpool comprehensive on a trip to North Wales. For many of them it’s the first time they’ve travelled that far from their home town. However, there is one cloud on the horizon: the headteacher has sent Mr Briggs - a disciplinarian - to keep an eye on all the goings-on.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Wednesday 10th - Saturday 13th September 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 13th September 2:00pm

Carol is organising a 21st birthday party for her severely disabled son, Andy. But herding her disjointed family together brings a host of challenges in Rory Kinnear’s enthralling play.

Monday 28th - Thursday 31st July 8:00pm
Tuesday 29th & Thursday 31st July 2:30pm

Teenager, Christopher Boone finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington, speared to death by a garden fork. Upset at the loss of a favourite animal and under suspicion himself of the crime, Christopher decides to find out who killed Wellington.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company

Wednesday 16th - Saturday 19th July 2025

A psychological drama - suspecting her husband of having an affair and feeling neglected by her son, Anne struggles with her increasing isolation and jealousy. 

Presented by Next Stage Youth Theatre Company

So did you ever hear the tale of the Johnston twins
As like each other as two new pins;
Of one womb born, on the self same day
How one was kept, one given away?

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 21st - Saturday 25th January 2025, 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 25th January 2025, 2:00pm

Next Stage’s acclaimed 2012 production of Jez Butterworth’s award-winning smash hit is back at The Mission Theatre for the venue’s 20th Birthday week.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 26th - Saturday 30th November 2024 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 30th November 2024 2:00pm

Conor has been haunted by a recurring dream every night since his mum fell ill. But now, something else is haunting Conor – something wild, powerful, and unpredictable. There's a monster at Conor's window and it wants the truth from him.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Thursday 12th - Sunday 15th September, 7:30pm
Matinees Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th September, 2:00pm

Set in England in 1832, in the imaginary reign of King James III, Bonnie and her orphaned cousin Sylvia are threatened by wicked wolves and a grim governess as they await the return of Bonnie’s parents from an ocean voyage.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 3rd - Saturday 7th September 2024, 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 7th September 2024, 2:00pm

"I'm a happily married woman. Or rather I was, until a few weeks ago."

Noel Coward's 'Brief Encounter' remains one of the screen's greatest ever love stories. Its timeless, sensitive portrayal of two happily married strangers thrown together by a chance meeting and helpless in the face of their emotions has enthralled generations.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 2nd - Saturday 6th July 2024 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 6th July 2024 2:00pm

“Look at yourselves, will you! Just look at yourselves! Dancing at our time of day?... No, no, we’re going to no harvest dance”.

Next Stage Theatre Company are proud to present Brian Friel’s Olivier Award-winning play performed in-the-round. A semi-autobiographical exploration of the playwright’s memories of growing up in rural Donegal, surrounded by his mother and her four sisters.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 14th - Friday 17th May 2024 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 18th May 2024 2:00pm

A young woman - Lily - appears in her garden carrying a washing basket; in the next door terraced house Rob - an out-of-work actor - sees her over the hedge and is instantly attracted to her. Just a couple of problems: Rob is in his 60’s, Lily is in her 20’s and Rob is in lock-down in London August 2020 whilst Lily is in the middle of the Blitz in London 1942.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Wednesday 20th - Saturday 23rd March 2024 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 23rd March 2024 2:00pm

The play is set in a New York apartment in 1968 which is due to be demolished. Two estranged brothers are selling off their father’s furniture and have invited an assessor to come up with a price.

Presented by Next Stage Theatre Company
Tuesday 23rd - Saturday 27th January 2024 7:30pm
Matinee Saturday 27th January 2024 2:00pm

Teenager Christopher Boone finds his neighbour’s dog Wellington speared to death by a garden fork. Upset at the loss of a favourite animal and under suspicion himself of the crime, Christopher decides to find out who killed Wellington.