Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 2026 season which includes eight world premieres as well as a beloved musical and one of Shakespeare’s most popular comedies! Six previous Chichester productions are currently playing in the West End or around the country and there is every sign that this year’s...
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Review: A Boy Called Christmas, Chichester Festival Theatre, 18 December 2025
By Graham Hiley. Chichester Festival Youth Theatre could hardly have picked a better way to celebrate their 40th anniversary than with this superb production of A Boy Called Christmas. It can sometimes be easy to flick through a What’s On guide and skip past youth drama and dismiss it as...
Review: Lord of the Flies, Chichester Festival Theatre, 25 September 2025
By Graham Hiley. Chichester Festival Theatre’s premiere of Lord of the Flies asks two key questions. “Which is better – law and rescue or hunting and breaking things up? To have rules and agree – or hunt and kill like a pack of savages?” The fact that William Golding’s...
Review Hamlet at the Minerva Theatre Chichester
By Graham Hiley. To see or not to see? That is the question. This production of Hamlet at the Minerva Theatre is utterly compelling viewing. That is the answer. When you think about the vast number of high-quality shows staged in Chichester over the past 63 years, it is...
A bumper winter season of shows at Chichester Festival Theatre
Main image: Emma A bumper winter season of shows has been unveiled at the Chichester Festival Theatre featuring some of the best touring productions in the UK. EMMA – Festival Theatre, 4 – 8 November Jane Austen’s 250th anniversary is celebrated in fitting style with a new stage adaptation...
Winter season confirmed for Chichester Festival Theatre
By Graham Hiley. A bumper winter season of shows has been unveiled at the Chichester Festival Theatre featuring some of the best touring productions in the UK. Top attraction is the National Theatre bringing James Graham’s Olivier award-winning West End smash hit Dear England which runs at the Festival...
Review: Choir, Minerva Theatre, Chichester – 8 August 2025
By Graham Hiley. As Choir premiered at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre, the stage was plunged into darkness and silence before James Gillan suddenly launched into a powerful rendition of Queen’s Somebody to Love. Swiftly he was backed by the rest of the Choir with varying degrees of success as the...
Review: Top Hat – Chichester Festival Theatre
By Graham Hiley. Chichester Festival Theatre’s new production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat was not just a triumph – but a triumph over adversity. The press night performance was halted after barely a minute as at least two of the chorus girls took a tumble on a slippery stage....
Review: Anna Karenina, Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester
By Graham Hiley. Photos: Marc-Brenner Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina may be a masterpiece – but it is heavy going. At more than 800 pages this classic is a weighty tome with a dark tone but thankfully Phillip Breen’s adaptation at Chichester Festival Theatre has a much lighter touch....
Chichester Festival Theatre announces Festival 2025
Chichester Festival Theatre have announced an exciting line-up for their 2025 Festival Season. It includes five world and two UK premieres, two musicals, and masterpieces from world drama featuring stars such as: Mark Addy, Natalie Dormer, Beverley Knight, Tom Rosenthal, Jenna Russell and Giles Terera. The world premieres feature:...