Anything Goes continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 2 August 2026. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ Anything Goes is frivolous, fun and guaranteed fabulously joyful entertainment.
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Grease – Kilworth House Theatre
Grease continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 7 September 2025. Star rating: three stars ★ ★ ★ Half a century young, this new production proves that Grease still has groove and it still has meaning.
42nd Street – Kilworth House Theatre
42nd Street continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 13 July 2025. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It dances up a storm, delivering some of the finest footwork you’ll see this year, and celebrates the timelessness of the heart of New York theatre.
Singin’ in the Rain – Kilworth House Theatre
Singin’ in the Rain continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 28 July 2024. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ With sublime performances and choreography from a “torrentially”-talented cast, this show will absolutely make a splash this summer.
Hairspray – Kilworth House Theatre
Hairspray continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 6 August 2023. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hairspray is pure joy from start to finish, a powerful shot of theatrical dopamine for the soul, and this summer is going to be a really special one for Kilworth House.
Half a Sixpence – Kilworth House Theatre
Half a Sixpence continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 28 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Originally scheduled for summer 2020 and pushed back twice because of Covid, the first revival of the revised version of Half a Sixpence has finally making it to Kilworth House for our greatest pleasure. There […]
Carousel – Kilworth House Theatre
Carousel continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 3 July 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ When Nick Winston is directing and choreographing a musical production you know you’re going to see something special, and Carousel is truly special. From beginning to end, you are treated to heavenly vocals, jaw-dropping dance […]
Cats – Kilworth House Theatre
Cats continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 8 September 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ There’s a gale blowing across the canopy of the Kilworth House Theatre, but tonight’s litter is ready for action – with updated sets, costumes, and choreography to show off. This is the first non-replica production of Cats […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Kilworth House Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 7 July 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Oh Joseph, here we are again. You’re no less problematic than before – terrible people are rewarded with fortune and love, women are no more than saints or demons, and […]
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat – Kilworth House Theatre
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 9 September 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ The canopies of Kilworth House Theatre open once more to the glitz of a night at the theatre, and what could be more glitzy than the Andrew Lloyd Webber classic Joseph? It is – […]
Guys and Dolls – Kilworth House Theatre
Guys and Dolls continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 8 July 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ It’s that time of year again. Kilworth House Theatre has thrown open its gates and treated us to another summertime classic, care of director and choreographer Nick Winston and the cast of this […]
Kilworth’s Guys and Dolls – cast unveiled
Simon Thomas and Harriet Jones will play Sky Masterson and Sarah Brown in Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls. The cast for the opening show in the distinctive Leicestershire venue’s 12th season will also include: Daniel Robinson (Nathan Detroit), Holly Dale Spencer (Adelaide), Daniel Stockton (Nicely, Nicely), Graham Hoadly (Arvide Abernathy), Adam Venus […]
February auditions for Kilworth House Theatre’s Guys and Dolls
Auditions will be held in London next month for Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Guys and Dolls, the opening show in the distinctive Leicestershire venue’s twelfth season. The new season at the theatre in the grounds of the Kilworth Hotel, which will also include a production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, has sold […]
Top Hat at Kilworth House Theatre – exclusive gallery of images
There’s just a week left in the run of Kilworth House Theatre’s production of the stage version of the classic 1935 film Top Hat, but there’s still time to enjoy this exclusive gallery of images from our official photographer Roy Tan. Joining Dan Burton (Jerry Travers) and Lauren Stroud (Dale Tremont) in the cast are Charles Brunton […]
Top Hat – Kilworth House Theatre
Top Hat continues at continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 17 September. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ This is a revival of the multi Olivier Award-winning 2013 Aldwych Theatre production, based in turn on the iconic 1935 film. The beautiful open-air theatre at Kilworth House is now in its tenth year […]
Kiss Me, Kate – Kilworth House Theatre
Kiss Me, Kate continues at Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 16 July. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Once again, amongst the trees, under the canopy of the Kilworth House Theatre, another gem of a production delights in the form of Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate. You know the story – amongst the […]
Kiss Me, Kate at Kilworth House Theatre – cast revealed
Matthew McKenna and Caroline Sheen will play the warring couple at the heart of the Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Cole Porter’s classic Kiss Me, Kate. The first production of the season at the Leicestershire space in the grounds of the Kilworth Hotel will run from 31 May until 16 July. Joining McKenna (Fred Graham) […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie – Kilworth House Theatre
Thoroughly Modern Millie continues at the Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 11 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Kilworth House Theatre delivers yet another outstanding summer production at its Leicestershire open-air auditorium. One of two annual large scale stagings (the former being Matthew White’s excellent West Side Story) Stephen Mear’s Thoroughly Modern Millie […]
West Side Story – Kilworth House Theatre
West Side Story continues at the Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 17 July. Rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Kilworth House has come bounding out of hibernation with a grand and reverent, if slightly tame production of Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim and Arthur Laurents’ epic musical, West Side Story. Despite being nearly hidden from sight in the beautiful Leicestershire […]
Thoroughly Modern Millie at Kilworth House Theatre – more details
Casting details have been announced for Kilworth House Theatre’s production of Thoroughly Modern Millie which is due to open at the distinctive Leicestershire venue on 16 August. The second production in the theatre’s 10th anniversary season will be directed and choreographed by Stephen Mear. Mear and producer Celia Mackay this week announced the lead cast of Michelle Francis […]
Kilworth House Theatre presents West Side Story this summer
Casting has been announced for Kilworth House Theatre’s upcoming production of the classic musical West Side Story . Liam Doyle will star as Tony with Laila Zaidi as his Maria. Other leading roles will be played by Sophia Ragavelas (Anita), Justin Thomas (Bernardo), Benjamin Yates (Riff), Dermot Canavan (Doc/Krupe) and Nicholas Tizzard (Schrank). The cast […]
Legally Blonde – Kilworth House Theatre
Legally Blonde continues at the Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire until 20 September. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Set amid the sun-dappled glade of the Kilworth House Theatre, this production is everything a summer musical should be – masterfully performed, delightfully silly and full of an infectious joy which keeps you smiling long after curtain fall. One of […]
My Fair Lady – Kilworth House Theatre
Playing at the Kilworth House Theatre, near Lutterworth, Leicestershire until 14th July. Mitch Sebastian’s memorable staging of My Fair Lady is as well-chiselled as the astutely and beautifully designed environment of the Kilworth House Theatre in which the musical is performed, from the fine vocals of the cast to Cornelius Clarke’s black-smeared dustman, Alfred Doolittle, an old hack out of Ealing […]
