Events
With an independent cinema in an old market hall, the 29-acre Quarry Park and an impressive theatre sitting upon the river, Shrewsbury is at the heart of cultural activities in Shropshire.
Featured Events
Severn Hospice Dragon Boat Festival 2026
Get your oars at the ready as the annual Severn Hospice Dragon Boat Festival returns! It is a fantastic weekend out for both participants and…
Home Educators: Discovering Darwin
Discover, Create, and Explore!Join us for a series of engaging, hands-on history, science and art workshops designed especially for home educated…
What If … a construct by Julia Rogers
Julia Rogers has developed this body of work on different realities, where she reinterprets omens and elevates the ordinary in a sideways glance at…
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K-POP Superstars Live ft songs from K-Pop Demon Hunters
Calling all K-POP DEMON HUNTERS fans — this is your show! 🌟Step into a world of explosive choreography, dazzling visuals, and your favourite…
Open Door Cinema Club: The Blues Brothers
133 min, rated 15Jake and Elwood hit the road to save their old orphanage—reuniting the band, outrunning half of Chicago, and dropping show-stoppers…
Martyn Joseph
Award-winning Welsh singer Martyn Joseph returns to Theatre Severn in 2026!Take everything you think you know about singer-songwriters and rip it up.…
The Eternal Shame of Sue Perkins
You may know her as Bake-Off Sue, Taskmaster Sue, Just A Minute Sue, or the Sue that gives you travel envy – but stand-up Sue is full of surprises.In…
Country Fest – Country Anthems Live is coming to Shrewsbury!
🤠 A massive night of country music and Nashville anthems! With a live country band and DJs playing all the hits at The Buttermarket on Sunday…
National Theatre Live: HAMLET
Olivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take on Shakespeare’s famous tragedy.Trapped between duty…
CLASSIC ROCK SHOW
An amazing opportunity for rock fans, young and old, to celebrate three decades of the world’s greatest classic rock music with a stunning…
National Theatre Live: THE FIFTH STEP
Olivier Award-winner Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) is joined by Emmy and BAFTA-winner Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, The Responder) in the…
NTLive: Hamlet (12)
HAMLETby William Shakespearedirected by Robert HastieOlivier Award-winner Hiran Abeysekera (Life of Pi) is Hamlet in this fearless, contemporary take…
POEMS & READINGS FOR HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL DAY
A recital of poems from the Holocaust and other genocides. On Holocaust Memorial Day we remember the victims of the Nazi regime from 1933 to 1945,…
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