What’s On at The Old Theatre Royal:

 

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Linnet Baroque – In celebration of Thomas Linley

  • Sunday 16th March 2025 

Doors open half-an-hour before curtain up.

Linnet Baroque perform vocal and instrumental music written by Thomas Linley the elder, first musical director of the Bath Assembly rooms & his son, also Thomas, a childhood friend of Mozart. Also featuring music by their teachers & virtuosic arias performed by Elizabeth Linley, famous for her interpretations of Handel’s ‘bird song’ arias.

We are thrilled that Timothy Roberts has composed a work for us, which will premiere at ‘The Old Theatre Royal’ in Bath on 16th March. The concert will be repeated at Insole Court, Cardiff on 23rd March. See Linnet Baroque for more details.

MUSIC BY THE LINLEYS, HANDEL, BOYCE, JACKSON, NARDINI & THE PREMIERE OF TIMOTHY ROBERTS’ COMPOSITION FOR SOPRANO & BASS VIOL – ‘MRS SHERIDAN TO HER BROTHER’S VIOLIN’

Players for this concert are as follows:

Elin Harries – soprano

Oliver Webber – baroque violin

Thomas Pickering- recorders & baroque flute

Ibrahim Aziz – bass viol

Asako Ogawa – harpsichord

LINNET BAROQUE – DELIVERING INNOVATIVE PROGRAMMES WITH OUTSTANDING MUSICIANS

 

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Simon Evans – Have We Met?

  • Thursday 17th April 2025 – 8.30pm 

Doors open half-an-hour before curtain up.

Completing the Trilogy begun with ‘Genius 2.0’ and ‘The Work of the Devil’, ‘Have We Met?’ finds Simon standing, like Ulysses in Tennyson’s famous verse, gazing out over the moaning deep and the twinkling rocks and wondering whether to seek a newer world? To smite the sounding furrows? To strive, to seek, and to find? Or whether in fact, to put the kettle on, crack open the Hobnobs and simply yield?

Drawing on Joyce, Proust and the career of Philip Schofield to make sense of his own tangled past and possible future, Evans skilfully weaves comedy, pathos and narrowly averted cancellation into an unforgettable two hours of unique entertainment.

For more information, visit Simon Evans – Bath Comedy Festival 

 

 

Bobby Davro – Everything is Funny… If You Can Laugh at it

  • Saturday 19th April 2025 – 8.15pm for 9.00pm show

One of the UK’s best-known celebrity entertainers over the last 40 years brings his live show to Bath after a sell-out Edinburgh Fringe last year.

Bobby has appeared on numerous TV shows from ‘Live at Her Majesty’s’ to many of his own series over the years, through to regular appearances on ‘Eastenders’ and shows including ‘Dancing on Ice’.

Guaranteed belly laughs from a comedian still at the top of his game – a master of his craft!

For more information, visit Bobby Davro – Bath Comedy Festival 

 

 

 

 

New Acts Competition – Grand Final

  • Monday 21st April 2025 – Doors :  6.30pm, Curtain :  7.30pm
    (~3hrs inc. intervals)

The Bath Comedy Festival New Act Competition sees over 100 of the best up-and-coming comics in the UK compete for the title.

After twelve heats, the best acts battle it out in tonight’s Grand Final at the splendid Old Theatre Royal – judged by a panel comprising comedy industry heavyweights.

The MC for tonight’s final is the incomparable observational comedian, star of stage and screen (and 1991 ‘So You Think You’re Funny’ winner!) Alan Francis.

There will also be a performance from last year’s winner Luke Richards while the judges deliberate!

For more information, visit New Act Competition – Grand Final