Complementing the current Wells Literary, Arts, Comedy and Food festivals, the Wells Theatre Festival aims to attract a theatre-going public of all ages, whilst also encouraging young people to participate in theatre practice. Oscar winning actress, Dame Judi Dench and renowned directors, Sir Richard Eyre and James Cellan Jones are patrons for the festival.
WANT TO PERFORM?
We’re always looking for new acts and actors to take part in our productions, find out more here.
LAST YEAR’S PHOTOGRAPHS
We were lucky enough to get some great photos from the 2018 festival. Have a look at them here.
BROWSE THE PROGRAMME
Download the programme
(printable PDF format)
GET INVOLVED
There are lots of ways you can be involved with Wells Theatre Festival. Find out what roles we need help with here.
OUR PATRONS
We are delighted to have Dame Judi Dench and Sir Richard Eyre as our patrons.
VOLUNTEERS
Come and help out at the festival, we need people who love theatre to join us back and front of house.
The curtain has now closed on the 2019 festival and it was a triumph! We’d like to thank all of the performers who participated in this year’s show, we couldn’t have done it without you. We’d also like to thank all of the people who came out and supported live theatre and gave us such nice feedback on the things they saw.
We are currently putting together a list of performers for next year and will let you know as soon as we can about the artists involved. If you’d like to be involved in next year’s festival, please get in touch. Follow Wells Theatre Festival on Twitter and Facebook to get news of tickets and events for 2020. Wells Theatre Festival is proud to support Anthony Nolan.