The Edward Alderton Theatre first opened its doors in 1976 and has been bringing entertainment to the local community ever since. Below is a list of all of our productions, linking to further information where it is available. This archive is a work in progress and we hope to be able to add more information, going right back to that first season of shows. All productions are by the EAT unless indicated.
Season 50 | 2025-2026 Deathtrap The Flint Street Nativity ** Ghosts ** The Vicar of Dibley Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead ** Blood Brothers (play version) ** Postponed from 2024-25 season Guest Productions: A Night at the Musicals Ambiguous Proposition Blood Me Up Marjorie! Season 49 | 2024-2025 War of the Worlds Foxfinder The Gulf: An Elegy Season 48 | 2023-2024 The Ladykillers Brighton Beat It’s A Wonderful Life The Revlon Girl A Taste of Honey The Children Yes, Prime Minister Season 47| 2022-2023 Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime *Shakers Re-Stirred *The Ruffian on the Stair Wait Until DarkThe NetherBarefoot in the ParkChekhov Comedy Shorts Season 46| 2021-2022 Lady Bracknell’s Confinement Comfort and Joy Veronica’s Room Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde *Hi-De-Hi Season 45 | 2020-2021 Theatre closed due to Covid-19. Season 44 | 2019-2020 Dad’s ArmyThe Beauty SleepingThe Beauty Queen of Leenane* Spring/Summer productions postponed due to Covid-19. Season 43 | 2018-2019 A Clockwork OrangeSixties Convert Fundraiser Cinders: The True StoryGaslightBugNSFWCharley’s Aunt Season 42 | 2017-2018 Love From a Stranger 'Allo 'Allo Rattle of a Simple Man Whose Life is it Anyway Time and the Conways You're a Good Man Charlie Brown Season 41 | 2016-2017 Blithe Spirit A Christmas Carol Miss Julie Skellig Bracken Moor No Sex Please, We're British Season 40 | 2015-2016 Five Women Wearing the Same Dress A Different Way Home The Golden Age of Radio Comedy Uncle Vanya Lend Me a Tenor Season 39 | 2014-2015 Pygmalion Terry and Gary in 'Dulci Jubilo' Another Helping of Hancock's Hour and a Half (Special) Antigone Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em The Female of the Species Season 38 | 2013-2014 A Slice of Saturday Night Hancock's Hour and a Half (Special) The Weir Up Pompeii The Tempest A Funny Thing Happened On The Way to the Theatre (Special) Alice Season 37 | 2012-2013 Strippers Equus Snow Business: The Return of The Christmas Variety Show Dangerous Corner Good Things The Hollow Calendar Girls Season 36 | 2011-2012 Get Carter Macbeth Rossum's Universal Robots [RUR] LootA Slice of Saturday Night (run postponed) Season 35 | 2010-2011 Seconds Out! Absurd Person Singular Blackadder II New York Stories And Then There Were None The Revenger's Tragedy Season 34 | 2009-2010 The Importance of Being Earnest Proof A Tomb With a ViewYouth Show (Lovel Youth Theatre)Looking for Normal The Maids 1940s Radio Revue Bouncers Season 33 | 2008-2009 The Graduate Classic Ghost Stories for Christmas Spider's Web Oedipus the King Glengarry Glen Ross It Ain't Half Hot MumMy Brilliant EAT Career Season 32 | 2007-2008 There Goes The Bride Christmas Variety Show Wait Until Dark Much Ado About Nothing Justifying War Abigail's Party Season 31 | 2006-2007 Brimstone and Treacle Steel Magnolias Extremities Habeas Corpus A Slice of Saturday Night (DJMJ) Mrs Klein Stepping Out Season 30 | 2005-2006 Witness for the Prosecution The Gingerbread Lady Three One-Act Plays Keyboard Skills Murder in the Cathedral The WizAn Evening with Paul, Ross and Eleanor Season 29 | 2004-2005The Crucible Music Hall and Variety Show When Did You Last See Your Trousers? The Day After the Fair The Steamie Da In The Good Ole Summertime Season 28 | 2003-2004 A Kiss on the Bottom Entertaining Mr Sloane An Evening of Flanders and Swann Aladdin Deathtrap Relatively Speaking The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas Season 27 | 2002-2003 The House of Frankenstein Groping for Words Of Mice and Men Separation Knuckle Season 26 | 2001-2002 A Letter From the General Not About Heroes Misery Writer's Cramp An Ideal Husband Bouncers Season 25 | 2000-2001 Sand Castles Adventures of Alice Orphans Shirley Valentine The Ghost Train Quartermaine's Terms Season 24 | 1999-2000The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of MacbethEnigma - An Evening of Magic (Richard Mendham)Blood Brothers Entertainment for Christmas Dead Guilty The Accrington Pals Family Planning Olde Tyme Music Hall Little Shop of Horrors Season 23 | 1998-1999 Lord Arthur Savile's Crime Last Tango in...Bexleyheath (Inter-Theatre Once Act Play Festival) Les Liaisons Dangereuses A Passionate Woman Someone Who'll Watch Over Me Confusions Season 22 | 1997-1998 Killers The Exorcism Straight and Narrow The Two of Us Jack the Ripper Last of the Red Hot Lovers Season 21 | 1996-1997 The Winslow Boy Whale Music Neville's Island The Sunshine Boys Too Long an Autumn (Inter-Theatre One Act Play Festival) The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society's Production of A Christmas Carol Season 20 | 1995-1996 Murder by Misadventure Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell The Bathroom Door + Birdsong The Killing of Sister George My Mother Said I Never Should Oh What a Lovely War Henceforward Season 19 | 1994-1995My Sister in this House Harvey The Anastasia File The Unvarnished Truth Pack of Lies Number One Season 18 | 1993-1994 The Miser I'll Be Back Before Midnight! Visiting Hour Albert + The Hunting of the Snark Count Dracula You Should See Us Now Gosforth's Fête + Between Mouthfuls Season 17 | 1992-1993 Breaking the Code A Christmas Carol The Dock Brief The Chalk Garden Daisy Pulls It Off Up 'n' Under Same Time Next Year Interior Designs Season 16 | 1991-1992 Do Not Disturb The Sneeze The Rape of the Belt Sleuth Blue Remembered Hills The Old Country Season 15 | 1990-1991 Breaking the Silence Coarse Acting 2 Arsenic and Old Lace Dial M for Murder The Rivals Say Who You Are Season 14 | 1989-1990 Come on Jeeves The Elephant Man The Lion in Winter The Scottish Play The Children's Hour Bedroom Farce Season 13 | 1988-1989 How the Other Half Loves Duet for One On the Razzle Death of a Salesman An Inspector Calls The Farndale Avenue Housing Estate Townswomen's Guild Dramatic Society Murder Mystery An Evening of Nonsense Season 12 | 1987-1988 Outside Edge A Man for All Seasons Toad of Toad Hall The Bear + The Real Inspector Hound Impromptu Variety Entertainment Agnes of God The Importance of Being Earnest Season 11 | 1986-1987 The Case of the Oily Levantine or Whodunnit The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds Albert's Bridge The Dining Room The Lark Relative Strangers Cowardy Custard Season 10 | 1985-1986 Abigail's Party Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead The Dame of Sark Whose Life is It Anyway? Twelfth Night Once a Catholic Season 9 | 1984-1985 Relatively Speaking King Lear The Day After The Fair A Voyage Round My Father Accidental Death of an Anarchist A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Season 8 | 1983-1984 Under Milk Wood Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be The Diary of Anne Frank Loot The Devils Otherwise Engaged Season 7 | 1982-1983 The Prisoner of Second Avenue Murder in the Cathedral Lysistrata One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest The Dumb Waiter A Streetcar Named Desire The Golden Pathway Annual The Pilgrim + A Night on the Tiles (Dartford Youth Theatre) Season 6 | 1981-1982 The Coarse Acting Show The Miracle Worker Macbeth A Touch of Spring In Praise of Love An Evening of Jazz Season 5 | 1980-1981 Temptation Sordid, or Virtue Rewarded Habeas Corpus The Insect Play Plenty All Things Bright and Beautiful Round and Round the Garden The Ghost Train (Erith Playhouse) Season 4 | 1979-1980 Equus (Woodlands Theatre Company) Ring Round the Moon Frost at Midnight Days of Wine and Roses The Bespoke Overcoat Plaza Suite Wait Until Dark Come As You Are Season 3 | 1978-1979 Enter a Free Man The Ruling Class Kennedy's Children (Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre) Ladies' Day Arms and the Man The Heiress Othello Season 2 | 1977-1978 Two for the Seesaw (AVC) The Odd Couple The Bald Prima Donna + In Camera Butterflies are Free An Enemy of the People Blithe Spirit The Crucible Season 1 | 1976-1977 Oh What a Lovely War Barefoot in the Park Black Comedy + One Season's King Bossenden Alfie The Rainmaker A Midsummer Night's Dream Summer of the Seventeenth Doll
