Reading Rep Theatre

Reading Rep Theatre 🎭world-class theatre made in the ❤️of Reading
🙌award-winning outreach

‘At last Reading has its own professional repertory theatre company.’ The Stage

Reading’s resident professional theatre combines high-class productions with ground-breaking education and community engagement to help transform Reading and the surrounding area’s cultural landscape. Reading Rep began when Artistic Director Paul Stacey took a £500 overdraft and invested it into a vision he had always

believed in: to revitalise Reading’s cultural landscape by making and creating the highest quality theatre, with, by and for Reading. The company moved into the black box theatre at Reading College, producing packed out plays on a shoestring. Before long, Reading Rep grew to be a beloved home and playground for many of the UK’s leading theatre-makers, including Barney Norris, Roy Alexander Weise and Mischief Theatre. Collaborations and co-productions with leading regional and London theatres including Nuffield Southampton Theatres, Arcola Theatre and Oxford Playhouse placed Reading within the heart of the national theatre landscape. With community at the heart of the artistic vision of the company, Reading Rep created ENGAGE in 2015, our flagship community outreach programme providing access to the arts for Reading’s most vulnerable communities. We run a year-round programme of workshops, delivered in partnership with Reading Libraries, Reading Borough Council, the Cultural Education Partnership, the NHS and numerous others, that has reached 15,000 children, young people and adults in the last 18 months alone. With critical acclaim and sell out success, Reading Rep was ready for a new and permanent home. In 2018, just six years after our first production, we began raising funds to convert a former Salvation Army Hall into a 170 seat theatre and cultural hub. After raising £1million throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, the company is thrilled to be opening its new venue in 2021 with a bold new artistic season of work.

09/06/2026

"Amazing cast...joyous...watch it"

From the mouths of audience babes. Listen to them.

Teechers is only on until 13 June.

04/06/2026

❤️ to the cast, team and audience for an incredible showing of Teechers last night!

If you're prepared to laugh but also feel a bit angry about the state of arts education, then you've got until 13 June to catch it!

As Teechers starts tonight, we thought we'd see what everyone who keeps Reading Rep running looked like back in their sc...
02/06/2026

As Teechers starts tonight, we thought we'd see what everyone who keeps Reading Rep running looked like back in their schooldays. A gallery of rogues.

Do you work in youth theatre? And do you fancy getting together with youth theatre leaders, participants and freelancers...
29/05/2026

Do you work in youth theatre? And do you fancy getting together with youth theatre leaders, participants and freelancers to connect, share practice and help finalise a strategy for the future of youth theatre?

Then you're in luck! We're hosting one of the Arts Council England get-togethers here at Reading Rep on 25 June, but you need to apply by Monday 1 June to attend: https://forms.gle/kBHDg4WB6zih8gdN6

Please apply as a youth theatre, rather than as an individual.

We’re asking each youth theatre to bring three people:
- a leader (someone who is responsible for running the company in some way)
- a participant (aged 11+)
- a freelancer who offers a different perspective/experience to the leader

We aim to meet all access requirements and have funding in place to ensure this.

There is funding available to cover travel costs for those that need it. There are also a number of participation payments (£150) available to support freelancers attending. We will provide lunch.

Spaces are limited. If there are too many applications for a Get-Together we will offer priority places to youth theatres that serve under-represented groups and those not allocated a place at our previous event in Manchester in 2025. All other places will be allocated by random ballot.

We will confirm your place by Friday 5 June!

28/05/2026

Apologies in advance for putting Sam's earworm back in your kids' ears, but we've got some special plans with the King of Teddy Bear Storytime coming up - watch this space!

What with Teechers coming up we thought we'd update our language for the modern age.
27/05/2026

What with Teechers coming up we thought we'd update our language for the modern age.

26/05/2026

"It was exactly like my school days"

Well, that could be a blessing or a curse - but luckily it's funny, poignant and realistic. It's Godber’s hilarious comedy masterpiece has been reset for our post Covid times.

And it's on here 2-13 June.

Think you're an Oscar Wilde fan? Only two of these facts are true, and one is false.If you can get it right then one luc...
24/05/2026

Think you're an Oscar Wilde fan? Only two of these facts are true, and one is false.

If you can get it right then one lucky person will get a ticket to The Importance of Being Oscar in our new season!

A huge thank you to our volunteer Jack Stacy for sprucing up the front garden, all with plants donated by the community!
23/05/2026

A huge thank you to our volunteer Jack Stacy for sprucing up the front garden, all with plants donated by the community!

22/05/2026

We announce our new season in ONE WEEK!

And our very valued and attractive members get first dibs on tickets - if you fancy becoming one then mosey on to our website :)

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Reading
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Opening Hours

Monday 10am - 10pm
Tuesday 10am - 6pm
Wednesday 10am - 6pm
Thursday 10am - 6pm
Friday 10am - 6pm
Saturday 10am - 10pm

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01189 554 757

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