Roald Dahl’s beloved story The BFG comes to life on a truly giant scale at Chichester Festival Theatre this spring.

A successor to The Tent, Theatre on the Fly and The Spiegeltent, it will – just as they did – give the CFT the chance to do something a little bit different to their usual programming. Nestled among ...

The CFT has also confirmed that a new version of Roald Dahl’s The BFG, directed by former CFT artistic director Daniel Evans, will open Festival 2026 next March. The show is the CFT’s co-production ...

A friend remarked to me that the most radical thing you can do with the classics is to play them dead straight. No listing ship to send Hamlet toppling towards us, no cook out on the lawn, no ...

Natalie Dormer stars in Tolstoy’s romantic masterpiece Anna Karenina, in a new adaptation written and directed by Phillip Breen, running at Chichester Festival Theatre through 28 June. Arifa Akbar, ...

Casting has been revealed for Top Hat – which will be revived at Chichester Festival Theatre this summer. Adapted for the stage by Matthew White and Howard Jacques, and directed and choreographed by ...