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 ...

Chichester is set to become a leading regional voice in the Government’s National Year of Reading 2026 ‘Go All In’ campaign, ...

Kathleen Marshall directs and choreographs a brand new production of Irving Berlin’s classic tap extravaganza Top Hat at Chichester Festival Theatre. Watch as she discusses the production here! Top ...

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 ...

The trigger warnings for Chichester’s staging of William Golding’s 1954 Lord of the Flies are so plentiful that they are read from the stage by a principal cast member like some kind of foreboding ...