The Octagon take a step closer to their fundraising target of £9.87 million with help from The Foyle Foundation, the Wolfson Foundation and the Garfield Weston Foundation along with other charitable trusts pledging their support.
Octagon Theatre Bolton set to take audiences on a magical journey with spectacular site-specific staging of 1960’s musical film Summer Holiday.
The Big Corner is an uplifting coming of age comedy, travelling through time and the streets of Bolton showing at the Octagon Thu 19 April - Sat 5 May.
A brand new play about forbidden love in Bolton in the Sixties by Octagon National Playwriting Prize winner Kathrine Smith.
Octagon Theatre Bolton is delighted to take their festive production on the road this Christmas presenting The Wonderful Wizard of Oz at the Premier Suite, Macron Stadium Tuesday 4 – Monday 31 December 2018.
This is the third REVEAL Festival presented by the Octagon and will be showcasing new and exciting theatre outside and online from Mon 23 April until Sat 4 May 2018.
We are thrilled to announce that the Octagon Theatre Bolton is one of 28 recipients of the new Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) Culture and Social Impact Fund. The fund invests in organisations who are committed to providing excellent cultural experiences or work that has significant social impact across the ten boroughs in Greater Manchester.
John Blackmore, one of the UK’s foremost Champions of Regional Theatre and longest serving Chief Executive of the Octagon Theatre died peacefully on 20th February following an illness illness at the age of 77.
David Ricardo-Pearce who is playing Hamlet in the Octagon’s upcoming production is to run the London Marathon in a bid to raise money for the theatre’s redevelopment.
Winner at Writer’s Guild Awards 2018, Sarah McDonald Hughes, opens new play, Sherbet, co-written with Curtis Cole at the Octagon.