#SaveStageLighting
You may have seen #SaveStageLighting popping up on social media over the weekend and wondered what the big deal was, well, hopefully without getting too technical here goes...
The Octagon is taking theatre out and about for 2018/19
The Octagon Theatre Bolton is excited to announce a new season of off-site productions set in iconic Bolton locations.
Darren Jeffries and Helen O'Hara to perform in Dear Nomad as part of Reveal Festival 2018
TV and Theatre Actor, Darren Jeffries returns to the stage as part of Octagon Theatre Bolton’s Reveal Festival 2018 starring alongside Helen O'Hara in new play Dear Nomad
Summer Holiday - Venue Update
Due to unforeseen circumstances the start of the building work for the essential redevelopment of the Octagon building has been delayed by a few weeks. This means the building will no longer close on Sat 5 May and the production of Summer Holiday will now be in the Octagon and not the Albert Halls.
Cast Announced for Summer Holiday
Octagon Theatre Bolton are delighted to announce full casting for their forthcoming site-specific production of the musical Summer Holiday.
When We Were Brothers REVEAL 18
From Freedom Studios comes When We Were Brothers, Ben Tagoe’s intimate new play which explores male friendship, masculinity, betrayal and the fragile nature of the male psyche.
Four women on trial. Four women who no one believes.
TRIAL is a brand new site-specific show about sexual violence and the devastating impact of never being believed by Monkeywood Theatre in association with Octagon Bolton, performed in a courtroom setting for the Octagon’s REVEAL Festival from Thursday 26 April 2018.
Kathrine Smith on writing All I See Is You
Kathrine Smith, writer of All I See Is You, National Octagon Prize winner, talks about her writing process.
Casting announced for FLIGHT as part of REVEAL Festival 2018
We're excited to announce the cast of Flight, an enthralling new play by Nuzhat Ali about a man and his daughter who, with everything to lose, make a desperate and dangerous flight from Syria to Europe.
Octagon Theatre Bolton awarded a further £425k towards redevelopment project
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.