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  1. 3 July 2024

    Jonathan Kent returns to direct The Promise: a look back at his previous CFT productions

  2. 3 July 2024

    Happy CFT memories – staff recall their favourite memories on our birthday!

  3. We're looking up at the listed Festival Theatre building, a brutalist design, against a clear blue summer's evening sky. The theatre appears to be lit by late afternoon sun and appears almost gold in colour.
    3 July 2024

    CFT's Birthday Quiz

  4. 24 June 2024

    Harold Pinter: a season at CFT

  5. 4 June 2024

    Volunteers Week: The role of an audio describer

  6. The full company of actors in The Other Boleyn Girl in full traditional Tudor costume on the Festival Theatre stage
    7 May 2024

    The making of ‘Dressing the Tudors’: behind-the-scenes of our new exhibition

  7. Production photograph of Lashana Lynch in Educating Rita. She sits at a wooden desk, wearing a purple short-sleeved blouse with her black curly hair tied up and big hoop earrings. She leans on one hand and holds a green pen in the other, looking out into the distance with a vacant expression. A man can be seen sitting at another desk in the background, out of focus, surrounded by wooden bookshelves full of books.
    8 March 2024

    International Women's Day: ten inspiring stories

  8. Three actors in period clothing from the 1983 production of A Patriot for Me
    30 January 2024

    LGBT+ History Month: “A milestone in the theatre’s history”

  9. Production photo from Peter Pan. A young girl with dark curly hair wearing a grey dressing gown over a puffy skirt with grey slippers is holding onto a bed frame. There is a teddy lying on the bed. She looks to be running around it and is smiling. Behind her is a smaller boy in a navy blue dressing gown who is looking at her and smiling. There are small white houses on the floor around them and a white window, wardrobe, drawers and shelves can be seen in the background.
    23 November 2023

    20 Years of Christmas Tradition

  10. 16 October 2023

    Black History Month: Saluting Our Sisters

  11. A woman with blonde hair touches an interactive screen
    15 September 2023

    Relive your memories of theatre

  12. A photo from the side of the stage looking out over a full audience, applauding. The youth theatre company of Wind in the Willows are taking their bows on a colourfully lit stage.
    4 August 2023

    Light a Spark: first memories of theatre