We’ve just unveiled a bumper Winter season, packed with some of the best productions touring the UK this year. Following the final shows of the Festival 2025 season – Hamlet with Giles Terera in the eponymous role, a brand-new staging of William Golding’s modern classic, Lord of the Flies, and Jamie Bogyo’s riveting new play, Safe Space – there’s plenty more epic drama this Winter. 
 

Our much-anticipated co-production with the RSC and Roald Dahl Story Company, a magical new version of Roald Dahl’sThe BFG directed by former Artistic Director Daniel Evans, will open Festival 2026; gather your chiddlers and get in early, since tickets go on sale with this Winter season.

We’re also thrilled to be partnering with the National Theatre to bring James Graham’s Olivier Award-winning Dear England to Chichester (tickets are already on sale so don’t delay!). Laura Wade’s sparkling new play, based on W Somerset Maugham’s The Constant Wife, comes direct from the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Jane Austen’s 250^th anniversary is celebrated with a new stage production of Emma, while Being Mr Wickham is an intriguing look at the rogue from Pride and Prejudice. Caroline Quentin leads Chekhov’s classic The Seagull. Fans of detective thrillers should check out the stage debut of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts, the Agatha Christie mystery Death on the Nile, and a chilling new ghost story, It Walks Around The House At Night.

There’s plenty more family entertainment, and a star-studded array of comedy, music and talks from the BBC Concert Orchestra,  Nigel Havers, Miriam Margolyes, Sue Perkins, Grayson Perry, Sir David Suchet and Sandi Toksvig among many others.

Central to the festive season are Stiles & Drewe’s The Three Little Pigs and the world premiere of Matt Haig’s A Boy Called Christmas, performed by the incredible Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in their 40th anniversary year. Father Christmas and his elves are also back in Santa’s Grotto, as are the Cathedral Choir and Band of HM Royal Marines in Christmas Concerts.

Meanwhile, no less than four Chichester Festival Theatre productions will be playing in London: Oliver! continues at the Gielgud Theatre;Top Hat at the Southbank Centre from 12 December – 17 January and on UK tour until February 2026; The Spy Who Came In From The Cold at @sohoplace from 17 November – 21 February; and The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry at Theatre Royal Haymarket from 29 January – 18 April.

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