Spot the difference! 🤣🛋️ #Friends We have our very own Friends sofa in our foyer! If your visiting us during the run, make sure you take a seat with your friends and tag us in your photos! 📸 A big thank you to our team of Belgrade friends for their uncanny recreation!

Tour Dates! 📆 Polka Theatre, Wimbledon | Sat 18 Oct– Sat 02 Nov 📆 @circomedia.bsky.social, Bristol | Sat 15–Sun 16 Nov 📆 @belgradetheatre.bsky.social, Coventry | Wed 03 Dec–Sat 03 Jan ‘26 🎟️Get your tickets now: bit.ly/CSSWellDoneMummyPenguin

Coventry! You've got just four more chances to see After Sunday, the show everyone is talking about! The love for this show has blown us away. Don't miss it. 🎟️ Tickets at buff.ly/qpcS9rs 🗓️ Running until Sat 25

Healing, hope and a side of Caribbean flavour! 🍲🥬

How we felt watching Saturday's Cov game! 💙 #PUSB Based on Katriona O’Sullivan’s best-selling memoir, Poor charts her extraordinary journey as she emerges from her childhood in Coventry and Birmingham marked by poverty, addiction and homelessness. Cov, this is a story for you.

So I need to post more! Amazing night at @belgradetheatre.bsky.social watching the Rocky Horror Show! I have never seen the show live and cannot recommend it enough!!! #RockyHorrorShow #TimeWarp

Q&A with After Sunday Writer Sophia Griffin ✍️ With two weeks to go until opening night, we sat down with After Sunday writer Sophia Griffin to find out more about what inspired her deliciously affecting debut. 🗞️ Read now at buff.ly/WXL2bRs 📸 Paul Stringer

📣 The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) NOW ON SALE! 📣 The Reduced Shakespeare Company is heading back out on tour in 2026! Gird your loins for a hilarious 97 minute roller coaster ride through all 37 of the Bard's plays - rebooted and reimagined for a new generation of audiences...

The One Where Friends Turns Thirty-One 🎈 Not to make anyone feel old, but... The first episode of Friends aired 31 years ago today! 🤯 What better way to mark the occasion than by revisiting the nostalgic antics of your favourite twenty-something New Yorkers...

The ballets are back and selling fast! 🩰 Imperial Classical Ballet return to the Belgrade for 2025 bringing a beautiful mix of magic, romance, and adventure, intertwined in breath-taking dance.

It's astounding, time is fleeting, you've got to... book your tickets now! ✨ Feast your eyes on these brand new snaps of The Rocky Horror Show, opening at the Belgrade in just five days time! 💋 The Rocky Horror Show 🗓️ Mon 22 - Sat 27 Sep 🎟️ Tickets from just £20 at buff.ly/DEwVNNI

Wonderful to be at BBC CWR’s Make a Difference Awards this afternoon at the @belgradetheatre.bsky.social. It was truly inspiring to see the incredible work people are doing in our communities across Coventry and Warwickshire. Huge congratulations to all the winners! 👏🏽

Heritage Open Day - Sat 20 Sep 🎭 Join us for a free guided tour of the Grade II listed Belgrade, including both our B1 and B2 auditoria, as well as the Belgrade’s newest space, The Jag. 🕑 Tours will run at 10am, 12 noon, & 2pm 🎟️ Book you place now at buff.ly/XGBC8CS

Spring 2026 is now on general sale! 🎉 Secure the best seats at the best prices for Choir of Man, Murder at Midnight, The Talented Mr Ripley, Poor, Our Public House, Glorious, and so many more! 🎟️ Book now at buff.ly/IwWEdlY

Corey Weekes, David Webber Aimee Powell & Darrel Bailey are cast in After Sunday at @belgradetheatre.bsky.social (10-24 Oct) before moving to @bushtheatre.bsky.social 10 Nov-20 Dec. Sophia Griffin makes her debut as playwright with the co-production which is directed by Belgrade AD Corey Campbell.

Jimmy Cricket’s Big Show - an afternoon of top-class variety! ✨🎭 Midday Variety favourite Jimmy Cricket celebrates his 80th birthday with a big afternoon of entertainment at the Belgrade.

Temporary Building Closure 🏦 The Belgrade Theatre will be closed on the following dates to give our staff a well deserved break to relax, unwind, and enjoy a long weekend. Friday 22 August Saturday 23 August Sunday 24 August Monday 25 August

Calling all 18 - 25 year old early career performers! ✨ Join the Belgrade Ensemble now! A free, year-long creative programme for early-career performers from Coventry and the surrounding region. Alongside weekly workshops with industry professionals...

The first day of rehearsals for The Party Girls was a ball! 🎉 ✨ Kirsty Besterman as Nancy Mitford ✨ Joe Coen as Bob Treuhaft ✨ Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Diana Mitford ✨ Emma Noakes as Jessica Mitford ✨ Ell Potter as Unity Mitford ✨ Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Debo Mitford

Acting classes are back at the Belgrade! 🎭 Whether your 5 or 105, creativity is an essential part of life! Sign up to one of our popular acting classes and take part in weekly workshops designed to stretch your imagination, develop acting and performance skills...

GEEK MART - THIS SATURDAY! 🤖 📍 FREE ENTRY 🗓️ Sat 2 Aug, 10:30am - 4pm 👉 More at buff.ly/giEptAI Step into a world of cult treasures, creative flair, and geeky goodness at the very first Geek Mart – Coventry’s brand-new marketplace for all things pop culture, alternative, and awesomeness!

✨ FREE FAMILY FUN - Coventry Puppet Festival - Tue 29 Jul ✨ Join us and the British Puppet Guild this Tuesday (29 Jul) for a day full of world-class puppetry! 👉 Find out more & book now at buff.ly/xSRVXq1

Paines Plough's Consumed is one of The Stage's top picks for Edinburgh Fringe this year, and you can See It First at the Belgrade tomorrow and Saturday before anyone else! Don't wait, book now buff.ly/ED6X6c3 🎉 Consumed (previews) 🗓️ Fri 25 & Sat 26 Jul 🗞️ Stage's best Fringe shows: buff.ly/FAFBwYG

We told you See It First was the place to be! 🤩 Here's what's going down today... 📣 We welcome the Producer Gathering to the Belgrade for the first time for a dynamic and participatory session with special guests.

What an incredible night we had in The Jag on Saturday! 🤩 We’re thrilled to have unveiled our new creative space with unique scratch performances from Blindspot Nights as part of our SEE IT FIRST programme of new work, workshops, and conversations.

🎉 The doors open for See it First in just a few hours and we can't to see you there! Check out our shiny new signage for The Jag... 😍

Kevin the Koala clings to our stage in less than a weeks time! We thought we'd share some koala facts so you can get to know Kevin a little better... 🐨 The Koala Who Could 🗓️ Thu 24 - Sat 26 Jul 🎟️ buff.ly/oaz3ah2

Coventry Puppet Festival opens in 10 days! Here's everything you need to know... ✨ Celebrating 100 years of British Puppetry 🗓️ Tue 29 Jul 🎟️ More and how to book at buff.ly/09cyDQV

Coventry are you ready?! 👑 SIX opens to a packed out audience tonight with seven sold out performances from the queens to follow! 👸 Who's joining us in the queendom? 🎤 Which song are you most looking forward to? ✨ Who's your favourite queen? We need all the goss!

📣 OFFER MUST END MIDNIGHT TONIGHT! (Tue 15 July) 🎟️ 2 FOR 1 PANTO TICKETS 🎟️ Beat the pre-Christmas panic (and save £££s) by snapping up your Sleeping Beauty tickets now with this very special offer!

🎉 GEEK MART 2025 🎉 🗓 Sat 2 Aug 🕐 10:30am – 4pm 📍 Belgrade Theatre 💥 FREE ENTRY! Step into a world of cult treasures, creative flair, and geeky goodness at the very first GEEK MART – Coventry’s brand-new marketplace for all things pop culture, alternative, and awesome!

It's just two weeks to go until Kevin the koala's Australian outback adventure! 🐨 An empowering and chuckle-out-loud story about embracing change - whether we like it or not.

✨ A special message from Steve Hewlett & his cheeky mate Arthur Lager... Steve, who is one of the British Puppet Guild's top ventriloquists & Britain's Got Talent finalist, will join us at the Puppet Festival at the end of this month alongside the likes of Sooty, Zippy, Hacker T Dog & loads more!

Host Dining in Nineteen 58 is back! 🎉 For one night only in our beautifully Nineteen 58 restaurant and bar, we’re hosting an exclusive evening of cuisine with a unique tasting menu from acclaimed local chef, Sarah Jenkins.

✨ Junior chorus auditions TOMORROW ✨ We can't wait to see Cov kids shine and wish good luck to all! 🏰 Sleeping Beauty Pantomime auditions for ages 9-16 🗓️ Sun 29 Jun, 9:30am 👉 All details at buff.ly/Y8epTSv

📣 Temporary building closure on Sat 28 June. The Belgrade, including our café and box office, will be closed from 3pm on Sat 28 Jun due to staff training.

✨ See It First 2025 Line Up Revealed ✨ Once again, this July, the Belgrade will become an artistic hub for the region, because we are passionate about new work, unearthing new stories and sharing them with people who want to see them.

Epic Ensemble have completed their technical rehearsal for tonight’s performance as part of The Physical Fellowship @belgradetheatre.bsky.social @highlysprung.bsky.social

Proud to be co-producing this one with @belgradetheatre.bsky.social, @sheffieldtheatres.bsky.social, @womensplayprize.bsky.social, in association with the Lyric, Belfast. Click the link below to see the full cast and team, and where we're touring. painesplough.com/productions/...

A great first workshop with @fourthmonkey.bsky.social as part of @highlysprung.bsky.social Physical Fellowship @belgradetheatre.bsky.social

One week to go! ✨ Don't forget that this year's junior chorus auditions for our legendary pantomime are earlier than usual! Oh yes they are! On Sun 29 Jun, kids aged 9-16 from across Coventry and Warwickshire are invited to audition to be part of this year's panto, Sleeping Beauty. 🏰

🎶 It’s World Music Day! 🎶 Check out what we’ve got coming up - from tribute triumphs to musical theatre magic, there’s something for every music lover here at the Belgrade. 👉 Find out more & book now at buff.ly/Se9ujjm

The Vanishing Elephant must vanish for the final time this Saturday! 🐘 Don't miss this extortionary adventure of friendship & belonging featuring "mesmerising" puppetry that's guaranteed to captivate the whole family. ✨ The Vanishing Elephant 🗓️ Running until 21 Jun 🎟️ Book now buff.ly/2GEYiVp

The beautiful Janu took some time out of rehearsals to get to know her surroundings before her show opens tonight! Did you spot her roaming around sunny Cov? ✨ The Vanishing Elephant 🗓️ Wed 18 - Sat 21 Jun 🎟️ Book now at buff.ly/2GEYiVp

📣 BREAKING NEWS: Magician Harry Houdini vanishes three ton elephant! Okay this might not be current breaking news, but it was in 1918! Hear the story that inspired The Vanishing Elephant opening tomorrow (Wed 18 Jun) in B1. 🐘 The Vanishing Elephant 🗓️ Wed 18 - Sat 21 Jun 🎟️ buff.ly/2GEYiVp

Refugee Week 2025 ✨ As part of Coventry's Refugee Week offering, we're pleased to hold an afternoon of Coffee and Conversation: Community as a Superpower on Wed 18 Jun, 2pm - 4pm. A creative storytelling workshop designed for refugees and migrants to come together in a safe, welcoming space...

Just a handful of tickets left for this Saturday's Voices of Resilience show @belgradetheatre.bsky.social Coventry! 🎟️🔥 Book your ticket now to avoid disappointment 👇 belgrade.co.uk/events/voice...

Roll up, roll up! The circus opens tonight! 🎪 Prepare to be dazzled as Coventry Musical Theatre Society invites you to experience the magic, music, and marvel of Barnum, the extraordinary story of America’s greatest showman.

THIS SATURDAY! Voices of Resilience @belgradetheatre.bsky.social 🎟️ belgrade.co.uk/voices-of-re... 📅 Sat 14 Jun, 7:45pm 📍 Belgrade Theatre, Coventry, CV1 1GS Readers include @zarahsultana.bsky.social (via pre-recorded video), Sama Rantisi, Mohammed Ghalayini, Leila Herandi & Julie-Yara Atz.

Temporary building closure on Thursday 12 June 📣 Please note the theatre café will be closed until 11am and the Box Office will be closed until midday on 12 June. 👉 Online booking will not be affected and is open 24/7 at buff.ly/rak2FVr