In association with the Hardy Har! Comedy Festival, we are delighted to welcome the UK's most unlikely TikTok sensation, Tom Glover, as he embarks on his first national tour for 2025

Calling all aspiring performers! Dorchester Arts and Dorchester Youth Theatre present a weeklong musical theatre course which gives young people aged 10 – 18 the opportunity to work together to create and perform a full length performance. To be involved you must be available for all dates, including the performance which will take place on the Friday night. A full commitment is required for all sessions. For further details about the sessions and performance contact dyt@dorchesterarts.org.uk.

Our Summer MT gives young people aged 10 – 18 years the opportunity to work together, for a week of acting, singing and movement, leading to full-length performance.

To be involved you must be available from 28 July – 1 August. Performance will take place on the Friday night. Full commitment required for all sessions.

The participant fee for the week is £125. An optional hot meal can be purchased at £6 per day (all dietary requirements will be catered for)

Riddlestick Theatre present a new musical comedy telling tales of folk intrigue, ‘wyrd’ happenings and inebriated villagers.

An evening of words and music with one of the UK's finest pianists alongside a great figure of stage and screen.

Lucy Parham, piano

Sir Simon Russell Beale, narrator

Scripted by Lucy Parham

New for 2025!

Join Top Secret as they go on a High Voltage Adventure!!!

Top Secret is a fast moving colourful magical science show filled with mystery, suspense, and lots and lots of mess!

Light the beacons! Rouse the villagers! Gather all your courage... for the smash hit comedy show of the cult 90s TV classic is back!

Chris Difford is a Grammy nominated and double Ivor Novello Award winning lyricist who has brought us characters and sketches from everyday life, and has successfully turned the mundane into the beautiful, the urbane into the exquisite, for over 40 years. As part of the legendary Squeeze, Chris has co-written some of the most enduring and best-loved songs of our time such as ‘Up The Junction’, ‘Cool For Cats’ and ‘Labelled With Love’, ‘Tempted’ and many others.

Kathryn and Sean have twice been voted BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards Best Duo as well as winning Best Duo honours from both Spiral Earth and Fatea Magazine. 2025 sees them celebrate 30 years of their musical partnership with the release of their first live concert album. Titled ‘Another Day At The Circus’ it perfectly encapsulates the intimate poignancy of an evening with a couple at the top of their game.

Blowzabella is a genuinely unique band that makes an inimitable, driving, drone-based wall-of-sound played with a fabulous sense of melody, rhythmic expertise and sheer feeling

Often imitated but rarely equalled, in the words of her good friend Elton, "the bitch is back"!