All events
Grizzly Bear
Fri 12 Mar 8pm
Music
The Brooklyn four-piece whose post-Radiohead sonic vistas have been blowing many a mind visit Warwick Arts Centre
Dirty Oil (cert tbc) Introduced by Neve Campbell
Mon 15 Mar
Film
This much anticipated feature documentary from Academy Award nominated director Leslie Iwerks goes deep behind-the-scenes into the strip-min...
Lemn Sissay
Mon 15 & Tue 16 Mar 7.45pm
Theatre
Lemn Sissay continues the journey explored in his previous, award winning play Something Dark
Superstition Mountain
Wed 17 – Fri 19 Mar 7.45pm
Theatre
This once great Cornish family has lost everything, but there’s one faint glimmer of hope that might save them from disaster… a legendar...
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Wed 17 Mar 8pm
Classical Music
Maxim Shostakovich conducts his father’s work in what is sure to be one of the most memorable musical evenings in the Butterworth Hall.
bahok
Fri 19 Mar 7.30pm
Dance
Akram Khan once again joins forces with long-time collaborator and multi award-winning composer Nitin Sawhney for bahok
Portico Quartet
Sat 20 Mar 8pm
Music
Mercury nominated Portico Quartet bring their dance friendly brand of hook-laden, post jazz to Warwick Arts Centre
Sweet Nothings
Tue 27 Apr – Sat 1 May 7.30pm
Theatre
Controversial theatre-maker Luc Bondy directs David Harrower's new adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's 'Liebelei'. Adultery, passion, deceptio...
Ruby Wax - Losing It?
Sat 8 May 7.30pm
Comedy
Told with wit, humour and a lot of heart, this is Ruby at her belting best – when she’s losing it! With musician Judith Owen
The Last Station (15)
Fri 5 – Thu 11 Mar & Fri 30 Apr – Mon 3 May
Film
Helen Mirren wows critics and audiences in her new film The Last Station based on Leo Tolstoy's life
Tim Vine
Thu 11 Mar 2010 8pm
Comedy
King of the one-liner and star of BBC1’s Not Going Out tours the country with his brand new stand-up show with support from John Archer.
The Hurt Locker (15)
Wed 10 & Thu 11 Mar, Tue 4 - Wed 6 May
Film
Multi award-winning - a riveting, suspenseful portrait of the courage under fire of the military’s unrecognised heroes
The Forest
Wed 10 – Sat 13 Mar, Wed – Fri 10.30am & 1.30pm, Sat 11am & 2pm
Family
“Fevered Sleep offers a lesson in how companies creating work for the very young are producing some truly sensational theatre.” The Guar...
Unpopular Culture
Fri 22 Jan – Sat 13 Mar
Visual Arts
Grayson Perry selects work from the Arts Council Collection, presented alongside new work made by him in response to the Collection.
Capitalism: A Love Story (12A)
Fri 12 – Thu 18 Mar
Film
With both humour and outrage, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story explores a taboo question: What is the price that America pays for ...
MICMACS (12A)
Fri 12 – Thu 18 Mar
Film
The latest dazzlingly cinematic outing from the award winning director of Amelie and Delicatessen
Close Up Film Talk: Michael Deeley - Cancelled
Sat 13 Mar 11am – 3.30pm
Film
Oscar winning movie producer Michael Deeley in conversation. Includes a screening of Bladerunner: The Final Cut.
UoW Symphony Orchestra & Chorus: Aida
Sun 14 Mar 4pm
Family
With a plethora of Verdi’s familiar melodies, rousing choruses aplenty and an exceptional line-up of soloists, this promises to be a perfo...
John Bishop
Sun 14 Mar 7.30pm
Comedy
A second date for John Bishop's - Elvis Has Left The Building tour.
Claire Martin & Gareth Williams Trio
Sun 14 Mar 7.45pm
Music
One of the outstanding jazz voices of her generation returns to Warwick Arts Centre
Andrew Davies In Conversation
Tue 16 Mar 5.45pm
Events
Award-winning screenwriter Andrew Davies speaking about his BAFTA-winning BBC TV series A Very Peculiar Practice
The Charley Boorman Show
Tue 16 March 8pm
Events
The Actor, Adventurer and Author takes a break from travelling the world, to travel the UK with a brand new live show.
Evolutionary Moves
Wed 17 Mar 7.30pm
Dance
An evening of invention and skill from some of the young dancers taking part in the Warwick Arts Centre Boys Dancing project
Lunchtime Free Concerts
1.10pm
Classical Music
As well as supporting the student ensembles of the university, the Music Centre also runs a programme of professional lunchtime concerts
Chloe (15)
Fri 19 – Thu 25 Mar
Film
A sexually charged melodrama starring Julianne Moore as a distrustful wife who deliberately leads flirtatious husband Liam Neeson into tempt...
Dave Gorman's Sit Down Pedal, Pedal Stop and Stand-Up
Fri 19 Mar 2010 8pm
Comedy
Comedian Dave Gorman returns due to popular demand
A Closed Book (15)
Fri 19 – Sun 21 Mar
Film
Academy Award nominee Tom Conti and Daryl Hannah are at their thrilling best in this twisted tale of murderous revenge, dark secrets and psy...
The Ballet Shoes (PG)
Sat 20 Mar 2pm
Film
Based on the novel by Noel Streatfield and set in Thirties London, Ballet Shoes tells the exhilarating tale of orphans Pauline, Petrova and ...
The Headless Woman (12A)
Mon 22 & Tue 23 Mar
Film
A mysterious and intriguing tale of a woman who may have killed someone or something while driving on dirt road
Rory Bremner's Election Battlebus
Wed 24 Mar 7.30pm
Comedy
As Britain gets ready to vote in the biggest election in a generation, the country’s top satirical impressionist takes to the road again f...
She, a Chinese (18)
Wed 24 & Thu 25 Mar
Film
A fresh and imaginative cross-cultural story about an enigmatic young woman's search for herself and a place to belong.
It's Complicated (15)
Fri 26 – Tue 30 Mar
Film
Meryl Streep provides another excellent comic turn in It's Complicated, a screwball comedy updated for lovers of a more mature vintage.
44 Inch Chest (18)
Fri 26 – Mon 29 Mar
Film
A provocative, outrageously profane and surprisingly tender film amidst an explosion of unbridled testosterone.
Hamlet
Sat 27 Mar 5pm
Film
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre
Brothers (15)
Tue 30 Mar – Thu 1 Apr
Film
Directed by Jim Sheridan, Brothers is based on Susanne Bier's 2004 Danish film Brodre, and takes inspiration from Homer's epic poem The Odys...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (U)
Wed 31 Mar & Thu 1 Apr
Film
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell star in this new digital print of the warm, funny, dazzlingly stylish Technicolour musical.
Alice in Wonderland (PG)
Fri 2 – Thu 8 Apr
Film
From visionary director Tim Burton comes this magical and imaginative twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time
Nine (12a)
Fri 2 – Sun 4 Apr
Film
Rob Marshall directs a stellar cast including Penelope Cruz, Judi Dench, Daniel Day Lewis, Sophia Loren and Nicole Kidman
Invictus (12A)
Mon 5 – Thu 8 Apr
Film
From director Clint Eastwood, the inspiring true story of how Nelson Mandela joined forces with the captain of South Africa’s rugby team,...
The Ghost (cert tbc)
Fri 7 – Thu 13 May
Film
An adaptation of the Robert Harris novel The Ghost, directed by Roman Polanski
A Single Man (15)
Fri 9 - Thu 15 April
Film
Based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood, A Single Man is an affecting story of love and loneliness starring BAFTA winning Colin Firth
Crazy Heart (15)
Fri 9 – Mon 12 Apr
Film
Jeff Bridges won an Oscar & Golden Globe for his performance as the richly comic, semi-tragic romantic anti-hero Bad Blake in this debut fea...
Up in the Air (15)
Tue 13 – Thu 15 Apr
Film
George Clooney is at his smooth, sardonic best in this new picture from the director of Juno
I Love You Philip Morris (15)
Fri 16 – Wed 21 Apr
Film
An improbable, but true, tale of a spectacularly charismatic and resourceful con-man’s journey from small-town cop to flamboyant white-col...
Ondine (12A)
Fri 16 – Tue 20 Apr
Film
The enchanting story of Syracuse, a lonely fisherman who one day pulls a beautiful woman named Ondine out of the sea in his nets.
Samson & Delilah (15)
Tue 20 & Wed 21 Apr
Film
Samson and Delilah's world is small- an isolated community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes they turn their backs on h...
NT Live: The Habit of Art Live Transmission
Thu 22 Apr 6.45pm
Theatre
Alan Bennett's new play for the National Theatre, transmitted live to our theatre
Storm (cert tbc)
Fri 23 - Sun 25 Apr
Film
A prosecutor at The Tribunal in The Hague manages to convince a young Bosnian woman to testify against an alleged war criminal
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (18)
Fri 23 – Thu 29 Apr
Film
The keenly-awaited screen version of the bestselling Stieg Larsson novel is a violent, brooding whodunit that exposes the ugly truth about t...
NT Live: The Habit of Art Repeat Screening
Sat 24 Apr 7.30pm
Theatre
Alan Bennett's new play for the National Theatre, transmitted live to our theatre
Dara O'Briain
Sun 25 Apr, 8pm
Comedy
Award winning stand up comedian Dara O'Briain hits the road again in 2010
Father Of My Children (12A)
Mon 26 & Tue 27 Apr
Film
Superb drama from upcoming French talent Mia Hansen Love: a family's life is turned upside down when the father, a hustling film producer, f...
5 SOLDIERS - The Body is The Frontline
Tue 27 & Wed 28 Apr 7.45pm
Dance
A powerful dance-theatre production that explores the physicality of modern warfare
Adoration (15)
Wed 28 & Thu 29 Apr
Film
Adoration folds all sorts of post-9/11 questions into a very Egoyanesque miasma of elegantly fractured chronology and provocative ideas
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Wed 28 Apr 8pm
Classical Music
The CBSO introduces its new Music Director, Andris Nelsons to Warwick Arts Centre for this evening, joined by virtuoso violinist, Frank Pete...
John Smith
Thu 29 Apr 7.45pm
Music
John Smith is quietly becoming recognized as one of the most exciting voices on the British Folk scene. He has spent several years solidly o...
Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra
Thu 29 Apr 8pm
Music
Celebrate, party and boogie down with Jools Holland and his Rhythm & Blues Orchestra – a show that you’ll want to experience again and a...
Malandras del Tango
Fri 30 Apr 7.45pm
Music
Brit/Argentinian tango from Tango Siempre with Victor Villena of the Gotan Project
I Am Love (15)
Fri 30 Apr - Mon 3 May
Film
Tilda Swinton gives a stunning performance as the central muse of a tale about the irresistible draw of forbidden passion and the bitterswee...
Armida
Sat 1 May 6pm
Film
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre
Kevin Johansen
Sat 1 May 7.45pm
Music
Born of Argentine mother and American father, *Kevin Johansen* deliberately plays with his bilingualism and forces us into his own private w...
Russell Kane's Fakespeare
Sun 2 May 7.45pm
Comedy
Following a complete sell out run at this years Edinburgh Fringe Russell Kane brings us his celebrated blank verse bonanza
Kursk
Tue 4 - Sat 8 May 7.45pm, Thu matinee 1.30pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm
Theatre
An insight into the lives of submariners, fathoms below the icy seas.
An Evening With Gervase Phinn
Wed 5 May 8pm
Events
Gervase Phinn shares his hilarious tales of life as a schools inspector in the Yorkshire Dales
Rokia Traore
Fri 7 May 8pm
Music
The adventurous African artist brings her guitar-driven bluesy sounds to Warwick Arts Centre, with Sweet Billy Pilgrim in support
Stewart Francis
Sun 9 May & Sun 24 Oct 7.30pm
Comedy
Back by popular demand with his tour de force of a show: Tour de Francis.
Don Pasquale
Tue 11 & Fri 14 May 7.30pm
Classical Music
A comedy with zest, cream and an Italian accent in a new production by English Touring Opera
The Marriage of Figaro
Wed 12 & Thu 13 May 7.30pm
Classical Music
An elegant, period costume production of one of the world’s most popular operas from English Touring Opera
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Sat 15 May 7.30pm
Classical Music
ETO’s hugely successful production of Britten's masterpiece returns
Reginald D Hunter
Sun 16 May 7.30pm
Comedy
Reginald D Hunter returns with a brand new show in 2010 following his triumphant sell out appearance at Warwick Arts Centre last October
Michael Clark: come, been and gone
Tue 18 & Wed 19 May 7.30pm
Dance
Inspired by Michael Clark's admiration for the music of rock's holy trinity, David Bowie, Iggy Pop and Lou Reed.
Moscow State Symphony Orchestra
Tue 18 May 8pm
Classical Music
A treat to close this celebratory Concert Series season, complete with Philip Glass' Violin Concerto.
Hairy Bikers' Big Night Out
Fri 21 May 8pm
Events
Join TV's The Hairy Bikers for an evening of cooking, chatting and laughs.
Coull Quartet
Sun 23 May, 3pm
Classical Music
Fourth concert in the 2009 - 2010 Series featuring Ivo-Jan van der Werff, viola
Katy Brand
Sun 23 May 7.30pm
Comedy
Join the British Comedy Award Winner and star of ITV2's Katy Brand's Big Ass Show for an evening of anarchic comedy, celebrity satire, music...
Christy Moore with Declan Sinnott
Mon 24 May, 8pm
Music
Legendary Christy Moore performs as part of a major UK tour with musician and record producer, Declan Sinnott
Britain's Got Bhangra
Sat & Sun matinee 2.30pm NB. No performance on Mon 31 May
Theatre
Charting the rise of British Bhangra in the UK from the sequin clad 80s through to the R ‘n’ B fusion of the present day. A twinkling ni...
Jimmy Carr
Wed 26 May 8pm
Comedy
A heady mix of artistic integrity, loyalty and avarice has put Jimmy back on the road.
Paul Merton's Impro Chums
Sat 29 May 8pm
Comedy
Paul Merton, one of the country's funniest and best-loved performers, sets out in Spring 2010 on a brand new UK-wide tour with his world ren...
Music was my First Love
Sun 30 May 7.30pm
Music
An unforgettable evening of popular music performed by The Midland Voice Choir and Orchestra
Andrew Maxwell
Sun 30 May 7.45pm
Comedy
Edinburgh Comedy Award and Time Out Award nominee Andrew Maxwell is one of the most talented stand-up comedians in the UK
Events in June |
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| Tue 01 | Britain's Got Bhangra | 7:30pm |
| Wed 02 | Britain's Got Bhangra | 7:30pm |
| Thu 03 | Britain's Got Bhangra | 7:30pm |
| Fri 04 | Britain's Got Bhangra | 7:30pm |
| Sat 05 | Britain's Got Bhangra | 2:30pm |
| Britain's Got Bhangra | 7:30pm | |
| Sat 12 | The Mermaid Princess | 2:00pm |
| The Mermaid Princess | 7:00pm | |
| Sun 13 | The Mermaid Princess | 3:00pm |
| Mon 14 | The Mermaid Princess | 10:30am |
| Wed 16 | Petty Concerns of Luke Wright | 7:45pm |
| Sat 19 | Ruby Turner | 7:30pm |
| Sun 20 | Coull Quartet | 3:00pm |
| Mon 21 | Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm |
| Tue 22 | Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm |
| Wed 23 | Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm |
| Thu 24 | Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm |
| Fri 25 | Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm |
| Sat 26 | Decky Does A Bronco | 2:30pm |
| Decky Does A Bronco | 7:30pm | |
Events in October |
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| Wed 06 | Rhod Gilbert & The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst | 8:00pm |
| Mon 18 | Frankie Boyle | 8:00pm |
| Sun 24 | Stewart Francis | 7:30pm |
| Fri 29 | John Bishop | 8:00pm |
Events in November |
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| Sat 13 | The Armstrong & Miller Show Live | 8:00pm |
| Sun 14 | Sarah Millican | 7:45pm |
| Fri 19 | Mark Watson | 8:00pm |
Events in December |
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| Wed 01 | Jason Manford | 8:00pm |
| Thu 02 | Jason Manford | 8:00pm |
