All events
Little Gem
Tue 5 - Sat 9 Oct 7.30pm
Theatre
The multi-award winning hit of the 2008 Dublin Fringe Festival about three generations of Irish women.
Lindsay Seers - It has to be this way2
Sat 9 Oct - Sat 11 Dec 12pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Within the gallery, a viewing chamber forms part of a sculptural installation housing a double-screen video projection and two monitor works...
Piranesi's Prisons
Sat 9 Oct - Sat 11 Dec 12pm - 9pm
Visual Arts
Etchings by the 18th Century artist Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Political Mother
Tue 12 & Wed 13 Oct 7.30pm
Dance
Hofesh Shechter's highly anticipated new work, Political Mother
Arthur Smith
Sun 17 Oct 7.30pm
Comedy
A vigorous account of the peculiar business of being alive from that Grumpy Old Man Arthur Smith
Baaria (15)
Tue 31 Aug – Thu 2 Sep
Film
Baaria is Giuseppe Tornatore’s lush and romantic reimagining of the path of one persons life.
Separado! (12)
Fri 3 & Sat 4 Sep
Film
Welsh pop legend Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals) takes us on a pan continental road trip in search of his long lost Patagonian uncle.
Heartbreaker (15)
Fri 3 - Tue 7 Sep
Film
Meet Alex. He’s charming, funny, effortlessly cool, and most importantly, irresistible to women. He offers a professional service – to b...
No Impact Man (15)
Sun 5 & Mon 6 Sep and Wed 27 & Thu 28 Oct
Film
A guilty New York liberal decides to practice what he preaches for one year, becoming a walking, bicycling, composting, tree-hugging, polar ...
Rapt (15)
Tue 7 - Thu 9 Sep
Film
On a morning like any other a powerful business man, Stanislas Graff, is kidnapped outside his luxurious apartment building by a gang of thu...
Went The Day Well? (PG)
Wed 8 & Thu 9 Sep
Film
When Churchill said we’d fight the Nazis on beaches, landing grounds, fields, streets and hills, he left out the church-yard, manor house,...
Down Terrace (15)
Fri 10 - Mon 13 Sep
Film
Fresh from watching his son Karl being acquitted in court, family head Bill returns to his terraced home in Brighton with dangerous question...
The Secret In Their Eyes (18)
Fri 10 - Tue 14 Sep
Film
Benjamin Esposito (Darin), a recently retired criminal court investigator decides to try his hand at writing a novel based on an old case wh...
The Refuge (15)
Tue 14 - Thu 16 Sep
Film
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day they overdose and Louis dies.
Frontier Blues (12A)
Wed 15 & Thu 16 Sep
Film
In the northern frontier of Iran, director Babak Jalali mines absurdist humour and quiet pathos from the immutable routines of a group of me...
SoulBoy (15)
Fri 17 - Mon 20 Sep
Film
1974. Power cuts, strikes and boot-boy aggro on the terraces. Flares, Chopper bikes and beer at fourteen pence per pint.
22 Bullets (18)
Fri 17 – Sun 19 Sep
Film
Whilst shopping in Marseilles with his young son, retired gangster Charley Mattei (Reno) is the target of a brutal assassination attempt in ...
Dog Pound (18)
Mon 20 - Wed 22 Sep
Film
Angel, 15 years old: assault and car theft. Davis, 16 years old: possession of narcotics with intent to resell. Butch, 17 years old: assault...
The Maid (15)
Tue 21 & Wed 22 Sep
Film
Raquel, a bitter and introverted woman, has been the Valdés family’s maid for 23 years. One day, Pilar her mistress, hires another maid t...
National Theatre Live: Phedre
Thu 23 Sep 6.45pm
Theatre
An encore screening of Phedre starring Helen Mirren and Dominic Cooper
Certified Copy (12A)
Fri 24 - Thu 30 Sep
Film
This is the story of a meeting between one man and one woman in a small Italian village in Southern Tuscany.
World's Greatest Dad (15)
Fri 24 - Thu 30 Sep
Film
A thoughtful but outrageous comedy - the story of a man that learns the things you want most may not be the things that make you happy.
The Leopard (PG)
Sat 25 & Sun 26 Sep
Film
Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa’s best-selling novel, must surely rate as one of the most sumptuou...
The Illusionist (PG)
Fri 1 - Tue 5 Oct
Film
As cheeky, boisterous and witty as it is delicately drawn and beauteous to behold, Sylvain Chomet’s second feature film is a winner on eve...
The Girl Who Played With Fire (15)
Fri 1 - Fri 8 Oct
Film
Hot on the heels of _The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo_ comes the next in this trilogy, _The Girl Who Played With Fire_.
Micky Flanagan
Sun 3 Oct 7.45pm
Comedy
Micky Flanagan hits the road performing the best of his last two Edinburgh shows. It’s not just time to go out, it’s time to go Out Out.
Such Is Life
Tue 5 & Wed 6 Oct 7.45pm
Dance
Mobius Dance present an exploration of the happenings of everyday, flipped on its head!
The Halle
Tue 5 Oct 8pm
Classical Music
We are delighted to open our 2010-2011 season with the award-winning Hallé under the direction of their Music Director, Sir Mark Elder.
Rashomon (12A)
Wed 6 & Thu 7 Oct
Film
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, Rashomon is perhaps the finest film ever to investigate the philosophy ...
Rhod Gilbert & The Cat That Looked Like Nicholas Lyndhurst
Wed 6 Oct 8pm
Comedy
The Welsh Wonder is back after sell out shows earlier in the year.
Tamara Drewe (15)
Fri 8 - Sun 17 Oct
Film
Based on Posy Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from...
Ben Clempson / Paul Van Ryan & the Late Knights
Fri 8 Oct 7.45pm
Music
Some of the best independent and emerging musicians from in and around the Midlands.
Beth Nielsen Chapman
Fri 8 Oct 8pm
Music
Acclaimed singer/songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman with a selection of new material from her latest album Back To Love as well as some of the ...
Family Art Club: Drawing with Light
Sat 9 Oct 1pm-2.30pm
Visual Arts
Join in and explore drawing with light, experiment with torches, collage and colour to create your own live installations and performances.
Family Film: The Illusionist (PG)
Sat 9 Oct 1.30pm
Film
A wonderful film for the whole family to enjoy.
Met Opera Live: Das Rheingold
Sat 9 Oct 6pm
Classical Music
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre.
Twelve Wild Ducks
Sun 10 Oct 3pm
Family
Multistory bring their customary magic with a blend of live music, magical word-weaving and engaging physicality.
Winter's Bone (15)
Sun 10 - Thu 14 Oct
Film
This enigmatic thriller follows 17-year-old Ree Jolly on a desperate quest to save the family home after her drug-dealing father skips bail.
Polar Bear
Sun 10 Oct 7.30pm
Music
Known for their genre-bending approach to music, Polar Bear draw on everything from hip hop to metal, but have their roots firmly in jazz.
UOW Symphony Orchestra, Wind Orchestra, Brass Band, MTW & Big Band: A Night at the Musicals
Tue 12 Oct 7pm
Classical Music
Kick off the Autumn season with an evening of classics from an array of musicals.
NT Live: A Disappearing Number
Thu 14 Oct 6.45pm
Theatre
Complicite's A Disappearing Number is broadcast as part of the National Theatre Live season.
Tuning Out with Radio Z
Thu 14 - Sat 16 Oct 7pm
Theatre
An extraordinary theatrical experience that is improvised afresh each night both for you and by you. It will never be repeated.
Philharmonia Orchestra
Thu 14 Oct 8pm
Classical Music
Our first visit from the Philharmonia this season will be conducted by the distinguished Vladimir Ashkenazy, with a mixed programme of Scand...
Havana Rakatan
Fri 15 & Sat 16 Oct 8pm, Sat matinee 2.30pm
Dance
From the sexy, spontaneous rumba to the slick footwork of the cha-cha-cha, this is a show that's guaranteed to get heads nodding and feet ta...
Made in Dagenham (15)
Fri 15 - Sun 24 Oct
Film
Starring the award-winning Sally Hawkins as Rita O’Grady who is the catalyst for the 1968 Ford Dagenham strike.
Film Talk: Kurosawa
Sat 16 Oct, 11am-3.30pm
Film
This film talk by Alexander Jacoby, writer and lecturer on Japanese film focuses on the work of acclaimed Japanese director Akira Kurosawa
Family Art Club: Stories in Print
Sat 16 Oct 1pm - 2.30pm
Visual Arts
Illustrate your own weird and wonderful stories using a variety of techniques.
Variety in the Campus
Sat 16 Oct 7.30pm
Family
A unique, ensemble vaudeville show packed full of heart stopping stunts and classic comedy.
Jason Cook - The End (Part 1)
Sun 17 Oct 7.45pm
Comedy
Award winning and critically acclaimed comic Jason Cook presents his brand new show - The End (Part 1).
Breathless (PG)
Mon 18 & Tue 19 Oct
Film
This classic film is being re-released to celebrate its 50th anniversary.
The Thrill Of It All
Tue 19 & Wed 20 Oct 7.30pm
Theatre
Forced Entertainment return with a large cast on a big stage.
The Author
Tue 19 - Sat 23 Oct 7.45pm
Theatre
Tim Crouch's new play is about the harm carried out in the name of art. It's a story of hope, violence, togetherness and exploitation.
Collapse (tbc)
Wed 20 & Thu 21 Oct
Film
Meet Michael Ruppert, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, at a time when most Wall Street and Washin...
Ian McMillan
Wed 20 Oct 7.15pm
Spoken Word/Literature
Ian is currently touring with his acclaimed verse autobiography Talking Myself Home.
Michael Nyman Band
Wed 20 Oct 8pm
Music
This evening we are lucky enough to see Michael Nyman as a composer, pianist and filmmaker.
Antonio Forcione
Fri 22 Oct 7.30pm
Music
Hailed as the ‘Jimi Hendrix of the acoustic guitar’, award-winning Forcione is considered one of the most charismatic and inventive perf...
Stewart Lee: Vegetable Stew
Fri 22 Oct 8pm
Comedy
Stewart Lee presents a vegetable stew of brand new work.
Mr Nice (18)
Fri 22 - Thu 28 Oct
Film
Howard Marks is a legend. International drug trafficker, secret spy, natural born charmer.
Family Art Club: Surreal Sculptures & Structures
Sat 23 Oct 1pm - 2.30pm
Visual Arts
Create crazy sculptures amd bizarre structures with everyday materials.
Met Opera Live: Boris Godunov
Sat 23 Oct 5pm
Classical Music
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre.
Stewart Francis
Sun 24 Oct 7.30pm
Comedy
Back by popular demand with his tour de force of a show: Tour de Francis.
Frisky and Mannish - The College Years
Sun 24 Oct 7.45pm
Comedy
Following their critically acclaimed, smash-hit debut School of Pop, F&M are back.
Metropolis (PG)
Mon 25 & Tue 26 Oct
Film
Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece now with 25 minutes of lost footage.
The Red Shoes
Tue 26 - Sat 30 Oct 7.30pm
Theatre
Adapted from Hans Christian Andersen, this freshly revived production of The Red Shoes is passionate, irreverent, funny and rude.
Bonnie and Clyde
Tue 26 & Wed 27 Oct 7.45pm
Theatre
The story of two young hopefuls struggling for something more in an era that gave rise to the American Dream.
Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio
Tue 26 Oct 8pm
Classical Music
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra was recently awarded the distinction of being renamed the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio...
Chair in a Day
Wed 27 Oct 10am–5pm
Family
Your everyday chair will become something gorgeous or scary or funny or fit for a queen or a wizard or Dr Who or...?
Jackboots on Whitehall (tbc)
Fri 29 Oct - Thu 4 Nov
Film
Winston Churchill hides out in lawless Scotland, as an all-star cast voices a radical alternative history of the Normandy landings.
New York, I Love You (tbc)
Fri 29 Oct - Wed 3 Nov
Film
Directed by an eclectic group of some of today’s most imaginative filmmakers,_New York, I Love You_ invites the audience into the intimat...
Family Film: Halloween Trick or Treat (PG)
Sat 30 Oct 2pm
Film
A spooky selection of classic witches, monsters, ghosties and ghoulies.
La Dolce Vita (15)
Sat 30 & Sun 31 Oct
Film
By turns vibrant and despairing, Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita is a soul-searching portrait of a celebrity-obsessed culture.
Greg Davies: Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog
Sun 31 Oct 7.30pm
Comedy
The hotly anticipated solo show from Greg Davies.
Imogen Heap
Sun 31 Oct 8pm
Music
Grammy nominated, multi-instrumentalist Imogen Heap returns in October.
The Fall of the House of Usher with live accompaniment by The Southwell Collective (PG)
Sun 31 Oct 8pm
Music
Jean Epstein’s mesmerising adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s famous story.
Neil Cowley Trio
Mon 1 Nov 7.45pm
Music
Neil Cowley Trio have carved out a reputation as one of Britain’s most exciting live bands.
6.0: How Heap & Pebble Took on the World and Won
Tue 2 & Wed 3 Nov 7.45pm
Theatre
A beautiful play about loss, love, human survival and ice dance.
Paco Pena
Tue 2 Nov 8pm
Music
Virtuoso musicianship and dance combine in flamenco maestro Paco Pena's new show.
Rich Hall
Thu 4 Nov 8pm
Comedy
Edinburgh fringe favourite and Perrier Award winner Rich Hall is back on the road.
Roger McGough
Fri 5 Nov 7.30pm
Spoken Word/Literature
An evening of poems to amaze and delight - there's poetry in the house and McGough fitted it.
Handa's Surprise
Sat 6 Nov 11am, 12pm, 2pm & 3pm
Family
A blend of physical performance, puppetry, live music and song combine to create an intimate, magical production with audience participation...
Ardal O'Hanlon
Sun 7 Nov 7.30pm
Comedy
Ardal O’Hanlon laughs in the face of mounting adversity - recession, inclement weather, an ageing body, and impending doom.
Way Out West, the Sea Whispered Me
Mon 8 Nov 7.45pm
Theatre
A study of the action of the sea, both as mythology and as awesome presence.
Inua Ellams' Untitled
Tue 9 & Wed 10 Nov 7.45pm
Theatre
A magical realist story set in Nigeria and England, of identical twin boys separated at infancy.
Alec Dankworth's Spanish Accents
Thu 11 Nov 7.45pm
Music
Alec Dankworth - Bass Mark Lockheart - Tenor Sax Andy Panayi - Flute Phil Robson - Guitar Demi Garcia - Drums Emily Dankworth - V...
Mark Kermode: It's Only A Movie
Fri 12 Nov 7.30pm
Spoken Word/Literature
Outspoken, opinionated and never lost for words, Kermode gives a hilarious account of a life obsessed with film.
Love Letters Straight From Your Heart
Fri 12 & Sat 13 Nov 7.45pm
Theatre
Uninvited Guests stage an event that is somewhere between a wedding reception, a wake and a radio dedication show.
Film Talk: 1960
Sat 13 Nov, 11am - 3.30pm
Film
Ian Haydn Smith, editor of the International Film Guide will discuss the pivotal year in cinema of 1960 along with a full screening of Peepi...
Met Opera Live: Don Pasquale
Sat 13 Nov 6pm
Classical Music
The Met Opera bring a selection from their award-winning series of live, high-definition performance transmissions to Warwick Arts Centre.
The Armstrong & Miller Show Live
Sat 13 Nov 8pm
Comedy
The stars of BBC One's Armstrong & Miller Show bring their live show to Warwick Arts Centre
Kevin Bridges
Sun 14 Nov 7.30pm
Comedy
Scotland's 'Young comedy prodigy' (The Guardian) - Kevin Bridges.
Sarah Millican
Sun 14 Nov & Sun 21 Nov 7.45pm
Comedy
Sarah Millican has quickly established herself as a crowd-pleasing act with well-written material and a gentle delivery style that disguises...
Jimmy Carr
Sun 14 Nov & Fri 10 Dec 8pm
Comedy
Laughter Therapy from Jimmy Carr - one brand new show to be taken annually
UOW Wind Orchestra & Brass Band Festivo!
Mon 15 Nov 7pm
Classical Music
A fun and entertaining evening with the University of Warwick Wind Orchestra & Brass Band
Punk Rock
Tue 16 - Sat 20 Nov 7.30pm
Theatre
A new play by Simon Stephens which topically focuses on a group of sixth-formers as they prepare themselves for the end of their school live...
Writers in Prisons 50th Anniversary Event
Wed 17 Nov 7.15pm
Spoken Word/Literature
A discussion of issues affecting writers in war-torn countries, as well as in the UK and other supposedly free Western nations.
Five Kinds of Silence
Wed 17 - Sat 20 Nov 7.45pm
Theatre
A darkly beautiful tale about the stories you don't hear; in this story, the dead do tell tales.
The Divine Comedy
Wed 17 Nov 8pm
Music
The Divine Comedy's Neil Hannon will be hitting the road for a UK tour this November and calling in at Warwick Arts Centre.
Family Film: Black Jack (PG)
Sat 20 Nov 2pm
Film
Based on the novel by celebrated children's author Leon Garfield, this children's adventure is set in 1750s York.
Hugh Masekela supported by The Mahotella Queens
Sat 20 Nov 8pm
Music
The warmth and optimism of South African music comes to the stage through two of the Rainbow Nation's finest artists.
Milestones: Kind of Blue
Mon 22 Nov 7.45pm
Music
Milestones is a new jazz group formed this year to celebrate the music of Miles Davis.
The National
Thu 25 Nov 8pm
Music
Brooklyn-based indie rock back The National come to Warwick Arts Centre in November.
Hansel & Gretel
Fri 26 Nov - Fri 10 Dec
Theatre
A delightful Christmas show for children and brave adults everywhere.
Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg
Fri 26 Nov 8pm
Classical Music
Tonight we welcome the distinguished Mozarteum Orchestra Salzburg on their first visit to Warwick Arts Centre.
Emma McGann and Carly Ryder
Sat 27 Nov 7.45pm
Music
The best independent and emerging musicians from in and around the Midlands.
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Wed 1 - Sat 4 Dec 7.45pm
Theatre
Warwick University Drama Society present an updated version of Brecht's parody of Hitler's rise.
Frankie Boyle
Mon 18 Oct 8pm
Comedy
Star of Mock the Week, and one of the hottest and most controversial comedians of the moment, is back on the road in 2010 with an all new li...
Ross Noble
Sat 23 Oct 8pm
Comedy
Nonsensory Overload is Ross Noble back fresh from his sell out tour Down Under, not to mention his own TV show, doing what he does best; spi...
Reginald D Hunter
Sat 6 Nov 8pm
Comedy
Reginald D Hunter returns with a brand new show in 2010 following his triumphant sell out appearance at Warwick Arts Centre last October
Events in January |
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| Sun 02 | The Gruffalo | 11:00am |
| The Gruffalo | 2:00pm | |
| Sat 08 | Met Opera Live: La Fanciulla del West | 6:00pm |
| Wed 12 | City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra | 8:00pm |
| Thu 13 | National Theatre Live: FELA! | 6:45pm |
| Fri 21 | Diary of a Madman (after Gogol) / Discords (after Shakespeare) | 7:45pm |
| Sat 22 | Diary of a Madman (after Gogol) / Discords (after Shakespeare) | 7:45pm |
| The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain | 8:00pm | |
| Sun 23 | Punt & Dennis: They Should Get Out More | 7:30pm |
| Tue 25 | Enigma; Cadance; Kridt | 7:30pm |
| Wed 26 | Enigma; Cadance; Kridt | 7:30pm |
| Thu 27 | European Union Chamber Orchestra | 8:00pm |
| Fri 28 | Micky Flanagan: Extra Date! | 7:30pm |
| The Richard Thompson Band | 8:00pm | |
| Sat 29 | The Richard Thompson Band | 8:00pm |
Events in February |
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| Tue 01 | Coull Quartet | 8:00pm |
| Thu 03 | National Theatre Live: King Lear | 6:45pm |
| Sun 06 | Milton Jones | 7:30pm |
| Tue 08 | Vienna Tonkunstler Orchestra | 8:00pm |
| Sat 12 | Capercaillie | 8:00pm |
| Sun 13 | Three Bonzos and a Piano | 7:30pm |
| Sat 19 | Lenny Henry | 8:00pm |
| Sun 27 | Andi Osho | 7:45pm |
Events in March |
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| Tue 01 | Piano Recital with Nikolai Demidenko | 8:00pm |
| Thu 03 | The Tempest | 7:30pm |
| Fri 04 | The Tempest | 7:30pm |
| Sat 05 | The Tempest | 7:30pm |
| Thu 10 | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 1:30pm |
| Fri 11 | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 10:30am |
| We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 1:30pm | |
| Sat 12 | We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 11:00am |
| We're Going on a Bear Hunt | 2:00pm | |
| Sun 13 | Coull Quartet | 3:00pm |
Events in May |
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| Wed 04 | Philharmonia Orchestra 2011 | 8:00pm |
| Thu 12 | Stephen K Amos: The Best Medicine | 8:00pm |
| Fri 13 | Stephen K Amos: The Best Medicine | 8:00pm |
| Sun 15 | Coull Quartet | 3:00pm |
| Richard Herring | 7:30pm | |
| Wed 18 | Loudon Wainwright III In Concert | 8:00pm |
| Thu 19 | Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra | 8:00pm |
Events in June |
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| Fri 24 | Jason Manford | 8:00pm |
| Sat 25 | Jason Manford | 8:00pm |
| Tue 28 | Coull Quartet with Clelia Iruzun, Piano | 8:00pm |
