What’s on

Wed 12 May –Wed 21 Jul 2021

Multi-disciplinary artist and Guildhall tutor Paula Varjack curates and hosts a third series of conversations in collaboration with students from the School's BA Performance & Creative Enterprise.

Mon 17 May –Sun 6 Jun 2021

From a private booth, you’ll be drawn in close to this tale of orphaned brothers and their desperate odyssey across Europe, the action unfolding in an exquisite world of miniatures moving before you.

Thu 20 –Tue 25 May 2021

Award-winning theatre maker Chelsea Walker directs Anne Washburn’s imaginative, music-filled dark comedy, which explores the relevance of culture on a society that has none left.

Sat 22 –Thu 27 May 2021

Tristan Fynn-Aiduenu directs Bola Agbaje's Olivier Award-winning exploration of identity and culture.

Fri 28 May –Mon 7 Jun 2021

Guildhall Opera department presents a feast of five contrasting short operatic works – three new chamber operas and two early pieces from the Baroque era – broadcast online for free.

Tue 1 –Sun 6 Jun 2021

Gritty dance theatre, with autobiographical testimonials and text giving voice to the vulnerable and unheard. With tenderness and honesty, DROWNTOWN holds up a mirror to a society at tipping point.

Wed 16 –Fri 18 Jun 2021

Of Shadow and Light – a title inspired by a line from June Jordan’s poem Big City Happening – is a richly diverse festival of innovative, poetic and politically resonant performance works.

Fri 25 Jun –Sun 4 Jul 2021

Join a guided tour of a distant city where nothing seems to make sense. Its people are silenced and its landscape is disappearing.

Fri 23 Jul –Sun 17 Oct 2021

Tony-Award winning Sutton Foster and Tony and Olivier Award-winning Robert Lindsay star in this major new production of Cole Porter and P. G. Wodehouse’s classic golden age musical, Anything Goes.

Sat 26 Feb 2022, 14:30

Join the nation’s favourite ballroom couple in a glittering dance tribute to some of history’s most iconic entertainers, from Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire to Shirley Bassey and Elton John.