Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake is thrilled to be a partner venue for 2020’s National Theatre Connections festival which takes place from 17 to 19 March. The theatre will be welcoming Kirkgate Youth Theatre, Theatre Royal Youth (Workington), Youth Arts […]
From the makers of the well-received The Marriage of Kim K, self-identified millennial producers leo&hyde are warmly welcomed back to Theatre by the Lake’s Studio on Tuesday 25 February at 7.30pm. GUY: A New Musical is Queer as Folk meets Bridget Jones with a catfishing electronic […]
Following a critically acclaimed, sell out run at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and transfer to London the reimagined production of Picasso’s Women goes on tour. The production visits the studio at Theatre by the Lake , Keswick on Friday 7th February […]
Theatre by the Lake is proud to be making great strides with their Christmas Appeal to support their programme for young people in 2020, which was launched at the beginning of December. TBTL’s current programme for young people includes the TBTL […]
Theatre by the Lake is thrilled to welcome back Goblin, the fabulous company who brought last year’s Christmas show for little ones, Hey Diddle Diddle!, with their brand-new show The Legend of the Jazz Penguin which is showing in TBTL’s Studio from 10 to […]
Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have managed something magical, delightful and hilariously funny with their Christmas-cum-winter offering this year. It is hard to imagine the old clichéd Dickensian story being anything but snooze-worthy, but TBTL has a secret weapon: this […]
Theatre by The Lake (TBTL) – Cumbria’s only year-round producing theatre – is delighted to announce its eagerly anticipated 2020 season, the first under the leadership of new Artistic Director, Liz Stevenson. The year includes five World Premieres, a commitment to new writing and new […]
A new adaptation of The Marriage of Figaro, from award-winning musical theatre company leo&hyde, is shedding fresh light on Mozart’s 18th-century romantic comedy. The Marriage of Kim K is taking place at Theatre by the Lake’s Studio on Saturday 30 November. After a critically-acclaimed […]
There is music to which you can listen, relax, work – and even completely ignore. But there is one art form which could be said is about ‘becoming’ for both performers and audience. Taiko drumming is exactly this. You don’t […]
Charlotte Keatley wrote the play ‘My Mother Said I Never Should’ in 1985 aged just 25. The play has gone on to be the most performed play by a female playwright and translated into 22 languages. It is studied in […]
The final production for the summer season at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) takes us back to India, 1648, to the completion of the Taj Mahal as seen through the eyes of two guards. It is not for the […]
The latest studio production at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) asks us to consider what we would do if a Chernobyl or Fukushima happened to us. With many of us in Cumbria living in sight of Sellafield, this is […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) has opened the summer season in the main house with Graham Linehan’s stage adaptation of the Ealing comedy classic ‘The Ladykillers’. Ironically, given the gentle mocking and stereotyping of British characteristics, the original movie […]
The latest main house production at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) is Jim Cartwright’s brilliant tale of Little Voice (known as LV), the girl who doesn’t say much but sings impersonating a range of famous singers. Just as she […]
The penultimate production for the Summer season at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) is Alan Ayckbourn’s re-working of Chekhov’s classic ‘Uncle Vanya’, moving the action from Russia to the Lake District. The plot looks at how obsession, in many […]
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