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Brentwood Theatre

Brentwood Theatre is an intimate venue for local community performance groups. We offer a huge variety of shows and for the family we are especially pleased to produce our own in-house, professional production which runs throughout December.


Brentwood Theatre – the community theatre for Brentwood, Havering and beyond – opened in December 1993 following fifteen years of campaigning and fundraising by a dedicated core of theatre followers who collectively realised that Brentwood was the largest town in England without a dedicated theatre space. Brentwood Theatre aims to provide the people of Brentwood and the surrounding areas with a vibrant, artistically challenging community theatre offering a wide-ranging programme in the performing arts.

Since opening, our popularity has grown and grown. We now regularly see over 15,000 visitors every year, coming along to see our wide variety of productions. Most of our shows are performed by non-professional (‘amateur’) companies who rehearse in local halls, arrange costumes, build scenery etc etc and bring in their finished production to us for your entertainment. Over forty groups regularly use Brentwood Theatre for their shows, and many of them now consider us their natural home.

Under our events diary, you will be able to find details of shows coming up over the next few months. We generally update show details three times a year, although we may make small changes or add in the odd extra night at short notice so please do check back from time to time. To join our mailing list and/or email list, please send your details and we will keep you updated.