Theatr Clwyd announces explosive opening season for 2025

The season will mark the theatre’s opening following its major redevelopment.

Directed by Kate Wasserberg, the season will kickstart 2025 with a new production of tick, tick..BOOM!. Jonathan Larson’s smash-hit musical comes hot on the heels of her West End production of Boys from the Blackstuff. Running from 2-28 Jun, tick, tick..BOOM! tells the story of being young, chasing your dreams and reaching for greatness.

Next up in the season will be On Wednesdays We Wear Pink, a joyous exploration of fashion and identity throughout history. Creating and performed by young people from the area alongside a professional creative team, the show will be directed by Theatr Clwyd’s Gwennan Mair.

In the summer, Theatr Clwyd will once again partner with Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, Wales’ National Welsh language theatre company. Four new short plays about the North Wales experience will be commissioned and performed in Welsh at the National Eisteddfod in Wrexham.

In September Alan Ayckbourn’s darkly comic thriller about family, secrets and murder; Snake in the Grass will run. The show is produced with the Octagon Theatre in Bolton and the show will be directed by Wales’ Francesca Goodridge.

Welsh writer Chris Ashworth-Bennion’s The Red Rogue of Bala will have its world premiere. The hilarious, fast-paced drama set in the heart of Denbighshire is based on notorious jailbreaker, poacher and thief, Coch Bach y Bala. Directing this show is Wales’ Dan Jones, Artistic Director of The Other Room, Cardiff.  It will run from 3-22 November.

Also announced in 2026 and beyond is a new production of Under Milk Wood, Dylan Thomas’ greatest work, created as part of Craidd, a ground-breaking project improving mainstream theatre representation for and with Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent people. 

Theatr Clwyd and Chichester Festival Theatre will stage Emily White’s award-winning play about climate change and family in West Wales; Welsh writer Emily Burnett will premiere her hilarious family drama and Nia Morais will write a new take on a Victorian gothic classic. William Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night will be directed by Juliette Manon as a glorious celebration of queer culture.

Further information on this announcement and how to book tickets can be found on the Theatr Clwyd website.