Chichester Festival Theatre

Who we are

Chichester Festival Theatre creates inspiring experiences that bring people together – on and off the stage. It’s a place where exceptional stories are created and shared. We connect inventive artists with imaginative audiences. We bring theatre to schools and youth groups, to the West End and world stages, with the belief that theatre is for everyone.

Sitting at the heart of a cathedral city in West Sussex between the South Downs and the sea, the Festival Theatre’s bold thrust stage design makes it one of England’s most striking playhouses – equally suited to epic drama and musicals. Our studio theatre, the Minerva, is particularly noted for premieres of new work alongside intimate revivals.

Countless productions originated at Chichester have transferred to the West End or toured nationally and internationally over the past six decades, from musicals to significant new plays and classic revivals. Recent London transfers include Steven Moffat’s The Unfriend (currently playing at the Criterion Theatre) and Rodgers & Hammerstein’s South Pacific, and Susan Stroman’s production of Crazy for You opens at the Gillian Lynne Theatre in June.