What's On
Soultime! Play the Music of Bobby Timmons
Jazz in Reading
Friday 13th December 2024
7:30PM - 10:00PM
SoulTime! Is a new and exciting jazz quartet co-led by renowned pianist Leon Greening and exceptional trumpeter Steve Fishwick. Rounding out the top-flight rhythm section is Matt Home on drums and Matyas Hofecker on double bass.
SCREWED: A Midlife Christmas Crisis
adapted by Lara Collins from Charles Dickens
18-21 December 2024
A new adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. The annual production by the talented members of Progress Youth Theatre.BOOK TICKETS
Clark Tracey’s The Jazz Champions
Friday 3rd January 2025
7:30PM - 10:00PM
Clark Tracey is a jazz master. An inventive jazz drummer he’s also a proven group leader, writer and arranger, having appeared over many years with the world’s jazz greats. With this stellar band he has revived the famous jazz suites written by his late father, the great pianist & composer Stan Tracey, bringing masterpieces such as “Under Milkwood” successfully to admiring younger audiences. “For me Tracey is a world-class musician whose mature and distinctive artistry – his own “ snap-crackle” – is right up there with the likes of Philly Joe Jones and Roy Haynes.” Jazz Journal, 2024
NIGHT WATCH
by Terry Pratchett. Adapted by Stephen Briggs
6-15 February 2025
Sam Vimes finds himself cast back in time to the Ankh-Morpork of his youth. With a psychopath from his own time complicating things. Vimes has to ensure that history takes its course so that he will have the right future to go back to. Progress Theatre's productions of Terry Pratchett are ever popular, drawing audiences from far afield.
LOVESONG
by Abi Morgan
21-29 March 2025
The story of one couple told from two different points in their lives – as young lovers in their twenties and as worldly companions looking back. Their past and present lives collide in this haunting and beautiful tale of togetherness.
THE CRIPPLE OF INISHMAAN
by Martin McDonagh
2-10 May 2025
Within a claustrophobic island community, crippled orphan Billy Claven dreams of an escape. When a Hollywood film crew arrives on a nearby island to film Man of Aran, Billy sees his chance... if only Babbybobby will row him across
PARADE
Lyrics and Music by Jason Robert Brown
Book by Alfred Uhry
12-21 June 2025
A true story set in 1913, Leo Frank, a Brooklyn-raised Jew living in Georgia, is put on trial for the murder of Mary Phagan, a factory worker in his employ. A heart-wrenching story, offering a moral lesson about the dangers of prejudice and ignorance that should not be forgotten.
Progress Youth Theatre Presents
The annual showcase of all the talented members from each of Youth Theatre's age groups. Format and theatrical choices made by our youth leaders and the young people themselves.