Tobacco Factory Theatres

    At Tobacco Factory Theatres, we provide a home of welcome and wonder for creative adventures and human connection, for incredible theatre and opportunities to learn and exchange ideas.

    Summer 2025

    Female-Led Shows at TFT

    We're thrilled to spotlight some incredible, unapologetically bold, and brilliantly funny female-led shows hitting the stage at TFT this May and June.

    News / 05 June 2025

    OPEN CASTING CALL: RAPUNZEL: A Hairy Tale – TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES, BRISTOL

    Please read this casting call carefully and only apply if you meet the role requirements and can fully commit to...
    Close Enough

    show / Everything but Theatre

    Close Enough

    21 Jun

    Close Enough is an autobiographical solo performance about belonging that challenges stereotypes about immigrant women from Easter Europe. 
    Balm in Gilead 1

    show / Bristol School of Acting

    Balm in Gilead

    12 Jun - 14 Jun 2025

    In a shabby, barebones, all-night café-diner, the city’s flotsam and jetsam forlornly wash in. Prostitutes, bums, dealers, addicts, dreamers,...
    Track 96 Improvised Hip Hop

    show / Track96

    Track 96 Improvised Hip Hop

    14 Jun

    Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story

    show / Awkward Productions

    Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story

    18 Jun - 21 Jun 2025

    After the success of Gwyneth Goes Skiing at Tobacco Factory Theatres, Awkward Productions are BACK with their multi award winning,...
    Aftermirth; Day time comedy club for new parents

    show / Angie Belcher

    Aftermirth – June 2025

    20 Jun

    The journey of parenthood is a magical and maddening one so what better way to cope with it than...
    Manbo 1

    show / Sam Dugmore

    Manbo

    29 Jun

    BAA Showcase

    show / Bristol School of Acting

    The Crucib*tch

    03 Jul - 05 Jul 2025

    In the small, puritanical community of Salem, Massachusetts, cracks are beginning to show. The teenage girls keep vanishing into...
    Remythed

    show / Bet'n Lev

    Remythed

    06 Jul

    Remythed takes the myths and legends from the backgrounds of its performers and reshapes, reforms, and retells them.
    Murder HE Didn't Write 1

    show / Bristol Pride

    Murder HE Didn’t Write

    08 Jul - 09 Jul 2025

    Don your deerstalker, grab your magnifying glass and get your ‘finger of suspicion’ at the ready because Edinburgh Fringe,...
    Aftermirth; Day time comedy club for new parents

    show / Angie Belcher

    Aftermirth – July 2025

    09 Jul

    The journey of parenthood is a magical and maddening one so what better way to cope with it than...
    Samantha Groans: Bingo & The City

    show / Tracey Collins

    Samantha Groans: Bingo & The City

    11 Jul - 12 Jul 2025

    Tracey Collins (aka Shell Suit Cher, Audrey Heartburn) is back with her brand-new musical comedy bingo sensation – Bingo...
    Bonding

    show / James Seabright

    Bonding

    15 Jul - 16 Jul 2025

    Cyril Blake’s sell-out hit from the Edinburgh Fringe explores the myth, legend and legacy of Bond - and what...
    Cosi fan tutte

    show / TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES

    Cosi fan tutte

    08 Oct - 18 Oct 2025

    Opera Project return to Tobacco Factory Theatres this autumn with another sparkling Mozart comedy — Così fan tutte. 
    Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale

    show / TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES

    Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale

    27 Nov - 17 Jan 2026

    This Christmas, experience the enchantment of Tobacco Factory Theatres' spellbinding and inventively playful take on a beloved Brothers Grimm...

    Get Involved

    DISCOVER. LEARN. IGNITE. Get Involved invites you to dive deeper, to ask questions, to take some time for yourself, to…

    BSA

    We are thrilled to announce a new season of theatre productions from Bristol School of Acting.

    News & BlogMore

    Something Wicked This Way Comes... A play full of secrets

    Post / 12 June 2025

    Something Wicked This Way Comes… A play full of secrets

    Despite it being June, there’s a chill in the air at TFT. The skies are darkening. And somewhere on...
    Rapunzel: A Hairy Tale

    Post / 05 June 2025

    OPEN CASTING CALL: RAPUNZEL: A Hairy Tale – TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES, BRISTOL

    Please read this casting call carefully and only apply if you meet the role requirements and can fully commit...
    Bristolian Brilliance at Christmas!

    Post / 28 May 2025

    Bristolian Brilliance at Christmas!

    Bristolian Brilliance at Christmas: Stories Reimagined for the City We Love  At Tobacco Factory Theatres, Christmas is a time...

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    Tobacco Factory Theatres has forged an inspirational path to becoming one of the country’s most respected venues in little over 10 years. Find out more about our history and who we are today.

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