Looking for live performances to enjoy in July? Here’s a round-up of accessible performances coming to theatres and other venues across the UK.

Audio Described Performances

These performances have a live verbal commentary providing information on the visual elements of the production.

1st July
Jitney | 7.30pm, touch tour, 5.30pm  | The Old Vic, London

The Unfriend | 7.45pm, touch tour 6.15pm | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester

2nd July
The Glass Menagerie | 2.30pm | Duke of York’s Theatre, London

The Unfriend | 2.45pm, touch tour 1.15pm | Chichester Festival Theatre, Chichester

7th July
Waitress: The Musical | 7.30pm, touch tour TBC | Orchard Theatre, Dartford

The Rocky Horror Show | 8pm | Royal and Derngate, Northampton

8th July
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 7.30pm, touch tour 6pm | Hull Truck Theatre, Hull

9th July
Invisible | 8pm, touch tour, 7pm | Bush Theatre, London

2:22 A Ghost Story | 2.30pm, touch tour TBC | Criterion Theatre, London

10th July
King Lear | 1pm, touch tour 11 am | Shakespeare’s Globe, London

13th July
Chicago | 2.30pm, touch tour 1.15pm | Norwich Theatre, Norwich

14th July
Six the Musical | 8pm, touch tour 6.30pm | Aylesbury Waterside, Aylesbury

15th July
9 Circles | 7.45pm, touch tour 6.45pm | Park Theatre, London

16th July

A Doll’s House, Part 2 | 2.30pm, touch tour at 1pm | Donmar Warehouse, London

We Will Rock You | 2.30pm, touch tour TBC | Birmingham Hippodrome, Birmingham

Billionaire Boy | 2.30pm, touch tour on request | Grand Opera House, York

20th July

Chicago | 2.30pm, touch tour TBC | New Theatre, Oxford

21st July
Dream Girls | 2.30pm, touch tour TBC | Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury

The Glass Menagerie | 7.30pm | Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Waitress | 7.30pm | Theatre Royal and Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

23rd July
The Fellowship | 2.30pm | Hampstead Theatre, London

24th July

The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus | 2pm | Polka Theatre, London

Little Women | 2pm, touch tour TBC | Opera Holland Park, London

Captioned performances

Spoken sections are displayed on screens

2nd July
Tony! [The Tony Blair Rock Opera] | 3pm | Park Theatre, London

3rd July
The Play that goes wrong | 3pm | Duchess Theatre, London

9th July
A Midsummer Night’s Dream | 2pm | Hull Truck Theatre, Hull

12th July
Mamma Mia! | 7.30pm | Sunderland Empire

13th July
Invisible | 8pm | Bush Theatre, London

15th July
Singin’ in the Rain | 7.30pm | Alhambra Theatre, Bradford

19th July
The Fellowship | 2.30pm | Hampstead Theatre, London

20th July
Mad House | 7.30pm | Ambassadors Theatre, London

21st July
Waitress | 7.30pm | Nottingham Theatre Royal

2:22 A Ghost Story | 7.30pm | Criterion Theatre, London

22nd July
Richard III | 7.15pm | Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford upon Avon

25th July
A Doll’s House part 2 | 7.30pm | Donmar Warehouse, London

26th July
Anything Goes | 7.30pm | Barbican Theatre, London

27th July
Beauty and the Beast | 7.30pm | London Palladium

29th July
Waitress | 7.30pm | Alhambra Theatre, Bradford Theatre

30th July
Closer | 2.30pm | Lyric Hammersmith, London

Moulin Rouge! The Musical | 2.30pm | Piccadilly Theatre, London

Much Ado About Nothing | 7.30pm | National Theatre, London

BSL Interpreted

An interpreter will be on hand to interpret the spoken and heard elements of the performance

3rd July
The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus | 2pm | Polka Theatre, London

4th July
Come from Away | 7.30pm | Phoenix Theatre, London

6th July
The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus | 1.30pm | Polka Theatre, London

Singin’ in the Rain | 7.30pm | Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

10th July
Heathers the Musical | 5.15pm | The Other Palace, London

13th July
We Will Rock You | 7.30pm | Birmingham Hippodrome

14th July
My Fair Lady | 7pm | London Coliseum

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat | 7.30pm | Leeds Grand Theatre

16th July
Rascally Diner | 10 am | Chichester Festival Theatre

20th July
Waitress | 7.30pm | Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham

21st July
The Lion King | 7.30pm | WMC Cardiff

27th July
Les Miserables | 7.30pm | Bristol Hippodrome

28th July
Jack Absolute Flies Again | 7.30pm | National Theatre, London

29th July
A Doll’s House pt 2 | 7.30pm | Donmar Warehouse, London

Billy Elliot the Musical | 7.30pm | The Curve Theatre, Leicester

30th July
The Glass Menagerie | 2.30pm | Duke of York’s Theatre, London

Relaxed Performances

These performances are adapted to reduce anxiety, providing chill out areas, adjusting light and sound levels and providing support.

27th July
The Pirate, the Princess and the Platypus | 11 am | Polka Theatre, London

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | 1pm | Palace Theatre, London

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