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Lockdown has been a golden period for the home workout but now you don't need to drag the sofa out of the way or lock the cat in the kitchen any longer! 🐈 The Hipp is re-opening in September for a season of socially-distanced activities, including THREE new adult dance classes taking place on our stage!

The Darlington based In2 Project is on the shortlist to win a share of Persimmon Homes’ Building Futures £1million pot supporting under-18s nationwide.

You shall go to the ball! But not until 2021 as Darlington Hippodrome along with producers Qdos Entertainment take the decision to move the 2020/2021 pantomime back a year due to COVID-19.

Darlington Hippodrome will be illuminated in the colours of the rainbow during June 2020 to help celebrate Pride month.

Join us as our Senior House Manager Andy takes us on a backstage tour of the Hippodrome.

Looking for something to keep the family entertained? This is the place for you...

As the home of the In2 project, the Hippodrome has hosted sessions with musicians, circus performers, actors, theatre producers and even inventors over the last year.  The programme helps to build confidence, fosters aspiration and improves general health and wellbeing by opening up access to cultural and sporting activities they wouldn’t normally experience, allowing them to explore their own creativity and aptitudes outside of the normal curriculum.

From November 2017, over 30 Darlington Culture Volunteers have dedicated 2,022 hours to cataloguing, scanning, photographing and organising the theatre’s collection of memorabilia.  Initially the collection of 65,000 items was stored across three sites, but with the support and hard work of the volunteers, our collection is now not only catalogued, photographed and neatly stored, but is starting to offer glimpses into the lives and experiences of past staff, crews and casts of the Hippodrome. We thought we would share how our archive has progressed over the last three years and share some of our volunteers’ favourite finds!

Darlington Hippodrome staff have selected Darlington Samaritans as their new annual charity partner with the launch of an online crowdfunding page.

Hippodrome online quiz becomes a regular event

Due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, forthcoming performances will not go ahead until further notice and the venue has closed. Whilst the physical doors may be shut, the team behind the theatre are still very much hard at work dealing with customer queries and making sure you can enjoy the Hippodrome at home.

Teachers and parents can now download and share for free online Heritage Learning Resource Packs from the Darlington Hippodrome website.

During the closure of the venue through the period of social distancing due to the Covid-19 situation, Darlington Hippodrome initiated a virtual quiz to help celebrate World Theatre Day using the online meetings app Zoom

Following the prime minister’s briefing yesterday, advising people not to visit theatres, Darlington Hippodrome has taken the difficult decision that forthcoming performances will not go ahead until further notice and the venue will be closed.

Darlington Hippodrome is following ongoing advice from Public Health England and we have updated our procedures to reflect this advice. This blog post covers some frequently asked questions about the theatre's response to the Coronavirus outbreak.

Packed with all of the traditional pantomime ingredients audiences expect, Cinderella features laugh out loud comedy, stunning scenery, beautiful costumes and plenty of boos and hisses.

Sixty years after the impassioned tale Lady Chatterley's Lover shocked the world, a stage version, coming to Darlington Hippodrome in March, presents itself to a very changed world. We caught up with Rupert Hill who portrays the pivotal role of Mellors the gamekeeper in this brand new stage adaptation.

English Youth Ballet is auditioning for roles in a new production of CINDERELLA IN HOLLYWOOD on Sunday 1 December at the Hippodrome. At the audition 100 young male and female dancers from across the region will be offered the chance to rehearse with and then dance alongside international professional principal dancers in the production for 3 performances which will be presented at the Hippodrome from 17 – 18 April 2020.

Get ready for the festive season this December as we celebrate Christmas at the Hipp with wreath making, a tree decoration workshop, the opportunity to meet Santa and more!