The Belgrade Theatre has announced the first shows in its autumn / winter 2022 season, with highlights including West End musical smash hits SIX, The Rocky Horror Show and Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, brand new musical Bombay Superstar, classic drama An Inspector Calls and The Mousetrap, as well as Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses.

The season kicks off with Kenyan acrobatic troupe The Black Blues Brothers on Thursday 1 September and The Best of Queen on Saturday 3 September. Live music acts continue on Wednesday 9 November with Neil Diamond: Beautiful Noise.

Join the Belgrade for the world premiere of Tabby Lamb’s Happy Meal from Wednesday 21 September. The joyful queer rom-com is directed by Jamie Fletcher, fresh from her acclaimed production of Hedwig and the Angry Itch, and sees change all around as Millennial meets Gen Z – from teen to adult, from MySpace to TikTok, and from cis to trans.

From Tuesday 13 – Sunday 18 September, the first ever UK tour of Bugsy Malone saunters onto the Belgrade’s Main Stage. Packed with iconic songs from Oscar winner Paul Williams, including My Name is Tallulah, You Give a Little Love and Fat Sam’s Grand Slam, this new touring production is a revival of the acclaimed Lyric Hammersmith Theatre production.

The international smash hit musical SIX comes to Coventry from Tuesday 27 September – Sunday 2 October.

With a global, chart topping cast recording, SIX remixes five hundred years of historical heartbreak into  an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power.

Join the Belgrade for a late night, double feature picture show this October as The Rocky Horror Show invites audiences to do the Time Warp from Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 Oct. Leading the cast will be Strictly Come Dancing 2016 winner Ore Oduba as Brad Majors, Stephen Webb as Frank-N-Furter and fan- favourite Haley Flaherty as Janet Weiss.

From Saturday 15 – Saturday 22 October, see the world premiere of the brand new musical Bombay Superstar. Co-produced by Phizzical and the Belgrade Theatre, embark on a journey of love and betrayal set in the 1970s, the golden age of Bollywood cinema.

David Walliams’ Demon Dentist, arrives in Coventry from Wednesday 26 – Saturday 29 October. As
children leave their teeth for the tooth fairy to collect, they wake up to find odd and horrible
things under their pillow. Can Alfie and Gabz solve the mystery and find out who’s leaving
these ghastly gifts? From Birmingham Stage Company, the Olivier Award-nominated
company who bought you Billionaire Boy and Gangsta Granny.

Happy days are here again, as Beautiful: The Carole King Musical arrives in Coventry for the very first time from Tuesday 1 – Saturday 5 November. Follow the extraordinary journey of one of the most prolific singer songwriters of all time, through a tumultuous marriage which led her to write the chart-topping album, Tapestry.

Following the Belgrade’s annual pantomime, already announced as Jack and the Beanstalk this year, an exciting variety of one-night-only events arrive in the New Year.

Experience Legend: The Music of Bob Marley on Thursday 12 January, Big Girls Don’t Cry on Friday 13 January, Sing-a-long-a Grease on Saturday 14 January, Stewart Lee – Basic Lee on Wednesday 22 and
Thursday 23 February, Vampires Rock on Friday 24 February and Magic of Motown on Saturday 25 February.

Malorie Blackman’s Noughts & Crosses arrives on the Main Stage from Tuesday 24 – Saturday 28
Jan. Adapted by Sabrina Mahfouz, the gripping retelling of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transposed into a divided world. Directed by Esther Richardson, Noughts & Crosses is presented by Pilot Theatre.

From Tuesday 7 – Saturday 11 February, the Olivier Award-winning Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) brings a unique and audacious retelling of Jane Austen’s most iconic love story to Coventry.

Adapted by Isobel McArthur, the acclaimed production was a smash-hit in the West End and now embarks on its very first UK tour.

Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap returns to the Belgrade this season from Monday 13 – Saturday 18
February. The world’s longest running play from the best-selling novelist of all time has been seen
by millions of people across the globe. Now it’s time for Coventry audiences to find out
‘whodunnit?’

Drawing the season to a close is J.B. Priestley’s An Inspector Calls, running from Tuesday 28
February – Saturday 4 March. This National Theatre production is directed by Stephen Daldry, and
sees the prosperous Birling family shaken to their very core by revelations from the
mysterious Inspector Goole.

Tickets for all of these shows are on sale to My Belgrade Members from Tuesday 3 May. Tickets go on general sale on Tuesday 17 May. Tickets can be booked at belgrade.co.uk