What's On
Many years ago a baby was kidnapped and never found. Now, nearing the end of his career, Inspector Frost returns determined to find answers to the case that he failed to solve.
Where he was once a welcome guest, he now faces suspicion and a conspiracy of silence, wanting to leave the past shrouded in mystery.
The burden of guilt borne by those living with the terrible secrets of the past is resolved in a series of startling revelations, much to the surprise of Frost, and with results that are both startling and disquieting, leading to a surprise ending in which justice is indeed served — but in a manner more ironic and severe than any formal court of law could hand out.
A psychological mystery by Leslie Sands
Sunday 8th March 2026 – Saturday 14th March 2026
A farcical comedy about love, marriage and reputations in the 1900s by JB Priestley.
Hilarity and chaos is caused when three respected couples, who are pillars of Clecklewhyke society, get together to celebrate their milestone 25th wedding anniversaries, only to discover that they have never actually been legally married and have been living in sin!
Unfortunately the local reporter and photographer have arrived to record this momentous occasion but, should this new revelation get out, the scandal would ruin them. It becomes a race to get officially married again before the reporter finds out.
Sunday 17th May 2026 – Saturday 23rd May 2026
History of the Theatre
We celebrated our 130th Anniversary on the 14th February 2026 with a Play Reading of our first ever performed play
MY TURN NEXT
and
EARLY BIRDS (a precursor to the TV sitcom Birds of a Feather)
The earliest information we have about Altrincham Little Theatre dates from 1896 when we were called The St Margaret’s Church Institute Amateur Dramatics Society. The Society was born out of the Bible Reading Groups associated with the Church and they performed plays/playlets at Tea Functions.
The first recorded play was at a Senior Bible Class Tea Party where there is a mention of a play but no title. At the Junior Bible Class Tea Party two days later on 15th January 1896 there is mention of a play “My Turn Next” The Society blossomed and continued to perform up to the 1st World War when performances were stopped until the cessation of hostilities.
The stoppage was repeated during the 2nd World War and again performances continued. There were two more plays under the name of St Margaret’s at which time there was a name change to The Club Theatre. It is known that many of the early plays were in fact sketches and one act plays and they were also only performed once or twice.
Since the restart of the performances in 1947 we have grown to performing for 7 nights and producing 5 plays a season. We have been performing at our current Theatre since November 1962 and this was only interrupted during the 1982/83 season when we closed for extensive re-building. We are now fortunate to have full facilities, including full size rehearsal area, bar/lounge, wardrobe facilities, all dressing facilities and all technical functions.
The Theatre has been purposely kept in the traditional style with a stepped auditorium, the stage is 22 ft proscenium arch by 16 ft depth. Activities at the Theatre are various and our aim is to use the Theatre for its main purpose, performance. This is obviously limited to the time available to the stage crew and all the helpers etc.
All help is purely voluntary but there is a very strong core of caring helpers. Included in our aims to select plays is our belief in new works, we firmly believe that we need to encourage new authors and new plays. We completed our Centenary year in 1996. Constantly striving to improve our standards we have been fortunate to receive awards for our achievements from both the Greater Manchester Drama Federation and the Cheshire Theatre Guild.
We changed our name to Altrincham Little Theatre in August 2012 as it was felt that the club connotation no longer gave the correct indication of our purpose.
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