Theatre preview: Ghosts, dance, and panto

The spooky stage phenomenon 2:22 A Ghost Story returns to Cardiff's New Theatre next week (Monday 16 - Saturday 21 February).

Winner of Best New Play at the WhatsOnStage Awards, this edge-of-your-seat, supernatural thriller is written by Danny Robins, creator of the hit BBC podcasts Uncanny and The Battersea Poltergeist.

Jenny believes her new home is haunted, but her husband Sam isn’t convinced.

Can the dead really walk again? There's certainly something unsettling in this house, so they and their dinner guests decide to stay up until 2:22, and then they’ll know.

2:22 A Ghost Story stars James Bye, Natalie Casey, Grant Kilburn, and Shvorne Marks. You can find more details and order tickets here.

🎭 4x10, National Dance Company Wales' experimental and exploratory platform for choreographers returns next month. Expect an evening of imagination, energy, and connection at the Dance House, Cardiff Bay, from 11 to 13 March.

Audiences will see four new 10-minute dance pieces and a 10-minute curtain raiser by NDC Wales Young Associates.

4 x 10 is described as "a living laboratory, a space where ideas spark, shift, collide, and take flight". You can find out more and order tickets here.

🎭 The New Theatre has announced that this year's family pantomime will be Beauty and the Beast from 5 December to 3 January 2027.

Audience favourite Mike Doyle will return as the dame, having established himself as a firm favourite at the New Theatre.

In last year's Sleeping Beauty, our reviewer Sophie Platt described him as "the best dame I've seen" thanks to his vibrant performance and much-loved catchphrase "How's it goin?... Alriiiight!" 

Beauty and the Beast will be produced by award-winning Imagine Theatre, and more cast members will be announced later in the year.