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Summer — Winter 2026
The STAGES Season Nº.1
Circle & Star · Hampstead
STAGES
Theatre & live performance — in a room of fifty-five.
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STAGES is our strand of live performance — the plays, the premieres and the one-off nights that happen on the Circle & Star stage.

A brand-new character study. A modern-gothic season. A whole month of the Camden Fringe. A Christmas one-man show. STAGES gathers the performed work in one place — and in a room of fifty-five, there is no separation and no safety net. The work happens right in front of you.

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Summer — Winter 2026 · Hampstead

The season

Every performance across the stage, Fagin to Christmas — our own premieres, the plays of DARK MATTERS, and the Camden Fringe companies who chose our room. One calendar, one room of fifty-five.

Julyone production
Premiere·Tue–Fri 14–17 Jul
Fagin — Hero or Villain?
Steve FurstThree nights · 7:30pm
Steve Furst is Fagin — a brand-new immersive character study, premiering here. Fifteen five-star reviews for his Oliver!; now, something entirely his own. See it first.
£20Book →Event page →
Augustsix productions
A new play with music·Sat–Mon 1–3 Aug
SINATRA: One Last Shot
Richard SheltonThree performances · Sun matinee
New Year’s Eve, Palm Springs, 1979 — the midnight Sinatra you dream of meeting. Richard Shelton stars in a new play told through music and song, with live piano. Dangerous. Unpredictable. Brilliant.
£25Book →Event page →
A new play with musicCamden Fringe·Wed–Fri 5–7 Aug
Train to Cleveland
Dan Callaway Studio8:00pm · £17
A burnt-out scholar shares a 1997 carriage with the ghost of the Victorian critic John Ruskin. What begins as an argument about Turner becomes a reckoning — with illness, with love, and with a lifetime spent earning his own worth.
£17Camden Fringe →
An Irish comedyCamden Fringe·Sat–Sun 8–9 Aug
Girls’ Night Out
Hannah Clancy-Hughes7:30pm · £12
A long-overdue reunion at a too-trendy Dublin restaurant. Old friends, older scores, and a night that goes exactly as wrong as these things do — a chaotic, painfully honest Irish comedy.
£12Camden Fringe →
A live staged reading·Thu 13 Aug
If I Sing Loud Enough
Daisy Bevan & Lorien HaynesOne night · 7:30pm
Two women, one impossible year. Lorien Haynes’ very British comedy about grief — adapted from her play Good Grief — performed live on stage by Daisy Bevan and Lorien Haynes, directed by Saffron Burrows. One night only.
£25Book →Event page →
A new playCamden Fringe·Wed–Thu 19–20 Aug
How Do I Love Thee?
Aside Hustle7:30pm · £20
Everyone knows the line; almost no one knows the woman who wrote it. Against a controlling father and a literary world run by men, Elizabeth Barrett Browning refused to be defined by anything but her own words.
£20Camden Fringe →
Visual theatre · live operaCamden Fringe·Sat–Sun 22–23 Aug
Mother Tongue
Unique Community7:00pm · £20
A traveller’s mother tongue is fading in a land where it cannot be understood. Two languages fight for room in one mind — an oral history of migration, told through visual theatre and live opera.
£20Camden Fringe →
Septemberone production
New play·Tue–Thu 8–10 Sep
2.36
Marigold ProductionsThree nights · 7:30pm
2.36 is the average family size — and families never add up cleanly. A razor-sharp two-hander on inheritance, identity and the lies families inherit. Patrons: Richard Bean & Anna Ziegler.
£22Book →Event page →
Octobertwo productions
New playDark Matters·Sat–Sun 17–18 Oct
Just be a good person, actually
Two nights · 8pm
A modern-gothic new play in the DARK MATTERS fortnight — drawn from the literature and music that live in the shadow of the imagination. Narrated, sung and staged in a room of fifty-five.
£20Book →Event page →
Live scoreDark Matters·Thu–Fri 22–23 Oct
Frankenstein — Unchained
Madeline Smith narrates8pm
Mary Shelley’s monster, narrated live by Madeline Smith over an original score from Jason Frederick. The myth unbound — part of the DARK MATTERS season.
£20Book →Event page →
Decemberone production
One-man show·Sat 19–Tue 22 Dec
A Christmas Carol
Mitch BennSix performances
Dickens performed it himself — standing, reading aloud, becoming every voice. Mitch Benn keeps the tradition in his acclaimed one-man production; each performance supports a local homeless charity.
£15–£28Book →Event page →
The room

Circle & Star Theatre

28 Heath Street, Hampstead, London NW3 6TE. Hampstead station, Northern line — thirty seconds from the door. Fifty-five seats. Every one close.

West End quality. Salon scale.

Tickets per show · some via the Camden Fringe box office.
In the room

A theatre, not a room above a pub. Your own private entrance, West End-quality sound and lighting, and private, secure bathrooms.

A working theatre. No photography or filming, please — and phones on silent once the lights go down.

Thirty seconds from Hampstead Tube. Northern line, straight to the door.

Fully air-conditioned. Comfortable and easy, whatever the night does outside.