Box Office Opening Hours

Monday - Friday 10:30am - 6:30pm.
Saturday 10:30am - 2pm.
Sunday closed.

You can book tickets in person or by telephone (01458 442846). Tickets can be reserved for up to 3 days before payment is required. Please take advantage of this if you need to check with family or friends whether the day/time/seats you have reserved are acceptable, as we are not usually able to alter a booking once payment has been made.
All reservations must be paid for at least half an hour before the show. Thereafter unconfirmed reservations may be cancelled if seats are required for other patrons.

Please see further down on this page for our BOOKING CONDITIONS and CHARGES.

New DTS film sound system facilities for people with visual and hearing impairments:

Audio Description (A/D) is a service for partially sighted or blind people. While the film's main soundtrack plays through the cinema speakers in the usual manner, users listen to a specially recorded narrator detailing what's happening on the screen at selected breaks during the film's dialogue, through a set of headphones. The headphones are personal and the user is still able to hear the film's sound through the cinema surround sound speakers. We can offer this facility on all films marked DTS A/D, but please tell us of your requirements when booking, as we have a limited number of headphones.

Descriptive Subtitling (S/T) of English language films will be of interest to patrons with hearing impairments and anyone who wants to be sure not to miss any part of the on-screen dialogue. However, Descriptive Subtitling provides much more information than “normal” English subtitles (eg. on foreign language films). For example, they describe: when something is sung, rather than spoken; when significant music is happening (often with lyrics provided); and significant sound effects (such as a phone ringing).
We are offering this facility for selected screenings, which will be marked S/T. There will always be an option to see the same film without subtitles at other screenings.

NEW TECHNOLOGY, NEW CHALLENGES: The above access facilities are only available for films with a DTS Access disc. If you rely on these options for the enjoyment of a film, please check in advance with the Box Office on 01458 442846 to be sure that your chosen film has come to us in the right format.

Booking Conditions and Charges

As the costs of running a public building continue to increase, we regret that we have had to re-introduce a postage charge of 50p on each booking where tickets are posted from the box office. We have also introduced a cancellation charge of £1 per ticket for all re-sales of returned tickets on a sold-out show or film. The cancellation charge will also apply to any tickets exchanged in exceptional circumstances.

Book by PHONE on 01458 442846 during the opening hours.
Book IN PERSON during the opening hours or by POST at the Box Office, Strode Theatre, Strode College, Church Road, STREET, Somerset BA16 0AB.
CHEQUES should be made payable to ‘STRODE COLLEGE’. There is a postage charge of 50p on all bookings where tickets are posted from the box office, unless you enclose a SAE (stamped self-addressed envelope).

RETURNED TICKETS - Strode Theatre conforms to standard theatre practice and is unable to exchange or give refunds on paid-for tickets. Tickets may be left at the Box Office for resale in the event of a sell-out at a charge of £1 per resold ticket.
CONCESSIONS - Full concessions apply to people over the age of sixty, children and students in full-time education and people in receipt of benefits. Limited concessions only apply to people over the age of sixty, children and students in full-time education. Please be prepared to provide proof of concession.
DATA PROTECTION - We do not divulge personal information from our mailing list to third parties and do not sell or pass mailing information to other organisations. We will ask you if you wish to join our mailing list when booking for the first time.
CHILDREN AND BABIES - We regret that we cannot admit infants in arms other than for children’s shows. In all cases tickets must be purchased for children.

Website

Welcome to the Strode Theatre website. It was designed for us by Tony Harmer of Studio H Media and is now maintained on a regular basis by my colleague Kate Midgley. If you have any suggestions with regard to our website, or anywhere else in our marketing and publicity materials, please feel free to contact Kate on

There is currently no facility for booking tickets directly through this website, but we are regularly investigating possibilities.

E-mailing List

As well as the printed brochure and this website, we can offer an additional service by e-mail. Kate issues regular updates on the programme and other Theatre news throughout the season and, as this includes information on likely sell-outs, I do recommend it to you. We promise not to load your inbox with spam and - as with all personal information we hold - will not pass any details to third parties.

To join the E-MAILING LIST, simply send a blank e-mail with "Emailing List" in the subject line to

Other Venue Information

For a map of how to get to us please go to the MAP page.

For a detailed seating plan and access information for people with disabilities please go to the SEATPLAN page.

For more information about the building and its facilities (bar/cafe, exhibition & rehearsal spaces) please go to the PHOTOS page.

The Friends of Strode Theatre

Run as a separate registered charity, The Friends of Strode Theatre are an enthusiastic core of supporters who love the Theatre, are keen to help keep its vitality and diversity alive and enjoy meeting others who feel the same way.

The Friends of Strode Theatre was launched in March 2006, and now has a membership of just under 300, who enjoy one week of priority booking, as well as a number of special events throughout the year.
To join the "Friends", we invite donations from just £15 per year for one, or £25 per year for two people at the same address.

Adopt A Seat

You can also contribute towards the ongoing success of Strode Theatre by adopting one of the new seats which were installed in August 2007.
Since the launch of this fundraising initiative at the end of last year, we have had a fantastic response with over 140 seats already adopted. The new seating layout has 343 seats and so we continue to welcome enquiries.
For a donation of £125 for one seat or £200 for two seats, you will have your name - or that of someone close to you, or an organisation - on a plaque fixed to the seat for its lifetime at Strode Theatre.

To receive a copy of the Friends leaflet, and for further details on the "Adopt A Seat" scheme, please call the box office on 01458 442846