The LittleTheatre

The Little Theatre occupies a nineteenth-century former Baptist chapel on Dover Street, converted for performance by the Leicester Drama Society, which was founded at the Turkey Café in 1922 and bought the building in 1932. The society removed the chapel's galleries and raked the former gallery floor to form a tiered auditorium, first opening as a theatre in 1930. A 1955 fire forced substantial rebuilding. Run entirely by volunteers as a registered charity rather than by the council, the theatre staged its 1,000th production in 2011, Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Past performers before they found wider fame include Richard Attenborough and Judi Dench. The programme spans drama, musicals, pantomime and youth theatre across two spaces, the Main House and the Moyra Haywood Studio, with tickets bookable online or by phone.