The Car Man

The brightest and best musicals coming soon to Newcastle Theatre Royal
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Tue 8 – Sat 12 Sep 2026

Main Stage, Theatre Royal

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EVENT INFORMATION

Evenings: 7.30pm
Matinees: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pm
Running Time: 2hrs (including interval)
Need to know: 12+, contains scenes of a sexual nature, brief nudity, strobe lighting and gunshots.
Audio Described perf with pre-show Touch Tour: Sat 12 Sep, 2.30pm

Contains recorded music.

Under 30s tickets available

Theatre Royal Sponsored by Vertu

Fasten your seat belts… Matthew Bourne’s award-winning The Car Man is back!

Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, The Car Man has one of the most thrilling and instantly recognisable scores in New Adventures’ repertoire.

The familiar 19^th Century Spanish cigarette factory becomes a greasy 1950’s garage-diner in the American Mid-West where the dreams and passions of a small-town are shattered by the arrival of a handsome and enigmatic stranger. Fuelled by heat and desire, the inhabitants are driven into an unstoppable spiral of greed, lust, betrayal and revenge.

Matthew Bourne’s vivid storytelling combines with one of the most passionately dramatic scores ever written, with music by Terry Davies featuring Rodion Shchedrin’s Carmen Suite (after Bizet’s Carmen), to create a dance thriller like no other.

The Car Man will ignite your senses and leave you breathless.