News & Stories

Storyhouse, Chester’s award-winning theatre, cinema and library has appointed Annabel Turpin as its new Chief Executive (CEO)

Storyhouse Library is launching a special new free service to help readers who cannot get to the Hunter Street venue.

Meet the cast for this year’s Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, performing two magical new productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Great Gatsby

Storyhouse is collaborating with Chester Zoo to create a pioneering new conservation project for teenagers. 

The third Chester Disability Pride Parade takes to the city’s streets next month in a brilliant burst of colour, sound and movement. 

Storyhouse Childless returns this September, and for 2023 it has been expanded to run across a whole weekend. 

Grosvenor Park has become Storyhouse’s second home – and this summer Chester’s cultural centre is saying a big ‘thank you’ with a special fundraising day for volunteers. 

A new wellbeing initiative being launched this June, aimed at supporting the county’s Year 6 pupils as they navigate their way to ‘big’ school after the summer holidays. 

Storyhouse’s hugely popular Kaleidoscope Festival returns to Chester this summer for its fourth edition.

The annual Kaleidoscope Festival is a hotly-anticipated highlight of the Storyhouse calendar.

A festival which celebrates women and girls and explores issues which are important to them will be held at Storyhouse this spring. 

Support for recent arrivals from conflict-torn countries like Ukraine and Afghanistan is at the heart of a new European-backed Storyhouse library initiative. 

A new festival which puts Chester’s LGBTQIA+ community centre stage is coming to Storyhouse next month. 

Storyhouse is delighted to announce the appointment of a new Chair of its Board of Trustees. 

Storyhouse is delighted to have won a major national award for Excellence in Arts Education.