Cast
📍 Waterdale, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1 3BU
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Cast is Doncaster's flagship theatre. Home to world-class entertainment, transforming lives for local people through arts and culture.
Cast in Doncaster opened its doors in 2013 and has since played host to internationally acclaimed touring companies, coproduced work and the very best in local talent. The state-of-the-art Main Space 620-seat theatre presents a thriving programme of entertainment all year round including music, dance, children's shows, comedy and theatre. As well as the main auditorium, the Second Space within the venue can accommodate up to 400 spectators and features small-scale touring works.
The theatre is now enjoying its third year in operation and recent highlights include the free outdoor spectacular Clash of Drums, which attracted an audience of over 3,500 people, the world premiere of Northern Ballet’s Jane Eyre, and a professional in-house produced pantomime, which grows in popularity year on year.
Cast is funded by Arts Council England and Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.
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📍 Waterdale, Doncaster, South Yorkshire, DN1 3BU
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Showing 5 of 1,995 reviews from Google Maps.Last updated 30 January 2026.
Great venue. Great view from the balcony. Unobstructed views and plenty of leg room. Seats are a bit "pinchy" if you're wide in the hips like me and the patrons who go here love to queue in a single line for the bar which can cause unnecessary delays. That said, one and a half thumbs up from me!
Great place. Easy to get to. Nice building. Helpful staff members. Good amount of toilets and kept clean and tidy. I lost something and didn't realise until after the production was done and the staff helped me look so thankyou to them. Great place for shows and love how the seating area is set out
Cinderella was amazing. The kids and I really enjoyed it. Lovely little theatre with good views and great sounds all round. Only feed back is drinks are very limited. Beers on tap but not a great option of soft drinks.
Went to see the 1922 silent film, Nosferatu, loosely based on the Bram Stoker classic, Dracula. The music accompaniment was written and performed by Chris Green, one half of the very accomplished folk duo, GreenMattews. Chris had captured the atmosphere of the film perfectly, and whole performance was really enjoyable. Regarding the Cast, this is a beautiful modern theatre, with 2 performance spaces. The first is 'The Main Space', which is the actual theatre for touring plays and musical performances. The 2nd space, or Studio, is a smaller venue for performances of a more specialised nature, or perhaps more limited audience. It was here that I saw Nosferatu. I was pleasantly surprised by one great improvement since my last visit. Then I watched a film while sitting on a bench which by the end of the show was very uncomfortable. An experience I wouldn't really wish to repeat, had I not wanted to see Nosferatu. However, on arrival I discovered proper theatre seats, which greatly enhanced my enjoyment of the performance. In short, the Cast is a great theatre! Parking is also very close by and cheap, apart from the night I went when I found the carpark I went to was shut, but that's another story...
Great for Christmas pantomime. We go every year. I'm really disappointed that there aren't as many BSL performance's as there used to be. We have booked for 2026 already but the limited BSL performances has ment we have to just go to one without it. The inclusivity made it even more special but this doesn't take away the pantomime itself being amazing hense why we still go