Cinderella runs at Leamington's Royal Spa Centre from 4 December to 3 January. All 39 performances, the four price bands, the access shows and the dark days.

Leamington’s pantomime this year is Cinderella, at the Royal Spa Centre on Newbold Terrace, CV32 4HN, from Friday 4 December 2026 to Sunday 3 January 2027. It stars AJ and Curtis Pritchard, and there are 39 public performances.

The dates below are not taken from a listings site. They are read from the Royal Spa Centre’s own live booking feed, which the council’s box office system publishes at warwickdc.ticketsolve.com/shows.xml. That feed carries every performance, its start time and, usefully, the price band the box office has put it in. Checked on 3 September 2026, all 39 were still showing as available.

The bit nobody publishes: which dates cost less

The Spa Centre sorts the run into four price bands. It does not print them anywhere on its website, but it tags every performance with one in the booking feed. Here they are.

Standard, the cheapest band, 5 performances

Date Times
Sat 12 December 10am
Sat 2 January 1pm, 5pm
Sun 3 January 1pm, 5pm

Opening weekend, 4 performances

Date Times
Sat 5 December 1pm, 5pm
Sun 6 December 1pm, 5pm

Premium, 15 performances

Date Times
Sat 12 December 2pm, 6pm
Sun 13 December 1pm, 5pm
Sat 19 December 10am
Sat 26 December 1pm, 5pm
Sun 27 December 1pm, 5pm
Mon 28 December 1pm
Tue 29 December 1pm, 5pm
Wed 30 December 5pm
Thu 31 December 11am, 3pm

Super premium, the dearest band, 11 performances

Date Times
Sat 19 December 6pm
Sun 20 December 1pm, 5pm
Mon 21 December 1pm, 5pm
Tue 22 December 1pm, 5pm
Wed 23 December 1pm, 5pm
Thu 24 December 11am, 3pm

Two performances carry no band at all in the feed: the opening night, Friday 4 December at 7pm, and Saturday 19 December at 2pm. The 19 December oddity is worth knowing about, because the 10am that morning is premium and the 6pm that evening is super premium, so the middle show on the busiest Saturday of the run is the one the box office has not loaded a band against.

The producer, Imagine Theatre, puts the general rule plainly on its own page for this production: “Pantomime tickets typically get more expensive the closer to Christmas you get.” The bands bear that out. If price is what matters, the four January performances and the Saturday 12 December 10am are the ones to look at.

What the tickets actually cost

Not published. The Spa Centre sells through a Ticketsolve booking system that renders its prices only inside the booking app, and neither the council’s website nor the producer’s page prints a figure. We are not going to guess one. The box office is 01926 334418.

The two access performances, and a warning about the third

The Royal Spa Centre’s own listing confirms two:

  • BSL interpreted: Monday 28 December at 5pm. The venue says the interpreter “will be visible on the side of the stage but not part of the main action”, and that the performance “remains fully accessible to all audiences and is open to standard bookers as usual.”
  • Relaxed: Wednesday 30 December at 11am. The venue lists reduced noise levels, no sudden or loud sounds, brighter lighting in the main auditorium, and that “you are welcome to leave your seats and come back as you please.”

Now the warning. Imagine Theatre’s accessible performances page advertises a second relaxed performance at Leamington on Friday 11 December at 1.15pm. There is no performance at the Royal Spa Centre on 11 December. The theatre is dark that whole week. A family booking that date would find nothing to book.

The same producer’s product page also says “BSL-interpreted, audio-described, captioned and relaxed performances are scheduled” for this production. The venue’s feed tags no audio-described and no captioned performance among the 39, and the producer’s own accessible-performances page lists none for Leamington either. Go by the venue, not the producer, and ring the box office before you rely on either.

When there is no show

The run is not continuous. There is no performance at all on:

  • Monday 7 to Friday 11 December
  • Monday 14 to Friday 18 December
  • Christmas Day
  • New Year’s Day

So the first fortnight is weekends only. Doors open exactly one hour before each performance, on every one of the 39. The show runs about 125 minutes including a 20 minute interval, and the producer gives the age guidance as 3 and up.

Three Cinderella craft workshops at the Spa Centre, on Sundays 6, 13 and 20 December at midday, are already sold out, as are the Arty Tots sessions at Haddies Gallery on 26 November and 10 December.

One thing to ignore: the council’s own pantomime page at warwickdc.gov.uk/royalspacentre/pantomime is still headed Peter Pan, last year’s show, above a description of Cinderella. The heading is stale. The show is Cinderella.

The other Cinderella, six miles away

Kenilworth’s Talisman Theatre, Barrow Road, is also doing Cinderella, from Saturday 19 December 2026 to Saturday 2 January 2027, written and directed by Stephen Duckham. Two pantomimes, same title, same fortnight, six miles apart.

From the Talisman’s own page: Lilia Clifford plays Cinderella, Harry Bowser is Buttons, Adam Turner is Prince Christopher and Kevin Wing is Dandini. Age guidance is 3 and above with parental guidance, everyone attending needs a ticket including babies, and there are two wheelchair spaces per performance, bookable only by phoning 01926 856548. Concessions are offered to people in full-time education and state pensioners, and there are group rates for parties of 10 or more. A relaxed performance is promised, without a date attached to it yet.

Times and prices are held on TicketSource, which blocks automated reading, so we cannot list them here. Read that page carefully if you do go to it: the director’s notes still underneath the Cinderella cast list are about Robinson Crusoe, which was last year’s Talisman panto.

And a third family show, in Warwick

Playbox Theatre is staging Peter Pan at The Dream Factory, Stratford Road, Warwick, CV34 6LE. Its own listing gives 11 performances: Thursday 17 December at 7pm, Friday 18 December at 7pm, Saturday 19 December at 3pm and 7pm, Sunday 20 December at 3pm, Wednesday 23 December at 3pm, Thursday 24 December at 11am, Monday 28 December at 3pm, Tuesday 29 December at 3pm and 7pm, and Wednesday 30 December at 3pm and 7pm.

It is for ages 4 and up, no babes in arms are admitted, and the cast alternates between two teams, so the page tells you which clan is on at which performance. Concessions go to students in full-time education, over-65s and disabled patrons, with proof possibly required on entry.

Leamington’s Loft Theatre is not doing a pantomime. Its December production is The Night Alive, in the Main House from Wednesday 2 to Saturday 12 December, which is a Conor McPherson play and not a family show.

If you want carols instead, Carols by Candlelight is at St Mary’s, Warwick, on Tuesday 15 and Saturday 19 December, both at 7.30pm, and Holy Trinity in Leamington has Bach’s Christmas Oratorio on Tuesday 1 December at 7.30pm. Both are on the same council booking system as the panto.

Getting there and parking

The Royal Spa Centre is on Newbold Terrace, a two minute walk from the Parade and about twelve minutes from Leamington Spa station. The nearest car parks are Covent Garden multi-storey and Newbold Terrace itself.

Two evening performances land on days when the town centre is already busy: the matinee and evening on Saturday 19 December, when the Christmas market is on the Parade, and the 1pm and 5pm on Sunday 20 December, the last market Sunday before Christmas. Check our parking page for current charges and the roadworks and travel page before you drive in. Our Christmas lights switch-on page has the market dates.

Every date, time and band above was read from the Royal Spa Centre’s own booking feed and the organisers’ own pages on 3 September 2026. Prices are not published by any of the three venues outside their booking systems. Tell us if something changes: hello@theleamingtonpost.co.uk.