What’s On

This one day course is for the new or aspiring letterpress printer who is looking to set up a simple home studio using the popular Adana platen press.

How to Succeed is a witty, satirical show with an exhilarating musical score and a plethora of interesting and diverse characters.

Come tour our printing workshop, historic rooms, and famous library. Get the chance to view some of the items in the library’s special collection, and learn more about the Foundation and its significant place in the illustrious history of the printing press trade. Perfect for designers, printmakers, or just lovers of history.

Our next Type Tuesday, on 4 June, is ‘Type Now: Independence and Originality’ and will be devoted to the contents of Eye 98, our latest special typography issue. Speakers include Hansje van Halem, Mark Thomson (talking about Bram de Does) and Ferdinand Ulrich followed by a panel about type design chaired by Eye's assistant editor and contributor Sarah Snaith.

Join us for our new production of HMS Pinafore, one of Gilbert and Sullivan's best loved masterpieces; full of some of their most well known tunes and wittiest lyrics.

It is an opportunity to bring blocks you are working on for individual technical and tutorial support to help with designing/cutting blocks, sharpening tools and printing.

We would like to invite you to join us for an intimate evening held in our Passmore Edwards room to get a closer look at some of the hidden treasures in the St Bride collection and learn more about them from font of all knowledge, Bob Richardson.

The multi-award winning Drama College - The MTA, are back at the Bridewell with Calamity Jane. Book now to visit the 'Black Hills of Dakota' via 'The Deadwood Stage', and who knows, maybe you too will find your 'Secret Love’?

You will be introduced to the process of wood engraving from preliminary drawings and design; transferring drawings to blocks; cutting blocks; choosing papers and proofing to printing a small limited edition of black and white prints.

Sweeney Todd returns to London to seek revenge on those who stole his life, and with the assistance of the delirious Mrs. Lovett he resumes his work as a master barber.

Set in Washington Heights in New York, we encounter the many colourful residents of this neighbourhood on the brink of change. This revolutionary musical combines Latin rhythms and dance with hip-hop lyrics to tell the captivating story about what it means to chase your dreams.

When your only inheritance is an urn of ashes on the mantelpiece or if your secret romance becomes tabloid front page news, can love really conquer all?

In this one day course students will learn how to rebind a paperback into a hard back, quarter cloth binding using decorative paper.

Baby-go-round is a cabaret-style show with song, dance and comedy sketches about motherhood and the joys and pains of being – or not being – a mother.

The Morley Opera School presents an eclectic mix of opera scenes in French at the Bridewell Theatre.

We would like to invite you to join us for an intimate evening held in our Passmore Edwards room, to get a closer look at some of the hidden treasures in the St Bride collection and learn more about them from font of all knowledge, Bob Richardson.

Based on H.G. Wells semi-autobiographical novel, Kipps. It tells the story of Arthur Kipps, an over-worked orphan draper’s assistant at the turn of the last century. When Kipps unexpectedly inherits a fortune that propels him into high society, it confuses everything he thought he knew about life.