Shrewsbury is about to be given a dose of cultural dynamite!

The New Entertainment Venue is intended to be built on Frankwell Quay (alongside Frank Café Bar and the Welsh Bridge). This exciting development will send out a bold cultural statement for Shrewsbury and will help in the regeneration of Frankwell. The new venue will continue to develop Shrewsbury as one of the most attractive places to live and work in the UK and will be a major factor in bringing visitors to the town.

With a beautiful riverside setting, excellent car parking and room for all the imagination and creativity that Shrewsbury can develop the New Entertainment Venue will provide a host of exciting new opportunities. A 650 seated Main Auditorium with air conditioning and full technical facilities will play host to an exciting and diverse programme of live performances.

The 250 seated Studio Theatre will house our more experimental programme with cutting-edge performances by a range of creative artists. The Studio Theatre will also offer Shropshire's amateur and community-based groups a place to perform their work and will have the technical facilities to match their aspirations. With the seating retracted the Studio Theatre becomes the perfect venue for live music, enabling Shrewsbury to host a diverse range of performances and building on an already excellent reputation for live music.

Theatre Severn is due to open early in 2009.

This site will be updated through the course of the project.