It regularly produces its own work which tours nationally, recent productions include Torben Bett's Invincible in the summer of 2016 and, in early 2017, an adaptation of Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey.

The fact that it has survived, without significant alteration, into our time is a miracle[citation needed] and it is now one of only three buildings to give the experience of theatre-going in pre-Victorian Britain.

The Bury theatre opened for the Great Fair in early October to mid-November and was only available for special events at other times of the year.

So it remained until the 1960s when a group of local people led by Air Vice Marshal Stanley Vincent raised over £37,000 to restore and re-open the theatre in 1965.

Following an extensive research period, architects Levitt Bernstein, in collaboration with theatre staff and the National Trust, drew up plans to restore the historic building to as close to its original design as possible.

On 11 September 2007 the theatre re-opened with a production of the 1829 nautical melodrama, Black-Eyed Susan, written by Douglas Jerrold with music by Annemarie Lewis Thomas.