Get ready to sing along to ‘Red Red Wine’ under the summer sky: legendary reggae icons UB40 featuring ALI CAMPBELL are your next Newmarket Nights headliners, performing on Friday 16th July 2027. Fuelled by the voice that powered UB40 to 70 million record sales and...

Going into Wilko: Love and Death and Rock 'n' Roll, I’ll admit I wasn’t a die-hard Dr. Feelgood fan, although many in the audience certainly seemed to be. I did, however, see them at The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe in 2025 with Nine Below Zero and it was a great gig, so...

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Newmarket Racecourses are thrilled to reveal the first artist for the 2027 Summer season. SIMPLY RED will bring their ‘Summer Funk ‘27’ tour to the historic racecourse on Saturday 21st August, with Mick Hucknall and the band delivering good times and a celebratory...

The 15th NMG Awards ceremony took place at The Apex and it was an incredible night! The NMG (New Music Generator) Awards are to celebrate, acknowledge and showcase the amazing emerging musical artists from across East Anglia. All of whom have been played on The New...

Local festivals are totally becoming a thing! It’s no surprise… with ticket prices for the big festivals out of reach for many people, town festivals are really upping the anti with organisers putting on quality community events, specifically FOMO Fest – and yes the...

On what was one of the hottest days & nights of 2026, thousands of people came to Newmarket Nights to dress up and enjoy the horse racing, and ultimately see Craig David perform one of his TS5 nights. Half expecting to see Craig David with a band singing his...

There are few things quite as British as spending a sunny summer Saturday afternoon at the races before swapping the horses for guitars and Newmarket Racecourse provided the perfect setting for a fabulous evening of live music on Saturday 22nd August. With Scouting...

Rave On is a vibrant and youthful show that promises a thrilling tour through music’s most revolutionary decades, the 1950s and 60s, will play at New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich on Wednesday 4 November, for two performances at 2pm and 7pm. From the emergence of Rock and...

This is one I was looking forward to and she didn’t disappoint. After a few failed flutters on the horses, I sat to absorb the atmosphere and people watch – always a delight in such a setting where people are dressed up and looking glamourous in the sunshine. Once the...

What a fantastic piece of theatre! Blackeyed Theatre’s touring adaptation of Dracula, Bram Stoker’s classic tale is a familiar piece of Gothic storytelling, but from the moment the lights dimmed, this production proved to be a refreshing, atmospheric, and utterly...

Sat 21 Nov 2026 - Sun 17 Jan 2027 Mercury Theatre Colchester today announces the full cast and creative team for its 2026 pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Joining the previously announced cast of Antony Stuart-Hicks as Dame Tilly Trott, Dale Superville as Trevor...

Going into Wilko: Love and Death and Rock 'n' Roll, I’ll admit I wasn’t a die-hard Dr. Feelgood fan, although many in the audience certainly seemed to be. I did, however, see them at The Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe in 2025 with Nine Below Zero and it was a great gig, so...

One of the most celebrated novels in English literature, Jane Eyre follows the journey of a young woman determined to forge her own path in a world that seeks to constrain her.  “I am no bird; and no net ensnares me.”  Orphaned as a young girl, the...

A young actress is off to see the wizard after an urgent understudy call-up led to her landing a leading panto role. Lucy Connor stepped into the spotlight as Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz at Sheringham last year when illness struck. And she did so well that when the...

Starring in a splashy new production of the classic Cole Porter musical High Society, Helen George is in her element. Her father was a big jazz fan. "So I grew up listening to all the greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra singing those wonderful Cole Porter...

Rave On is a vibrant and youthful show that promises a thrilling tour through music’s most revolutionary decades, the 1950s and 60s, will play at New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich on Wednesday 4 November, for two performances at 2pm and 7pm. From the emergence of Rock and...

We love an Eastern Angles Theare Production: they excel at regional stories bringing them to life with creative, expressive theatre, work with community groups and tour their productions around East Anglia for all to enjoy. ‘The Go-Between’ is this summer’s touring...

FRI 27 NOV 2026 – SUN 3 JAN 2027WRITTEN BY CHRIS JARVISDIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY KEVAN ALLEN The Arts Theatre is thrilled to announce the principal cast for this year’s spectacular Christmas pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Matt Crosby will star as Dame Trott....

Norwich Theatre Royal’s family show for the summer is Matilda The Musical and what a show! I couldn’t quite believe how impressive it all was. An incredible set design: a towering jumble of alphabet blocks and book transforms the stage into a brilliant physical...

One of Britain’s best-known impressionists and satirists, Rory Bremner, headlines a four-act Comedy Buoys show at Seckford Theatre in Woodbridge on Saturday 10 October.A fixture of British television comedy for decades, Bremner is best known for the long-running...

Photo credit - Matt Crockett Following a complete sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, Jack Dee takes his new show, Jack’s Joke Show on the road. Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of this show. Celebrating...

‘The most I’ve laughed at a show ever. I mean ever. So brilliant. I’m still laughing’ Tim Vine 'Top quality character comedy' The Guardian 'Alex Lowe's stunning creation' Time Out 'Wonderfully observed ... poignant and very funny' Bruce Dessau, Evening Standard Star...

A big opera event turns into farce as soaring arias are swapped for spinning mayhem in the opening show of Sheringham Little Theatre’s summer season. Lend Me A Tenor is set in 1934 as an opera company prepares to welcome famous singer Tito “Il Stupendo” Merelli to...

Spin-a-Play - Hunter Club Arts Centre Have you ever seen a play that no-one else will ever get to witness? Have you ever experienced a play where you are in a strange, unique moment of time that will never be repeated? Welcome to Spin-A-Play. Spin-A-Play, as the name...

After an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, and fresh from supporting Jack Dee on tour, Alex Kealy (The Now Show, Gig Pigs with Ivo Graham) brings The Fear on a tour between February and July 2025. Last year, 2024, was the best year of Alex’s life. He got married...

Geoff Norcott: BASIC BLOKE 2 - There’s No Bloke Without Fire Basic Bloke 2 – There’s No Bloke Without Fire is the latest tour from comedian, author, podcaster and radio host Geoff Norcott and Geoff’s first under a Labour government, so he’s...

Ben Elton: Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe Ben Elton is back on the road with his ‘Authentic Stupidity’ Tour and how great is it to see him coming to Felixstowe! The marketing spiel: Ben Elton first exploded into the national consciousness back in the 1980s hosting Channel...

Following his second consecutive British Podcast Award win and a critically acclaimed, sold-out run at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe earlier this year, multi award-winning comedian, podcaster, and writer Rob Auton (Starstruck, The End of the...

Karl Minns Looks Back at 2024 with She Go and Friends - Norwich Theatre Playhouse The hugely popular  ‘She Go’ annual comedy event is at Norwich Theatre Playhouse with thirteen shows across nine days and I was at opening night. The show was in two unequal halves, with...

What a fantastic piece of theatre! Blackeyed Theatre’s touring adaptation of Dracula, Bram Stoker’s classic tale is a familiar piece of Gothic storytelling, but from the moment the lights dimmed, this production proved to be a refreshing, atmospheric, and utterly...

Madness have been announced to play Southend’s Priory Park on Thursday 22 July 2027, headlining a special opening concert ahead of Lazydays Festival, which takes place in the park that weekend. The independent festival, founded by three friends from the city, returns...

Photo credit - Matt Crockett Following a complete sellout run at the Edinburgh Fringe this year, Jack Dee takes his new show, Jack’s Joke Show on the road. Who doesn’t like jokes? If your answer to that question is “Me!” then steer well clear of this show. Celebrating...

The 15th NMG Awards ceremony took place at The Apex and it was an incredible night! The NMG (New Music Generator) Awards are to celebrate, acknowledge and showcase the amazing emerging musical artists from across East Anglia. All of whom have been played on The New...

Starring in a splashy new production of the classic Cole Porter musical High Society, Helen George is in her element. Her father was a big jazz fan. "So I grew up listening to all the greats like Ella Fitzgerald and Frank Sinatra singing those wonderful Cole Porter...

Rave On is a vibrant and youthful show that promises a thrilling tour through music’s most revolutionary decades, the 1950s and 60s, will play at New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich on Wednesday 4 November, for two performances at 2pm and 7pm. From the emergence of Rock and...

FRI 27 NOV 2026 – SUN 3 JAN 2027WRITTEN BY CHRIS JARVISDIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY KEVAN ALLEN The Arts Theatre is thrilled to announce the principal cast for this year’s spectacular Christmas pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk. Matt Crosby will star as Dame Trott....

Norwich Theatre Royal’s family show for the summer is Matilda The Musical and what a show! I couldn’t quite believe how impressive it all was. An incredible set design: a towering jumble of alphabet blocks and book transforms the stage into a brilliant physical...

There can be few more magical settings in which to experience Shakespeare than Theatre in the Forest at Sutton Hoo. As dusk settles over the woodland and the hubbub of birdsong and picnicking theatregoers gradually gives way to music, Red Rose Chain once again proves...

Award-winning theatre company Red Rose Chain opens its much-loved outdoor season, Theatre in the Forest at Sutton Hoo, with Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night, now playing until 22 August 2026. Performances run from Tuesdays to Saturdays. The much-loved mistaken-identity...