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East Anglia arts and ents

Theatre launches search for Neverland’s lost children

Music festival to raise funds for coastal theatre

Epic new East Anglia-set drama to tour region

Inter-generational play refreshed for new tour

Pun-laden film noir premieres in Norwich

Revamp plans for Norwich venue

Malcolm James and Mark Hawkins in The Woman in Black - Photo: Mark Douet
News

Free tickets honour legacy of Norwich theatre boss

January 16, 2024January 16, 2024

The memory of the former boss of Norwich’s Theatre Royal has been honoured with the donation of 500 free tickets to one of his most successful productions.

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Mark Hawkins and Malcolm James in The Woman in Black - Photo: Mark Douet
Drama Reviews

The Woman In Black

January 15, 2024

If the arctic weather isn’t giving you enough chills, this simple but powerful adaptation of Susan Hill’s ghost story has every chance of making your blood run cold.

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Karl Minns as She Go - Photo: Norwich Theatre
Comedy Reviews

She Go Looks Back At 2023

January 11, 2024January 11, 2024

Karl Minns’ Norwich single mum alter ego’s winter outing is becoming a tradition as familiar as Old Year’s Night – and remains a sparkling piece of self-effacing fun.

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AJ Deane, Leighton Melville, Kimberley Mason and Brian Wood in Cinderella at the Fisher Theatre, Bungay - Photo: James Ducker
Comedy Drama Musical Reviews

Cinderella

December 23, 2023December 23, 2023

Panto sometimes gets a bad rap – at best silly stories for kids, at worst a lazy cash cow for theatres and fading celebs. But done well it can bring together comedy, music, dance, in a single entertaining package.

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Sleeping Beauty at Norwich Theatre Royal - Photo: Richard Jarmy
Comedy Musical Performance Reviews

Sleeping Beauty: The Fairy’s Tale

December 13, 2023December 13, 2023

Get ready to get sequinned out: Norwich Theatre’s panto is a riot of glittering costumes, frenetic dance routines, anthemic songs, and smart and silly humour.

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The cast of Immaculate at Sewell Barn Theatre - Photo: Sean Owen / Reflective Arts
Comedy Drama Reviews

Immaculate

November 23, 2023

There’s a painting by African-American painter Henry Ossawa Tanner of the moment Mary is told by archangel Gabriel that she is pregnant with the son of God.

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Dreda Blow as Beauty and Ashley Dixon as the Beast in Beauty & the Beast - Photo: Emma Kauldhar
Dance Reviews

Beauty and the Beast

November 22, 2023April 7, 2026

There are many different versions of the Beauty and the Beast story, with this Northern Ballet dance version having several twists of it own.

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Uncanny - Photo c/o Norwich Theatre
Performance Reviews Spoken word

Uncanny: I Know What I Saw

November 19, 2023November 19, 2023

Master storyteller Danny Robins brings his supernatural podcast to the stage in this touring production focused on things that go bump in the night.

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A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings - Photo: Ste Murray
Performance Reviews Spoken word

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

November 18, 2023November 18, 2023

“There isn’t a message, so don’t go looking for one” we are warned near the beginning of this stage adaptation of Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s story.

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The King and I - Photo: Pamela Raith Photography
Musical Reviews

The King and I

November 14, 2023November 14, 2023

Regarded as one of the classic musicals of all time, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I is a much loved show, both for its on stage productions and the multi-Oscar winning film starring Yul Brynner.

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The cast of Noises Off during a performance
Comedy Drama Reviews

Noises Off

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023

It’s been a decade since Michael Frayn’s farce within a farce has graced the Norwich Theatre Royal stage and it’s a long overdue revival.

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Volodymyr Sirenko - Photo: NSOU / Norwich Theatre
Music Reviews

National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine

November 5, 2023November 7, 2023

Norwich was the final stop for the first UK tour by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine in more than 20 years, in a night that indelibly mixed music and politics.

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Chris McCausland - Photo: Emery PR
Interviews

Success has been a while coming for Chris

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023

Chris McCausland is one of the UK’s most in-demand comedians. The 46-year-old Liverpudlian has appeared on shows including the Live at the Apollo, Have I Got News for You, Would I Lie to You? and QI. He has also fronted his own TV series, Wonders Of The World I Can’t See, and hosted his own radio show, You Heard It Here First.

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Circolumbia's Mordaza - Photo: NNF
News

Festival teases 2024 line-up

November 4, 2023November 4, 2023

The first details of next year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival have been announced, with a handful of shows going on public sale next week.

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Lewis Reeves and Rory Bremner in Quiz - Photo: Johan Persson
Drama Reviews

Quiz

October 31, 2023October 31, 2023

A simple cough can be a very powerful thing: just two years ago it could have been life-threatening. A little over a decade ago it possibly meant winning one million pounds.

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