Norwich Theatre Royal is Norfolk’s biggest theatre venue, taking audiences of up to 1300 in its large auditorium, across stalls and the upper circle.
The theatre mostly receives visiting companies, hosting week-long runs of drama, musicals, and dance, alongside one-off comedy and music gigs.
There has been a theatre close to its current site on Theatre Street since 1758, with the current building dating from 1935. It was substantially refurbished in 2007.
The Theatre Royal also manages the Stage Two and Norwich Playhouse venues and provides box office services for local venues and festivals.
Comedy gigs can be quite different things nowadays. In the past a comedian might rock up in the afternoon, pick up an Evening News, scan for a few local funnies and chuck them in at the beginning to make it seem like they cared about each stop on their deadening 147-night tour.
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The Nutcracker is a pleasantly sweet introduction to the festive season.
It is 21 years since this Stephen King short story shot to fame as a movie starring Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins.
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There can’t be many bands that count a tap dancer as one of their percussionists, but that’s not even the most extraordinary thing about the Hot Sardines.
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There’s a special belly laugh reserved for watching things go horribly wrong – and this show has belly laugh moments in spades.
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The brutal ordinariness of mass murder is the challenging topic of this play, which charts the strange relationship that builds up between nine-year-old German boy Bruno and his young Jewish friend Shmuel, the two seemingly so similar – except for the concentration camp fence that separates them.
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What drives an 87-year-old man to spend two hours on a Norwich stage? For Sir Bruce Forsyth, the answer seems to be a genuine love of entertaining.
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Canadian comedian Stewart Francis is back with a new tour called Pun Gent – but not all his jokes are that kindly.
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Young people just want to have fun: that might be a slightly simplistic version of the message behind Cush Jumbo’s The Accordion Shop.
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With questions about cash for access ringing in our ears, the latest production at Norwich’s Theatre Royal puts a dangerous proposition: there might be honour in politics.
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