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Penzance

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Little Theatre seats 80, Fenton Wood Hall seats 190..

Current Productions

Kizamba

Past Productions

Connor Selby

Steve Tilston

The Fleetwood Mac Songbook

The Vagina Monologues

Trelawny’s Cornwall: An Evening with Petroc Trelawny

The Redbills

The LeylinesDreamland Tour

Katie Spencer

Dracula

Ralph McTell and Dave Pegg

Hannah James and Toby Kuhn

Steve KnightleyWinter Yards Tour

Touki

Born Gaga: The Legacy Ball

I’m Every Whitney

The Unravelling Wilburys

Christine CollisterChildren of the Sea

Martyn Joseph

Hanterhir

The Scribes Boombox

Marian CroleSAFE Tour

Blackbeard’s Tea PartyWe Are People

Airfish CircusThe Scribes Boombox

James KirbyThe Honest Man Tour

Hollie Rogers, Daisy Chute and Ed BluntBig Bang Love Tour

This is Celine

Fraser Anderson

Suthering

Jaclarabag

Essentially Cher

Nos Lowen with Jackson’s Claret and Dalla Duo

The Bootleg Shadows

Risk A Verse

An Evening with Jack the Ripper

Death(s) at Sea

Dracula

Bone to Pick

Ghosts and the Cornish Landscape

Shivers and Shadows

Tom Hingleyplays Inspiral Carpets

TV SmithSupport from Pete Surgeon

Faux Bonamassa

China Crisis

The Monochrome Set

Pete Allen Jazz Band

Resevoir Stogs and Friends

Voodoo RoomHendrix, Clapton and Cream

Eilidh Steel and Mark Neal

Chantel McGregor

Top Secret – The Magic of Science

Sham 69It’s All Kicking Off Tour

Kiri Pritchard-McLeanPeacock

Liz Jones

Creedence Clearwater Revival Tribute ShowGreen River

Bootleg Blondie

Wizz Jones

Noasis

The Elton John Story

An Intimate Evening with KITTOSupported by Delilah Daisies

Montol Troyl

A ’60s Experience with The Hurdy Gurdies

Baskery

Sinpusher & Devils Creek

Brian Kramer+ support

Stompin’ Dave

Liz Jones

Valkeryie Skyzsupported by PUSH

Peri-Meno…What Now?!

Attention All Shipping

Storynight

Voices of CornwallVol III Launch

Alan Fletcher& Special Guests

The Schmoozenbergs

Typically Tina

The New Jersey BoysOh What a Night!

The Guns N’ Roses Experience

The Phonics

Bar Tape

Liz Simmons & Flynn Cohen

An Evening of Mediumship

MJ The LegacyStarring CJ

Haywire

Wonderful World

Granny’s Attic

A Nos Lowenwith Keskorra

Can’t Wait to Leave

Richard Durrant

Liz Ikamba Band

An Evening of Indian Classical Music and Dance

Tibetan Monks from Tashi Lhunpo MonasteryRoof of the World

Rebeca OrtegaAzahar

Ranagri

Good HabitsQuarter Life Album Release Tour

From Gold to Rio

The Everlys & Friends

Alex Hart and her Band

Chippy

Wake the River

Meet Tommy Atkins

Black top Deluxe with special guest Otto

Jarman

I Hate It Here

Julie July BandFlight of Fancy Album Tour

Pellars, Charmers and Cunning FolkA History of Cornish Witchcraft

The Skata-likes

The Devout

Suntou SussoSolo Tour

Keith JamesThe Music of Yusuf Cat Stevens

Women in Rock

Seckou Keitaand 8-piece band

Alan JohnsonAn Evening with Alan Johnson – in Conversation with Matthew Stadlen

Mark ThomasGaffer Tapes

Gilmore & Roberts

Ma Polaine’s Great Decline

Dazed ‘n’ ConfusedA Tribute to Led Zeppelin

Ultimate Coldplay

Frankie Davies+ True Foxes

Who’s Next60 Years of the Who

Reg Meuross

The CountrymenSpringtime Concert Tour

Poetry NightHannah Temme

Quo Fish

Stompin’ Dave Electric Band

Remi Harris Trio

Eduardo Martin and Ahmed Dickinson

The Metamorphosis

My Darling Clementine

James Oliver Band

Baskery

The Ancient Mariner

The Upbeat Beatles

Desperados – a Tribute to the Eagles

Everything Changes: The Take That & Robbie Williams Story

Never 42

Broadside Bangers

Emerald Dawn

Cornish Tales

Bloody Mary: Live!

Hell’s Bells

Ben Waters Band

Kelsey Michael & Alice Wonder

Airfish Circus

Bowie Experience

The Good Old Fashioned Lover Boys

Du Glas

Maddie Storvold

Martha Tilston

Mark Cottle

Matt Deighton

Maybe Dick

The Prophecy of Merlin

Mad Dog McRea

Mark HarrisonAnd Band

Post Office ScandalThe Inside Story

Falmouth Soul Sensation

Sarah McQuaid

Gail PorterHung, Drawn and Portered

WiFi Wars

Martin Dale Quartet

Man of the WorldThe Music of Peter Green

Greg ChapmanGreg Chapman’s The Magic of Dinosaurs

Greg Chapman’s The Non-Psychic “Psychic” Show

Bob Harris and Colin HallThe Songs The Beatles Gave Away

The Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness

Jack Frost

A Christmas Carol

A Winter Mind Variety Show

Cratchit’s Christmas Cracker

BezIn Conversation

Crow Black Chicken

Nos Lowen

Sunbirds

Hauntings

Cratchit’s Christmas Cracker

Lady NadeSings Nina Simone

Martin Harley

Splash Test Dummies

Kiki Dee and Carmelo LuggeriThe Long Road Home

While and Matthews

The Beach Boys Tribute Show

Dean Friedman

How to Catch a Book Witch

Distant Dances

Old Baby Mackerel!

Touki

Come Out Fighting

Simon Kempston

The Unravelling Wilburys

Queen Gwendolen’s SpellMusic Inspired By The Natural Woeld

Hits Out of HellThe MeatLoaf Songbook

Voodoo RoomHendrix, Clapton and Cream

Genesis Visible TouchThe Shapes/Mama Album

Jo CaulfieldHere Comes Trouble

Katie Spencer

Confetti

Aynsley Lister

Marky Dawson

A Beautiful Noise

Mara

Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope

Roving Crows

Adam Beattie + Full Band

The Tannahill Weavers

Marvin Muoneke Quartet

Son of Dave

Tubular Bells + Dark Side of the Moon

The Slinky Minsky’s Caburlesque Show

Sham 69It’s All Kicking Off Tour

Liz Ikamba Trio

Nos Lowen

Ken Pustelnik’s Groundhogs

Mik ArtistikMik Artistik’s Ego Trip

Darren Roberts with some special guests

Canterbury Tales

The Guns N’ Roses Experience

DogHeads, Work’Us & The Electric Timothy

Chris Murphy & Barney Kenny

The Monochrome Set

Tropical Balkan with Theo Mizu & Banda

Nikki KittPsychic Medium

Stompin’ Dave Trio

This Flight TonightThe Songs of Joni Mitchell

Mark HarrisonAnd Band

Sinpusher & Devils Creek

The Riot

Murray Lachlan Young – Modern Coutionary Tales for Children

The Free9

Steve Knightley – Songs and Stories

Budapest Cafe Orchestra

Kabasa

Claude Bourbon

Murray Lachlan Young – How Freakin’ Zeitgeist Are You? An Evening with Murray Lachlan Young

Aunt Emily and the Missing Melody

Cathy

International Women’s Day

No Finer Life

The Lost Will and Testament of Jake Thackray

James Wilton Dance – Leviathan

The Lion Tamer

Geoff Achison – and the UK Soul Diggers

Emily Maguire

Mitch Benn – I’m Still Here

The Cause

Henning Wehn – Get On With It

Sounds of the Sirens – All Our Sins

Oye Santana!

Roger McGough – + LiTTLe MACHiNe

Gilmore & Roberts

Robin Ince – Robin Ince’s Chaos of Delights

Reg Meuross

Big Dance Company – It’s Okay to Not be Okay

Chantel McGregor – Unplugged Tour 2017

Lucid

My Darling Clementine

Will Keating – plus guests – Cornish Concert

FB Pocket Orchestra

My Sweet Patootie

James and Black

Dark Women

Voodoo Room – Hendrix, Clapton and Cream

Rainbreakers

Remi Harris

Bessie Smith Empress of the Blues

Rachel Harrington

Beth Rowley

Kelly Oliver

Mitchell and Vincent

London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra

Hyde and Seek

Give Me Your Love

Encore Dance Company – Encore Dance Championships Preview

Bookends – Simon & Garfunkel Through the Years

Floatstone

Elsa Jean McTaggart – Eva Cassidy: The Story

Rainer Hersch

The Fleetwood Mac Songbook

Kangaroo Moon

Wenna’s Wonderful World

Frankie Davies – Album Launch

Tony Wright – (Terrovision)

Baka Beyond

Chris Difford

Sheelanagig – + The Drystones

A Commemorative Of The Ending Of WW1

Penzance Lullaby – Kelsey Michael and band + Lucy Birbeck

Dale Storr

The South

DNA Mindreaders

Richard Chappell Dance – At the End We Begin

Marky Dawson

The Scribes

Queen C*nt Sacred or Profane

The Life and Songs of Jake Thackray

Claude Bourbon

Science Adventures

The Countrymen

The Blackheart Orchestra

Menage a Trois – Airfish Circus Presents Soiree 3

Ghost Stories By Candlelight – Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad/The Ash Tree

Martin Shaw – Into the Marvellous

Untold Dance Theatre – Women-Wise

Dirty Words

Point of No Return

Brian Patten – Are You Across the River or Am I

International Women’s Day

Chris Wood

The Wind in the Willows

Luke Wright – Poet Laureate

The Unravelling Wilburys

Lights! Planets! People!

DNA Mindreaders – We Know What You’re Thinking

Falling

Nick Harper

Sam Kelly’s Station House

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

The Odd Folk

Megan Henwood & Findlay Napier

Who Knows Where The Time Goes – Songs of Sandy Denny

Bud & the Fisherman’s Tale

Drip Drip Drip

The Mystery of the Raddlesham Mumps

Bad Manners

Do You Think That’s Wise?

The Hound of the Baskervilles

Riots and Lobsters – Jim Carey and The Saboteurs

Noisy Holiday

Kakatsitsi – and Friends

Dr Feelgood

Gordie MacKeeman and his Rhythm Boys

Gilmore & Roberts

Hanterhir

Chris Difford

Darren Page – The Voice of Roy Orbison

The Dancing Frog

William Grant

Faery Tales for Grown-Ups

Robin Ince – Robin Ince’s Chaos of Delights

Old Herbaceous

Vagabond Circus – Ember and Thorns

Shivers and Shadows

Oddsocks King Lear

Jackie Juno – Spellbound

Seeking Isolde

Splendour

Tales from a Haunted Bookshop

T.Rextasy

Flamenco Para Siempre

The Cutlasses – Jollyroger

Holder and Smith

Hungrytown

Kangaroo Moon

Hannah White – & The Nordic Connections

A Christmas Cornish Carol – (with apologies to Mr Charles Dickens)

Budapest Cafe Orchestra

Mitchell and Vincent

The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Many Moons

Rat

The Blackheart Orchestra

The Coastguard

Eduardo Niebla

Steve Tilston

Airfish Aerial Arts – Soiree4 – The Saint Valentines Massacre

Untold Dance Theatre – Ties That Bind

Electric Swing Circus

The Countrymen

Title and Deed

Under Milk Wood

Mitchell and Vincent

Simon DaySimon Day is Dave Angel Eco Warrior

The Canterbury Tales

Frankie Davies – Adking for a Friend Tour

Mitchell and Vincent

Hellish – A New Comic Cornish Folk Tale

No ID

Hanterhir

Hannah White – & The Nordic Connections

Honey & The Bear

The Countrymen

Perfect Blue Sky

The South

Katey Brooks

Jazzie B – Soul II Soul

Golowan Fundraiser

Ma Polaine

Voodoo Room – Hendrix, Clapton and Cream

The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Never 42

Bryher’s Boys

The Leylines

Zeth Townsend

Du Glas

Ben Waters – & Special Guests

Ultimate Coldplay

Diary of a Lost Girl

Pure Queen – The Rose & Crown Tour

Luke Wright – The Ballad Seller

The Fleetwood Mac Songbook

Dom Joly – Holiday Snaps

Marky Dawson

Eduardo Niebla

John Watterson – An Evening Without Jake Thackray

Trextasy – The Greatest Hits Tour

Winter Mountain – + Full Band

Logan J Parker

Mara Simpson + Foxes Fair

The Canterbury Tales

Nick Harper

Medusa

Jolly Roger – Bosun’s Birthday Bash

Chris Murphy

The Finn Collinson Band

A Star is Torn

The Unravelling Wilburys

Never 42

Barry Hunt – + Support

Robin Ince – A Billion Thoughts

Whole Lotta Led

The Story Song Scientists

Tom Moore and Archie Moss

Claude Bourbon – Progressive Blues

Budapest Cafe Orchestra

Barbara Dickson – Time is Going Faster

Songwriters – Dan Haynes

The Tannahill Weavers

The Girl and the Dragon

Sam Kelly and The Lost Boys

Keith James – The Great Canadian Songbook

A Song of Frost & Fire – Carolyn Hillyer & Nigel Shaw

A Christmas Carol

Airfish Aerial Arts – Winter Cabaret

The Oggymen

Simon and Garfunkel – Through the Years

Jack Frost 5: Lost in Time

Wish we Weren’t Here – Disappointed Literary Visitors 1820-1917 – A new show from Camidge & Stringer

The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

A Cornish Christmas – (with apologies to Mr Charles Dickens)

Wrong Jovi

Merry Folking Christmas

The Bohemians – A Night of Queen with the Bohemians

How to Live a Jellicle Life

Sarah McQuaid

Felix Rabin

Ultimate Coldplay

Huun Huur Tu

The Girl and the Dragon

Crow Black Chicken

From Gold to Rio

Flats & Sharps

Falmouth Soul Sensation

The Secret Meeting

Kate Bush-Ka – The Whole Story

Pool Under the Prom – A History of Cornish Bathing

The Oggymen

Alternative TV

Airfish Aerial Arts – Airfish Circus Sixth Seductive Swinging Soiree!

The London Philharmonic Skiffle Orchestra

Bootleg Boss

The Two Robbies

Davey Dodds – The Rite of Spring

Choice Grenfell – A Tribute to Joyce Grenfell

Phil Beer – Songs of the Road

Greg Chapman’s The Non-Psychic “Psychic” Show

Henry Normal – The Escape Plan

Falmouth Soul Sensation

The Ciderhouse Rebellion

Chris Wood

International Women’s Day – Charity Cabaret

Girls and Boys

The Countrymen – St Pirans Day Special

Oh…and another thing… An Evening with Su Pollard

Tod Dickow with Charged Particles – The Music of Michael Brecker

Ultimate Coldplay

Superstition Mountain

Ahmed Dickinson Cardenas & Eduardo Martin – The Bridge

The Cabarats – + support from Howlin’ Herman & The Dwellers

A Bit of a Carry On

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

The Chris Slade Timeline

Haterhir – Haterhir @ The Acorn

Roving Crows

The Film Director

The South

The Odyssey

Tony Christie – Avenues and Alleyways

Pure Queen – The Rose & Crown Tour

Hannah White – Support from Michele Stodart (The Magic Numbers)

Willy Porter

Keith James – A Concert for a Changing World

Julie July Band – Songs from Sandy Denny Tour

Genesis Visible Touch – 40th Anniversary of The Duke

Katie’s Black Hole Adventure

Who’s Next

Zoe Schwarz Blue Commotion

Songs of Love and Loss by Lucy Birbeck…

Antoine and Owena

Tony McManus and Julia Toaspern

My Heart Will Go On – The Celine Dion Songbook

Strong Enough – The Ultimate Tribute to Cher

Murder on the Nile

The Specials Ltd

Alice Formerly of Wonderland

B D Lenz Trio

Flamenco Fusions

Luke Jackson

The Alex Voysey Blues Band – Old Dogs, New Tricks

Honey & The Bear

The UB40 Experience

The Trouble Notes

The Emerald Dawn

Tina Live – A Tribute Show to Tina Turner (Formerly The Tina Turner Experience

Chris Difford and Boo Hewerdine

Suthering

An Evening of Mediumship

The Kahunas

Sham 69

Science Adventures

Mitchell and Vincent

Flamenco Dance Rebeca Ortega – Raices

The Darkside of Pink Floyd

Alternative TV

Steve Wickham (of the Waterboys) + special guest Joe Chester + Boundless Bros

Jez Lowe

Tom McQ + Wilberforce

Beach Boyz Tribute Band

Psychadelephant

Dazed’n’Confused

Five Points Gang

Larkham and Hall

The Slinky Minsky’s Caburlesque Show

Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray

Murder Mystery – The Political Diaries

Voodoo Room – Hendrix, Clapton and Cream

The Scribes

The People Versus

Petty Minded

Rising from the Deep

Wizz Jones

Daisy Richman – Donsya a’n Loryow

Howerd’s End

The Tannahill Weavers

Raynor Winn – In Conversation

The Blackheart Orchestra

Hollie Rogers – + support Tom Briggs

Rebel Boob

Women in Rock

Too Young to Stay In, Too Old to Go Out

Distant Dances

Kitto

The UB40 Experience

The Darkside of Pink FloydAnimals

Bloom – A Beautiful Evening of Inspiring Songs

Matt Woosey

The Darkside of Pink FloydCelebrate the 50th Anniversary of The Darkside of the Moon

Rebeca Ortega

A Journey into French Music

Suthering

The Devout

TV Smith – Support from Pete Surgeon

Tales from a Haunted Bookshop

Airfish Circus – Dusk to Dawn

Never 42

Mitch Benn – It’s About Time

Peri-Meno…What Now?!

Kathryn Roberts & Sean Lakeman

Remi Harris & Tom Moore

A Perfect Likeness

The Last Motel

The Finn Collinson Band

While and Matthews

Shivers and Shadows

Murder Mystery

Help! I Think I’m a Nationalist!

Country Superstars

The Odyssey

Martyn Joseph – Roots Unearthed

Celloman

Virginia Woolf: Killing the Angel

Mark Harrison

Kitto

Mike Capozzola – New York Comedy Night

Claude Bourbon – Progressive Blues

Meet Tommy Atkins

Budapest Cafe Orchestra

Mike Capozzola – Self Defence for Time Travellers

The Fleetwood Mac Songbook

Old Baby Mackerel!

The Under Cover Hippy

Night Terrors – The Ghost Stories of E F Benson

A Christmas Carol

Martin Harley

TV Smith – Support from Pete Surgeon

AKA Trio

Chris Difford

Cirque Du Ciel – Christmas Spectacular Showcase

The Christmassy Christmas Show of Christmassy Christmasness

The Man Who Was The Cornishman

The Emperor’s New Clothes

The Unravelling Wilburys

From Gold to Rio

Ben Waters – Rock n Roll Party

Suntou Susso Kanefonyo – Never Give Up Album Tour

Nearly Elton

Chris Wood

Hollie Rogers

Strong Enough – The Ultimate Tribute to Cher

Diana, The Untold and Untrue Story

SENGA – UK Tour

Morris-Beg Duo Voice and Guitar Concert

Beware of the Bull – The Enigmatic Genius of Jake Thackray

Cold, Dark Matters

Who’s Next – 50th Anniversary

The Blackheart Orchestra

Sherlock’s Excellent Adventure

Desperados – a Tribute to the Eagles

Hits Out of Hell – The MeatLoaf Songbook

Sarah McQuaid

Zoe Schwarz & Rob Koral

Bootleg Boss

Rob Tognoni – Classic Rock, Blues and Blues Rock

Man of the World – The Music of Peter Green

The Remains of Logan Dankworth

The Chris Slade Timeline

Martha Tilston

Fings Ain’t Wot They Use T’Be

Falmouth Soul Sensation

Gigspanner

Skank

Luke Wright – The Remains of Logan Dankworth

Five Points Gang

Howerd’s End

Cirque Du Ciel – Spectacular Student Showcase

The Good Old Fashioned Lover Boys

A Perfect Likeness

Airfish Circus – Soiree 7 – Seven Deadly Sins

Moscow Drug Club

Jolly Roger 4th Year Bandiversary + Support from Bicycle Repair Man & FMI Clatters

Bowie Experience

The Emerald Dawn – + support from Jenny Bishop

The Oggymen

International Women’s Day Charity Cabaret

The Battling Butlers

Kelsey Michael Band – + special guest performer

The New Jersey Boys

Chasing Mumford

Malavita

Gilmore & Roberts

China Crisis

The Trouble Notes – Liberty Awaits

Tre

The Alex Voysey Blues Band – Faux Bonamassa

Marty & Olivia Willson-Piper

Diana, The Untold and Untrue Story

Mad Dog McRea

Lord of the Flies

Wasson Cornwall

A Room of One’s Own

Wrong Jovi

The Untold Story of ‘Doctor Dick’: The Quack who Scandalised Victorian Cornwall

Science Adventures: Deep Sea

Angela Barnes – Hot Mess

Ultimate Coldplay

Soul Kinda Wonderful – Featuring Richie Sampson

Dazed’n’Confused – A Tribute to Led Zeppelin

The Countrymen – The Bal Maiden Tour

Never 42

Otway and Barrett

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