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Caroline: A New Musical at New Wolsey Theatre and on tour – review

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Cast revealed for Caroline: A New Musical – based on the famed Radio Caroline station

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The Manningtree Witches at Colchester’s Mercury Theatre – review

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Cast revealed for Ava Pickett’s The Manningtree Witches

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Mercury Colchester unveils first full season for artistic director Natasha Rickman

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Mischief to premiere first ever musical, Thespians, in new tour

Caroline: A New Musical – based on the famed Radio Caroline station – to tour in 2026

Caroline: A New Musical – based on the famed Radio Caroline station – to tour in 2026

Past Productions

The Luke Combs Experience

The Style Councillors

Fleetwood Bac

Laurence Jones

Abba Reunion

London CallingPlay The Clash

Nine Below Zero

Reverend Billy & Stop Shopping ChoirThe Fabulous Unknown UK Tour

Kiri Pritchard-McLeanPeacock

Faux Fighters

The Tiger LilliesLessons in Nihilism

Ashley BlakerNormal Schmormal

Jonny & The BaptistsThe Happiness Index

Laura BelbinToo Much

Daliso ChapondaFeed This Black Man Again

Nick HelmSuper Fun Good Time Show

Mama Afrika

Paul FootDissolve

Alasdair Beckett-KingNevermore

Fiona AllenOn the Run

The Thinking DrinkersPub Quiz: Fancy Another Round?

Justin MoorhouseStretch & Think

ShakatakJazz-Funk

Let There B/DC

Clearwater Creedence Revival

Viggo Venn

Nine Below Zero

Geoff Norcott – Basic Bloke

Stephen K AmosOxymoron*

King King

Olaf FalafelOlaf Falafel’s Super Stupid Show

Reverend Richard ColesBorderline National Trinket

Fleetwood Bac

The Style Councillors

The Fillers

Hal Cruttenden – It’s Best You Hear It From Me

Ian Prowse and Amsterdam

Made in <strike>India</strike> Britain

Wishbone Ash

Axel Blake – In Style

Tim Key – Mulberry

Lucy Porter – Wake Up Call

Gloria Scott

Clearwater Creedence Revival

Katherine Radeva – 40/40

The Vapors

James Taylor – James Taylor and his All-Star Band

Turin Brakes

Scott Bennett – Great Scott

Blancmange

Kiri Pritchard-McLean – Home Truths

Curved Air

Roy Ayers – Ubiquity Tour

The Fillers

The Beat

Transmission: The Sound of Joy Division

Victoria Melody – Head Set

Mark Watson – This Can’t Be It

Lou Sanders – One Word: Wow

Limehouse Lizzy – The Greatest Hits Of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy

From the Jam

Chris McCausland – Speaky Blinder

Lee Ridley – Lost Voice Guy: CEREBRAL LOL-SY

Shakatak

Carl Palmer’s ELP Legacy

Gary Delaney – Gary in Punderland

Triffids!

Focus

Simon Brodkin – Troublemaker

John Lennon Tribute UK – Lennon Retrospective Tour

Curved Air

Shappi Khorsandi – It Was The 90s!

Luke Kempner – Macho Macho Man

Nouvelle Vague

Secret Affair

Shit-Faced Shakespeare – Romeo and Juliet

Martin & Eliza Carthy

Stone Foundation

Reverand Billy & The Stop Shopping Choir – Earth Riot

The Blow Monkeys

Gary Delaney – Gary in Punderland

The Lipsinkers – Clausus Apertum

The Thinking Drinkers – Pub Quiz

Jason Byrne – Audience Precipitation

Geoff Norcott – I Blame The Parents

Nine Below Zero

Blancmange

The Style Councillors

From the Jam

Jack Dee – Warm Up

Laura Lexx – Knee Jerk

The Beat

D’ukes Live

Sofie Hagen – The Bumswing Tour

The Style Councillors – Cafe Bleu Tour

Laura Lexx – Knee Jerk

From the Jam

Lucy Porter – Pass It On

From the Jam

Ivo Graham – The Game of Life

Andrew Maxwell – Reality

Laura Lexx – Knee Jerk

The Specials Ltd

Roy Ayers – Ubiquity Tour

Roy Ayers – Ubiquity Tour

The Christians

Nouvelle Vague

Nouvelle Vague

London Calling

Sofie Hagen – The Bumswing

The Style Councillors – Cafe Bleu Tour

London Calling

The D-Day Darlings

Focus

Arabella Weir – Does My Mum Loom Big in This?

John-Luke Roberts – After Me Comes the Flood (But in French) drip splosh splash drip BLUBBP BLUBBP BLUBBPBLUBBPBLUBBP!

Sam Avery – Toddlergeddon

Matt Richardson – Imposter

Phil Wang – Philly Philly Wang Wang

Frank Turner

Jah Wobble – & The Invaders of the Heart

Rumpelstiltskin and the Snail of Destiny

Nine Below Zero

Stephen K Amos – Everyman

Martin Stephenson and The Daintees

Shit-Faced Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Specials Ltd

Jason Byrne – Wrecked but Ready

The Thinking Drinkers – Heroes of Hooch

Oh Yes Oh No: Louise Orwin

Luke Kempner – House of Faces

Acephalous Monster

Lucy Spraggan

Ed Gamble – Blizzard

Clinton Baptiste – The Paranormalist Returns

Hey Diddle Diddle

Jonny & The Baptists – Love Colchester and Hate Bastards

Sindhu Vee – Sandhog

Frisky and Mannish – PopLab

Glenn Moore – Love Don’t Live Here Glenny Moore

Bodyposipanda

Christina Bianco – First Impressions

Milton Jones – Milton Impossible (warm up)

The Tiger Lillies – The Devil’s Playground

London Calling

My Kind of Michael

Paul Foot – Image Conscious

Paul Mayhew-Archer – Incurable Optimist

Sofie Hagen – Bubblewrap

Micky P Kerr – Z-List Celebrity

ELO Encounter

Ken Cheng – Best Dad Ever

Glenn Wool – Wool’s Gold II

Limehouse Lizzy – The Greatest Hits Of Phil Lynott and Thin Lizzy

Jess Robinson – No Filter

Bacon

Tony Law – A Lost Show

Andrew Maxwell – Showtime

Gary Delaney – Gagster’s Paradise

Tom Stade – After This One, I’m Going Home

Lucy Porter – Pass It On

Mark Thomas – Check Up: Our NHS at 70

Henry Normal – A Normal Family

Gyles Brandreth – Break a Leg

Darren Harriott – Visceral

Van Huynh Company – DEP

Keisha Thompson: Man on the Moon

Sam Avery – The Learner Parent

Hal Cruttenden

Lee Ridley – Lost Voice Guy

Stephen K Amos – Bouquets and Brickbats

Snow White, Rose Red, Bear Brown

Jinkx Monsoon & Major Scales – The Ginger Snapped

Daliso Chaponda – What the African Said

The Thinking Drinkers – Pub Crawl

Pete Firman – Marvels

Darren Harriott – Visceral

The Journey

Jimeoin – Result!

Hal Cruttenden

Luke Wright – Frankie Vah

Princess Charming

Jason Byrne – You Can Come In, But Don’t Start Anything

You’ve Changed

Isle of Brimsker

Tom Allen – Absolutely

Cara Dillon – & Sam Lakeman

Barbara Nice – Raffle

Biggest stories of the month

Anaïs Mitchell

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Stewart Clarke, Jodie Steele, Danielle Steers, Alfie Friedman, headshots provided uncredited by the production

Wild About You reveals cast for London return

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup on staging a ‘boxing match’ in the round in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Some of the shows included are Back to the Future, The Hollow, The Lives of Others and The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

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Latest Videos

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup

Gillian Anderson and Billy Crudup on staging a ‘boxing match’ in the round in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Marianne Elliott’s revival of the Edward Albee classic is running at London’s @sohoplace