“What a great organisation!” (I hear you cry) “How can I help them out?”

Well, you can help raise money for this brilliant Norwich charity by coming along to VIVA LA VARIETE on Friday 11 November and enjoying a great night out watching music, theatre, comedy and loads more, performed by local groups and artists.

The eclectic line up currently includes

RUNAWAY MIND TRAIN – an urban folk trio equipped with guitars, harmonicas and bags of energy!

Singer and composer JULIANA MEYER, whose award-winning debut album Holiding Up the Sky is out now.

Norwich Brazilian music band RABO DE FOGUETE

Eastern-European influenced a capella group THE BALKANETTES

Plus

CALYPSO CASPAR
KLEZMERIZED
NUNAH THEATRE COMPANY

More acts to be announced soon…

If you feel like enjoying yourself watching the above while also doing your bit for NORCA, call our Box Office on 01603 598598 or click HERE to book tickets.

See you there!

Follow orphan twins Grace and Connor Tempest as they are separated by a violent storm.  Rescued by a notorious pirate ship, Connor finds new friends and a new life, but Grace finds herself on board a much stranger ship, whose crew she sees only at night…

Perfect for anyone aged 7 and up, tickets for this show cost £8.50, or £7 for concessions. Click on the link above for more information or to book tickets, and watch a special sneak preview below…

What about amazing a capella singing from THE MAGNETS, “sit down” comedy from the legendary BARRY CRYER, or twisted cabaret from THE TIGER LILLIES?

Gorgeous flamenco dance? A spot of Shakespeare? Gripping modern drama? A family show about vampire pirates!!?!?

Well, if so, you are very much in luck, as the Autumn Season 2011 at Norwich Playhouse has all these and a lot more besides! Click HERE to browse through all our shows coming up between now and January. There is something for every theatre-hungry audience member (and all their mates!).

The annual festival sees nationally and internationally renowned artists performing in venues across the city and county (including the magnificent Speigeltent in Chapelfield Gardens) plus visual art, free outdoor events and many strange surprises to be found… It is a fantastic celebration of the arts in all forms, and accessible to everyone.

The Playhouse will be staging an eclectic and excting mix of classical and jazz music, dance, theatre, spoken word and children’s shows. You can click HERE to find out more about these events…

For more on the Festival in general, visit www.nnfestival.org.uk/nnf11, call the NNF Box Office on 01603 766400 or pick up a brochure from one of hundreds of outlets. Get out there and get involved with the arts!

You can go to our What’s On page and check out the new shows from the likes of comedians Richard Herring, Russell Kane, Milton Jones, Mark Steel and Miles Jupp. We have music from Stacey Kent, Courtney Pine, and Troy Boy, a reworking of Offenbach’s opera La Belle Helene from Kit Hesketh Harvey of Kit and the Widow. We have gripping new drama from top companies Nabokov and Out of Joint, and great kids shows We’re Going on a Bear Hunt and The Dragon’s Daughter.

Looking for something completely different? Try music video night BUG#6 with Adam Buxton, 20-stone-plus dancers in The Big Ballet, and twisted pop cabaret from Frisky and Mannish!

Have a look!

This viciously funny, seriously disturbing and pitch black comedy - from the writer of award-winning film In Bruges, Martin McDonagh’s -  premièred at the National Theatre in 2003 starring David Tennant, and won the 2004 Olivier Award for Best New Play.

A writer is interrogated about the gruesome content of his short stories and their similarities to a number of child-murders that are happening in his town. The good cop/bad cop antics of his interrogators mask a very dark undertone as the author is pressured into revealing the events of his own childhood that inspired his writing.

Heading the cast is former UEA student Jamie Bower, who will be playing the violent detective Ariel, he will be joined by James Scales, who plays the writer Katurian. Also starring is Norwich-based actor and Theatre Royal arts course tutor Asa Cannell, who plays the writer’s brother Michal, completing the cast is John O’Mahony. Norfolk-born-and-bred Daniel Burgess is also taking the reins of the play as director.

Make sure you check out this unique performance of a very special play, which is guaranteed to have you glued to your seat

You can look forward to comedy from Ardal O’Hanlon, Jeremy Hardy, Jenny Eclair, Kevin Bridges, Brendon Burns, Rich Hall, Mark Watson and more.

There are music shows coming from Dennis Rollins, PP Arnold, The CK Gospel Choir and some top swing bands, and you can catch great drama such as the Greek comedy Lysistrata, Shakespeare’s Hamlet and contemporary drama The Pillowman.

If  you’re looking for something a bit different, September sees the return of Adam Buxton’s BUG music video night. We also have comedy and magic from Pete Firman (Chanel 4’s Dirty Tricks), contemporary dance from C-12 Dance Theatre, and the brilliantly burlesque Circus of Horrors who are here in December.

There’s sure to be something you like… click HERE to look at all our shows for the coming months.

It’s pink!

It covers May – September 2010!

It’s chock full of great shows from the likes of Al Murray, Shappi Khorsandi, Barry Cryer, Maria Friedman, BUG#4 and Sarah Millican!

Yahoo!

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Do you enjoy the macabre chill of Wilkie Collins’ gothic murder mysteries?

For the last couple of years, Les Enfants Terribles Theatre Company have been one of the must-see companies at the E4 Udderbelly (that big upside-down purple inflatable cow) at the Edinburgh Festival and at the new Udderbelly Festival on London’s South Bank. Their 2008 children’s show The Terrible Infants, a Roald Dahl and Tim Burton-esque collection of stories, was hugely acclaimed and won a number of awards, including The Stage Critics Choice.

They bring their current show, Ernest and the Pale Moon, to Norwich Playhouse on Saturday 27 March at 6pm and 8.30pm. This deliciously dark show is a is a noir horror about a man who spends his days watching the beautiful young woman who lives opposite him. Upon seeing her with another man he is thrown into rage and driven to murder. Slowly Ernest is on a spiralling descent into madness. The piece contains live music, inventive design and physical storytelling to provide a thrilling and terrifying experience.

Tickets are murderously bargainous at only £10/£8

“A gloriously gothic production”

THE TELEGRAPH ****

“Channelling Edgar Allan Poe and Henry James.. the company produces a compelling and macabre account of obsession, immurement and murder …”

THE STAGE – CRITICS’ CHOICE (MUST SEE SHOW 2009)

“As fresh as a new wound”

THE METRO ****