Starting on Tuesday 20th of December and running until 6pm on the Saturday 31st of Dec (not including christmas day or boxing day), the bar is offering you the chance to try your hand at screen printing, origami, drawing and crafts, to join them for an evening of NOISE featuring The Neutrinos, Death of Death of Discotheque and more, to sit by firepits and hear stories, to play as much Ping Pong as your hands can handle, to watch a host of excellent films and much, much more culminating in a rawkus farewell to 2011 with the Guitar Noise Orchestra. To make it even more enticing, all the events are free!

Check out the Playhouse Bar Facebook page for regular updates on whats going on or grab a brochure from the bar.

Merry Christmas, Happy New Year and see you all in 2012!

“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!

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!

David McAlmont has been described as having one of the best voices the UK has ever produced. His collaboration with Bernard Butler in the 90’s catapulted him into the main stream music scene with the hit single ‘Yes’. His live performances are flamboyant and theatrical, and we guarantee his voice will give you goosebumps.

He also does an amusing line in tweets, follow him on Twitter HERE.

For more information or to book tickets, go HERE.

Later on in the month we have music from 70’s pop icon KIKI DEE along with her new musical partner CARMELO LUGGERI, presenting a set which blends together the two artists’ work and influences from pop and rock to folk and soul.

Then we have a unique comedy show from comedian Deborah Frances-White intriguingly entitled HOW TO GET ALMOST ANYONE TO WANT TO SLEEP WITH YOU. The show is a hilarious blend of laughs and self-help direct from the West End which teaches you the secrets of being sexy, what the other sex is thinking, how a hat can help and, ultimately, how any man can be turned into James Bond.

Celebrate the genius of a legendary comedy music duo with FLANDERS AND SWANN: AT THE DROP OF A HIPPOPOTAMUS, the greatest Flanders and Swann tour since Flanders and Swann toured! Lifelong fans and the uninitiated alike can delight in classic comedy songs such as The Gnu, The Hippopotamus Song, The Gasman Cometh and Maderia M’Dear.

Click on the links above to find out more or book tickets, and have yourselves a very happy new year!

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!

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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.

The Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2010 is here!

There are loads of events (big ones, small ones, free ones!) on from now until 23 May across the city and county, and there are some top shows coming right here to the Playhouse.

Enjoy great music from Jason Yarde, Gwyneth Herbert and the Elias String Quartet. Take a trip into the bizarre with theatre from dance company Erre Que Erre and musical group Zic Zazou. Be blown away on a flood of bubbles with Charlie and Lola’s Bestest Best Show!

Click HERE for the full list and info on all Festival shows @ The Playhouse

For full details of all NNF10 events have a look-see at www.nnf10.org.uk