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!).

Read THE STAGE’s review of the show HERE   (then buy tickets for the Norwich performances here!)

The show has been phenomenally popular at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and has held several London theatre residencies both on and off the West End. Here’s what Time Out had to say -

“Having now seen Showstopper! twice, I can testify that not only is each performance achingly funny, it’s a genuinely new full-length musical every time. Top-class in creativity in action. Worth seeing again and again.” ***** Time Out

And now you can preview the work of the Showstopper troupe weekly with their new show on BBC Radio 4, starting tonight (Weds 19 January) at 6.30pm. Listen to the show and enjoy a brand new comedy musical every Wednesday, then check them out live at the Playhouse!

Click HERE for more…

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!

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!

Our spring 2010 season is here, jam-packed with amazing comedy, dance, drama and music shows for you to enjoy. Check out our WHAT’S ON page to browse through the upcoming shows.

Comedy highlights include shows from TIM VINE (puns), CHRIS ADDISON (satire), DAVID O’DOHERTY (music), LUCY PORTER (unbridled loveliness) and RICHARD HERRING (moustache based social commentary).

You can enjoy the sounds of a capella music as you’ve never heard it before from THE MAGNETS, classic jazz from STACEY KENT, or alternative cabaret tunes from THE TIGER LILLIES.

If you want to see something just a bit out of the ordinary, try ONE MAN LORD OF THE RINGS, the atmospheric and chilling ERNEST AND THE PALE MOON (our pick of the 2009 Edinburgh Fringe), or RUBY WAX in the semi-autobiographical comedy-drama LOSING IT. 

Oh, and keep an eye open for our new (blue) brochure which covers January to May 2010, out now at a bar/shop/tourist information centre/doormat near you!

(l-r) The King, Sammy J and Fargo - inhabitants of The Forest of Dreams

Follow Australian comic Sammy J and puppeteer Heath McIvor deep into The Forest of Dreams, and meet sarcastic enchanted flora, a sexually depraved monarch and some weird blue-headed thing.

Avenue Q meets Disney on a very very dark night in “Sammy J in the Forest of Dreams”, a comedy musical with a cast of foul-mouthed puppets with minds of their own.

This epic comic fairytale was the surprise hit of the Edinburgh Fringe 2008, with 15 extra shows scheduled in at the last minute on top of their month-long run.

Watch the show with us on Saturday 26 September, click here to book or for more info…