Festive entertainment often focuses on panto, but the bold and busy nature of it can be a bit much for younger or more sensitive children – but there alternatives.
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It’s bright, it’s funny, and it makes next to no sense – Jack and the Beanstalk is pretty much everything you want from a pantomime.
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Panto antidotes are on offer at Norwich’s Playhouse venue this week, with shows focusing on folk music and comedy – each with a festive twist.
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Harold Pinter’s plays are known for their pauses and unseen menace but this production of the semi-autobiographical piece Betrayal barely takes a breath.
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Shakespeare’s influence is all around us – but it nearly wasn’t. This fun and moving new play tells the – mostly – true story of how many of his plays were preserved for posterity.
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The Nutcracker is as traditional a part of a theatre Christmas as panto, and Northern Ballet’s revival keeps everything in its place.
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Six shows for next year’s Norfolk and Norwich Festival have gone on sale.
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Norwich Film Festival has opened with a screening of thriller The Stranger and a question and answer session with Norwich-based actor Sean Harris.
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This tale of murder delivers a stream of laughs and satisfying twists and turns, with a strong central pairing who entertain from start to finish.
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The National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine is to play at Norwich Theare Royal next year as part of a 17-date tour of the UK.
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This bold musical adaptation of Alice Walker’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel takes a Technicolor approach to some very dark issues.
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Chris McCausland is going places. And not just because he has just filmed a travel series for Channel 4. The Liverpudlian stand-up star is back on the road with an extended leg of his Speaky Blinder tour which will see him perform over 130 dates nationwide.
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A new play about homelessness backed by the Big Issue Foundation will take in Cambridge and Wisbech on its national tour.
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How life and love can push us forward and hold us back is at the heart of this tragi-comic drama set in a Cromer cafe.
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An East Anglian courtroom drama, Pinter, and Shakespeare are among the shows making up the Sewell Barn Theatre’s next 2022/3 season.
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