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East Anglia Music and Arts - Guide to events
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Music
Wednesday 5 December
Quire Fête de Nöel Anglo French Society, Colchester, 7.30pm details
Saturday 8 December
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Haydn, Mozart, Handel, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Dorian singers Handel: The Messiah, 7pm details at St Andrew's Church, Felixstowe
Harlow Chorus Bach: Christmas Oratorio, 7.30pm details at St Michael’s church, Bishhop's Stortford, map
Haverhill Singers Christmas days, 7.30pm details at Old Independent Church, map
Kingfisher Sinfonietta Christmas music at The Abbey School Woodbridge !P12 4JH, 7.30pm details, map
University of Essex Choir Pergolesi, Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Grieg with London Mozart Players, 7.30pm details, Colchester, map
Sunday 9 December
Suffolk Villages Festival J.S. Bach Christmas Cantatas - Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra,, 6pm details at Dedham Church, map
Tuesday 11 December
Friends of the Moot Hall Organ Ian Ray, Hon. Borough Organist with Marenzio vocal quintet, 1pm details at Moot Hall Colchester, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Stephen Cooper (baritone) & John Cooper (piano), 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Saturday 15 December
Phoenix Singers Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle, 7.30pm details at Framlingham College, map
Sunday 16 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Fourtissimo, guitar quartet, 5pm details, map
Kingfisher Sinfonietta Bridge, Schubert, Rutter, Beethoven, 6.30pm details at The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Handel: The Messiah, 4.30pm details, Ipswich, map
Friday 21 December
Aldeburgh Voices Handel: Messiah with the The Suffolk Ensemble, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Saturday 22 December
Britten Sinfonia Handel: Messiah, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Monday 31 December
Berliner Philarmoniker Orchestra - live link Daniel Barenboim, 4pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 1 January
Music in Felixstowe Viennese Gala, 3pm details at Orwell Hotel, map
Wednesday 2 January
Music in Felixstowe The Von Bennetts are Back! jazz and rock, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Sunday 6 January
Essex Chamber Orchestra Weber: Bassoon Concerto, 7pm details at Ingatestone & Fryerning Community Centre, Ingatestone, map
Saturday 12 January
Colchester Chamber Choir Rachmaninoff: Vespers, candel lit, 7pm details at Coggeshall Church, map
Colchester Symphony Orchestra CSO Wind, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Trianon Diamonds are Forever- film and TV music, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 13 January
Stour Valley Arts and Music Pelléas Ensemble - Bax - JS Bach - Jolivet - Ravel, 4pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
Friday 18 January
Britten Sinfonia Mark Elder conducts Mahler & Brahms, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 26 January
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Castalian Quartet, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Saffron Hall The English Concert: Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell, Locatelli, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Sunday 27 January
Music in Felixstowe Candlelit Concert with the Ward Quartet., 3pm details at St Nicholas's, Felixstowe Ferry, map
Pimlott Foundation Baroque Fest: Ibrahim Aziz (viola da gamba) Bach Suite 2, Abel, Martínez Gil ‘Suite Estiu’, 6pm details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Young Musicians' Concert, 4pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
Wednesday 6 February
Music in Felixstowe Flute and Harpsichord, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Saturday 9 February
Saffron Hall Transfigured Nights. Six musicians ( cello, piano, violin and percussion) explore romanticism, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
St Botolph's Music Society Gershwin details, Colchester, map
Wolsey Orchestra Walton, Butterworth, Holst, Vaughan Williams, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Sunday 10 February
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Gershwin, Barber, Hanson, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Saturday 16 February
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Revolutionary Drawing Room, 7.30pm details at Ipswich School, map
Sunday 17 February
Saffron Hall BBC Symphony Orchestra - Weber, Berlioz, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Monday 18 February
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club London Metropolitan Brass, 7.30pm details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club London Metropolitan Brass, 7.30pm details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Saturday 23 February
Saffron Hall BBC Concert Orchestra with Jess Gillam, saxophone and Thomas Gould, piano, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Jazz concert: Embraceable Ella Joanna Eden & Chris Ingham Trio, 7.30pm details at Constable Hall, East Bergholt, map
Trianon Bury St Edmunds Community Concert, 7.30pm details at All Saints Church, Bury St Edmunds, map
Sunday 24 February
Music in Felixstowe West End Shows Singalong, 7pm details at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club, map
Pimlott Foundation Schubert: Winterreise, 5pm details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Prometheus Orchestra Beethoven, Stravinsky, Fracaix Wind Ensemble, 4pm details at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh
Thursday 28 February
Roman River Music Adrian Brendel ( Cello) & Noam Greenberg (piano), 7.30pm details at Mercury Theatre, Colchester, map
Saturday 2 March
Essex Symphony Orchestra Schubert, Sibelius, 7.30pm details at Chelmsford Cathedral, map
Lexden Choral Society Beethoven: 9th (Choral )Symphony with Kingfisher Sinfonia details at St Botolph's, Colchester, map
Sunday 3 March
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, 2.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Tuesday 5 March
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Noughts & Crosses, A Made in Colchester production, 7.30pm, to 9 Mar details, map
Sunday 10 March
Pimlott Foundation George Ireland And Friends In Concert - all day details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Saffron Hall Haffner Wind Ensemble- Beethoven, Dvorak, Mozart, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Rautio Piano Trio & Robin Ashwell, viola - Mozart- Mahler - Brahms, 4pm details at East Bergholt Church, map
Thursday 14 March
Saffron Hall An Evening with Welsh National Opera, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Friday 15 March
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Ain’t Misbehavin’, a Made in Colchester production, 7.30pm, to 30 Mar details, map
Saturday 16 March
Aldeburgh Music Club The Amazing Mr Handel, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Colchester Choral Society Elgar: Dream of Gerontius with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Daniel Joy, Edward Grint details at St Botolph's, map
Eye Bach Choir Mendelssohn: Elijah with the Kingfisher Orchestra., 7.30pm details at Eye Church, map
Saffron Hall Waltham Singers- Puccini, Schostakovich, Verdi, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Suffolk Sinfonia Bax Rachmaninov Beethoven, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Monday 18 March
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club Kokopellis Wind Quartet, 7.30pm details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Wednesday 20 March
Music in Felixstowe Ward Piano Quintet, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Saturday 23 March
Quire Come Mr. Tally Man, 7.30pm details at West Bergholt Church, map
Saffron Walden Choral Society Choral classics, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Sunday 24 March
Saffron Hall Iestyn Davies & Fretwork - Purcell, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Zelkova Quartet Mozart - Mendelssohn - Dvorak, 4pm details at East Bergholt Church, map
Saturday 30 March
Ipswich Chamber Choir Bach: Mass in B minor, 7pm details at St Mary-le-Tower, map
Stour Choral Society Dvorak: Stabat Mater details at Mistley Church, map
Sunday 31 March
Music in Felixstowe Quartetto Familia, 3pm details at St Peter and Paul Church, map
Wednesday 3 April
Quire African and Gospel Music, 7.30pm details at Boxted Church, map
Saturday 6 April
Bury Bach Choir Bach: St Matthew Passion, 6.30pm details at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral, map
Hadleigh Choral Society Hadleigh Bach: John Passion, 7.30pm details
Ipswich Choral Society Mozart: Requiem, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saffron Hall lestyn Davies, countertenor- Dowland, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
St Botolph's Music Society Schumann, Handel, Beethoven details, Colchester, map
Witham Choral Society Opera favourites details at Witham Public Hall, map
Sunday 7 April
Essex Chamber Orchestra Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, 7.30pm details at Felsted School, map
Saffron Walden Choral Society The Hallé conducted by Sir Mark Elder, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Sudbury Choral Society Handel: Messiah (parts 1 and 2), 7.30pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Suffolk Villages Festival Bach’s Legacy, 6pm details at Boxford Church, map
Wethersfeld Chamber Concerts Cello sonatas, 4pm details at Wethersfield Church, Wethersfield, Braintreee, map
Friday 12 April
English Touring Opera Verdi: Macbeth, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 13 April
Clacton Choral Society Gounod: St Cecilia Mass, 7.30pm details at St James's Church, map
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Mozart and Mahler, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Haverhill Singers A John Rutter evening, 7.30pm details at Old Independent Church, map
Sunday 14 April
Lavenham Sinfonia Lavenham Haydn: Symphony No.26 , Beethoven: Symphony No.7, 7.30pm details at Lavenham Church, map
Wednesday 17 April
Music in Felixstowe A Quarter to Sax, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Friday 19 April
Aldeburgh Voices Bach: St John Passion with The Suffolk Ensemble, James Gilchrist Evangelist, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, map
Saturday 20 April
Snape Maltings Fauré: Requiem and Bach: Partita with Tenebrae, Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Gould (violin), 7.30pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 27 April
Lexden Choral Society Haydn: Creation details at St Botolph's, Colchester, map
Music in Felixstowe Come and Sing the Faure Requiem Rehearsal 12:30, 3pm details at St Peter and Paul Church, map
Trianon Jubilant Sounds by Ronald Corp (world premiere) - and other music, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 28 April
Saffron Hall BBC Symphony Orchestra & Alexander McCall Smith Sunday 28 Apr 2019 Bbc Symphony Orchestra & Alexander Mccall Smith The author portrays well known characters with some of his favourite music, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Wethersfeld Chamber Concerts Classical saxophone and piano, 4pm details at Wethersfield Church, Wethersfield, Braintreee, map
Wednesday 1 May
Quattro Amici A range of songs from classical, through Opera and Operetta, to modern Musical Theatre and Contemporary, 7.45pm, to 4 May at Headgate Theatre, Colchester, map
Friday 3 May
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Pasadena Roof Orchestra, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 4 May
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams, Tallis, Damase, Mendelssohn, 7pm details at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe, map
Sunday 5 May
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams, Damase, Mendelssohn, 4pm details at Orford Church, map
University of Essex Choir Elgar: Dream of Gerontius, 6pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Wednesday 8 May
Saffron Hall Sir Bryn Terfel, bass - selection of English and Welsh songs, Lieder and opera arias, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 11 May
Beccles Choral Society Verdi: Requiem, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Music inpired by nature, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Trianon Mistley with Manningtree Community Concert, 7.30pm details at Mistley Church, map
Sunday 12 May
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Canada’s National Arts Centre Orchestra with London Voices -Ana Sokolovic , Ravel, Dvorák, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Wethersfeld Chamber Concerts Isata Kanneh-Mason, piano, 4pm details at Wethersfield Church, Wethersfield, Braintreee, map
Saturday 18 May
Britten Sinfonia Beethoven Symphonies No.7 & No.8, 7.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Colchester Chamber Choir The Romantic Soul: Rossini, Clara Schumann, Wolf, Fauré and Stenhammar, 7pm details at St Teresa's Colchester, map
Eye Bach Choir 21st century composers, 7.30pm details at Eye Town Hall, map
Ipswich Bach Choir Haydn: The Creation, 7.30pm details at St Andrew's Church, Felixstowe
Tiptree Choral Society Handel: Dixit Dominus and Haydn: Mass in Time of War - Paukenmesse details at St Luke's church Tiptree, map
Wolsey Orchestra Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, soloist: Erdem Misirlioglu, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 19 May
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra Mahler: Symphony No.4, 4pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Monday 27 May
Suffolk Villages Festival Venetian Splendour Venetian Splendour, 6pm details at St Peter's Church, Sudbury, map
Wednesday 29 May
Music in Felixstowe Mozart's Muses: Fiona Jessica Wilson, soprano, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Saturday 1 June
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Russian Programme, 7.30pm details at St Botolph's, map
Sunday 9 June
Lavenham Sinfonia Lavenham Weber, Nielen, Brahms, 7.30pm details at Lavenham Church, map
Saffron Hall The Sixteen - Monteverdi: Vespers, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 15 June
Bury Bach Choir Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Lexden Choral Society Summer concet details at Lexden Church, map
Saturday 22 June
Colchester Choral Society Summer Serenade to beconfirmed details
Saffron Hall Emanuel Ax, piano, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Suffolk Sinfonia , 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Sunday 23 June
Sudbury Choral Society Light concert on the theme of childhood., 7.30pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Saturday 29 June
Essex Symphony Orchestra Glinka, Lalo, Tchaikovsky, 7.30pm details at Chelmsford Cathedral, map
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Sunday 30 June
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Film music, 3pm details at Saffron Hall, map
Saturday 6 July
Clacton Choral Society Clacton Choral goes to the Proms, 5pm details at St James's Church, map
Haverhill Singers Summer Concert, 3pm details at St Mary's Haverhill, map
Quire The Roots of Gospel Maldon Methodist Church, CM9 5BS Maldon Methodist Church, CM9 5BS at Maldon Methodist Church, CM9 5BS, 7.30pm details
Saffron Hall Verdi: Requiem - Cambridge Philharmonic Orchestra & Chorus and Saffron Walden Choral Society, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
St Botolph's Music Society Hervey Benham Young Soloists details, Colchester, map
Sunday 21 July
Snape Maltings Royal Academy of Music and Juilliard School: Tchaikovsky, Britten, Stravinsky, 4pm details, Aldeburgh, map
Friday 26 July
Saffron Hall National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain & Nicola Benedetti, 7.30pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Saturday 14 September
Trianon Sixty Years of Music Making, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Sunday 22 September
Lavenham Sinfonia Lavenham Bach, Vivaldi, Heinichen, Handel, 7.30pm details at Lavenham Church, map
Saturday 12 October
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No.1, Dvorak: “New World” Symphony, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 9 November
Lexden Choral Society Remembrance and Thanksgiving details at St Botolph's, Colchester, map
Saturday 16 November
Bury Bach Choir , 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Tuesday 19 November
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Saturday 23 November
Hadleigh Choral Society Mendelssohn: Elijah, 7.30pm details at St John's Church, Epping, map
Ipswich Choral Society Fauré: Requiem, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 30 November
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert, 7.30pm details at Ipswich Corn Exchange, map
Stour Choral Society Bach: Christmas Oratorio (excerpts) details, map
Suffolk Sinfonia , 7.30pm details at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds, map
Saturday 7 December
Tiptree Choral Society Christmas programme details at St Luke's church Tiptree, map
Sunday 14 July
Musical Tea Party, 3.30pm details at Dedham Assembly Rooms, map
Friday 23 August
2019 Festival 23 to 26 August 2019, 7.30pm details
Saturday 15 December
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Verdi: La Traviata, and on 30 Jan at 6.45 pm and on 3 Feb at 2 pm, 5.55pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Thursday 27 December
Firstsite, Colchester The King and I: From the London Palladium, 2pm details, map
Saturday 12 January
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Cilea: Ariana LeCouvreur, 5.55pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 22 January
Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society Guys And Dolls, 7.30pm, to 26 Jan details at Theatre Royal Norwich, map
Royal Opera House - live link Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades and on 28 Jan at 6.45pm, 6.45pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
Wednesday 30 January
Colchester Operatic Society Annie, 7.30pm details at Mercury Theatre, map
Royal Opera House - live link Verdi: La Traviata, 6.45pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Saturday 2 February
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Bizet: Carmen, 5.55pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Wednesday 6 March
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Big Fish, Book by John August Music & Lyrics by Andrew Lippa, 7.15pm, to 9 Mar details, map
Tuesday 12 March
Theatre Royal Bury Chess The Musical Irving Stage Company, 7.30pm, to 16 Mar details, map
Wednesday 20 March
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Pajama Game, 7.45pm, to 23 Mar details, map
Tuesday 26 March
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Rockstar Olly Medlicott - an original musical telling the story of a band's meteoric rise from obscurity; OD Productions, 7.45pm, to 30 Mar details, map
Saturday 30 March
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Wagner: Die Walküre, 5pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 2 April
English Touring Opera Mozart: Idomineo and on 6 April, 7.30pm details at Cambridge Arts Theatre, map
English Touring Opera Verdi: Macbeth and on 5 April, 7.30pm details at Cambridge Arts Theatre, map
Royal Opera House - live link Verdi: La Forza Del Destino, 6.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Thursday 4 April
English Touring Opera Rossini: Elizabeth I, 7.30pm details at Cambridge Arts Theatre, map
Sunday 7 April
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Verdi: La Forza Del Destino, 2pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Thursday 11 April
English Touring Opera Rossini: Elisabetta, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 13 April
English Touring Opera Mozart: Idomeneo, 7.30pm details at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh, map
Saturday 20 April
Bury St Edmunds Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society The Sound of Music, 7.30pm, to 11 May details at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, map
Thursday 25 April
English Touring Opera Rossini: Elizabeth I, 7.30pm details at Theatre Royal Norwich, map
Friday 26 April
English Touring Opera Verdi: Macbeth, 7.30pm details at Theatre Royal Norwich, map
Saturday 27 April
English Touring Opera Mozart: Idomineo, 7.30pm details at Theatre Royal Norwich, map
Tuesday 30 April
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Avenue Q, 8pm, to 4 May details, map
Royal Opera House - live link Faust, 6.45pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Saturday 11 May
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmèlites, 5pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Sunday 15 September
Saffron Opera Group Wagner: Tristan and Isolde, 2.30pm details at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, map
Monday 4 November
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Annie - from London's West End, 7.30pm, to 9 Nov details, map
Monday 3 December
Royal Ballet - live link Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
Thursday 28 February
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Cinderella, 7.30pm details, map
Friday 1 March
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich The Nutcracker, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 2 March
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Swan Lake, 7.30pm details, map
Saturday 6 April
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Giovanni Pernice – Dance Is Life, 7.30pm details, map
Thursday 11 April
Theatre Royal Bury Ballet Central 2019, 7.30pm details, map
Wednesday 1 May
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Transitions Dance Company: The 2019 Triple Bill, 7.30pm details, map
Thursday 16 May
Royal Ballet - live link Flight Pattern/Within The Golden Hour/New Work, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Tuesday 21 May
Theatre Royal Bury Swan Lake - Ballet Theatre UK, 7.30pm, to 22 May details, map
Tuesday 11 June
Royal Ballet - live link Romeo And Juliet, 7.15pm details at Odeon Colchester, map and at Firstsite
Friday 21 June
Theatre Royal Bury Romeo & Juliet - Ballet Cymru, 7.30pm, to 22 Jun details, map
Tuesday 4 December
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Who Am I? By Benjamin Jennings, 7.30pm, to 5 Dec details, map
National Theatre - live link The Madness of George III, by Alan Bennett, 1pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
Friday 14 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Happy Holidays, Mad Hatter Productions, 7.45pm, to 15 Dec details, map
Seckford Theatre The Scarlet Pipistrelle http://www.seckfordtheatre.org/event/the-scarlet-pipistrelle-by-common-ground-14-15-dec/ Common Ground, 7.30pm, to 15 Dec details, Woodbridge, map
Thursday 20 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Scarlet Pipistrelle December Thursday 20th - Sunday 22nd at 7.30pm Matinée 4pm Sunday 22nd The Scarlet Pipistrelle es by Pat Whymark & Julia Harris; Common Ground Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 23 Dec details, map
Sunday 23 December
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, 6pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Thursday 3 January
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Hits From The Blitz, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 8 January
Eastern Angles Theatre Company The Fenland Screamers & Other Boggy Tales, 7.45pm, to 19 Jan details at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge, map
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Scarlet Pipistrelle - Common Ground Theatre, 7.30pm, to 19 Jan details, map
Saturday 12 January
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: Richard The Second, the Almeida Theatre I, 7pm details at Lakeside Theatre, Colchester, map and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
Wednesday 30 January
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet (adaped) Priory Players, 7.45pm, to 2 Feb details, map
Thursday 31 January
National Theatre - live link I’m Not Running by David Hare, and on 17 Feb at 6 pm, 6pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre
Wednesday 6 February
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Noel Coward: The Vortex, Paper Lantern Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 9 Feb details, map
Tuesday 12 February
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich My Mother Said I Never Should, 7.30pm, to 16 Feb details, map
Monday 18 February
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Agatha Christie: The Mousetrap, Adam Spiegel Productions., 7.30pm, to 23 Feb details, map
Thursday 7 March
Bury Theatre Workshop Sartre: No Exit (Huis Clos), 7.30pm, to 9 Mar details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Thursday 14 March
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Orlando, Dyad Productions – performer Rebecca Vaughan and writer/director Elton Townend Jones, based on the novel by Virginia Woolf, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 26 March
Theatre Royal Bury The Remains of The Day - based on Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, 7.30pm, to 30 Mar details, map
Wednesday 27 March
Dedham Players Emma Michael Bloom's adaptation of Jane Austen's novel, 7.45pm, to 30 Mar details at Dedham Assembly Rooms, map
Monday 1 April
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Picture of Dorian Gray - adaptaton of Oscar Wilde's novel, to 6 Apr details, map
Tuesday 2 April
Theatre Royal Bury Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing - Northern Broadsides & New Vic Theatre, 7.30pm, to 6 Apr details, map
Wednesday 3 April
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Playhouse Creatures by April De Angelis, 7.30pm, to 6 Apr details, map
Tuesday 9 April
Theatre Royal Bury Jack and The Beanstalk - Full House Theatre in Partnership with Luton Culture - various times, 7.30pm, to 10 Apr details, map
Wednesday 10 April
Colchester Theatre Group Arthur Miller: All My Sons, to 13 Apr details, map
Friday 12 April
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Heart of Darkness - adptation of Joseph Conrad's novel, 7.45pm, to 13 Apr details, map
Thursday 18 April
Theatre Royal Bury The Wind In The Willows - Theatre Royal Bury Young Company, 7pm, to 20 Apr details, map
Friday 19 April
Headgate Theatre, Colchester INK on the Road - a selection of the best new short plays directly from The INK Festival., 7.45pm, to 20 Apr details, map
Tuesday 23 April
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The 39 Steps - adaptation of John Buchan's novel, 7.45pm, to 4 May details, map
Theatre Royal Bury Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops To Conquer - London academy of music & dramatic art, 7.30pm details, map
Thursday 25 April
Bury Theatre Workshop The Real Inspector Hound by Tom Stoppard., to 27 Apr details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Theatre Royal Bury Checkov: The Cherry Orchard - London academy of music & dramatic art, 7.30pm, to 26 Apr details, map
Wednesday 1 May
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Shakers by John Godber & Jane Thornto, Reject Theatre Co, 7.45pm, to 4 May details, map
Monday 6 May
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Shakespeare: Macbeth Protocol Theatre, 7.30pm, to 11 May details, map
Sunday 12 May
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich The Kingdom Choir, 7.30pm details, map
Wednesday 15 May
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Terence Rattigan: The Browning Version, 7.45pm, to 18 May details, map
Thursday 16 May
Theatre Royal Bury The Trials of Oscar Wilde - European Arts Co & Mappa Mundi Theatre (with Theatr Mwidan), 7.30pm details, map
Wednesday 22 May
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Sherlock Holmes – The Sign of Four, adpted frm Conan Doyle's story; Blackeyed Theatre, 7.30pm, to 23 May details, map
Friday 24 May
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Shakespeare's Daughter and the Vicar by Mario Wells, Cameo Players, 7.45pm, to 25 May details, map
Wednesday 5 June
Bury Theatre Workshop Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest, 7.30pm, to 8 Jun details at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, map
Royal Shakespeare Company - live link Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew, 7pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Tuesday 2 July
Bury St Edmunds Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society Noël Coward: Blithe Spirit, 7.30pm, to 6 Jul details at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds, map
Tuesday 9 July
Bury Theatre Workshop Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream details at Bury St Edmunds Abbey, map
Wednesday 31 July
Royal Shakespeare Company - live link Shakespeare: Measure for Measure, 7pm details at Firstsite, Colchester, map
Thursday 26 September
Bury Theatre Workshop Can't Pay? Won't Pay! by Dario Fo, to 28 Sep details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Thursday 7 November
Bury Theatre Workshop Ibsen: The Lady from the Sea, 7.30pm, to 10 Nov details at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds, map
Tuesday 4 December
Firstsite, Colchester Peterloo and on4 Dec at 7 pm and on 5 Dec at 5 pm, 7pm details, map
Wednesday 16 January
Dedham Films Bienevenue Chez Les Ch'tis ( Welcome To The Sticks) http://www.dedhamfilms.co.uk/films/bienvenue, 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Tuesday 5 February
Firstsite, Colchester Young Picasso, Exhibition on Screen, 7.30pm details, map
Wednesday 20 February
Dedham Films Crazy Rich Asians, 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Tuesday 4 December
St Mary-le-Tower Church Syzygy Saxophone Quartet - Christmas Tree Festival Concert, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Saturday 8 December
Coggeshall Church Coggeshall Christmas Cabaret Evening One Way Street Productions, 7.30pm details, map
Lexden Choral Society Christmas celebration, 7pm details at Lexden Church, map
Tiptree Choral Society Christmas music details at St Luke's church Tiptree, map
Sunday 9 December
Clacton Choral Society Christmas Music Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, 6.30pm details at St James's Church, map
Colchester Choral Society Here Comes Christmas with Birch and Heathlands Primary Schools, 4pm details at Moot Hall Colchester, map
Pimlott Foundation Baroque Fest: Christmas by Candlelight with Dan Tidhar (harpsichord - J S Bach: Goldberg Variations, 6pm details at Old House, Great Horkesley, map
Tuesday 11 December
Ipswich Operatic and Dramatic Society Sounds Like Christmas, 7.30pm, to 13 Dec details at St Peter's by the Waterfront, map
Witham Choral Society Open rehearsal with carols, seasonal music and refreshments details at United Reform Church, map
Wednesday 12 December
Music in Felixstowe Christmas words and music, 11.30am details at Orwell Hotel, map
Friday 14 December
Eye Bach Choir Christmas concert with carols with Castleton Brass, 7.30pm details at Eye Town Hall, map
Saturday 15 December
Bury Bach Choir Christmas celebrations, 7.30pm details at Lavenham Church, map
West Bergholt Concert Band Christmas music details at St Botolph's, Colchester, map
Sunday 16 December
Aquarius Singers Christmas concert, 7pm at All Saints Church, Bury St Edmunds, map
Sudbury Choral Society Christmas celebration, 2.45pm details at St Peter's Church, map
Thursday 20 December
St Mary-le-Tower Church Annual Christmas Concert -- St Mary-le-Tower Choir, 1.10pm details, Ipswich, map
Saturday 7 December
Lexden Choral Society Christmas Celebration details at Lexden Church, map
Saturday 24 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Jack And The Beanstalk various times, to 20 Jan details, map
Thursday 29 November
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Cinderella, Rock’n’Roll panto - various times, to 2 Feb details, map
Friday 30 November
Theatre Royal Bury Sleeping Beauty - various times, to 13 Jan details, map
Wednesday 5 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Aladdin, 7pm, to 9 Dec details, map
Friday 7 December
Snape Maltings Christmas Spectacular: The Nutcracker various times, to 16 Dec details, Aldeburgh, map
Monday 10 December
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Charles Dickens : The Bagman's Uncle and The Bagman's Uncle's Friend , Robert MacCall, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 11 December
Firstsite, Colchester Dickens: A Christmas Carol – Simon Callow, 7.30pm, to 12 Dec details, map
National Theatre - live link Dickens: A Christmas Carol - Simon Callow, 7pm details at Odeon Colchester, map
Wednesday 12 December
Dedham Films Dickens: A Christmas Carol with Simon Callow, 7.30pm details at Assembly Rooms, map
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Journey to Oz - Essex Theatre Arts Society, 7.45pm, to 14 Dec details, map
Friday 14 December
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Snow White - various times; no shows on 18, 25, 31 Dec and 1 Jan, to 2 Jan details, map
Saturday 22 December
Deben Players Dick Whittington - various times, to 30 Dec details at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge, map
Sunday 23 December
Saffron Hall A Victorian Christmas. Words: Robert Powell and Susan Jamesonwith flute and piano, 3pm details, Saffron Walden, map
Sunday 30 December
The Apex A Christmas Carol - the musical based on Dickens's story, presented by CTC ; also on 31 Dec at 5pm and 2 Jan at 7.30pm. Matinees on all days, 7.30pm details, Bury St Edmunds, map
Friday 29 November
Theatre Royal Bury Peter Pan, 7.30pm, to 19 Jan details, map
Tuesday 9 April
Firstsite, Colchester Rembrandt Exhibition on Screenfrom the National Gallery, London and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 7.30pm details, map
Tuesday 4 June
Firstsite, Colchester Van Gogh & Japan Exhibition on Screen, 7.30pm details, map
