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East Anglia Music and Arts - Guide to events
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Music
Saturday 6 October
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Henschel String Quartet, 7.30pm at Ipswich School. details, map
Lexden Choral Society Carter, Rutter, as part of choral evensong, 7.30pm at Lexden Church. details, map
Suffolk Singers A Harvest of Song, 7.30pm at Framlingham Church. details, map
Sunday 7 October
Kingfisher Ensemble , 2.45pm at Lion Walk Church, Colchester. details, map
Music at Rushmere Christine Stevenson (piano), 3pm at St Andrews Church Rushmere, Ipswich. details, map
Saffron Hall Heath Quartet: Beethoven, Tippett, 3pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Henschel quartet - Beethoven - Debussy - Mendelssohn, 4pm at East Bergholt Church. details, map
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra A Celebration Of Mozart, 7.30pm at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Monday 8 October
Theatre Royal Bury Anna Noakes ( flute) & Gabriella Dall’olio (harp, 1.10pm. details, map
Tuesday 9 October
Colchester Moot Hall Organ Ashley Grote ( Norwich Cathedral), 1pm at Moot Hall Colchester. details, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church William Baldry (organ) Including music by Buxtehude, Brahms & J.S. Bach, 1.10pm, Ipswich. details, map
Thursday 11 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Jennifer Pike, violin, 7.30pm. details, map
Friday 12 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Alex Mendham and his Orchestra - music of the 1920s and 30s, 7.30pm. , map
Saturday 13 October
Halesworth Arts Festival Halesworth Arts Festival 13 to 28 October, 7.30pm. details, map
Ipswich School Music Festival Come And Sing With John Rutter, 10am. details, map
Ipswich School Music Festival Jazz Night: Claire Martin & The David Newton Trio, 7.30pm. details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Schubert, Beethoven, 7.30pm at St Mary's Woodbridge. details, map
Saffron Hall The Hallé R. Strauss, Sibelius, 7.30pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Trianon Ipswich Community Concert, 7.30pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Ipswich. details, map
Wolsey Orchestra Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, 7.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Sunday 14 October
Music at Rushmere Musical Banquet (Baroque vocal & instrumental trio), 3pm at St Andrews Church Rushmere, Ipswich. details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Beethoven and Schubert, 4pm at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh. details
Saffron Hall The Hallé Family Concert, 11am, Saffron Walden. details, map
Wrabness Church Castalian String Quartet - Mozart, Fauré and Beethoven, 4pm. details, map
Monday 15 October
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club Joseph Shiner, clarinet, 7.30pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Ipswich School Music Festival Gentlemen of St John’s College, 7.30pm. details, map
Tuesday 16 October
Ipswich School Music Festival Sam Wilson And 4-mality, 7.30pm. details, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Andrew Leach (piano) - Debussy, Rachmaninov preludes, 1.10pm, Ipswich. details, map
Wednesday 17 October
Music in Felixstowe The Amaryllis Quartet, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Saturday 20 October
Colchester Symphony Orchestra French Music, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Dorian singers Come and sing: Handel, Mozart, Mendelssohn Registration 9.20 am, 10am at St Peter and Paul Church, Felixstowe. details, map
Ipswich Choral Society Bernstein Centenary Celebration, 7.30pm at St Mary-le-Tower. details, map
Sunday 21 October
East Anglian Academy Celebrity Organ Recital: Stephen Farr, 3pm at Framlingham Church. details, map
Kingfisher Sinfonietta Grieg, Mozart, Schubert, 3pm at Framlingham College. details, map
Music at Rushmere William Baldry (organ), 3pm at St Andrews Church Rushmere, Ipswich. details, map
Music in Felixstowe Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time: with a selection of war poetry, 3pm at St John the Baptist Church. details, map
Pimlott Foundation Music and Literature – Red Lion Bookshop’s 40th birthday, 4pm at Old House, Great Horkesley. details, map
Saffron Hall Paul Lewis, Piano - Brahms, Beethoven, Haydn, 3pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Tallis Chamber Orchestra Society Schumann, Mozart, 3pm at St Peters Church Westleton. details, map
Saturday 27 October
Essex Concert Band Poppy Prom at Witham Royal British Legion Memorial Hall Newland Street CM8 2AZ, 7.30pm. details, map
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, 7.30pm. details, map
Sunday 28 October
Kingfisher Ensemble Music for String Quartet, Flute & Oboe, 3pm at Waldringfield Village Hall. details
Music at Rushmere Equinox Voices, 3pm at St Andrews Church Rushmere, Ipswich. details, map
Theatre Royal Bury Reverie: the life and loves of Claude Debussy, 7.30pm. details, map
Tuesday 30 October
Snape Maltings Dusapin: Passion Music Theatre Wales & National Dance Company Wales with London Sinfonietta & EXAUDI, 7.30pm, Aldeburgh. details, map
Thursday 1 November
Colchester Moot Hall Organ Florian Pagitch ( Kossiach, Austria) http://moothallorgan.co.uk/calendar/, 1pm at Moot Hall Colchester. details, map
Friday 2 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester 6 Hands Trio, guitar, 7.30pm. details, map
Saturday 3 November
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Trio Asimsiz, 7.30pm at Ipswich School. details, map
Pimlott Foundation Baroque Fest: Christina Kobb – Fortepiano, 7.30pm at Old House, Great Horkesley. details, map
Stowmarket Chorale Handel: Messiah at St Peter & St Mary’s Church. details, map
Sunday 4 November
Pimlott Foundation Singing for Health - workshop with Amy Mallett All day at Old House, Great Horkesley. details, map
Suffolk Singers Choral Workshop at Woodbridge School. details, map
Monday 5 November
Theatre Royal Bury The Rococo Ensemble - Flute, violoncello da spalla, harpischord and other Baroque instruments., 1.10pm. details, map
Thursday 8 November
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm at Westgate Chapel, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Saturday 10 November
Bury Bach Choir Vauhgan Williams Donna Nobis Pacem, Duruflé Requiem, 7.30pm at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Kirbye Voices , 11am at Fornham All Saints Church, Bury Saint Edmunds. details, map
Lexden Choral Society Fauré: Requiem and other works, 7.30pm at St Botolph's, Colchester. details, map
Quire Pack Up Your Troubles ~ a concert for peace ~ Peldon and the Wigboroughs Community Hall, CO5 7PT, 7.30pm. details, map
Woodbridge Choral Society Britten: War Requiem with Kingfisher Ensemble. Gainsborough Ensemble, Woodbridge School Cantabile Choir, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Sunday 11 November
Aquarius Singers Remembrance Day concert, 6pm at All Saints Church, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Kingfisher Ensemble , 2.45pm at Lion Walk Church, Colchester. details, map
Saffron Walden Symphony Orchestra Commemoration the 100 years anniversary of the end of the first world war, 3pm at Saffron Hall. details, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Merlin Ensemble - Liszt - R. Strauss - Brahms, 4pm at Dedham Church. details, map
Monday 12 November
Suffolk Philharmonic Orchestra Armistice Day Concert, 4pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Wednesday 14 November
Music in Felixstowe The Alchemy Ensemble, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Saturday 17 November
Colchester Choral Society Alan Bullard: Images of Peace (première) and Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem and Benedicite, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Ipswich Chamber Choir Greater Love Hath No Man Fauré: Requiem, 7pm at St Mary-le-Tower. details, map
Saffron Walden Choral Society Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall. details, map
Suffolk Sinfonia Smetana , Vaughan Williams, 7.30pm at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Trianon Rushmere St Andrew Community Concert, 7.30pm at St Andrews Church Rushmere, Ipswich. details, map
West Bergholt Concert Band 40th Anniversary Concert at Coggeshall Church. details, map
Sunday 18 November
Cambridge Renaissance Voices The Song of Songs in Renaissance Music, 7.30pm at Long Melford Church. details, map
Kingfisher Sinfonietta Haydn, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Schubert, 6.30pm at The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth. details, map
Sudbury Choral Society Haydn: Nelson Mass and Howard Goodall’s Eternal Light, 7.30pm at St Peter's Church. details, map
Monday 19 November
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club Chelys Consort of Viols, 7.30pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Wednesday 21 November
Saffron Hall Carolyn Sampson, Iestyn Davies & Joseph Middleton, 7.30pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Friday 23 November
Ipswich Choral Society Faure's Requiem, 7.30pm. details, map
Saturday 24 November
Aldeburgh Music Club Karl Jenkins The Armed Man - 'A Mass for Peace' with Prometheus Orchestra, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings. details, map
Essex Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, 7.30pm at Christ Church, Chelmsford. details, map
Eye Bach Choir Rachmaninov: Vespers, 7.30pm at Eye Church. details, map
Hadleigh Choral Society Hadleigh Haydn: The Creation at Hadleigh Church. details, map
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Beethoven: Piano Concero , with soloist Martin James Bartlett, 7.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Saffron Hall J.S Bach: Christmas Oratorio- Cambridge University Symphony Chorus, East Anglia Chamber Orchestra, 7.30pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Witham Choral Society Rossini: Petite Messe solonelle at United Reform Church. details, map
Sunday 25 November
Beccles Choral Society Bach: Christmas Oratorio. details
Saffron Hall Czech National Symphony Orchestra- Bruch Violin Concerto, 3pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Saturday 1 December
Ipswich Bach Choir Bach: Christmas Oratorio at St John's Church. details, map
Ipswich Bach Choir Bach: Christmas Oratorio and Vivaldi: Gloria, selections, 7.30pm at St John's Church. details, map
Stour Choral Society Sasha Johnson Manning: The Manchester Carols, 2.30pm at Mistley Church. details, map
Wednesday 5 December
Quire Fete de Noel Anglo French Society, Colchester, 7.30pm. details
Saturday 8 December
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Haydn, Mozart, Handel, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Dorian singers Handel: The Messiah, 7pm at St Andrew's Church, Felixstowe. details, map
University of Essex Choir Pergolesi, Schubert, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Grieg with London Mozart Players, 7.30pm, Colchester. details, map
Sunday 9 December
Clacton Choral Society Christmas Music Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, 6.30pm at St James's Church. details, map
Colchester Choral Society Christmas celebration, 7.30pm at Moot Hall Colchester. details, map
Pimlott Foundation Baroque Fest: Christmas by Candlelight with Dan Tidhar (harpsichord - J S Bach: Goldberg Variations, 6pm at Old House, Great Horkesley. details, map
Suffolk Villages Festival J.S. Bach Christmas Cantatas Psalmody, Essex Baroque Orchestra,, 6pm at Nayland Church. details, map
Tuesday 11 December
Colchester Moot Hall Organ Ian Ray, Hon. Borough Organist with Marenzio vocal quintet, 1pm at Moot Hall Colchester. details, map
Saturday 15 December
Bury Bach Choir Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration Christmas Celebration, 7.30pm at Lavenham Church. details, map
Phoenix Singers Britten: St Nicholas and Bach: Gelobt seist du, Jesu & Wachet auf, 7.30pm. details
West Bergholt Concert Band at St Botolph's, Colchester. details, map
Sunday 16 December
Aquarius Singers Bury St Edmunds Christmas concert, 7pm. details
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Fourtissimo, guitar quartet, 5pm. details, map
Kingfisher Sinfonietta Bridge, Schubert, Rutter, Beethoven, 6.30pm at The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth. details, map
St Mary-le-Tower Church Handel: The Messiah, 4.30pm, Ipswich. details, map
Sudbury Choral Society Christmas celebration, 2.45pm at St Peter's Church. details, map
Thursday 20 December
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm at Great Barton Church, Bury Saint Edmunds. details, map
Friday 21 December
Aldeburgh Voices Handel: Messiah with the The Suffolk Ensemble, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings. details, map
Saturday 22 December
Britten Sinfonia Handel: Messiah, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Kirbye Voices , 7.30pm at St Mary's Church Bury, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Tuesday 1 January
Music in Felixstowe Viennese concert. details
Music in Felixstowe Viennese Gala, 3pm at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Wednesday 2 January
Music in Felixstowe The Von Bennetts are Back! jazz and rock, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Sunday 6 January
Essex Chamber Orchestra Weber: Bassoon Concerto, 7pm at Ingatestone & Fryerning Community Centre, Ingatestone. details, map
Saturday 12 January
Colchester Chamber Choir Rachmaninoff: Vespers, candel lit, 7pm at Coggeshall Church. details, map
Colchester Symphony Orchestra CSO Wind, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Sunday 13 January
Stour Valley Arts and Music Pelléas Ensemble - Bax - JS Bach - Jolivet - Ravel, 4pm at Constable Hall, East Bergholt. details, map
Friday 18 January
Britten Sinfonia Mark Elder conducts Mahler & Brahms, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Saturday 26 January
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Castalian Quartet, 7.30pm at Ipswich School. details, map
Saffron Hall The English Concert: Vivaldi, Bach, Purcell, Locatelli, 7.30pm, Saffron Walden. details, map
Sunday 27 January
Music in Felixstowe Candlelit Concert with the Ward Quartet., 3pm at St Nicholas's, Felixstowe Ferry. details, map
Pimlott Foundation Baroque Fest: Ibrahim Aziz (viola da gamba) Bach Suite 2, Abel, Martínez Gil ‘Suite Estiu’, 6pm at Old House, Great Horkesley. details, map
Wednesday 6 February
Music in Felixstowe Flute and Harpsichord, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Saturday 16 February
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Ipswich Chamber Music Society Revolutionary Drawing Room, 7.30pm at Ipswich School. details, map
Monday 18 February
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club London Metropolitan Brass, 7.30pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Tuesday 19 February
Wolsey Orchestra Walton, Butterworth, Holst, Vaughan Williams, 7.30pm at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Saturday 23 February
Stour Valley Arts and Music Jazz concert: Embraceable Ella Joanna Eden & Chris Ingham Trio, 7.30pm at Constable Hall, East Bergholt. details, map
Sunday 24 February
Music in Felixstowe West End Shows Singalong, 7pm at Felixstowe Ferry Sailing Club. details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Beethoven, Stravinsky, Fracaix Wind Ensemble, 4pm at Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh. details
Saturday 2 March
Essex Symphony Orchestra Schubert, Sibelius, 7.30pm at Chelmsford Cathedral. details, map
Sunday 3 March
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Family Concert, 2.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Sunday 10 March
Stour Valley Arts and Music Zelkova Quartet Mozart - Mendelssohn - Dvorak, 4pm at East Bergholt Church. details, map
Stour Valley Arts and Music Rautio Piano Trio & Robin Ashwell, viola - Mozart- Mahler - Brahms, 4pm at East Bergholt Church. details, map
Saturday 16 March
Aldeburgh Music Club The Amazing Mr Handel, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings. details, map
Colchester Choral Society Elgar: Dream of Gerontius with Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Daniel Joy, Edward Grint at St Botolph's. details, map
Eye Bach Choir Mendelssohn: Elijah with the Kingfisher Orchestra., 7.30pm at Eye Church. details, map
Monday 18 March
Bury St Edmunds Concert Club Kokopellis Wind Quartet, 7.30pm at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Wednesday 20 March
Music in Felixstowe Ward Piano Quintet, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Saturday 23 March
Quire Come Mr. Tally Man, 7.30pm at West Bergholt Church. details, map
Thursday 28 March
Ipswich Choral Society Spring Concert, 7.30pm. details, map
Sunday 31 March
Music in Felixstowe Quartetto Familia, 3pm at St Peter and Paul Church. details, map
Wednesday 3 April
Quire African and Gospel Music, 7.30pm at Boxted Church. details, map
Saturday 6 April
Bury Bach Choir Bach: St Matthew Passion at Bury St Edmunds Cathedral. details, map
Hadleigh Choral Society Hadleigh Bach: John Passion, 7.30pm. details
Ipswich Choral Society Mozart: Requiem, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Sunday 7 April
Essex Chamber Orchestra Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, 7.30pm at Felsted School. details, map
Sudbury Choral Society Handel: Messiah (parts 1 and 2), 7.30pm at St Peter's Church. details, map
Friday 12 April
English Touring Opera Verdi: Macbeth, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 13 April
Clacton Choral Society Gounod: St Cecilia Mass, 7.30pm at St James's Church. details, map
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Mozart and Mahler, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Wednesday 17 April
Music in Felixstowe A Quarter to Sax, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Friday 19 April
Aldeburgh Voices Bach: St John Passion with The Suffolk Ensemble, James Gilchrist Evangelist, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings. details, map
Saturday 20 April
Snape Maltings Fauré: Requiem and Bach: Partita with Tenebrae, Britten Sinfonia and Thomas Gould (violin), 7.30pm, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 27 April
Music in Felixstowe Come and Sing the Faure Requiem Rehearsal 12:30, 3pm at St Peter and Paul Church. details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams , Damase , Mendelssohn., 7pm at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe. details, map
Saturday 4 May
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams, Tallis, Damase, Mendelssohn, 7pm at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe. details, map
Sunday 5 May
Prometheus Orchestra at St John the Baptist Church, Felixstowe. details, map
Prometheus Orchestra Vaughan Williams, Damase, Mendelssohn, 4pm at Orford Church. details, map
University of Essex Choir Elgar: Dream of Gerontius, 6pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 11 May
Beccles Choral Society Verdi: Requiem, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 18 May
Colchester Chamber Choir The Romantic Soul: Rossini, Clara Schumann, Wolf, Fauré and Stenhammar, 7pm at St Teresa's Colchester. details, map
Eye Bach Choir 21st century composers, 7.30pm at Eye Town Hall. details, map
Ipswich Bach Choir Haydn: The Creation, 7.30pm at St Andrew's Church, Felixstowe. details, map
Wolsey Orchestra Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, soloist: Erdem Misirlioglu, 7.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Wednesday 29 May
Music in Felixstowe Mozart's Muses: Fiona Jessica Wilson, soprano, 11.30am at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Saturday 1 June
Colchester Symphony Orchestra Russian Programme, 7.30pm at St Botolph's. details, map
Saturday 15 June
Bury Bach Choir , 7.30pm at The Apex, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Saturday 22 June
Colchester Choral Society Summer Serenade to beconfirmed. details
Sunday 23 June
Sudbury Choral Society Light concert on the theme of childhood., 7.30pm at St Peter's Church. details, map
Saturday 29 June
Essex Symphony Orchestra Glinka, Lalo, Tchaikovsky, 7.30pm at Chelmsford Cathedral. details, map
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Summer Concert, 7.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Saturday 6 July
Clacton Choral Society Clacton Choral goes to the Proms, 5pm at St James's Church. details, 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
Sunday 21 July
Snape Maltings Royal Academy of Music and Juilliard School: Tchaikovsky, Britten, Stravinsky, 4pm, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 23 November
Hadleigh Choral Society Mendelssohn: Elijah, 7.30pm at St John's Church, Epping. details, map
Saturday 30 November
Ipswich Symphony Orchestra Autumn Concert, 7.30pm at Ipswich Corn Exchange. details, map
Sunday 7 April
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Tuesday 7 May
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Monday 1 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Return Of The Soldier, a chamber musical based on Rebecca West's 1918 novel. Various times, to 6 Oct. details, map
Saturday 6 October
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Verdi: Aida, 5.55pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 9 October
Bury St Edmunds Amateur Operatic & Dramatic Society High Society, to 13 Oct at Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Saturday 13 October
Snape Maltings Zurich Youth Symphony Orchestra, 7.30pm, Aldeburgh. details, map
Tuesday 16 October
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Madagascar - A Musical Adventure; Dreamworks, 7pm, to 20 Oct. details, map
Friday 19 October
OperaUpClose Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin, 7.45pm at New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich. details, map
Saturday 20 October
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Saint-Saëns: Samson et Dalila, 5.55pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 23 October
Ipswich Gilbert and Sullivan Society Gilbert &Sullivan: The Gondeliers, to 27 Oct at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge. details, map
Wednesday 24 October
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Funny Girl filmed from London's West End, 7pm. details, map
Odeon Colchester Funny Girl - The Musical. From the West End show, 7.15pm. details, map
Friday 26 October
English Touring Opera Triple Bill: Purcell, Gesualdo, Carissimi, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Firstsite, Colchester Funny Girl – The Musical, filmed, 7.30pm. details, map
Saturday 27 October
English Touring Opera Handel: Radamisto, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Puccini: La Fanciulla del West, 7.30pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Sunday 28 October
Royal Opera House - live link Wagner: Die Walküre, 5pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite
Monday 29 October
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Fame, the musical, Selladoor Productions, 7.30pm, to 3 Nov. details, map
Sir John Mills Theatre Lucky Stiff, Gallery Players, 7.45pm, to 3 Nov, Ipswich. details, map
Friday 2 November
English Touring Opera Handel: Radamisto, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 3 November
English Touring Opera Triple bill: Dido & Aeneas/ Jonas / I Will Not Speak, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Sunday 4 November
English Touring Opera Bach: St Matthew Passion, 3pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Saturday 10 November
Britten Sinfonia Nico Muhly: The Last Letter, commemorating the first world war, 7.30pm at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden. details, map
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Nico Muhly: Marnie, 5.55pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite
Thursday 29 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester The King And I: Encore Screening From The London Palladium, 7pm. details, map
Odeon Colchester The King And I, Lincoln Center Theater’s production, 7pm. details, map
Sunday 2 December
Firstsite, Colchester The King and I: From the London Palladium - live link and on 27 Dec, 2pm. details, map
Friday 7 December
Snape Maltings Christmas Spectacular: The Nutcracker various times, to 16 Dec, Aldeburgh. details, map
Tuesday 22 January
Norfolk and Norwich Operatic Society Guys And Dolls, 7.30pm, to 26 Jan at Theatre Royal Norwich. details, map
Royal Opera House - live link Tchaikovsky: The Queen of Spades, 6.45pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
Saturday 2 February
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Bizet: Carmen, 5.55pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite
Tuesday 2 April
Royal Opera House - live link Verdi: La Forza Del Destino, 6.15pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map
Thursday 11 April
English Touring Opera Rossini: Elisabetta, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Saturday 13 April
English Touring Opera Mozart: Idomeneo, 7.30pm at Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh. details, map
Tuesday 30 April
Regent Theatre Ipswich Ipswich Avenue Q, 8pm, to 4 May. details, map
Royal Opera House - live link Gounod: Faust, 6.45pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Odeon Colchester
Saturday 11 May
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Poulenc: Dialogues Des Carmèlites, 5pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Monday 15 October
Royal Ballet - live link Mayerling, 7.15pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite
Thursday 25 October
Firstsite, Colchester Theory Opera : The Troth, Akademi dance company, 7pm. details, map
Thursday 1 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Ballet Black, 7.30pm. details, map
Tuesday 13 November
Royal Ballet - live link La Bayadère, 7.15pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite and at Firstsite and at Odeon Colchester
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 16 May
Royal Ballet - live link Flight Pattern/Within The Golden Hour/New Work, 7.15pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Odeon Colchester
Friday 28 September
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Moll Flanders a play about Daniel Defoe's novel, 7.30pm, to 13 Oct. details, map
Thursday 4 October
Theatre Royal Bury Sherlock Holmes: The Sign Of Four; Blackeyed Theatre In Association with South Hill Park, 7.30pm, to 6 Oct. details, map
Monday 8 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Alan Bennett: The Habit Of Art, a play about a meeting between the poet WH Auden and the composer Benjamin Britten. Vasrious times, to 13 Oct. details, map
Tuesday 9 October
Vaudeville Theatre London - live link Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest, 7.15pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map
Thursday 11 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Mariner by Pat Whymark Common Ground Theatre Company, 7.30pm, to 13 Oct. details, map
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester An Enemy Of The People A Flintlock Theatre Adaptation of Ibsen's play, 7.30pm. details, map
Sir John Mills Theatre Noel Coward: The Vortex, Paper Lantern Theatre Co, 7.30pm, to 20 Oct, Ipswich. details, map
Friday 12 October
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Silence by Nicola Werenowska, 8pm, to 20 Oct. details, map
Saturday 13 October
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: King Lear, 2pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Monday 15 October
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Women Of Aktion Script by Mick Martin, 7.30pm. details, map
Wednesday 17 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Be My Baby Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.45pm, to 20 Oct. details, map
Tuesday 23 October
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester East An elegy for the East End and its energetic waste., 7.45pm, to 24 Oct. details, map
Wednesday 24 October
Dedham Players California Suite By Neil Simon, 7.45pm, to 27 Oct at Dedham Assembly Rooms. details, map
Thursday 25 October
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Castaways by Mandala Theatre Company, 7.30pm. details, map
The Quay Theatre The Time Machine. Dyad Productions -a radical interpretation of the HG Wells novel, 7.30pm, Sudbury. details, map
Friday 26 October
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Not About Heroes - Stephen MacDonald’s play about the friendship between first world war poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon., 7.30pm. details, map
Monday 29 October
National Theatre - live link Shakespeare: King Lear with Ian McKellen - Chichester Festival Theatre’s production, 1.30pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 30 October
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Shakespeare: Othello - an English Touring Theatre, Oxford Playhouse and Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory production - various times, to 3 Nov. details, map
Theatre Royal Bury Shakespeare: Henry V Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory, 7.30pm, to 3 Nov. details, map
Wednesday 31 October
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Buckets by Adam Barnard Colchester Institute Students CP3, 7.45pm, to 1 Nov. details, map
Thursday 1 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Wot? No Fish!! Written and performed by Danny Braverman - a show about love, 7.30pm. details, map
National Theatre - live link Alan Benett: Allelujah! Filmed live at London’s Bridge Theatre and on 5 Nov 1:30 pm, 7pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map
Friday 2 November
Seckford Theatre The Mariners, Common Ground, 7.30pm, Woodbridge. details, map
Monday 5 November
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Ian Hislop And Nick Newman: Trial By Laughter - various times, to 10 Nov. details, map
Tuesday 6 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Flat 2B Directed by Finn Todd, 7.45pm, to 7 Nov. details, map
Sudbury Dramatic Society Man and Boy, 7.45pm, to 10 Nov at The Quay Theatre. details, map
The Cut Arts The Mariner; Common Ground Theatre; adapted from Coleridge'a Rime of the Ancient Mariner, 7.30pm, Halesworth. details, map
Thursday 8 November
Bury Theatre Workshop Lysistrata (The sex strike) After Aristophanes, by Germaine Greer and Phil Wilmott, 7.30pm, to 10 Nov at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Lest We Forget - Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.45pm, to 10 Nov. details, map
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Red: Encore Screening, 7.30pm. details, map
The Cut Arts Rebellious Sisterhood - Votes For Women Broad Horizons Theatre Company, 7.30pm, Halesworth. details, map
Saturday 10 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester For The Fallen: poems and music to commemorate the first world war, 7.30pm. details, map
National Theatre - live link Alan Bennett: Allelujah!, 3.30pm at Lakeside Theatre, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 13 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Edward Albee: The Goat/ Who Is Sylvia?, 7.45pm. details, map
Wednesday 14 November
Headgate Theatre, Colchester Marjorie Prime - Headgate Theatre Productions, 7.30pm, to 17 Nov. details, map
Royal Shakespeare Company - live link Shakespeare: Troilus and Cressida https://www.odeon.co.uk/films/rsc_live_troilus_amp_cressida/17837/, 5pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre
Thursday 15 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Ventoux By 2Magpies, 7.30pm. details, map
Saturday 17 November
The Cut Arts Terence Rattigen: The Browning Version Open Space Theatre, 7.30pm, Halesworth. details, map
Monday 19 November
Theatre Royal Bury Beauty & The Beast; Ballet Theatre UK, 7pm, to 21 Nov. details, map
Tuesday 20 November
National Theatre - live link Alan Bennett: The Madness of George III Live from Nottingham Playhouse, 7pm at Odeon Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre
Wednesday 21 November
Headgate Theatre, Colchester The Ladykillers by Gordon Linehan- Colchester Theatre Group, 7.30pm, to 24 Nov. details, map
Thursday 22 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester To Hell in a Handbag by Helen Norton and Jonathan White, 7.30pm. details, map
Saturday 24 November
Mercury Theatre, Colchester Jack and the Beanstalk, to 20 Jan. details, map
Tuesday 27 November
Lakeside Theatre, Colchester Just Us Two by Nichola Richards, 7.45pm, to 28 Nov. details, map
Thursday 29 November
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Cinderella, to 2 Feb. details, map
Friday 30 November
Theatre Royal Bury Sleeping Beauty, 7.30pm, to 13 Jan. 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 at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite and at Lakeside Theatre and at Odeon Colchester and at Firstsite
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
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, Woodbridge. details, 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 Shakesperae: Antony and Cleopatra, 6pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 8 January
Eastern Angles Theatre Company The Fenland Screamers & Other Boggy Tales, 7.45pm, to 19 Jan at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge. details, map
Saturday 12 January
Metropolitan Opera New York - live link Cilea:Ariana LeCouvreur, 5.55pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map
Thursday 31 January
National Theatre - live link I’m Not Running by David Hare, 7pm at Firstsite, Colchester. details, map and at Firstsite
Thursday 7 March
Bury Theatre Workshop Sartre: No Exit (Huis Clos), to 9 Mar at Unitarian Meeting House, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Saturday 13 July
Bury Theatre Workshop Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream, 7.30pm at Bury St Edmunds Abbey. details, map
Wednesday 17 October
Dedham Films The Mercy, the story of Donald d Crowhurst's disastrous voyage,directed by James Marsh 2017, 7.30pm at Assembly Rooms. details, map
Saturday 17 November
Carol Singing at Five Lakes Resort, Tolleshunt Knight, CM9 8X, 7.30pm. details
Sunday 2 December
Christmas music, 4pm at Quay Place, Ipswich. details, map
Seckford Brass and Massed Singers withFelixstowe Community Choir, Octave (Vocal group), 3pm at St Andrew's Church. details, map
Saturday 8 December
Christmas Cabaret Evening One Way Street Productions, 7.30pm. details, map
Christmas music. details
Christmas celebration, 7pm at Lexden Church. details, map
Christmas music. details
Sunday 9 December
Christmas concert, 6.30pm at Aldham Church, Colchester. details, map
Tuesday 11 December
Sounds Like Christmas, 7.30pm, to 13 Dec. details
Sounds Like Christmas, 7.30pm, to 13 Dec at St Peter's by the Waterfront. details, map
Wednesday 12 December
Christmas words and music at Orwell Hotel. details, map
Friday 14 December
Christmas concert with carols with Castleton Brass, 7.30pm at Eye Town Hall. details, map
Sunday 16 December
Christmas concert, 7pm at All Saints Church, Bury St Edmunds. details, map
Tuesday 18 December
Christmas Concert, 7.30pm at Rowhedge Village Hall. details, map
Wednesday 5 December
Aladdin, 7pm, to 9 Dec. details, map
Wednesday 12 December
Journey to Oz - Essex Theatre Arts Society, 7.45pm, to 14 Dec. details, map
Friday 14 December
Snow White - various times; no shows on 18, 25, 31 Dec and 1 Jan, to 2 Jan. details, map
Saturday 22 December
Dick Whittington in Space, 7.30pm, to 23 Dec at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge. details, map
Dick Whittington, 7.30pm, to 30 Dec at Seckford Theatre, Woodbridge. details, map
Sunday 28 October
Stour Valley Arts and Music Peter Medhurst lecture-recital on Gilbert and Sullivan - parody & satire, 4pm at Constable Hall, East Bergholt. details, map
