Harlow Playhouse
ANNABELLE’S Skirtingboard Adventure is coming to Harlow Playhouse at 2.30pm on Saturday 13th June to give young children a theatre experience that combines film, animation and music, all created live before their very eyes! The stage is set with furniture from a child’s bedroom and…
By Susie Thomas IT is always exciting to be listening to and watching live music and this is how it was on Saturday. Iain Court and his 8 piece band promised to recreate the authentic sound of Sir Elton John and with humour made this…
Crocodile Mock Saturday 6 June, 7.30pm Tickets £16 – £19 Iain Court performs as The Queen of Pop, his vocal similarity and 8 piece band help recreate the authentic sound that has gone towards the 250 million record sales that have been sold by the…
Chris & Pui Saturday 23 May, 11am & 2pm All tickets £13, £11 concessions CBeebies’ favourite double act is coming to town! See Chris & Pui from ‘Show Me Show Me’ in their new stage show with the toys & characters from their hit TV…
By Harry Tennison IT is often said that you cannot take Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors seriously, and this is the same in Jeanne Stacey’s production. She adopts conventions of the silent film era – using slapstick comedy, melodramatic gestures, intense physicality and some truly…
By Siobhan Wood I arrived to an almost empty foyer and did wonder if no one had turned up but when I walked into the studio upstairs it was packed full of people. Our compere for the night Meryl O’Rourke was very likeable and played…
STRIKE! is “rising star” director Keziah Serreau’s debut show, fusing theatre and circus, it premiered at Jacksons Lane as part of Circusfest 2014. It has since been touring the UK including the City of London Festival and Latitude. Directed by Keziah Serreau and devised…
THE award-winning performance art duo Sh!t Theatre are bringing a night of satire, spoken word, song and movement to Harlow Playhouse in a unique insight into the world of drug testing as a cure for an empty bank account. Becca and Louise have tried selling…
Review by Harry Tennison Set in 1920s Chicago, Bugsy Malone takes influences from the lives of mobsters like Al Capone and Bugs Moran, before mixing them together with a cast full of kids and the infamous splurge guns. As Scott Baio, the original film’s star…
By Sue Wood ALTHOUGH not a full house, we were anticipating a good night of Beatles and Wings songs and that is what happened. I wasn’t sure what to expect and was looking forward to finding out if Wings over Abbey Road were a tribute…
By Jill T Aylott THE MULTI-tonal voice of the legendary and tragic Karen Carpenter may be one of the hardest to pay tribute to. Toni Lee in the show, We’ve Only Just Begun produces what can only be described as a mesmeric performance in a…
WINGS OVER ABBEY ROAD Saturday 25 April 7.30pm ALTHOUGH released before “Let It Be”, “Abbey Road” was The Beatles’ last recorded album – The biggest band in history at the very height of their success. Paul McCartney then went on to form “Wings”, a phenomenal…
The Ministry of Science: Wednesday May 13th..1.30pm and 6.30pm LADIES and Gentlemen, boys and girls, please keep your head firmly on your shoulders and your arms and legs inside the ride at all times – Ministry of Science Live explodes onto a stage near you…
A mother and daughter from the local community join an all male cast on stage each night of the run, in a dynamic and subtle exploration of the most intense of family relationships Thursday 23 April 8.15pm Written and directed by Selma Dimitrijevic Borrowing its…
By Jo O’Reilly FOUR giants of the Rock ‘n’ Roll world come together for the first time at the Playhouse Harlow for BE BOP A LULA! Eddie Cochran, Gene Vincent, Billy Fury and Roy Orbison will be brought to life on stage in Harlow. Backed…
Review: Harlow Playhouse Henning Wehn HENNING WEHN is a unique comedian. It is not just because he is german and all the racial stereotypes attached to that. There is something very natural about him. So, when he tells you, in the first half of the…
