GRAMMY-nominated singer, Stacey Kent, brings her new album, The Changing Lights, to Harlow Playhouse. The Changing Lights places Kent’s love for Brazilian music centre-stage, featuring Bossa Nova classics like How Insensitive alongside originals by the songwriting team of Jim Tomlinson and acclaimed novelist, Kazuo Ishiguro. …

Friday 11th April- THE DEAD BETALS + Ugly Love + Young Minorities. The Dead Betas are a “Swirling storm of messy electro punk” – Kerrang! Originating in Devon they have just come back from their second UK tour with Mindless Self Indulgence and are ready…

FRESH from his stunning appearance on Britain’s Got Talent, top comedy ventriloquist, Steve Hewlett, now embarks on a major theatre tour with his hilarious friends which comes to (Venue name) on (venue date) Steve shot to fame on last year’s BGT, winning over the public…

ONE OF the things we have been delighted about, in our first nine months of YourHarlow, is the proliferation of artists in the town. Sone work in groups and some, like Lewis Terry, plough a solo furrow. YH went up to Longbanks to interview Lewis…

These acts have performed all over the world at many of the world’s premier comedy clubs and festivals. Tickets are £10, advance tickets available from www.wegottickets.com – search “harlow comedy club”, or from the Churchgate Hotel. On the bill are: SULLY O’SULLIVAN: Multi award winning…

3rd April – 11th May A JOURNEY THROUGH PAINTING An exploration of abstraction with beginnings in landscape by MARTIN WALTON complemented by ceramics by FRASER BURCHILL Martin Walton has spent over 50 years as painter, beginning as a landscape painter but over time moving to…

By Gary Shaw THE latest production by the Moot House Players was the Oscar Wilde classic, The Importance Of Being Earnest. The Players have a local, and even international, reputation for wonderful theatrical adaptions. Their work on this production is certainly no exception. Under the…

By Jo O’Reilly IF you’re wondering through Harlow Town centre between now and April 29th and need a little respite from the shops, you could do worse than poking your head into Gatehouse Arts new Art of Craft exhibition. With an eclectic display of work…

JOHN Petters Swing Band will line up tonight with three superb saxophonists at St John’s ARC in Old Harlow tonight (Thursday, March 27). Australians, Steve Dagg and Karl Hird will be joined Cambridge’s premier jazzman, Andy Bowie, in what promises to be an outstanding evening…

EXCITING opportunities for art commissions, residencies and personal development are to be unveiled on 27 March at the launch of the Essex Network of Artist Studios (ENAS). Its mission to enable Essex artists to thrive and develop through collaborative working, ENAS was conceived in 2012…

THE headline piece for Harlow Chorus’ concert at All Saints, Hockerill in Bishop’s Stortford on 29 March at 7.30pm is contemporary composer Will Todd’s Mass in Blue, a stunning work combining Todd’s love of improvisation and jazz harmonies with the English choral tradition and Gregorian…

X-FACTOR star showed what a good sport he was by changing the lyrics of Beyonce’s Halo to Harlow when he performed at the Harlow Playhouse on Thursday night! This was in response to PopJustice’s petition (which collected over 150 signatures in a matter of hours)…

By Jo O’Reilly SPRING has sprung in Harlow, and comedian Ed Byrne is full of the joys of….being in his 40s. The main auditorium at The Harlow Playhouse and the local-ish, he lives just outside of Bishop Stortford, Byrne is delighting in the privileges that…

THESE are busy times for Harlow renaissance man, Stief A Billy. Stief is mainly known for his music but these days he spends more of his time treading the boards. YH popped over to the Horn and Horseshoes in Foster Street to chat to Stieff…