This event will be staged 21 – 22 March 2017 as part of our Spring/Summer 2017 season. Tickets will go on sale in November. In the meantime, click…

Press Night: Wednesday 5 October, 7.30pm  Mercury Theatre Colchester has announced the casting line-up for the Made in Colchester production of Shakespeare’s comic battle of the sexes, Much Ado About…

Campaign is final fundraising stage in £8.7m transformation project Darren Henley launches new website and crowdfunding platform Reception event held at the House of Commons by Will Quince…

Theatre launched public consultation as it unveils building transformation plans for the next four years Hundreds of visitors visit the Mercury Theatre on local open day to view…

Heritage Lottery awards £80,000 to ‘Mercury Voices’ archives and oral history project The Mercury Theatre will work with Essex Record Office, Colchester and Ipswich Museum Service and Colchester…

Whilst in his final year at the Colchester Institute on their Learning for Living & Work course, James Bacon spent 9 months doing work experience with our box office…

I found out about the Early Career Training Programme from a friend who had already applied to enrol on the scheme. At the time I was working in an inflexible…

See the final portraits in our Digby Gallery exhibition, until Monday 3 October. Free entry from 10am Mon-Sat. “We all know the major characters in Shakespeare’s plays, but…

We want students to have the chance to tell a story that is important to them. To feel that theatre gives them the opportunity to say something they care…

Over the first five days of August the Creative Learning and Talent team ran hACkT, a summer school with a difference for 25 young people aged 11-16 years. hACkT…