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Events
- A Very Merry Christmas Carol Concert
- Abba Forever
- Afternoon & Cream Tea
- An Evening With Aggers: Beyond The Boundry
- Andy Parsons – Bafflingly Optimistic
- Awake My Soul: The Mumford & Sons Story
- Bindweed
- Buffy Revamped
- Calling Planet Earth
- Charlie Cook’s Favourite Book
- Colchester Christmas Evening Farmers Market
- Colchester Operatic – Legally Blonde 2024
- Colchester Pride Film Night – Bros
- Colchester Pride Film Night – But I’m A Cheerleader
- Colchester Pride Film Night – Disobedience
- Colchester Pride Film Night – The Way He Looks
- Comedy Club on the Road (Feb)
- Country Superstars
- David Suchet: Poirot and More – A Retrospective
- Feel Me
- Friend (The One with Gunther)
- Gamble
- Give Me The Night
- Griff Rhys Jones: The Cat’s Pyjamas
- Houdini’s Greatest Escape
- Illuminating Alice
- imitating the dog’s Frankenstein
- Joe Pasquale
- Jonathan Pie & Friends
- King Arthur
- La Voix – The Red Ambition Tour
- LATES – Cocktail Cabaret
- Legends: The Divas
- Lost in Music
- Me…
- Midsummer
- Money For Nothing
- My Fair Lady – Colchester Operatic Society
- Nasty
- NT Live – Dear England
- NT Live – Vanya
- Peppa Pig’s Fun Day Out
- Pop Divas Live
- Punt and Dennis
- Rave On: The Ultimate 50s and 60s Experience
- Reginald D Hunter – The Man Who Could See Through Sh*t
- Rich Hall: Shot From Cannons
- Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast
- RUCKUS
- Rude Science!
- Seann Walsh: Back from the Bed
- Self-Raising
- Six Chick Flicks
- Sleeping Beauty
- Tap Factory: 10th Anniversary Tour
- The Carpenters Story
- The Comedy Network (Feb)
- The Comedy Network (Mar)
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- The Importance of Being… Earnest?
- The Magic of the Bee Gees
- The Marvin Gaye Songbook
- The Mousetrap – 70th Anniversary Tour
- Theatre Tours
- Viva Burlesque: Funny Valentine
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Archived Events
- 11-13s Mercury Young Company – Apr 23 Term
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- 13-15s Mercury Young Company – Apr 23 Term
- 13-15s Mercury Young Company – Jan 23 Term
- 13-15s Mercury Young Company – Sep 22 Term
- 15 Years – Complete Dance July 22
- 15-17s Mercury Young Company – Apr 23 Term
- 15-17s Mercury Young Company – Jan 23 Term
- 15-17s Mercury Young Company – Sep 22 Term
- 18-25s Mercury Young Company – Jan 23 Term
- 18-25s Mercury Young Company – Sep 22 Term
- 2022-2023 Season Launch
- 5 Years
- 5-8s Mercury Young Company – Apr 23 Term
- 5-8s Mercury Young Company – Jan 23 Term
- 5-8s Mercury Young Company – Sep 22 Term
- 8-11s Mercury Young Company – Apr 23 Term
- 8-11s Mercury Young Company – Jan 23 Term
- 8-11s Mercury Young Company – Sep 22 Term
- A Century of Swing
- A Royal Variety Performance to Commemorate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee by Oxford House
- A Shoddy Detective & The Art Of Deception
- A Very Merry Christmas Carol Concert
- A Vision of Elvis
- Acting 101 Sharing Performance
- Acting for Screen – Masterclass with Olisa Odele
- Alan Fletcher – The Doctor Will See You Now
- Alice in Wonderland
- An Evening of Magic with Richard Jones
- An Evening Out with Andy Hamilton
- An Evening with Adam Frost
- An Evening with Michael Portillo
- An Evening with Philippa Perry: The Show You Want Everyone You Love to Go To
- An Evening with Sir Geoff Hurst
- An Evening Without Kate Bush
- Apple ‘N’ Spice
- Around the World in 80 Days
- Ask The Candidates: Election Hustings
- Beauty and the Beast
- Beauty and the Beast – Open Dress Rehearsal
- Blackmail
- Bowjangles: Dracula in Space
- Breathe
- Bring Back Chainmail
- Buddy Holly & The Cricketers
- Buffy Revamped
- Celebrate the Coronation
- Celine Live in Vegas
- Chai Lates
- Charlie & Stan
- Cirque – The Greatest Show
- Colchester City Youth Takeover
- Colchester City Youth Takeover: DJ Workshop
- Colchester City Youth Takeover: Panel Discussion
- Colchester Dance HQ Presents ‘ Timeless ‘
- Colchester Dance HQ Presents… Empower
- Colchester Farmer’s Market
- Colchester Farmer’s Market
- Colchester Fringe: Anchor
- Colchester Fringe: Blood. Fear. Courage.
- Colchester Fringe: Dirty
- Colchester Fringe: Rey Camoy
- Colchester Fringe: SESKA – Cooking Up Fun
- Colchester Military Wives Choir
- Colchester Pride Film Night – Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Colchester Pride Film Night – Moonlight
- Colchester Pride Film Night – Philadelphia
- Colchester Pride Film Night – The Danish Girl
- Comedy Club On The Road
- Comedy Club on the Road (Oct)
- Coming Out of My Cage (And I’ve Been Doing Just Fine)
- Commemoration – Remembering and Celebrating the Loves, Lives and Losses of the Last Two Years
- Community Choir – Jan 23 Term
- Connects – Christmas Party
- Connects – Masterclass – Into Directing
- Connects – What’s the Pitch: Theatre Companies in the East
- Connects Masterclass – Into Producing
- Country Superstars
- Crafternoons: Costume
- Creative England – Funding Webinar
- Crimes on Centre Court
- Dazzle! Swing Dance Spectacular
- Dead Good
- DESTINY
- Digital Summer School
- Dinosaur World Live
- Do You Believe in Ghosts?
- Doorstep Duets
- Dr Richard Shepherd ‘Unnatural Causes’
- Dracula: The Bloody Truth
- Drag Workshops
- Drag Workshops
- DRAGTOPIA
- DramaFest
- DramaFest 2023
- Electrik Live Orchestra
- Emerald Storm
- Errol’s Garden
- Essex Arts and Cultural Fund: Virtual Launch 2023
- Essex Film Collective
- Europhoria
- Evelyn
- Fame The Musical – Colchester Operatic Society CO2
- Fascinating Aida
- Fascinating Aïda – The 40th Anniversary Show!
- Fi Glover and Jane Garvey: Did I Say That Out Loud?
- Fireman Sam Saves the Circus
- Frantic Assembly CPD for Teachers
- Friendsical
- From Gold to Rio – The Greatest Hits of Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran
- G4 Live
- Ghost Stories By Candlelight
- Global Voices – Apr-Jul 23 Term
- Global Voices – Jan-Mar 23 Term
- Good Grief
- Good Luck, Studio
- Great Expectations
- Grimm Tales
- Handa’s Surprise
- Harwich Sing Tendring Voices Concert
- Hello Again A Tribute to Neil Diamond
- Heritage Open Day Theatre Tours 2022
- Heritage Open Day Tours
- Human Nurture
- I Really Do Think This Will Change Your Life
- Ian Ashpitel and Jonty Stephens as Eric & Ern
- ICONS – Taylor’s Dance Company
- Illusion Impossible
- In Her Shoes – Blown Fuse – Culver Square
- Instrument Zoo
- Into the Groove
- Intolerable Side Effects – Colchester Fringe
- Invasion Colchester – Don’t Be a Hero Podcast
- Jacky! – Colchester Fringe
- Jules Hudson – In The Town Where I Was Born
- Kabul Goes Pop – Music Television Afghanistan
- Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective
- Ladykiller
- Lali
- LATES – Ben Brown
- LATES – Black History Month: Black Out
- Lates – Colchester Operatics Singalong
- Lates – JAMJAR
- LATES – Mad Hatter’s Tea Party
- LATES – Northern Soul Night
- LATES – Rev Simpkins
- LATES – Sealionwoman
- LATES – Sing-along
- LATES – The Christmas Carol Experience
- LATES – UCC’s Musical Theatre Spring Cabaret
- Lates: Caswell
- Lates: Colchester Aid for Ukraine
- Lates: Comedy Night – Fringe Preview (July)
- Lates: Comedy Night – Fringe Preview (June)
- Lates: Comedy Night – Fringe Preview (May)
- Life is Just a Bowl of Cherries – Colchester Fringe
- Lights, Camera, Action! – Impresario Theatre School
- Live & Outrageous with Antony Stuart-Hicks
- London Mozart Players
- Looking For Me Friend – The Music of Victoria Wood
- Lost in Music
- Macbeth
- Mad Hatter’s Family Tea Party
- Magical Honey
- Making Headway
- Mama G’s Story Time Roadshow
- Masterclass: Brush Up Your Shakespeare
- Masterclass: The Way of the Idiot
- Mercurial Takeover: Ghost Therapy
- Mercurial Takeover: Lessons Learnt
- Mercurial Takeover: North Star
- Mercurial Takeover: Oxford Girls
- Mercurial Takeover: Three Glorious Days
- Mercury Adult Company – Feb 23 Term
- Mercury Adult Company – Sept 23 Taster Sessions
- Mercury Adult Company – Sept 23 Term
- Mercury Adult Company – Taster Feb 23 Term
- Mercury Adult Company April 23 Taster
- Mercury Adult Company April 23 Term
- Mercury Choir – Sept 22 Term
- Mercury Choir – Term
- Mercury Community Choir – Apr 23 Term
- Mercury Community Choir – Sept 23 Taster Sessions
- Mercury Community Choir – Sept 23 Term
- Mercury Community Choir – Taster Sessions Apr 23
- Mercury General Auditions
- Mercury General Auditions
- Mercury Masterclass – Arts Council Funding
- Mercury Masterclass with Sadie Clark
- Mercury READS – APEX by Emma Louise Howell
- Mercury Reads: Bindweed by Martha Loader
- Metamorphosis
- Mid Summer Market
- Midnight Train to Georgia
- Mig and the Beanstalk
- Milkshake Live
- Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle
- Mischief & Mystery in Moominvalley
- Musical Theatre Camp
- Musical Theatre Camp
- Musical Theatre Dance – Jan 23 Term
- Musical Theatre Dance – Sep 22 Term
- Musical Theatre Dance – Weekly Jan-Apr 23
- Musical Theatre Dance – Weekly Sep-Dec 22
- Musical Theatre Dance April 23 Term
- My Dear Old Things: An Evening with Henry Blofeld
- MYC 11-13s – Sept 23 Term
- MYC 13-15s – Sept 23 Term
- MYC 15-17s – Sept 23 Term
- MYC 5-8s – Sept 23 Term
- MYC 8-11s – Sept 23 Term
- MYC Musical Theatre – Apr 23 Term
- MYC Musical Theatre – Jan 23 Term
- MYC Musical Theatre – Sep 22 Term
- MYC Musical Theatre – Sept 23 Term
- MYC Show – Gogol’s Underdogs
- MYC Song Cycle
- Neurodelicious
- Neurodelicious Does Drag: Online Livestream
- New Adventures: Doorstep Duets
- NT Live – Jack Absolute Flies Again
- NT Live – Prima Facie
- NT Live – Straight Line Crazy
- NT Live – The Seagull
- NT Live : The Book Of Dust – La Belle Sauvage
- NT Live: Best of Enemies
- NT Live: Fleabag
- NT Live: GOOD
- NT Live: Leopoldstadt
- NT Live: Life of Pi
- NT Live: Othello
- NT Live: The Crucible
- Offside
- Oh What A Lovely War
- One Night in Dublin
- Our Carnal Hearts
- Pasadena Roof Orchestra
- Patricia Gets Ready (For A Date With The Man Who Used To Hit Her)
- Paul Zerdin: Puppetman
- Pericles
- Pilates
- Pilates – Jan 23 Term (Weekly Sessions)
- Pilates – Sep 22 Term (Weekly Sessions)
- Pilates April 23 Term (Pay Weekly sessions)
- Pilates: Prenatal and Postnatal
- Pinocchio
- Play in a Week
- Pop Princesses
- Pretty Things
- Pride Movie Nights: The Birdcage
- Pride Movie Nights: The Miseducation of Cameron Post
- Pride Movie Nights: To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar
- Princess Essex
- Professor Slug’s House of Bugs
- Project Dictator
- Rascals Live
- Reads – Bloodsport
- Reasons You Should(n’t) Love Me
- Regional Playmaking Festival – Twelfth Night (Abridged)
- Roald Dahl and the Imagination Seekers
- Rock Choir
- Room on the Broom
- Rosie Jones: Triple Threat
- Run Rebel
- Sadie’s Nine Lives
- Santi & Naz
- Sap
- School of Rock – Colchester Operatic Society
- SEND Holiday Club
- SEND Party Nights
- Senior Social Club – Jan 23 Term (Pay weekly sessions)
- Senior Social Club – Sep 22 Term
- Senior Social Club – Term
- Seussical The Musical
- Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
- Showstopper! The Improvised Musical
- Shrek the Musical – Colchester Operatic Society
- Sing-A-Long-A Rocky Horror Picture Show
- Sing-A-Long-A The Greatest Showman
- So You Want to Work In Theatre?
- Social Club – Apr 23 Term (Pay Weekly Sessions)
- SOLD
- Speaking Out and Fitting In
- Splinter
- Stagecoach Colchester 25th Anniversary Showcase
- Stagecoach Colchester Showcase
- Stand Up for Diversity
- Starry Starry Eyes
- Stewart Lee – Basic Lee
- Stewart Lee – Snowflake/Tornado
- Stories of a Little Watersprite
- Strategic Love Play
- Streisand – Woman in Love
- Sustainable Theatre Making – Relish Theatre Workshop
- Tapped
- Terror in the Old Library
- The Amazing Bubble Man
- The Arts and Cultural Fund Virtual Event by Essex County Council
- The Arts and Cultural Fund Virtual Event by Essex County Council
- The Arts and Cultural Fund Virtual Launch Event — Essex County Council
- The Best of British Comedy
- The Best of Fleetwood Mac
- The Best of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons
- The Best of Queen – The Break Free Tour
- The Bone Sparrow
- The Boulevards
- The Chronicles of Atom and Luna
- The City And The Town
- The Comedy Network – Nov
- The Comedy Network – Oct
- The Comedy Network – Sep
- The Comedy Network (Apr)
- The Comedy Network (Dec)
- The Comedy Network (Feb)
- The Comedy Network (Mar)
- The Comedy Network (May)
- The Comedy Network (Nov)
- The Comedy Network (Sep)
- The Comedy Network: Fringe Preview (Jul)
- The Comedy Network: Fringe Preview (Jun)
- The Comedy Of Errors
- The Greatest Magician: An Evening of Wonders
- The Hug
- The Human Library – Don’t Judge a Book by its Cover
- The Illegal Eagles
- The Instrumentals
- The Instrumentals Workshop
- The King of Reggae – The Man The Music
- The Magnificent Music Hall
- The Paradis Files
- The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee at the Mercury
- The Rainbow
- The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
- The Schmoozenbergs Gypsy Jazz and Swing Show
- The Scummy Mummies: Greatest Hits
- The Sensemaker – Colchester Fringe
- The Signatures – Northern Soul Live
- The Simon & Garfunkel Story
- The Skinny Jean Gardener – Gardening Entertainment Show
- The Sound of Springsteen
- The Tiger Who Came To Tea
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Show
- The Whispering Jungle
- They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay!
- They Don’t Pay? We Won’t Pay! – Tour of Workshop and Stage
- Think Floyd
- Time and Tide
- Time and Tide – ‘Business As Usual’ – a workshop by Relish Theatre
- To Have & To Hold
- To the Moon and Back
- Too Much World At Once
- Top Secret – Magic of Science
- Top Secret: The Magic of Science
- Tots Stars (18mths-3yrs) – Jan 23 Term
- Tots Stars (18mths-3yrs) – Sept 22 Term
- Tots Stars Apr 23 Term (Pay Weekly Sessions)
- Tots Twinkles (4-18mths) – Jan 23 Term
- Tots Twinkles (4-18mths) – Sept 22 Term
- Tots Twinkles Apr 23 Term (Pay Weekly Sessions)
- Tour The Writer Networking Event – Strategic Love Play
- Treasure Island
- UB40: The Legacy
- UCC’s Graduate Showcase
- UCC’s Musical Theatre Summer Revue
- Unbelievable
- Underwater
- Vamos Mask Taster Day
- Vincent Simone: Tango Passions
- Viva Burlesque
- Viva Burlesque!
- Viva Burlesque!
- Voice Notes To My Child Self – Colchester Fringe
- We Are Not Shellfish
- We Are Not Shellfish
- We Will Rock You – Theatricool
- What’s Love Got To Do With It?
- What’s On The Fringe? – Networking with Colchester Fringe Artists
- What’s the Pitch?
- When the Long Trick’s Over
- Whitney – Queen of the Night
- Will Jackson, Yours Sincerely
- Women Who Gave No F*cks
- World AIDS Day
- World Aids Day
- Wow Said The Owl
- Wreckage
- Writing Workshop with The Thelmas – Inspired by Santi & Naz
- Yippee Ki Yay
- You Win Again: The Story of the Bee Gees
- Zog
- Zog and the Flying Doctors
- Zumba Gold – Jan 23 Term (Weekly Sessions)
- Zumba Gold – Sep 22 Term (Weekly Sessions)
- Zumba Gold April 23 Term