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Comedy Club Live - Top TV Comedians at Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Essex - 6th November Explosive
Comedy Club Live - Top TV Comedians at Mercury Theatre, Colchester, Essex - 6th November Explosive
6 Nov

The Comedy Club – As Seen on TV – Returns to Colchester for a Night of Unmissable Laughter!Explose Comedy Without the BANGS! Nature FriendlyCelebrating 30...



Review: THE BODYGUARD at Alte Oper, Frankfurt And On Tour In The UK


by André Böke - April 05, 2026

The touring production of The Bodyguard arrives at a pivotal moment in its continental journey. After stops in Zurich, Munich and Berlin, interspersed with various UK engagements including London, the show now plays its final German date at the Alte Oper Frankfurt. From here, it will return to Briti...

Review: VICTORIA: A QUEEN UNBOUND, Watermill Theatre


by Mica Blackwell - April 02, 2026

With countless depictions of Queen Victoria in the media, Daisy Goodwin has managed to create something original and thought-provoking. Forcing the audience to question both history and memory, it's the wonderful cast and stunning visuals that complement her script and make for an all-around excitin...

Review: WAITRESS starring Carrie Hope Fletcher, New Wimbledon Theatre and on tour


by Gary Naylor - April 01, 2026

Good songs and good performances but a curiously mixed message from Sara Bareilles's smash hit show...

Review: DEATH ON THE NILE, Theatre Royal Brighton


by Caroline Cronin - April 01, 2026

Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile—here adapted by Ken Ludwig and directed by Lucy Bailey—arrives on stage with all the glamour and menace you’d hope for: a sun-soaked cruise, a clutch of suspiciously well-dressed passengers, and, inevitably, a murder that sends everything spiralling....

Review: HENRY V, Royal Shakespeare Theatre


by Cindy Marcolina - March 29, 2026

Henry V of England is one of those big roles for an actor. Alfie Enoch follows in the footsteps of Laurence Olivier and Tom Hiddleston as the king who led a battalion of tired and outnumbered soldiers to victory. Excellent performances may save it, but co-artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare C...

Review: THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO, Richmond Theatre


by Aliya Al-Hassan - March 11, 2026

Christy Lefteri’s 2019 bestseller The Beekeeper of Aleppo is both a powerful and poetic story about the refugee experience. Her story of Nuri and his wife Afra's escape from Syria to England was inspired by time Lefteri spent working in a refugee camp in Athens. Syria may currently be seen as le...

Review: EDUCATING RITA, Reading Rep Theatre


by Jo Caruana - March 03, 2026

The filter-like haze hits you first. Then the occasional lighting, the tiled ceiling, and the faint whiff of the 80s. But it's the arrival of two extraordinary performances – Madelyn Smedley's fizzing, fearless Rita and Julius D'Silva's weary, cynical Frank – that makes Reading Rep Theatre's Edu...

Review: THE CONSTANT WIFE, Theatre Royal Brighton


by Caroline Cronin - February 24, 2026

Adapted by Olivier Award-winner Laura Wade from Somerset Maugham’s original play, The Constant Wife, this new version is directed by Co-Artistic Director of the RSC Tamara Harvey and is now embarking on a UK Tour which, delightfully, opened in Brighton this week. It may not have played to a f...

Review: LA BOHÈME, in Cinemas


by Cheryl Markosky - March 01, 2026

What did our critic think of LA BOHEME IN CINEMAS at Cinemas Across The UK?...

Review: A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, Leeds Playhouse


by Gary Naylor - February 19, 2026

Innovative take on familiar comedy proves hit and miss as lovers and fairies fight...

Past Shows

Jack And The Beanstalk
Jack And The Beanstalk
24 Nov – 20 Jan 2019

The Mercury panto is back, and this year it’s bigger and better than ever. Jack and the Beanstalk promises all the laughter, sparkle and excitement...

Silence
Silence
12 Oct – 20 Oct 2018

What holds families together? What tears them apart? What’s brewing in the silences? 1996. London. It’s Ewa’s birthday. Her daughter Anna is coming home from...

Moll Flanders
Moll Flanders
28 Sep – 13 Oct 2018

Respected author Daniel Defoe is writing a new novel. Following the brilliant success of Robinson Crusoe, Daniel decides that his next book should be about...

Babe, The Sheep-Pig
Babe, The Sheep-Pig
27 Jul – 26 Aug 2018

When Farmer Hoggett wins Babe, an orphaned piglet, at the village fair he has no idea about the incredible series of events he has begun....

Much Ado About Nothing
Much Ado About Nothing
30 Sep – 15 Oct 2016

Shakespeare's comic battle of the sexes, Much Ado About Nothing, is brought to life in this saucy new production set in a modern-day garrison town....

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