Yesterday I was lucky to have the opportunity to take part in a tour of the new Firstsite building that is rapidly going up in Colchester. I’ve watched it grow over the last few years and I was really pleased to get the chance to have a look inside.
The brochure for the the Mercury Theatre’s new programme popped through the letterbox the other day. We were at the Mercury for last year’s standout performance of ‘The Grapes of Wrath’ (review) which garnered a lot of praise, so let’s see what’s on offer this Spring… Sheridan’s ‘The Rivals’ opens in February. It’s a comic [...]
We’ve put up a calendar of the major beer festivals in Essex – partly to make sure we don’t forget any! You’ll find the page from the menu at the top of the site. If you know of any we’ve missed do let us know. And if you’re a pub running a beer festival, get [...]
Our tickets for the Grapes of Wrath at the Colchester Mercury Theatre have arrived in the post, and we’re looking forward to it enormously. Tickets are on sale now, with the show running 15-30th October 2010, and our recommendation is get yourself along there! Online booking for the Mercury Theatre is here
In a couple of days it’s the annual Heritage Open Days weekend, which gives you a chance to get in free to a range of historical locations across Essex.
LEPRA are running a charity bike ride on 12th September in Colchester. On mainly off-road routes and cycle paths, with both 6 and 12-mile options, you can find out more about the event, which starts at Philip Morant School here Essex Days Out may well be represented on the day, and we may even do [...]
The autumn season brochure for the Crampthorn Theatre and the Civic Theatre in Chelmsford is now available. I thought I was over it, but the brochure did bring back the humiliation in about 1982 or 1983 when the pair of us were queuing up outside the Crampthorn Theatre, thinking we were in the queue to [...]
Check out the monthly listings for lots to do in the summer holidays in Essex!
The Mercury Theatre in Colchester is mailing out its programme for August 2010 to February 2011, and there’s plenty there to like. The Grapes of Wrath is the main attraction, running over the last fortnight in October. It had a very well received run in the West End, and whilst we won’t be seeing the [...]
