We are thrilled to announce that the next rock ‘n’ roll showstopper by Peter Rowe will be Jack and the Beanstalk! Dame Dolly Durden’s family farm has fallen on hard times – Squire Snuffbox is demanding the rent and Giant Blunderbore, with his wicked sidekick, Fleshcreep, is terrorising the land

Youth Perform 2020 presents ARE YOU SITTING COMFORTABLY? It’s TV Night in the Shufflebottom house, and the situation’s comedy! Dad makes the whole family watch the TV together, including the dog! No tablets, no laptops, no phones… just some good old fashioned entertainment just like when he was a boy, even though ‘…there’s never anything […]

With our latest New Wolsey production, Burke and Hare, only a few months away we took 5 minutes to speak with the play’s writer Tom Wentworth

Guest Post by Karen Bartholomew, Associate Artist: Dance and Engagement at Mind the Gap, and a little space Co-Creator

A CLASSIC RE-IMAGINED “My Mother said I never should, play with gypsies in the wood, if I did she would say, naughty girl to disobey!” – words from Charlotte Keatley’s contemporary classic, My Mother Said I Never Should, which have been brought to life by countless actors since it was first written in the 1980s

Sarah Thomas plays Miss Marple in Middle Ground Theatre Company’s touring production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder Is Announced

The shortlist has been announced for the National Campaign for the Arts’ (NCA) Hearts For The Arts Awards 2020

Would you like the chance to be part of a production at the New Wolsey Theatre? We have the opportunity for four children to share the roles of Young Macduff and Fleance in the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch production of Macbeth this March! A Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch and Derby Theatre production touring to New Wolsey Theatre, […]

It may be only halfway through the term but there are some amazing activities coming up that make up for it! Five of the East of England’s most exciting arts spaces are coming together this February half-term to present a variety of hands-on, cost-free*, family-friendly activities

Beth Flintoff is the writer of The Ballad of Maria Marten and researched extensively to write the play