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Category Archives: Comedy
Festival organisers seeking £4,000 help from Tesco shoppers
Crystal Palace’s annual festival is celebrating receiving almost £40,000 in grants – but wants the help of Tesco shoppers to further boost its funding ahead of the 2018 event, which is being staged on June 11 to 17. Last summer, … Continue reading
Get your teeth into a panto classic with Sanderstead club
The Sanderstead Dramatic Club celebrates its 110th year by staging a panto classic that offers tales of witches, wolves and dark, dark woods. Running from January 6 to 13 at the All Saints Parish Hall in Sanderstead, audiences will be … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club, Theatre
Tagged Sanderstead, Sanderstead Dramatic Club
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Giant-sized laughs make for an Awsum pantomime
SRITHAN CHANDA found something for all ages at a not-to-be-missed production of Jack And The Beanstalk. Oh yes he did! This year’s Croydon Pantomime at the Waddon Theatre, Jack And The Beanstalk, is a fabulous and entertaining show, especially for … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Panto, Jonny Awsum, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Waddon panto comes a cropper due to ‘technical issues’
Today’s matinee and evening performances of Jack And The Beanstalk at the Waddon Leisure Centre have been cancelled by the producers due to “technical issues”. Q Productions declined to elaborate on the nature of the “issues”, but a spokesperson said … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Panto, Jonny Awsum, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Fe! Fi! Fo! Fun! Win a family ticket to the Croydon Panto
Fe! Fi! Fo! Fum! We smell the scent of another outstanding offer exclusive to Inside Croydon subscribers This year’s Croydon Panto is Jack And The Beanstalk, starring Jonny “Britain’s Got Talent” Awsum and Paisley Billings, plus a cast of West … Continue reading
Posted in Activities, Art, Comedy, Inside Croydon, Music, Theatre
Tagged competition, Croydon Panto, Inside Croydon, Patreon, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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West End performers are coming to Waddon for Croydon panto
The production company behind this year’s Croydon panto has just announced the full cast of West End performers who will be joining television performers Jonny Awsum and Paisley Billings in Jack And The Beanstalk at Waddon Leisure Centre from December … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Music, Theatre, Waddon
Tagged Croydon Panto, Croydon pantomime, Jonny Awsum, Q Productions, Waddon, Waddon Lesiure Centre
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Jonny Awsum looking forward to a ‘relaxed’ panto performance
Croydon’s family pantomime, Jack And The Beanstalk, which opens its run at the Waddon Leisure Centre next month, will include a “relaxed performance” on Thursday December 14 at 2.00pm. Relaxed performances are open to everyone, but the environment has been … Continue reading
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Tagged Jack and the Beanstalk, Jonny Awsum, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Coward’s cabaret recalls being beastly to the Germans
It is fitting that a Fuller’s pub should present a stage show about the lyrical genius who wrote “London Pride”. BELLA BARTOCK made her way up the stairs at the Spread Eagle to see it performed It is cabaret, and … Continue reading
Developers appoint Hoodoos to run rebuilt Matthew’s Yard
Regent Land and Developments, a company which specialises in developing brownfield sites, has announced that a building on Surrey Street, including the premises known as Matthew’s Yard, is to be re-built to include a purpose-built café and arts performance space. … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Business, Comedy, Dance, Music, Surrey Street, Theatre
Tagged Hoodoos, Surrey Street, Surrey Street Market
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Witness a Martian invasion of the Spread Eagle, Oct 26
Comedy nights return to the Spread Eagle next month. Simon Watt, Rachel Wheeley, Samantha Baines and Gemma Arrowsmith play the theatre space above the pub on Croydon High Street on Thursday October 26. Been anywhere good on holiday lately?
Making drama out of crisis: King of Egypt comes to Croydon
“Escaped psychiatric patient Kevin Haggerty is not pleased about his diagnosis, even less pleased about being on a section of the Mental Health Act, and distinctly upset about being told he is not the reincarnation of the pharaoh Ramses II. … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Spread Eagle Theatre, Theatre
Tagged Croydon, Spread Eagle Theatre
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Open Mic Nights at Portland Arms, South Norwood, Tuesdays
Posted in Art, Comedy, Music, Pubs, South Norwood
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Barton and Biggles show Coulsdon their stiff upper lips
BELLA BARTOCK, our arts correspondent, has been let loose on the local AmDram scene for a second time in a week, and this time was blown away a little too literally Dick Barton? Remember him? Well, I do from the … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Coulsdon, Music, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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Park’s Pirates are a magical delight around the bandstand
Our arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK got all hot and bothered on a cool summer evening by some of the racier performances at CODA’s outstanding production of Pirates of Penzance Such fun! I was saying only the other day over coffee … Continue reading
Posted in Art, CODA, Comedy, Dance, Music, Theatre, Wandle Park
Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Wandle Park
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Dick Barton and the Slaves of the Sultan, Jul 26-Aug 5
Posted in Comedy, Coulsdon, Theatre, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
Tagged Coulsdon Manor, Theatre Workshop Coulsdon
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CODA adds some swash and buckle to Gilbert & Sullivan
CODA will be performing around the bandstand in Wandle Park next week in their fourth annual outdoor production – a boisterous new production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera The Pirates of Penzance. The Pirates of Penzance is one of … Continue reading
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Tagged CODA, Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association, Wandle Park
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Oh yes he is… Jonny gets an Awsum role in Croydon panto
Jonny Awsum, the Croydon comic who made it to the semi-finals of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent this year, has landed a leading role in the pantomime, Jack and The Beanstalk, which is being staged at the Waddon Leisure Centre in … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Dance, Music, Waddon
Tagged Croydon, Jack and the Beanstalk, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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Croydon to get a quirky take on Jack and the Beanstalk panto
Croydon’s 2017 pantomime is to be Jack and the Beanstalk. As in 2016, following the closure of the Fairfield Halls for refurbishment, this year’s panto will be staged by Q Productions at the Waddon Leisure Centre, in a 400-seater auditorium … Continue reading
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Tagged pantomime, Waddon, Waddon Leisure Centre
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#SouthernFail The Musical makes a song and dance over trains
The appalling poor service suffered by commuters who have to use Southern Rail is about to be turned into a stage musical. Reporting by JEREMY CLACKSON, transport correspondent, and BELLA BARTOCK, arts editor The possible musical numbers that could be … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Commuting, East Croydon, Music, Transport
Tagged Association of British Commuters, East Croydon station, Govia Thameslink, GTR, Southern Railways
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