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Tag Archives: Ashcroft Theatre
Done deal: Fairfield Halls £30m redevelopment starts in July
The Fairfield Halls will close this summer to undergo a £30 million redevelopment, after the venue’s managment board finally agreed to the investment scheme proposed by the Halls’ owners, Croydon Council. The council’s plans – based on a secret consultants’ … Continue reading
Ex-EastEnder makes song and dance of it at Ashcroft Theatre
Cheryl Fergison will star in the world premiere of Carnival Dreams – The Musical at the Ashcroft Theatre from Wednesday this week until to Saturday, February 6. Being a theatre show staged at the Fairfield Halls, the posters inevitably mention … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Cheryl Fergison, Fairfield Halls
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Fairfield Halls staff still left waiting for talks with management
Plans to redevelop the Fairfield Halls are expected to be submitted formally for approval later this week, Inside Croydon understands. But with the borough’s biggest arts venue set to close this summer for a two-year, £30-million refit, the Fairfield Halls … Continue reading
It is the Fairfield Halls’ last ever panto! Oh no it isn’t…
OPENING NIGHT: The uncertainty over the immediate future of the Fairfield Halls saw DIANA ECCLESTON receiving mixed messages about the 2016 Croydon panto during the course of the opening night of the 2015 show I’ve been going to pantomimes at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Ashcroft Theatre, Diana Eccleston, Fairfield Halls, Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls
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Younger Generation Theatre Group 2016 auditions
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Younger Generation Theatre Group
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Tenors Unlimited turn on the style at Ashcroft Theatre
The trio Tenors Unlimited will be performing their show Show the Suit Who’s Boss at the Ashcroft Theatre on Friday July 3. Scott Ciscon, Paul Martin and Jem Sharples will be performing crooner and pop favourites such as Volare, Can’t … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Fairfield Halls, Tenors Unlimited
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Overwhelming verdict in favour of Twelve Angry Men
DIANA ECCLESTON reviews the stage classic’s latest, riveting production, performed by Jason Merrells and a top cast at the Ashcroft Theatre this week Written in the 1950s. American. You might be forgiven for thinking that Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Diana Eccleston, Fairfield Halls, Twelve Angry Men
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Croydon Stagers’ Sister Act, Ashcroft Theatre, May 27-30
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls
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‘This is the season of delivery for culture in Croydon’
Councillor TIMOTHY GODFREY, the council cabinet member for culture, responds publicly to concerns regarding the immediate future, and safety, of the Fairfield Halls Five months into the newly elected Labour council in Croydon and you begin to see the rewriting … Continue reading
The Commitment: a new work at the Warehouse Theatre?
Ted Craig, the director of the Warehouse Theatre at East Croydon which was forced to close two years ago, has warmly welcomed the news, reported by Inside Croydon, that Ruskin Square developers Stanhope are keen to stand by their pledge … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Music, Property, Ruskin Square, Theatre, Timothy Godfrey, Warehouse Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, East Croydon station, Fairfield Halls, Labour, Ruskin Square, Timothy Godfrey, Tory
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Izzy! Wizzy! It’s not just Town Hall that has sock puppets
We gave our arts correspondent BELLA BARTOCK a second class rail ticket to Tunbridge Wells to see The Sooty Show before it arrives at the Fairfield Halls next month Children’s entertainment built around scatological remarks, gratuitous violence and spraying the audience … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls
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Bringing the poetry of Dylan Thomas to vivid life
BELLA BARTOCK gets another whiff of the greasepaint as a modern Welsh classic comes to the Ashcroft Theatre As the latest series of Game of Thrones was finishing last night, Ser Alliser Thorne, or as he is better known, actor … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Dylan Thomas, Fairfield Halls, Game of Thrones
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Not a dry seat in the house after five hours of Ken Dodd
The Ashcroft Theatre staged one of the great performers of the last 50 years last week. It was just that he seemed to include a half-century’s material in his act, as our veteran showbiz correspondent BELLA BARTOCK reports What do … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy, Fairfield Halls, Music
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Comedy, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Ken Dodd
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Temple members call for urgent enquiry into missing £200,000
Concern is mounting among some members of the Croydon gurdwara, the sikh temple on St James’s Road, with around £200,000 apparently unaccounted for after having been transferred from the charity’s bank account, while an investigation by the Charity Commission has … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Church and religions, Community associations, Jeet Bains
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Coulsdon West, Croydon, Gurdwara, India, Lloyds Bank, London, South Croydon
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Crick’s criticisms on selections have resonance in Croydon
Do you think that the selection by a political party of someone who is to be their candidate in an upcoming election ought to be something in the public domain? Here at Inside Croydon Towers, we certainly do. Our site’s … Continue reading
Council keeps its war centenary plans firmly under wraps
We will remember them. It is just that as far as Croydon Council is concerned, they don’t yet know how. According to one senior staffer in Fisher’s Folly, “The council does indeed have plans to restore and refurbish war memorials … Continue reading
Yearning for opera fulfilled by this staging of Iernin
Given the free run of a boys’ school, albeit once most of the boys had gone home for the day, our regular arts reviewer, BELLA BARTOCK, did not hesitate to accept a ticket to the latest splendid production from Surrey … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Dance, Music, Surrey Opera
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, George Lloyd, HMS Trinidad, London, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Surrey Opera
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Did you know enough to win our Doris Day competition?
Inside Croydon’s Doris Day competition is now closed. Our winners, who knew that Doris Day sang Que Sera, Sera in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much (well, we thought it was a good answer for a quiz question) … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ashcroft Theatre, Black History Month, Croydon, Doris Day, Man Who Knew Too Much, Que Sera, Secret Love
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Competition: Win a pair of tickets for Doris Day musical
Inside Croydon is delighted to be able to offer two pairs of tickets for the new musical based on Doris Day’s life story, Secret Love, starring Claudia Morris which is being performed at the Ashcroft Theatre next month. Courtesy of … Continue reading
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Tagged Alfred Hitchcock, Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon, Doris Day, James Stewart, Malcolm Edmonstone, Que Sera, Secret Love
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The Eagle has landed a future for studio theatre in Croydon
Central Croydon is to get a new performing arts space – inspired by the Save the David Lean Cinema Campaign and with productions brought to south London all the way from Birmingham. For the past six months, the world-renowned Old … Continue reading
Local AmDram groups “in exile” over Fairfield’s charges
Fairfield Halls, once south London’s leading arts and entertainment venue, has been accused of driving Croydon’s amateur dramatic groups into exile from the borough by charging more than £13,000 for a week’s run. For the average AmDram group, made up … Continue reading
Taking the Miki for Ashcroft’s audience of just 50
BELLA BARTOCK has been out again, this time accompanied by a responsible child to see Miki at the Ashcroft Theatre The story of Inuit girl Miki, her friends Penguin and Polar Bear and Miki’s adventures below the sea ice as … Continue reading
West Side Story plays out some old tunes with a new CODA
Fancy escaping the associations of Croydon with gang violence, knife attacks and gun crime? Why not go along to the Ashcroft Theatre to see West Side Story, a musical about gang violence, knife attacks and …
Posted in Activities, Art, CODA, Come Dine With Me, Dance, Fairfield Halls, Music, Theatre
Tagged Ashcroft Theatre, CODA, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Leonard Bernstein, Stephen Sondheim, West Side Story
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Miss Marple is called in to solve a Croydon murder mystery
This news just in… There will be a murder in central Croydon this Thursday. And Friday. And Saturday. And only Miss Marple will be able to determine whodunnit. The much-acclaimed Croydon Operatic and Dramatic Association is staging its latest production, … Continue reading
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Tagged Abigail, Agatha Christie, Ashcroft Theatre, CODA, Croydon, Fairfield Halls, Miss Marple
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