Our first stand up comedy night brought to you by the incredibly popular Comedy Club. Tonight's show is hosted by Belfast boy, Ryan McDonell and features Martin Coyote, a true unsung hero of British comedy who has appeared alongside Lee Hurst on three UK tours, and Geoff Norcott, whose abundance of energy, combined with a storming mix of observations, impressions and satire, has made him a hugely popular act both in the UK and abroad.

Visit the Comedy Club website for details of the acts to be featured.

Footloose explodes onto the stage with classic 80s anthems including Holding Out For A Hero, Almost Paradise, Let's Hear It For The Boy, and of course the title track, Footloose.

When Ren and his mother move from Chicago to a small farming town, Ren is prepared for the adjustment to his new High School. What he is not prepared for are the local laws-including a ban on dancing, the brainchild of a local preacher. When the Reverends's rebellious daughter sets her heart on Ren, her boyfriend tries to sabotage Ren's reputation.

We are delighted to be hosting the extremely popular touring threatre company, Eastern Angles, on their first ever visit to the Witham Public Hall.

Eastern Angles has been touring the region with high-quality theatre since its foundation in 1982, with its annual spring community tour regularly playing to sell-out audiences.

This play is an exploration of the extraordinary courage and decision-making that the British people would have had to demonstrate had we been invaded in 1940 and how our post-war vision would have guided our actions. It's a thrilling tale of the so-called Auxiliary Units, Churchill's secret guerilla army who would have gone underground to fight behind the lines, and the story of the bonds created and destroyed by wartime.

This unique play has been researched by Ivan Cutting, Eastern Angles' own artistic director, whose previous shows celebrating and examining the sense of what it is to live in East Anglia have included The Reapers Year, Days of Plenty, Bone Harvest and Beyond The Breakers.

Alan Ayckbourn is not only one of this country's most prolific playwrights, he is also arguably its most popular.

Gerry Stratton has organised a small family dinner with his sons, Glyn and Adam, at his favourite restaurant to celebrate his wife Laura's birthday. Glyn is with his long-suffering wife, Stephanie, and their marriage looks to be on firmer ground that it once was; Adam has brought along his new girlfriend Maureen an outrageous hairdresser.

The occasion suggests a happy domestic scene, but gradually we are made aware of the family skeletons as the present opens up to have Glyn's story move forward in time and Adam's backward. Meanwhile Gerry and Laura pick apart their marriage and recall first love.

"...funny, very funny and not at all funny: quintessentially Ayckbourn."
The Times

Popular entertainer Jeff Short and friends will be bringing you the best songs from some of the greatest musicals of all time, including Top Hat, South Pacific and High Society. So sit back and prepare to be entertained by Jeff and his superb musicians in this special matinee performance.

Set in Damon Runyon’s mythical New York City, Guys and Dolls soars with the spirit of Broadway as it introduces us to a cast of vivid and legendary characters: Sarah Brown, the upright but uptight “mission doll", Sky Masterson, the slick, high-rolling gambler, Adelaide, the chronically ill nightclub performer and Nathan Detroit, her devoted fiancé, desperate as always to find a spot for his “Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game".
Guys and Dolls is full of fantastic characters, sizzling dance routines and some of the best songs in musical theatre – Luck Be A Lady, Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat, If I Were A Bell, I’ve Never Been In Love Before and many more.

We are delighted to welcome the Kelvedon Dance Studio back to the Public Hall with their 2012 dance show, a revue based on musicals past and present. It features well-known numbers (and a few maybe a little less well-known) from some of the best-loved musicals of stage and screen.