Northamptonshire Music And Performing Arts Trust presents the first major event of the season, Youth in Concert, with performances by the five award-winning senior ensembles of NMPAT: County Youth Concert Band, County Youth Choir, County Youth Brass Band, County Youth Big Band and County Youth Orchestra.
Multi-award winning musical comedy duo (and sisters) Flo & Joan are climbing out of their pits, armed with a piano and percussion section to bring you a brand new show of their critically acclaimed songs and comedy.
Harry is back with brand-new amazing jokes in an all-singing, all-dancing one-man spectacular.
“I hadn’t realised how much I missed performing live until lockdown stopped me from doing it,” says Harry, “It’s great to be going back on stage and the good news is I am planning a very silly show.”
Audiences will meet Harry’s new baby elephant, Sarah, and Ian, The Information Worm. Harry will also be joined by Stouffer the Cat (his famous sidekick) who commented “what can I tell you? When Harry calls you say yes – end of!”
After the huge success of their last tour which played to over 35,000 people, Beverley Craven, Judie Tzuke and Julia Fordham reunite and this time have invited Rumer to join them.
Two of the world’s greatest classical voices, Aled Jones and Russell Watson, reunite for Christmas 2022 following a three-year hiatus, having achieved tremendous successes between them, from prestigious awards to record-breaking chart sales.
Let your soul sing with the dazzling multi-award winning Dreamgirls at Northampton in 2022. Direct from the West End with an extraordinary story and the unforgettable, spine-tingling vocals that send audiences wild, this spectacular musical production features the classic songs And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going, Listen, I Am Changing and One Night Only.
Othello RE:MX takes place in a post-apocalyptic, industrial setting. This much-shortened version of Shakespeare’s famous tragedy concentrates on the background of Othello and relationship between Othello and Iago. Things start to go wrong when Desdemona and Cassio appear on the scene and they all career towards a climactic finish through their dystopian setting against a backdrop of industrial electronic music, digital dreams and dark landscapes. The piece incorporates dance, poignant snippets of Shakespeare’s text, creative captions and BSL.
Starring a black, gender-fluid Othello, we bring the story bang up to date as social commentary of our times. Is this the future of theatre?
Step into our circle and peel back the layers of this riotous, narrative cabaret. Blending theatre, dance, circus, and over 100 delightfully destroyed onions, Wild Onion brings three queer best friends together to explore and grow their chosen family.
As Daisy loses her sense of self in the midst of family secrets, Rach attempts to manage her fear of men, and Adam tries to make himself cry on a cyr wheel.
A ‘highly recommended show’ by FringeReview, described as ‘A right-rollicking night out,’ where the best tears are onion tears, and we guarantee not a dry eye in the house.
All destroyed onions will be composted at a local community garden
A GIANT OF A PANTOMIME! Don’t miss our spectacular rags to riches pantomime for all the family Jack And The Beanstalk.
Join Jack and The Good Fairy as they climb the beanstalk to do battle with the Giant… it will be a Fe-Fi-Fo-Fun show!
Vocal powerhouse Keala Settle, star of global blockbuster movie The Greatest Showman, stars as Fairy Sugarsnap, alongside Horrible Histories and Swashbuckle’s Richard David-Caine as the baddie. The hilarious Bob Golding returns to Royal & Derngate as Dame Trott, and the wonderful Alex Lodge, who appeared as Dick Whittington last year, is back as Jack!
Written by Paul Hendy, it is produced by Evolution, the same team behind last year’s smash hit Dick Whittington, and winners of the 2021 British Pantomime Award for Best Panto. Jack and the Beanstalk is the pantomime you’ve ‘bean’ waiting for, with lavish sets, hilarious jokes, knockout vocals and fun for the whole family. So don’t miss out, book your tickets today.
An evening of TerrorTome with Garth Marenghi.
Garth Marenghi, horror literature’s greatest living author, returns from the darkness (figurative darkness -he’s not a spelunker) with a rare public appearance to mark the release of his long-lost multi-volume horror epic TerrorTome. Hardback copies of TerrorTome will be available for purchase on the day.
Following his global smash hit Live Innit, the star of Taskmaster and the first British-Asian stand-up to sell-out London’s Wembley Arena is back. After barely surviving the pandemic, and with two years of pent up killer material, Paul tackles the UK’s handling of the pandemic, why the rules of six only worked for white people, fame, England football fans and Tom Cruise landing his helicopter in someone’s garden. Don’t miss it!
The Royal & Derngate Community Choir are being supported by Northampton Community Foundation to tour some Christmas cheer in December 2022. This amazing group, led by local Musical Director Gareth Fuller, are putting their unique spin on well-loved Christmas songs and writing their own unique uplifting song, inspired by Northampton. The RDCC Christmas Cheer Tour will be an opportunity to spread happiness, to inspire and entertain and for the group to have their debut tour. We recognise how vital singing and community groups are to wellbeing and wish to celebrate what is good in the county and the town through song. The group have recorded and released a Christmas song with Greg Coulson and Gareth Fuller called Please Don’t Feel Alone At Christmas. You can listen to the song below.