Empire Theatre, Halstead. Tel: 07778 025490
Sunday 12th February 2012, 7.00 for 7.30pm, Tickets £14.00. Steve Cherelle & Kalibre in A COUNTRY SPECIAL. Steve Cherelle is probably one of the UK’s most charismatic and successful performers to grace the British Country scene in the past decade and he went on to become a successful performer and BBC radio presenter. Steve will be singing his own material and the songs of Neil Diamond & John Denver.

Sunday 26th February 2012, 2.00 for 2.30pm, £9.00. An Afternoon with ROBERT WOLFE. Robert Wolfe is recognised as one of the world's leading interpreters of the theatre organ. Acclaimed for his sheer artistry, renowned for his musicality, he is without question one of the top British organists. Robert draws large crowds who delight in his warm personality and his unique musical combination of meticulous accuracy and interpretative sensitivity.

Sunday March 11th, 7.30 for 8.00pm, £14.00 COUNTERFEIT STATUS QUO - A Tribute. Celebrating Four Decades of Status Quo - The U.K.'S Longest Running Quo Tribute Act. Counterfeit Quo formed in Essex in early 1995 by four hardened Quo fans who set out to recreate the Quo performances of old. The band's reputation spread rapidly and they have now toured every region of the U.K., ventured into Europe and featured on local and national BBC Radio.

The Quay Theatre, Sudbury, Tel: 01787 374745
FEBRUARY
Saturday February 4th at 7.30pm GENO WASHINGTON Tickets: £14.00 (Friends £13.00) Geno Washington is a genuine full-on cult hero ... a legend on the 60s Soul scene. He is electrifying on stage and his love of performance (and of life!) makes him an inspiration, a joy to witness and one of the greatest frontmen from the latter half of the 20th century.

Sunday February 5th at 7.30pm SUDBURY HISTORY SOCIETY LECTURE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE QUAY STREETS OF SUDBURY Tickets: £7.00. Book all five lectures for £30.00

Monday February 6th from 7.30pm BOOK CLUB @ THE QUAY The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Thursday February 9th at 10.30am CINEMA CLUB WESTERNS Tickets: Membership Only - £28.00 per season (No concessions) Members only need to join for one season of four films at a time; however they must join prior to the first meeting on January 12th January for this season. Each screening is introduced by Simon Frampton. After each screening a discussion group will take place for those who desire it, with a complimentary cup of coffee or tea. The club's emphasis will be to join like-minded people and give us all an excuse to watch some remarkable and often overlooked films.

Friday February 10th at 7.30pm HONOR BLACKMAN AS HERSELF Directed by Richard Digby Day
Tickets: £18.00 (No concessions) Honor Blackman - one of Britain's most loved performers - in her latest one person show: it is truly Honor as herself, as she tells the story of her life interspersed with songs, sketches and scenes. This astonishing career lasting over sixty years makes for a fascinating spoken autobiography - the one she has never written, but is happy to perform.

Saturday February 11th at 7pm FUND RAISING IN AID OF THE BRIDGE PROJECT AND THE QUAY OPERA AND MORE Tickets: £16.00 to include "Fizz and Canapés" Opera and More, a recently formed group of experienced local singers, offer a varied repertoire. Each of the seven singers brings something unique to their lively and entertaining performances, which have been enthusiastically received in Suffolk, raising funds for various charities. Be entertained with arias, duets and ensembles from many operas together with Neapolitan and other compelling songs.

Sunday February 12th at 7.30pm BENEFIT FOR THE QUAY HISTORY SUNDAYS Tickets: £7.00
The welcome return of our ever popular history lectures, featuring all your favourite speakers and an intriguing range of topics.

Wednesday February 15th from 7.30pm THE QUAY PLAY READERS GROUP All My Sons by Arthur Miller

Friday February 17th at 7.30pm LIGHTS MUSIC ACTION STAGE SCHOOL MUSICAL THEATRE FUND RAISING IN AID OF THE QUAY Tickets: £8.00 (Friends £7.00, Students £6.00) An evening of musicals for all tastes. From Flanders and Swann through to Sondheim, Gershwin and Jason Robert Brown. Be prepared for an eclectic mix of Musical Theatre. The staff and senior students of LMA Stage School look forward to welcoming you to their world with songs from Wicked, Phantom of The Opera, 13 and many more wonderful shows.

Saturday February 18th at 7.30pm Purple Dreams present SILENT ECHO Tickets: £10.00 (Friends £9.00, Students £8.00) The Quay is delighted to present this new thriller written specifically for Purple Dreams' Empty Stage tour. Four friends, two couples, a picnic and unveiled secrets that threaten to shatter their friendships, all conspire to propel this play from its laid back, humorous opening to its heart-pounding and unexpected climax.

Saturday February 25th at 7.30pm GALAXY BIG BAND Tickets: £10.00 (No concessions) Formed in 1999 and treading in the footsteps of the great big bands of the 1940s, the Galaxy Big Band has established an enviable reputation for swing music, jive and mainstream jazz. Led by Roger Chinery, with his wonderful trumpet solos, the Band comprises an 18 piece line-up plus highly accomplished resident vocalists, Val Sinclair and Martin Leigh.

Sunday February 26th at 7.30pm SUDBURY HISTORY SOCIETY LECTURE IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE QUAY STREETS OF SUDBURY Tickets: £7.00

MARCH
Thursday March 1st 7.30pm Phil McIntyre Entertainments in association with Vivienne Smith Management presents. Winner of ITV 1’s “Show Me the Funny!” PATRICK MONAHAN– HUG ME I FEEL GOOD. Tickets £12.00 Friends £11.00 student £10.00. Lovable comedian Patrick Monahan blends a high energy style with hilarious and engaging stories of his Irish/Iranian/ Teeside heritage. Patrick performs this hit show direct from the Edinburgh Festival.

Friday 2nd March 7.30pm Sudbury Museum Trust presents CAUGHT ON CAMERA Tickets £5.50 Friend £4.50 Taking you back through the years, the Sudbury Museum Trust shares its wonderful photographic collection. The market town of Sudbury has a long and fascinating history. Much of the way of life in the town since the invention of photography has been caught on camera. Join us again for this year’s informative and interactive photographic archive presentation.

Tuesday 6th March – Saturday 10th March 7.45pm Sudbury Dramatic Society presents A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE Tickets £9.00 Friend £8.00 Tuesday only £7.00 A woman wronged, scorned but ultimately revenged provides the plot for Oscar Wilde's drama, and is a vehicle for some of his most scintillating wit. Laughter and tears are the order of the evening in the company of one of England's greatest playwrights.

Haverhill Arts Centre, High Street, Haverhill, T: 01440 714140
FEBRUARY
Monday 6 February 1:30pm MY WEEK WITH MARILYN ( 15 ) Tickets: £4.00
Wednesday 8 February 7:45pm 50/50 ( 15 ) Tickets: £5.50 and £4.50 concessions 'Cancer comedy' might sound like a contradiction in terms , but when it comes straight from the heart, the result can be pure gold, as in this story of how true friendship overcomes the greatest of obstacles. Adam is a twenty-something writer diagnosed with a tumour who seeks help from his best friend Kyle after his girlfriend leaves him high and dry.
Friday 10 February 8:00pm THE MERSEY MAKERS Tickets: £12.50 Celebrate the sound of the 60’s with songs by The Beatles , The Searchers , Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Merseybeats, The Swinging Blue Jeans, The Hollies, Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas and many more of the great bands of the 60’s. The show consists of over 2 hours of sensational hits including How Do You Do It , I like It , From Me to You, Hippy Hippy Shake, Just One Look and I Want to Hold Your Hand.
Saturday 11 February 8:00pm KAISER MONKEY KILLERS Tickets: £8.00 and £7.00 concessions Gritty and loud with the best of Indie Rock from The Artic Monkeys, The Kaiser Chiefs with of course a killer version of The Killers’ Mr Brightside and loads more.
Monday 13 February 7:45pm WE HAVE A POPE (PG) Tickets: £5.50 and £4.00-£4.50 concessions A firm audience favourite at this year's Cannes Film Festival, this papal comedy is all about life's big decisions. Following the death of the pope, Cardinal Melville has been thrust straight to the top of the Catholic church by his peers. The problem is that he doesn't see himself as the right man for the job, so he flees the Vatican for a spot of soul-searching.
Tuesday 14 February 10:30am HAPPY FEET 2 (2D ) (U) Tickets: £4.00
Tuesday 14 February 7:45pm THE APARTMENT ( PG ) VALENTINES DAY SPECIAL Tickets: £6.00 One of Billy Wilder's best-loved and most acerbic works stars Lemmon as CC Baxter, an office clerk who curries favour with his colleagues by giving them the key to his apartment for the odd afternoon dalliance. Among them is his callous boss who, Baxter learns, is using his place to sleep with Miss Kubelik the sweet elevator operator CC has loved from afar.
Wednesday 15 February 2:00pm THE OWL WHO WAS AFRAID OF THE DARK Tickets: £5.00 and £4.50 concessions Join Plop, the baby barn owl as he journeys into the night-time world of campfires, fireworks, starry nights and moonlit adventures. Based on the classic children’s book by Jill Tomlinson, this funny, gentle and reassuring tale is written especially for small people aged 3 - 7 (and grown-ups who sleep with the big light on). With an irresistible blend of live music, puppetry and storytelling - it’s going to be a hoot!
Thursday 16 February 10:30am & Friday 17 February 2:30pm HUGO ( U ) Tickets: £4.00 Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and a robot. With the help of an eccentric girl, he searches for the answers but what is the significance of the ill-tempered toy shop owner living below him and a heart shaped lock, seemingly without a key.
Friday 17 February 10:30am PUSS IN BOOTS ( U ) Tickets: £4.00
Sunday 19 February 7:30pm HAVERHILL SILVER BAND WITH TUBE Tickets: £6.50 and £5.00 concessions Your local Championship section brass band, Haverhill Silver, share a concert with TUBE, a superb brass quintet made up from musicians from Cambridge & Haverhill. Their varied repertoire includes the classical, the contemporary, the bold, the evocative, and the downright different.
Tuesday 21 February 7:45pm & Thursday 23 February THE IRON LADY ( 12A ) Tickets: £5.50 and £4.50 concessions The story of a woman who smashed through the barriers of gender and class to be heard in a male-dominated world. The story concerns power and the price that is paid for power, and is a surprising and insightful portrait of an extraordinary and complex woman.
Friday 24 February 8:30pm TOTAL STONE ROSES AND OAYSIS Tickets: £8.50 Playing an hour long set each packed full of Madchester hits
Saturday 25 February 8:00pm AN INSTINCT FOR KINDNESS Tickets: £10.00 and £8.00 concessions Written and performed by Chris Larner Last year, Chris Larner accompanied his chronically ill ex-wife to Switzerland's Dignitas clinic. He came home with an empty wheelchair and a story to tell. This moving, bittersweet show reflects on the circumstances, morality and humanity surrounding the journey. Through a candid, poignant and sometimes comic performance, Chris explores both the profound personal implications and the wider ethical issues that surround the contentious topic. The show premiered at the Edinburgh Fringe 2011, where it won the coveted Scotsman Fringe First Award and was featured on Newsnight Review as a highlight of the festival.
Monday 27 February 7:45pm LAS ACACIAS ( 12A ) Tickets: £5.50 and £4.00-£4.50 concessions Lonely truck driver Ruben has worked the freeway from Paraguay to Buenos Aires for many years, clocking up thousands of lonely miles along the way. One morning, though, he hesitantly agrees to take young mother Jacinta and her five-month-old baby along for the ride. As a tender bond develops between them, the taciturn trucker slowly emerges from his shell.Spanish with English subtitles
Wednesday 29 February 8:00pm PRIVATE RESISTANCE - EASTERN ANGLES Tickets: £10.00 and £6.00-£8.00 concessions The ultimate ‘what-if’ scenario. How would the British have coped with a wartime invasion? Set in 1940 this is a thrilling tale of the so-called Auxiliary Units, Churchill’s secret guerrilla army primed to go underground to fight behind the lines ‘ a story of the bonds created and destroyed by war.

Mercury Theatre Company, Colchester, Tel: 01206 573948
Thursday 26 January to Saturday 4 February OKLAHOMA! Tickets: £11 - £18 Oklahoma! tells the tale of cowboy Curly McLain and his romance with farmgirl Laurey Williams. Set against a background of classic songs including Oh, What a Beautiful Morning and The Surrey with the Fringe on Top, this all-singing, all-dancing, toe-tapping rodeo is sure to send you home with a smile on your face and a song in your heart.

Monday 13th to Saturday 18th February. STAR QUALITY By Noël Coward Tickets: From £10.50 to £22.50. Golden Globe winner Amanda Donohoe stars as theatrical grand dame Lorraine Barrie in Noël Coward’s final play. Set in 1951, the play takes us behind the scenes of a new West End production. Behind the red-curtain glamour, Coward conjures up a wickedly observant satire of talent and treachery and a gallery of unforgettable characters. A mercurial leading lady and her director engage in a battle of egos which will make or break the production – and possibly the rest of the cast. Bursting with Coward charm, what emerges from the mayhem of wit, hissy fits and fisticuffs is proof that star quality will always triumph. Amanda Donohoe leads a stellar cast of 12 including dashing Daniel Casey (Sgt Gavin Troy in MidSomer Murders), Ambridge favourite Michael Lumsden (Alistair Lloyd in The Archers) and West End legend Gay Soper (Sunday in the Park with George). Adapted by Christopher Luscombe (director of The Madness of George III and The History Boys) and directed by Joe Harmston (Artistic Director of the Agatha Christie Theatre Company), Star Quality is a fitting farewell from Noël Coward, one of the most distinctive voices of British theatre.

Thursday 23rd February to Saturday 10th March Absent Friends By Alan Ayckbourn Have you ever been to a party and wished you hadn’t? Desperately devoted wife Diana invites old friends round for tea to try and cheer up recently bereaved Colin. But Colin seems quite happy with his memories whilst the cracks are beginning to show in those around him. Tea and sympathy turns into trauma as his friends reveal themselves to be shopaholics, hypochondriacs and serial adulterers in this brilliantly cutting comedy of embarrassment.