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Westcliff-on-Sea

All Betts are off in the farcical twists and turns of an entertaining The Other Side of Murder

10/11/202610/11/2026 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Torben Betts’s The Other Side of Murder: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 9.11.2026. (JPr) ****

Aisha Jawando (Laura) and Rufus Hound (Peter) © Manuel Harlan

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My Life in Musicals is pure musical theatre and John Barrowman joy

15/05/2026 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Barrowman – My Life in Musicals: John Barrowman and Ben Papworth (musical director). Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 13.5.2026. (JPr) *****

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Double Indemnity is very well-acted but rather disappointingly staged murder mystery

02/04/202601/04/2026 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Double Indemnity: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 31.3.2026. (JPr)

Mischa Barton (Phyllis Nirdlinger) and  Ciarán Owens (Walter Huff)  © Manuel Harlan

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A hardworking cast is the best thing about Torben Betts’s ‘theatrically ludicrous’ Murder at Midnight

24/11/202516/10/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Torben Betts’s Murder at Midnight: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 13.10.2025. (JPr)

Callum Balmforth (Russell) and Jason Durr (Jonny) © Pamela Raith Photography

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Rekindling memories of the real Cooper, Morecambe and Monkhouse in The Last Laugh

22/08/202520/08/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Last Laugh: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 19.8.2025. (JPr)

Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper), Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse) © Pamela Raith

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Memories of the real Cooper, Morecambe and Monkhouse is The Last Laugh

22/08/202520/08/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom The Last Laugh: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 19.8.2025. (JPr)

Damian Williams (Tommy Cooper), Bob Golding (Eric Morecambe) and Simon Cartwright (Bob Monkhouse) © Pamela Raith

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Grace’s return to the stage in Peter James’s Picture You Dead is not that amazing

24/07/202523/07/2025 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Peter James’s Picture You Dead: Palace Theatre, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 22.7.2025. (JPr)

Picture You Dead [l-r] Gemma Stroyan (Bella Moy), George Rainsford (Roy Grace) and Ore Oduba (Stuart Piper) © Chris Bishop

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Panto comes early to Southend’s Cliffs Pavilion as Chitty Chitty Bang Bang misfires

16/11/202415/11/2024 by Jim Pritchard

United KingdomUnited Kingdom Chitty Chitty Bang Bang: Cliffs Pavilion, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, 12.11.2024. (JPr)

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang‘s ‘Me Ol’ Bamboo’

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  • All Betts are off in the farcical twists and turns of an entertaining The Other Side of Murder (10/11/2026)
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  • Much fun was had by everyone at La fille du régiment in Vienna with 18 High Cs and all (08/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Brilliant Carmen from INO in Dublin with first-rate singing and playing from all involved        (08/11/2026) __________________________________
  • David Childs wows audience with a masterful euphonium performance with the BBC NOW in Swansea (08/11/2026) __________________________________
  • New Rosenkavalier Suite tops San Francisco Opera Orchestra’s evening of Richard Strauss (08/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Bestial Beethoven, machismo Mahler: Ott, Canellakis and the LPO at the RFH (08/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Mark Wigglesworth and the BSO excel in Prokofiev and Beethoven at Bristol Beacon (07/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Bernheim, Langrée and Orchestra of St. Luke’s explore Berlioz at Carnegie Hall (07/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Popelka and Cleveland savor warm Brahms and a new concertante oboe piece by Hailstork (06/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Musical fireworks to light up Bonfire Night: LSO under Adès with an intriguing programme (06/11/2026) __________________________________
  • A sumptuous Scheherazade from John Wilson and the Sinfonia of London at the Anvil (06/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Liszt and Bruckner frame two onstage announcements: one celebratory, the other mournful (06/11/2026) __________________________________
  • An overabundance of ideas in Kratzer and Jurowski’s Munich Siegfried (05/11/2026) __________________________________
  • Ethereal Elgar, bellicose Beethoven: Tetzlaff, Canellakis, and the LPO at the RFH (05/11/2026) __________________________________
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  • Rick Perdian in conversation with general director and CEO of Houston Grand Opera Khori Dastoor (19/10/2026) __________________________________
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  • First highlights for Nevill Holt Festival 2027 (09/10/2026) __________________________________
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