Welcome to Braintree's newest community arts venue.
Located on Notley Road, this brand new facility offers live music, theatre, film, dance and comedy to name but a few things lined up to perform on our stage.
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Tickets are now on sale for Braintree's Street Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
This fantastic event will be held at Tabor Leisure Centre on Tuesday 5 June to celebrate Essex’s participation in the Cultural Olympiad.
Tickets are available from the Braintree Arts Theatre box office by calling 01376 556 354, in person and also online.
Click here to go to our event page for more information and to buy your tickets online now.
Here is your chance to win a pair of tickets to see An Evening of Mediumship with Psychic Tony Stockwell!
Tony will coming to Braintree Arts Theatre on Monday 5 March and we have teamed up with Blonde Sheep Events to give you the chance win tickets to see the show!
All you need to is answer the following question:
When is Tony appearing at Braintree Arts Theatre?
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The closing date for entries is Thursday 1 March and winners will be picked at random & contacted by email.
Good luck!
The brilliant Ali Sparkes will be coming to Braintree Arts Theatre to talk about her journey to becoming an author and all about her prize winning Blue Peter Book of the Year 2010, Unleashed.
Ali, charts her wonky path to authordom with props and pictures. Experience the highs, the lows, the hopes, the rejections, the cheese... Ali will introduce you to a lovelorn bat and show you fear as you've never seen it before!
She will be joining us as part of the Essex Book Festival, and as Braintree Arts Theatre's first hosting of a festival event!
Tickets are available from Just Imagine Centre, New London Road, Chelmsford. You can call their box office on 01245 267 748 to get hold of tickets.
Tickets have now sold out for Jimmy Carr - Gagging order (Warm Up).
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We will need your name, address and a contact telephone number please.
Many thanks,
Box Office Team
We are pleased to announce our very first Spring-Summer season!
We have loads of great great shows coming over the next 6 months that will make you laugh, sing and be entertained!
Highlights include Jimmy Carr trying trying new material for his forthcoming Gagging Order tour (Thu 1 March), Showaddywaddy will be performing as part of their Greatest Hits tour (Sat 31 March), ex-England footballing legend Jimmy Greaves will be entertaining us with an evening of funny stories and serious observations from the world of football (Thu 14 June), the brilliant Elkie Brooks will grace our stage to perform some of her classic hits along with songs from her new album Powerless (Sat 21 July), all mixed with our regular comedy nights and much much more.
The new brochure is available from the box office to either download or we can post you out a glossy printed copy.
All of the shows are on our whats on pages, so head over there now!
Tickets for most shows are on sale now, Jimmy Carr will go on sale at 9am on Wednesday 1 February.
Our View from a Seat is now live on the website.
You can see what the view is like from all of the seats in the auditorium.
All you have to do is hover over the the seats you want to look at on the seating plan, and the picture will show you exactly what it is like to sit in that very seat.
The very clever IT team have been working hard to get this up and running for us, and we hope that you enjoy the new feature and that it will help you decide which seat you would like to sit in when you are booking for your next show!
Winner of ITV 1's Show Me the Funny Patrick Monahan is to headline our January Magners Funhouse Comedy night.
Fresh from launching his brand new DVD, Patrick will be appearing on the Braintree Arts Theatre stage to take the top slot on the bill at our ever popualr monthly comedy night.
If you want your chance to see Patrick on stage, then make sure you book your tickets now!
We've just heard that unfortunately Markus Birdman won't be able to make it to us next Thursday for our regular Magners Funhouse Comedy.
But never fear! Our friends over at Funhouse have managed to get us an equally fantastic headlining act, Irish comedian Paddy Lenox!
Throw anything at this man and he will ping it back at you with a razor wit. An engaging and instantly likeable comic, Paddy combines topical material with observational routines rolled together with his impressive improvisation and banter to give you some great entertainment.
Paddy has been on the comedy circuit for 10 years, touring as warm up act for the likes of Rhod Gilbert, Lucy Porter and Micky Flanagan. Also during that time he has acted in a couple of comedies at the Shakespeare Globe Theatre, as well as appearing on the telly.
