Stapleford Granary is a new study centre for arts, music and culture using the granary hall, an outstanding multi-space use for chamber  music, lectures and exhibitions, recording facilities, a seminar room and office space. Music performances  include The Youth String Orchestra, Clarinet Choir, Come and Sing, and Coffee and Jazz.  Literary events include Reading Great Expectations, Introduction to Tennyson and E.M. Forster, For Love of Italy. Various prices for admission but also some free events. For full details go to…

The Fry Art Gallery in Saffron Walden will, unusually, be dedicating its full season in 2018 across the whole gallery to one important exhibition. Edward Bawden CBE RA was educated at Friends' School Saffron Walden and spent his last 19 years living in the town at Park Lane. He is recognized as one of Britain's foremost artists and designers of the twentieth century, and this exhibition will include over 200 artworks and other items, many of which have either not…

Two queens. One in power. One in prison. It’s all in the execution. Schiller’s political tragedy takes us behind the scenes of some of British history’s most crucial days. Playing both Elizabeth I and Mary Stuart, Juliet Stevenson (Truly Madly Deeply, Private Lives) and Lia Williams (The Homecoming, The Crown) trade the play’s central roles, decided at each performance by the toss of a coin. Nightly performances at 7.45 pm with matinees at 2.30 on Thursday and Saturday. Tickets from…

Taking place at Corpus Playroom - a play about a group of university friends who take a long weekend trip to the Suffolk countryside. But when events don’t go entirely to plan, relationships start to unravel and things are not always entirely as they seem. Where is Mel’s other shoe? Is the mysterious latecomer really who he says he is? And where on earth is Jackson Buckley? This story contains: board games, alcohol, Suffolk local radio, fall-outs, mistaken identity, an…

Recognised internationally as a premiere university wind ensemble, the Bob Cole Conservatory Wind Symphony continues to expand the school’s rich tradition of performance excellence. Composed of the finest wind and percussion performers within the Department of Music, its mission is to stimulate musical growth and provide advanced performance opportunities for the department’s instrumental music students. Performance goals encompass the identification, performance, and appreciation of the best of wind and percussion literature. This performance is part of Anglia Ruskin University's Lunchtime…