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A selection of Favourite Opera Choruses featuring Verdi, Donizetti, Bizet, Wagner, Purcell, Leoncavallo and Gilbert & Sullivan, with soprano, mezzo and tenor soloists. Join us for a summer treat as we journey throughout the opera and operetta world, visiting Paris, Babylon, Seville, the Duchy of Lotharingia, Scotland, Carthage, Imperial China and a village in Calabria on our Grand Tour. In a lighter vein, we travel with Gilbert & Sullivan from Cornwall through the English countryside and up to London via Venice! Can you work out what you are going to hear? Why not come along and see if you are right! We are delighted to be once again able to showcase the talents of Richard Pearce at the piano. Richard is a conductor, pianist and organist, recording and broadcasting on Radio 3 with the BBC Singers and is a regular with the Philharmonia and the BBC Symphony Orchestras. You may well have seen him at the Royal Albert Hall for the Last Night of the Proms!

Any dream will do for some, but not for Andrew. His dreams are greater than just being a small village shop worker. Follow him as he meets others on his journey, to become the greatest musical theatre composer in this Andrew Lloyd Webber inspired musical story. Including songs from the Musicals Evita, Joseph and the amazing technicolour dream coat, Phantom of the Opera and more.

As You Like It is Shakespeare’s forest-frolicking romantic comedy where banishment becomes a blessing, girls dress as boys, and love runs wild under the trees! Presented by The BRIT School Limited. This is an 12+ event

A SOAP OPERA. ON STAGE. LIVE. IN PENGE. Introducing: PENGE WEST A CONTINUING DRAMA Only at The Bridge House Theatre For the first time in London (maybe ever?!), were bringing the addictive world of soaps to the stage with a bold, brand-new format that rips up the rulebook and invites you into the drama. Welcome to PENGE WEST a live, episodic, laugh-out-loud, tear-your-heart-out continuing drama set right here in Penge. Over eight thrilling episodes, youll follow the tangled lives and secrets of a cast of very south-east London characters. Think EastEnders, if it had a pint with Inside No. 9, and then stayed up too late watching Succession. But thats just the half of it Before each episode, youll get a behind-the-scenes play-within-a-play: A CONTINUING DRAMA the fictional (and hilarious) story of how PENGE WEST got made. Think of it as the soap about the soap. Every night, the actors perform script-in-hand, keeping it raw, electric, and totally unpredictable. Audience reactions matter your feedback could shape the next episode. So if you've ever shouted at the telly, now's your chance to make it count. Created by Tim Connery (The Man in the Shed, Chet Baker: Lets Get Lost, What A Gay Day) and directed by John Handscombe (The One Hundred Year-Old Letter) and Luke Adamson (The Bridge House Theatre's Artistic Director) , this is a theatrical event unlike anything you've seen before. Three weeks only. Eight episodes. Two shows in one. Dont just watch the drama be part of it. The episode schedule: Episode 1: 17 & 18 Jun Episode 2: 19 & 20 Jun Episode 3: 23 & 24 Jun Episode 4: 25 & 26 Jun Episode 5: 27 & 29 Jun Episode 6: 01 & 02 Jul Episode 7: 03 & 05 Jul The Finale Episode: 05 Jul

We are excited to present to you 'The PopGems Variety Show' 2025!

Come and support the Phoenix Players putting on a 48 hour musical! The production has been written by our very own Nicky Henderson and includes such bangers as Hard to Be the Bard from Something Rotten, Suddenly Seymour from Little Shop of Horrors and Never Gonna Give You Up byRick Astley.