Name: Shakespeare Songs
Start: 2025-04-22T19:30:00
Location: Marlowe Theatre

March through May 2025 promises to be an extraordinary season at the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, UK. With a diverse array of performances, including Jason Donovan's vibrant tour, the sizzling dance showcase of Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez, and a dynamic revival of 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,' audiences are in for a treat. Whether you're a fan of musicals, orchestral brilliance, or ballet's timeless elegance, this season encapsulates the heart of performing arts, promising unforgettable experiences for all.

A Kaleidoscope of Culture: Unveiling Marlowe Theatre's Spectacular Line-Up

The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury is set to host a stunning variety of performances throughout March and April 2025. From the legendary Ben Portsmouth's Elvis tribute to the enchanting ballet of Giovanni Pernice and the musical magic of Jason Donovan, there's something for everyone. Dance enthusiasts can look forward to Karen Hauer and Gorka Marquez's Speakeasy, and families will enjoy the classic Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. This season promises to be a vibrant celebration of music, dance, and theater, reaching a crescendo with orchestral performances and Shakespeare-inspired productions.

A Cultural Extravaganza: Unmissable Performances at The Marlowe Theatre

The Marlowe Theatre

Don't miss our spectacular family pantomime, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs!

Starring an amazing cast including Sarah Hadland (Miranda, Strictly Come Dancing, original cast of Horrible Histories), childrenʼs favourite Phil Gallagher (Mister Maker), Marlowe legend Ben Roddy (winner of Best Dame at the Pantomime Awards 2024), Marc Pickering (winner of Best Supporting Artist at the Pantomime Awards 2024) and Mia Kobayashi (WhatsOnStage Award nominee for Best Professional Debut 2025).

Once again, the show will be written and directed by Paul Hendy, (winner of Best Script at the Pantomime Awards 2024), and produced by the Marlowe Theatre and Evolution Productions, the same award-winning team that brought you the five-star box office smash-hits Aladdin and Beauty and the Beast.

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

Marlowe Theatre

Slow and steady wins the race.

Two unlikely friends, the Hare and the Tortoise, meet for the greatest race on earth. A nail-biting, seconds-ticking, medal-winning contest to decide who is the quickest: the excitable Hare or the wise Tortoise.

The story bursts to life in sunny spring, moves through a playful summer, and ends in the snowy frost of winter.

This charming adaptation of Aesop’s fable is brought to life by Tutti Frutti Productions, with fun, live music, unforgettable songs and delightful characters.

Hare and Tortoise

The players of the Philharmonia are experts in the recording studio, being many film composers’ first choice for their movie soundtracks. Tonight, you can see those experts live on stage in a handpicked selection of film music favourites. Expect memorable melodies from beloved British classics including Mary Poppins, Wallace & Gromit, Harry Potter and many more.

Philharmonia at the Movies: Best Of British

On board a luxurious cruise under the heat of the Egyptian sun, a couple’s idyllic honeymoon is cut short by a brutal murder. As secrets that have been buried in the sands of time finally resurface, can the world-famous detective, Hercule Poirot, untangle the web of lies and solve another crime?

Following the sell-out tour of Murder on the Orient Express, this thrilling production reunites writer Ken Ludwig, director Lucy Bailey (Witness for the Prosecution) and Fiery Angel.

Death on the Nile

After performing his smash-hit show Horizons to nearly half a million people across the world, Professor Brian Cox is back warming up for his next tour. Join him for an intimate evening where you get exclusive access to his latest live show.

Professor Brian Cox: Warm Up

A moving celebration of the music, life, and the band that changed it all.

Following a phenomenal two years in the West End and a sensational first UK and Ireland tour, the “indisputably terrific” (The Times) Olivier Award-winning best new musical, charting the euphoric highs and agonizing lows of THE KINKS, is back!

Sunny Afternoon

Divorced. Beheaded. Live!

The international smash-hit musical SIX makes its royal return to Canterbury following its previous sell out success!

From Tudor Queens to Pop Princesses, the six wives of Henry VIII take to the mic to tell their tales, remixing five hundred years of historical heartbreak into an 80-minute celebration of 21st century girl power. These Queens may have green sleeves but their lipstick is rebellious red.

Winner of over 35 international awards including Tony Awards for ‘Best Original Score’ and ‘Best Costume Design’. Boasting a Gold-Disk winning album, this sell-out Tudor take-off has wowed audiences from the West End to Broadway, with ‘an incredibly strong and powerful message’ (The Australian) and is ‘pure entertainment’ (New York Times).

A sharp-nosed return to stand-up.

Arctic Monkeys’ album Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I’m Not hit the shelves in January 2006. Tracks like I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor and When the Sun Goes Down became anthems, showcasing Alex Turner’s sharp lyrics and observational storytelling.

Now, in 2026, Tom Rosenthal takes to the stage with his brand-new show, Whatever People Say I Am, That’s What I Am. Jokes like Wimbledon, Daniel Radcliffe and Some Weather We’re Having have the potential to become classics, showcasing Rosenthal’s sharp nose and observational squawking.

Tom Rosenthal: Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I Am

Bringing together modern dance and the ancient heartbeat of Ireland.

Described as “90 minutes of ritualised ecstasy” by The Irish Times, this visionary piece playfully and provocatively takes you on an otherworldly journey steeped in the landscape and culture of West Kerry in Ireland.

MÁM sees 12 fearless dancers summon a whirlwind of myth and magic, moved by the collaborative music making of virtuoso Irish traditional concertina player Cormac Begley and European classical contemporary collective s t a r g a z e, performed live on stage.

MÁM

A guaranteed Christmas catastrophe from multi-award-winning company Mischief.

The Cornley Amateur Drama Society are back with tidings of chaos and joy, ready to tackle the Charles Dickens’ classic, A Christmas Carol.

A new production of Christmas Carol Goes Wrong smashes into the Marlowe Theatre, direct from a strictly limited 8-week West End run. Don’t miss this guaranteed Christmas catastrophe from Mischief, the multi award-winning company behind The Play that goes Wrong, Peter Pan goes Wrong and The Comedy About a Bank Robbery.

As the Cornley crew hilariously battle miscommunication, delays to their set, actors missing in action and a growing feud over who will play the lead, it’s sure to be a disastrous take on the much-loved classic Christmas story of Ebenezer Scrooge. Will Cornley finally change their ways, or will their misfortunes wreak havoc with hysterical consequences.

Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Renad, a young Gazan girl, embarks on a dangerous journey. Carrying only the echoes of her grandmother’s tales and the spark of her own imagination, she searches for her family and the ‘Anqaa’ – the mythical Palestinian Phoenix.

A Grain of Sand is a one-woman show that takes an intimate look at war through the eyes of a child, blending Palestinian folklore with real-life testimonies from children in contemporary Gaza.

A Grain of Sand

Aaron Sorkin’s riveting, award-winning stage adaptation of the seminal American novel about racial injustice and childhood innocence became a Broadway and West End sensation with star-studded sell-out seasons on both sides of the Atlantic. Now the iconic play comes to Canterbury.

Successful lawyer, Atticus Finch, encourages kindness and empathy in his children, but is pushed to the limits of these qualities himself when he resolves to uncover the truth in a town that seems determined to hide it.Set in 1934 Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird was inspired by novelist Harper Lee’s own childhood and has sold more than 45 million copies worldwide. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Literature and was long at the top of the banned book lists.

Oscar winning writer Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird is paired with Bartlett Sher’s visionary direction. Aaron Sorkin has had many years of great success on stage and screen. He is perhaps best known as the creator and screenwriter of hit TV series The West Wing, and as the screenwriter for The Social Network, for which he received an Academy Award, Golden Globe, BAFTA and Writer’s Guild Award. He is also the writer-creator of The Newsroom and Academy Award-winning film A Few Good Men.

Bartlett Sher spent over ten years as Director of New York’s Lincoln Centre Theater, and has also headed acclaimed productions such as My Fair Lady, The King and I and South Pacific.

To Kill a Mockingbird

Alongside The Capulets and the Montagues in our Main House, ETO continue to bring us a Shakespeare-inspired season with Shakespeare Songs, a collection of Shakespeare-inspired songs taking us through the centuries up to the present day.

Shakespeare Songs

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