Craig Charles
Funk & Soul Club
Epic Stuidos, Norwich – 17 February
Craig Charles returns to Norwich with his Funk and Soul Club. Doors open at 8pm and due to popular demand, Craig will be performing earlier than usual and will take to the stage from 10pm until midnight.
RIOPY
9 February, 7.30pm
The Apex, Bury St Edmunds
Self-taught pianist and composer who fuses minimalism, pop and cinematic styles, RIOPY’s evocative solo piano pieces are everywhere. They are on several popular movie trailers (including The Shape of Water) and adverts (Mercedes, Peugeot, Armani), as well as documentaries for the BBC, ITV and Channel 4. His first two albums RIOPY and Tree of Light became worldwide successes, powered by word of mouth. His music has reached 450 million streams worldwide, and now he’s releasing his new extended album; Bliss on Warner Classics.
All things baby
Nursery department at
John Lewis Norwich 23 February, 6.15pm-8pm
Join the John Lewis Norwich nursery team at their FREE event for expectant parents. These parental sessions will include information to help you prepare for your new arrival and the chance to discover local organisations to support you from birth and beyond.
To pre-book your place at the event visit the nursery department or email emily.smart@johnlewis.co.uk
ELVANA: Elvis Fronted Nirvana
18 February Epic Studios, Norwich
From the bowels of Disgraceland, Rock & Roll icons of the afterlife are raised from the dead! Rock & Roll meets Grunge as Elvis fronts Nirvana and gives the band the front man it’s been missing since ’94. Elvana tear through Nirvana’s catalogue whilst splicing in grunged-up sections of the King of Rock & Rolls finest moments, culminating in a whopper mash-up of overdrive & old school Rockabilly. It smells like cheeseburgers and teen spirit, daddy-o!
Norwich Theatre Royal
High Performance Live
5 February
Join one of Britain’s best-respected sports broadcasters, Jake Humphrey, and psychologist Professor Damian Hughes, as they turn the lived experiences of the planet’s high performers into your life lessons. This dynamic and impactful theatre show will introduce you to some very special guests, as Jake and Damian invite members of the High Performance community to share their journey, demonstrating that high-happiness is within us all.
Garth Marenghi’s
TerrorTome Book Tour
14 February
Following the dismal failure of his 80s TV series Darkplace, horror literature’s greatest living author, Garth Marenghi, has largely avoided the limelight, but this winter Marenghi makes a rare public appearance to mark the release of his long-lost multi-volume epic; TerrorTome.
Girl From The North Country
28 February – 4 March
It’s 1934 in the heartland of America and we meet a group of wayward souls who cross paths in a time-weathered guesthouse. Standing at a turning point in their lives, they realise nothing is what it seems. But as they search for a future, and hide from the past, they find themselves facing unspoken truths about the present.
Wish You Were Dead
20-25 February
Following on from five hit stage shows and the new acclaimed ITV series, GRACE, the work of best selling author, Peter James, returns to Norwich with the world premiere stage adaption of Wish You Were Dead. When Detective Superintendent Roy Grace and Cleo Morey take their first holiday together, they hope for a few days away from their dark worlds of murder and the mortuary. But their dream escape turns out to be the holiday from hell.
Norwich Theatre Playhouse
Paul Foot: Swan Power
10 February
Paul opens his beak and explores topics including a potential solution to the problem of online trolling, Eamonn Holmes and a full re-enaction of the 1997 film Titanic (severely abridged). Quintessential Paul Foot style, the delivery is so silly and joyous that even the darkness seems light.
George McGavin:
It’s a Wild Life – Tales from Television
15 February
As a part of Norwich Theatre’s Creative Matters Climate Stories Dr George McGavin will share his personal journey to discover the world of wildlife, recounting the wild and wonderful places he has visited.
Teechers Leavers ‘22
21-22 February
Hilarious, high energy, and full-blooded, Teechers Leavers ‘22 brings to life an array of terrifying teachers and hopeless pupils through the eyes of Salty, Gail and Hobby, three Year 11 students facing a scary world, armed only with imagination and a joy of theatre.
Flat and the Curves
25 February
Dressed tit-to-toe in sequins, the award-winning Divas deliver self-penned songs that celebrate sex and the sisterhood; think, Fascinating Aida meets, Little Mix. There’ll be big voices and bold statements in a performance filled to the brim with hilarity and full-frontal vulgarity!