I’M SORRY I HAVEN’T A CLUE | THE OFFICIAL STAGE TOUR
CONGRESS THEATRE
Sunday 2 February 7.30pm
BBC Radio’s multi award-winning antidote to panel games returns to the stage in 2020 with its sell-out touring show. Join Tim Brooke-Taylor, Tony Hawks, Miles Jupp, Richard Osman and host Jack Dee for an unmissable evening of inspired nonsense. Colin Sell provides piano accompaniment.
TICKETS £29
THE CLASSIC ROCK SHOW
CONGRESS THEATRE
Thursday 6 February 7.30pm
Anthem after anthem, riff after riff and solo after solo, The Classic Rock Showtakes you on a musical journey through two and a half hours of Classic Rock’s finest moments culminating in a show-stopping guitar duel that is not to be missed.
TICKETS from £28.50
PAUL CARRACK 20/20 SHOW
CONGRESS THEATRE
Saturday 8 February 7.30pm
Paul Carrack and his awesome 6-piece band are back on the road! Former Mike and the Mechanics frontman, Squeeze member and voice behind world-wide hits such as Ace’s How Long, Squeeze’s Tempted and timeless classic The Living Years brings his latest stunning live show back to town.
TICKETS from £36.50
BEAUTIFUL – THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL
CONGRESS THEATRE
Monday 10 – Saturday 15 February, various times
Beautiful – The Carole King Musical, the Olivier award-winning West End and Broadway show is coming to Eastbourne!
Long before she was Carole King, the chart-topping music legend, she was an ordinary girl with an extraordinary talent.
Beautiful tells the inspiring true story of King’s remarkable rise to stardom, from being part of a hit song-writing team with her husband Gerry Goffin, to her relationship with fellow writers and best friends Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann, to becoming one of the most successful solo acts in popular music history.
Along the way, she wrote the soundtrack to a generation, with countless classics such as (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman, Take Good Care of My Baby, You’ve Got a Friend, So Far Away, It Might as Well Rain Until September, Up on the Roof, and The Locomotion.
TICKETS: from £32. Concession and group discounts available – see website or call Box Office for details.
Jinlong Culture & Performing Arts
CHINESE NEW YEAR EXTRAVAGANZA
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Saturday 15 February 2.30pm
An exciting programme includes skilled jugglers, mesmerising magic, illuminating Dragon Dance, live instruments and more. A dazzling array of performances full of colour, amazement and fun, this show is entertainment for all the family.
TICKETS from £18.50. Concessions, Under 16s and Family ticket prices available – see website or call Box Office for details.
EDUCATING RITA
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Monday 17 – Saturday 22 February, evgs 7.45pm, Wed & Sat 2.30pm
When married hairdresser Rita enrols on a university course to expand her horizons, little does she realise where the journey will take her.
Her tutor Frank is a frustrated poet, brilliant academic and dedicated drunk who’s less than enthusiastic about taking Rita on but when these two people come together they soon realise how much they have to teach each other.
This hilarious and heart-warming comedy is written by one of our greatest ever playwrights Willy Russell and stars one of our best loved actors Stephen Tompkinson as Frank and introduces Jessica Johnson as Rita. This production directed by Max Roberts of Live Theatre has garnered rave reviews.
TICKETS: £20 – £28.50. Under 16s & Students £9. Concessions and Group discounts available.
ANTON & ERIN; DANCE THOSE MAGICAL MOVIES
CONGRESS THEATRE
Thursday 20 February 7.30pm
The nation’s favourite ballroom stars are back! With sensational choreography set to music that made it big on the silver screen. Thrilling live vocals from TV favourite Lance Ellington, a spectacular dance ensemble and a 23-piece orchestra led by conductor Richard Balcombe complete the show-stopping line up.
TICKETS £32-£46, Groups 10+ 20% off
MILKSHAKE! LIVE
CONGRESS THEATRE
Friday 21 February 12pm & 3pm
Milkshake! Monkey’s Musical is a spectacular show featuring his favourite Milkshake! friends. Staring Milkshake! Monkey, Fireman Sam, Noddy, Shimmer & Shine, Digby Dragon, Wissper, Nella the Princess Knight and the Floogals, alongside two Milkshake Presenters! It’s a family show not to be missed!
TICKETS £16, Under 16s £14.50, Family Ticket (2 adults + 2 under 16s) £57
ROB BECKETT: WALLOP
CONGRESS THEATRE
Saturday 22 February 8pm
Rob Beckett is back on tour with a brand-new stand-up show. It’s been a busy few years for the Mouth of the South and he’s coming to see you to fill you in and make you laugh.
“Lights up the stage with his magnetic personality (not to mention the dazzle from his teeth)”Mail on Sunday
Age guidance 14+
TICKETS £25
ABSURD PERSON SINGULAR
BY ALAN AYCKBOURN
DEVONSHIRE PARK THEATRE
Tuesday 25 – Saturday 29 FebruaryEvgs 7.45pm, Wed and Sat 2.30pm
London Classic Theatre Company
Three married couples. Three kitchens. Three Christmas parties.
Sidney Hopcroft, a small-time tradesman, persuades wife Jane to throw a party hoping to find favour with a bank manager and local architect. As celebrations begin, class differences and naked ambition combine to hilarious effect as, one by one, the characters seek refuge in Jane’s kitchen.
Over the next two years, the Jacksons and Brewster-Wrights take turns to host festivities. But Sidney’s star has begun to rise and roles are increasingly reversed as the cracks in the other couples’ marriages begin to show.
Alan Ayckbourn’s comic masterpiece of social climbing in 1970s suburbia fuses a potent mix of farce and black comedy.
TICKETS £18 – £25.50, Under 16s & Students £9, Under 25s £10. Concessions and Group discounts available. See website or call Box Office for full details.
QUEEN SYMPHONIC
CONGRESS THEATRE
Wednesday 26 February
Experience the unforgettable magic of Queen, in a rock and symphonic spectacular celebrating the greatest hits of Queen and featuring four rock vocalists who starred in We Will Rock You, a five piece rock band and the Heart of England Philharmonic Orchestra.
The show includes full symphonic arrangements blended with a great rock band and performers honouring the greatest hits of Queen: Bohemian Rhapsody; We Are the Champions; Crazy Little Thing Called Love, We Will Rock You and more.
TICKETS £37- £48