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From International Touring Musicals to Local Drama, from Contemporary Dance to Panto . . we have something for everyone. Book your seats now.
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From International Touring Musicals to Local Drama, from Contemporary Dance to Panto . . we have something for everyone. Book your seats now.
www.princesstheatre.org.uk
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- Torquay, United Kingdom, TQ2 5EZ
- Phone:
- 0844 847 2315
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- Hunt for a Shwubbery !
All across the land of Post Mediev...
Friday, July 16 at 12:00am - Agatha Christie's - Witness Fo...
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Monday, September 13 at 7:30pm - Disney's "Beauty And The Beast...
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Tuesday, September 21 at 7:30pm - Seth Lakeman - Grand Reopening...
The Princess Theatre > Royal Terrac...
Saturday, October 2 at 8:00pm - THRILLER - Live!
The Princess Theatre - Torquay
Monday, October 4 at 7:30pm - The Drifters - In Concert
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Saturday, October 16 at 7:30pm - Dreamboats and Petticoats - Th...
The Princess Theatre - Torquay
Monday, October 18 at 7:30pm - SPAMALOT the Musical / Nationa...
Princess Theatre - Torquay, Devon
Monday, November 1 at 7:30pm - Princess Theatre - Your Venue
The Princess Theatre, The Sea Front...
Thursday, December 31 at 7:55pm - Weddings and Civil Ceremonies
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Thursday, December 31 at 9:15pm
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Princess Theatre Jane McDonald is heading on down to the glorious weather in the Bay. Book your seats for a great nights entertainment tomorrow.
Princess Theatre Beauty & The Beast is coming to the Princess Theatre from the 21st September - 25th September! Click the link to find out how to enter our Art Competition and win some fantastic prizes!
Location:Princess Theatre
Time:7:30PM Tuesday, September 21st
Princess Theatre
For the reopening of Torquays Star Attraction - "The Royal Terrace Gardens", Seth Lakeman presents an evening in concert alongside other events and performances in association with Torbay Council.
Seth Lakeman:
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...Since first demanding our attention as one of this country’s most unique and vibrant talents, Seth Lakeman’s wonderfully vivid have been peopled by a dizzying range of phantastical characters, but we’re less accustomed to Lakeman himself taking his place among them.
On Hearts and Minds, his fifth and best album, Lakeman steps out of the shadows of the past, putting his own, very human heart on the line in 12 songs of love, honour, faith and unity. Working with acclaimed producer Tchad Blake (Elvis Costello, Richard Thompson, Peter Gabriel, Crowded House), Hearts and Minds is both universal and highly personal, a bold yet natural step forward in Seth’s evolution as a songwriter and recording artist.
The contemporary concerns of the album only partially explain why Hearts and Minds sounds so in tune with the mood of 2010. Following a Mercury Music Prize nomination in 2005 for Kitty Jay and two BBC Folk Awards for his sterling work on its follow-up Freedom Fields, Seth’s widely acclaimed fourth album, Poor Man’s Heaven, cracked the Top Ten in the summer of 2008. Since then the wider musical world has tilted perceptibly in his direction.
The recent successes of acts such as Mumford & Sons, Noah & The Whale and Laura Marling have happened in the wake of Seth’s breakthrough, and while he’s far too modest to take any credit, there’s little doubt that Lakeman has been instrumental in helping folk music, in all its rich and deep diversity, enjoy a renewed popularity and a fresh commercial appeal. “Wooden instruments are now cool,” he says. “Banjos, mandolins, acoustic guitars and violins are more accepted., so I’m glad I stuck to my guns!”
Like all Seth’s music, Hearts and Minds has its roots in the crackle and thrum of live performance. Between stints all over the globe promoting Poor Man’s Heaven, in early 2009 he took three months off and wrote 25 songs “in a whirlwind”, demoing them with his band before going back out on the road to whip them into shape. Coming off tour again in late 2009, two days later he was in the studio and Hearts and Minds began to take flight.
Having recorded all his previous records at home in Devon and Cornwall, handling the production alongside his brother Sean, this time Seth engaged the considerable talents of American producer Tchad Blake. Relocating to Giant Wafer studios in mid-Wales for two weeks last November, they laid down 20 songs. Fast.
“The thing about Tchad, if it took any more than five takes he wouldn’t go for the song,” says Lakeman. “He was all about capturing it there and then. It was pretty cool, very edgy, and it pushed the sound. Production wise I’d always been in control, with Sean, so to ask someone as prolific and ambitious and knowledgeable as Tchad to take the reins was quite a big deal for us. It was exciting, a real adventure, and refreshing for me, because it made me able to concentrate a bit more on my writing and to experiment a bit more with the way I was playing, rather than worrying about the finished project. It took that pressure off.”
The results are diverse and dazzling. After the rockier, rhythm-heavy Poor Man’s Heaven, Hearts and Minds draws from a more varied range of sounds and textures, teasing out some wonderfully detailed arrangements. Lakeman recorded Hearts and Minds with his regular band: brother Sean on acoustic guitar, drummer Simon Lea, and Ben Nicholls on double bass, with the addition of Bellowhead’s multi-instrumentalist Benji Kirkpatrick as a full-time band member. Adding harmonica, banjo and backing vocals, Seth identifies Kirkpatrick as one of the key factors in Hearts & Minds sounding so fully realised.
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Torbay Council & The Royal Terrace Gardens
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Royal Terrace Gardens Festival to shine a light on the Bay
The newly restored Royal Terrace Gardens will be lighting up the skies on Saturday 2 October as an exciting festival of events is laid on to celebrate the successful completion of the Torquay landmark.
The festival including local bands, Geopark inspired workshops and lots of fun and entertainment for the youngsters will culminate in an amazing, not to be missed, digital techni-coloured light show, projected against the rock face.
Artists Matt and Rob Vale, who will design the light show, are now seeking inspiration and ideas to incorporate into it. Local residents were invited to submit wax rubbings of their own geology - perhaps the textures of their doorstep, the bricks on their house or a favourite walking site or tree.
The rubbings will then be digitised and emerge as giant textures that flow and tumble down the rock face.
Cabinet Member for Regeneration Councillor Chris Lewis said: "The restoration of Royal Terrace Gardens has been a huge success. We have taken a prominent area of the Bay that not only was deemed a huge safety risk with unstable trees but was also run down and attracting anti social behaviour and we have completely transformed it.
"We now have a real stunning landmark to be proud of that local residents and visitors can enjoy. Stabilisation works means that the area is now safe for many years to come and the viewing platform provides an opportunity to really appreciate our beautiful landscape.
"Whilst the gardens will be open for the public over coming weeks we wanted to arrange something special to really celebrate the new gardens and get local residents and businesses involved.
"The festival will provide a huge array of activities and entertainment and the light show is one of the most amazing things many of us will have ever seen - you really have to see it to appreciate it. We are still in the process of finalising some of the other events that will take place during the but we will be letting everyone know about them over coming weeks.
The amazing light show will start at 6.50pm until 7.10pm, those attending the festival will be able to view the show from the promenade and surrounding areas.
Councillor Dave Butt, who is also a board member of the South West Regional Arts Council, said: “In recognition of the importance of Royal Terrace Gardens it really is great news that the Arts Council is funding the complete cost of the light show.
"Torbay have shown in recent years that we have the capability to present high profile cultural events with Anthony Gormley in 2009 and Damien Hirst in 2010."
Rising star of the British folk and popular music scene Seth Lakeman will also be making a special appearance at the Princess Theatre, from 8pm. The Mercury nominated, Devon born and bred artist is currently on a UK wide tour and Torquay will be his only Devon date so a real coup for the Bay.
Saturday, October 2, 2010 at 8:00pm
The Princess Theatre > Royal Terrace Gardens > Torquay
Kaitlin Nixson Calling all musical theatre lovers - West End performers touring to the Exeter Northcott. Not to be missed!!
Featuring Show Stopping Numbers from Hairspray, Phantom Of The Opera, Wicked, Les Miserables, 42nd Street, Barnum, Oliver, Mamma Mia and many more.
Princess Theatre Back For Good - The Magic of Take That. One night only so come and join us for an evening of POPtastic entertainment. 0844 847 2315 www.princesstheatre.org.uk
Princess Theatre Just Joe, one night only! Show starts at 7.30pm. Come on Torbay, have a laugh with Joe Pasquale! 0844 847 2315
Princess Theatre I know a song that will get on ya nerves... get on ya nerves... get on ya nerves! that's right everyone - Joe Pasquale here at the theatre tomorrow evening (26th Aug at 7.30pm) tickets £18.50 concessions available book now on 0844 847 2315!
Princess Theatre Tonight!!! - 'ABBAMANIA' - are you looking for an excuse to party? then this is the one for you! enjoy all your favourites including Mamma Mia, Voulez Vous, Dancing Queen, Winner Takes It All, Super Trooper and many more - Fancy Dress Recommended :-) curtain up at 7.30pm
Princess Theatre Dreamboys Bring Ultimate Male Glamour Show To Torquay... It’s been described as The Ultimate Ladies’ Night Out. The Dreamboys, the biggest and most successful male glamour show in the UK, is coming to The Princess Theatre Torquay for one night only on Saturday 11th September at 7.30pm. The Dreamboys is a highly poli...shed musical show celebrating men’s bodies and female fantasies. From the moment the boys appear on stage, audiences go wild with excitement. As well as being extremely sexy, The Dreamboys are talented all round entertainers who perform seductive singing and sensual dance routines and, in eagerly anticipated fantasy scenes, reveal more than just their well-developed muscles... tickets: £16.50 & £17.50 BOOK YOUR SEATS NOW!
Princess Theatre A brilliant first entry to our "Search for a Shrubbery" competition and its a cracker! Who can beat it....
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