This August, a company of over 100 community members, professional actors and performance groups from across London will come together to perform a musical adaptation of William Shakespeare’s As You Like It. Following triumphant performances of Pericles at the National Theatre in summer 2018, this is the second Public Acts production and will take over the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch stage from 24 – 27 August.

On Thursday 12 June, the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch hosted their first Cake & A Cuppa Day in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society and the Theatre. After being kindly match funded by Barclays Hornchurch, the event raised over £1,751.72, which will be equally shared between the two charities.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is delighted to announce it has been awarded a £5,000 capital funding grant from the Equity Charitable Trust towards upgrading its green room facilities as part of its QNew Transformation Programme. These funds will be combined with the £5,000 grant the Theatre received in February from Theatre Trusts’ London Small Theatres Grants Scheme to make the space more accessible.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch will be hosting a Cake & A Cuppa Day in aid of the Alzheimer’s Society and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch on Thursday 13 June, between 12pm and 2pm in its foyer. On the day, Fairlytes Choir will be performing some memorable songs with participants from the Alzheimer’s Society’s Singing for the Brain group, which uses singing and activities to bring together people with dementia or memory loss.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has released details of the latest developments it has experienced under its QNew Transformation programme including more capital funding and upgraded equipment. Back in January and February this year, the Theatre campaigned to bag a capital grant from the Tesco Bags of Help initiative together with Groundwork London towards its Q Access strand of the £1 million pound QNew Transformation project.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has been awarded a £50,000 capital grant from Veolia Havering Riverside Maintenance Trust towards its on-going QNew Transformation Programme.   The Theatre will use this generous grant to upgrade its foyer lighting system to use LED lights, giving its audiences the benefit of an improved experience before the show, whilst enjoying a meal or participating in activities.

Following its premiere in autumn 2017 and sell-out shows across the UK and in Italy, Motionhouse brings Charge, the company’s latest electrifying dance-circus production, to the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch on Tuesday 11 June.   Charge features a fearless cast, who lift, soar and jump off not only each other but also the impressive set - which is the same height as a fully grown giraffe!

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has today unveiled its newest additions to its energetic autumn season of produced work, including productions of Love Unspoken with Spare Tyre, Macbeth co-produced with Derby Theatre and Sparky the Elf and the Secret Toyshop. The premiere of Spare Tyre’s Love Unspoken in association with the Queen’s Theatre will play in Hornchurch from 2 to 5 October.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is thrilled that its gritty and heart-warming revival of The Hired Man has received three nominations in the Off West End Theatre Awards. The production, which has opened to glowing reviews, is co-produced with Hull Truck Theatre in association with Oldham Coliseum Theatre.

The Queen’s Theatre’s co-production of Melvyn Bragg and Howard Goodall’s gritty and heart-warming musical The Hired Man opened to glowing reviews this week, with its Twitter feed buzzing round the clock with positive comments! Co-produced with Hull Truck Theatre in association with Oldham Coliseum, ActDrop gave the production four stars and said ‘Fine musicality to relish here from an excellently cast and hugely impressive team, who do more than ample justice to Howard Goodall's exceptional compositions’.

This summer the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is working on a big musical in partnership with the National Theatre, and we need lots of people to help us test out some ideas and support the show’s development. Join us for one or more fun workshops led by Director Douglas Rintoul and Choreographer Sundeep Saini.

A brand new family musical with soaring vocals and spectacular street dance will be back flipping into the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch from 22 – 26 May. The classic story of The Wind in the Willows is brought leaping into the twenty-first century by Metta Theatre and Exeter Northcott Theatre.

The Queen’s Theatre has today announced its autumn season of produced work will include two new plays from Essex playwrights performing alongside each other as part of its Essex on Stage programme, as well as two major revivals of modern classics, One Man, Two Guvnors and The Beauty Queen of Leenane. The season opens with Essex Girls and Boys, comprising of two dynamic pieces by local award-winning playwrights as part of the Theatre’s Essex on Stage programme.

Following 2018’s highly successful first year; the Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s Take Part Festival is back, showcasing fantastic work performed and presented by young local talent from Sunday 14 April to Friday 19 April. This includes the Theatre’s own youth theatre and dance groups as well as brilliant school and community groups.

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