Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch’s annual pantomime is always a firm family favourite, and it is a pleasure to now be able to reveal the cast and creatives for the upcoming production of Sleeping Beauty, playing from 24 November - 31 December 2022. Firstly, the Theatre are delighted to announce that this year’s dame, Super Nanny, will be played by returning audience-favourite, Dominic Gee-Burch.

We are looking for people to participate in a workshop on queer immigrant narratives based on performance art and the intersection of different artistic mediums. Do you consider yourself part of a queer immigrant community?

Ahead of next week's transfer from Derby Theatre of our co-production of Jekyll and Hyde, we spoke to the director of the play, Sarah Brigham. "Neil Bartlett is a writer I have worked with previously when I directed his adaptation of Great Expectations in 2017.

Do you, or someone you know, have a story or photo to share about playing football in an industrial women's worker's league? Or any connection to women's football?

Following a sell-out run during their recent Blueprint Festival, Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch are delighted to announce that Mia Jerome’s Rice & Peas is going on tour, supported by Creative Estuary. The show will be touring to two community venues in South Essex from 11 – 15 October.

The Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch is thrilled that Eithne Browne has been nominated for her lead role in Maggie May. Maggie May was an extraordinary play about an ordinary Leeds family, balancing the challenges of daily life whilst living with dementia. A heartfelt story of hope by award-winning playwright Frances Poet.  Eithne is nominated for Best Performance in a Play in the UK Theatre Awards.

Following its incredible run at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, this show will be touring FOUR community venues throughout Havering. Tickets are available at the unbelievable price of just £10.

Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch has today announced three productions for its Spring 2023 season, which will include the world premiere of Rebus: A Game Called Malice by Ian Rankin and Simon Reade, produced by Dan Schumann, Lee Dean and Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Playing 2 – 25 February, the new Rebus story will be told exclusively on stage.

Theatre Nation Partnerships is an innovative network of theatres and community organisations founded by the National Theatre in 2017 to grow nationwide engagement with theatre The new programme will reach over 500,000 audiences, artists and participants across England over three years including in Outer East London and South Essex Theatre Nation Partnerships is supported by the National Theatre and a £1.25 million award by Arts Council England, made possible thanks to National Lottery players Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch will extend its involvement with the Theatre Nation Partnerships (TNP) network today. Since 2017, the programme has engaged with over 222,000 participants, audiences and artists, including across England.

The Offies (Off West End Theatre Awards) today announced three nominations for two Blueprint Festival productions at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, The Empty Chair and In This Smoking Chaos. Assessors have nominated Robert Pickavance for Best Performance in an IDEA Production, for his role in the The Empty Chair, produced and commissioned by the Theatre for its first ever Blueprint Festival of new ideas.

The route is today announced for Final Farewell, a self-guided audio production that arrives at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch in a blaze of glowing reviews. The dramatic audio experience, created by pioneering theatre company Tara, is presented on 23 - 24 September, as part of the Theatre’s Blueprint Festival.

A trio of micro plays commissioned for our Blueprint Festival of new ideas are all based on one theme, Food For Thought, but they could not be more different. Festival-goers can see script-in-hand performances of the three 20-minute plays that feature a mouse, a wake and a trendy restaurant in one festival event.

David Shearing is an award-winning artist who creates immersive multimedia installations. His recent work, The Rising Sun, a building filled with light and voices, stopped Romford in its tracks when it was situated in the town centre earlier this year.

Writer and director Kate Lovell is the creative force behind Blueprint Festival’s family show, Frostiana, 21 - 24 September. With designer Gabe Gilmour, she presents a sensory environment, specially built in a space inside the building of Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch, where audiences will be led by a performer on a short interactive journey inspired by Frost Fairs.

Poet and songwriter Miss Jacqui is announced to headline Blueprint festival’s Centre Stage evening of local d/Deaf, disabled, and neuro-divergent talent on 22 September at Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch. Miss Jacqui is an activist who has been working to challenge perceptions of disability for more than 15 years.