This play is entered in the Kent Drama Festival

Following on from their success with Sweeney Todd, One Night at The Playhouse and Avenue Q, Wiley Wolf Productions Ltd return to the Whitstable Playhouse with one mean, green mother of a musical!

A deviously delicious Broadway and Hollywood B Movie musical, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS has devoured the hearts of theatre goers for over 30 years. Howard Ashman and Alan Menken (Disney's The Little Mermaid, Beauty And The Beast, and Aladdin) are the creative geniuses behind what has become one of the most popular shows in the world.

For the residents of Skid Row, life is full of broken dreams and dead ends. But there’s hope on the horizon for flower shop assistant, Seymour, when he discovers a mysterious new plant with killer potential. This foul-mouthed carnivore promises fame and fortune to the down and out protagonist as long as he keeps feeding it.

Will Seymour discover the true intentions of the plant before it's too late?

Filled with tongue in cheek comedy, toe-tapping musical numbers and puppets, LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS is a night out you won't forget!

All My Sons
by Arthur Miller
directed by Jeremy Herrin

Broadcast live from The Old Vic in London, Academy Award-winner Sally Field (Steel Magnolias, Brothers & Sisters) and Bill Pullman (The Sinner, Independence Day) star in Arthur Miller’s blistering drama All My Sons.

America, 1947. Despite hard choices and even harder knocks, Joe and Kate Keller are a success story. They have built a home, raised two sons and established a thriving business.

But nothing lasts forever and their contented lives, already shadowed by the loss of their eldest boy to war, are about to shatter. With the return of a figure from the past, long buried truths are forced to the surface and the price of their American dream is laid bare.

Jeremy Herrin (NT Live: This House, People, Places & Things) directs a cast including Jenna Coleman (Victoria), and Colin Morgan (Merlin).

All My Sons is an Old Vic co-production with Headlong

This play is entered in the Kent Drama Festival

National Theatre Live - Small Island
adapted by Helen Edmundson
based on the novel by Andrea Levy

Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel Small Island comes to life in an epic new theatre adaptation. Experience the play in cinemas, filmed live on stage as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Small Island embarks on a journey from Jamaica to Britain, through the Second World War to 1948 –the year the HMT Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury. The play follows three intricately connected stories. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots.

Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as the play traces the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK. A company of 40 actors take to the stage of the National Theatre in this timely and moving story.

The Lehman Trilogy by Stefano Massini, adapted by Ben Power directed by Sam Mendes

The story of a family and a company that changed the world, told in three parts on a single evening.

Academy Award-winner Sam Mendes (Skyfall, The Ferryman) directs Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley and Ben Miles who play the Lehman Brothers, their sons and grandsons.

On a cold September morning in 1844 a young man from Bavaria stands on a New York dockside. Dreaming of a new life in the new world. He is joined by his two brothers and an American epic begins. 163 years later, the firm they establish – Lehman Brothers – spectacularly collapses into bankruptcy, and triggers the largest financial crisis in history.

This critically acclaimed and five-time Olivier Award-nominated play features stunning set design from Es Devlin (NT Live: Hamlet) and will be broadcast live from London’s West End as part of National Theatre Live’s 10th Birthday season.

Their back – and better than ever!

The Playhouse welcomes back “The One and Only Rat Pack Show!”

Neil Gordon has performed as Frank Sinatra on stage in London’s West End Show as well as many theatres throughout the UK and worldwide.

Neil Duncan has also toured the UK with ‘The Rat Pack’ and truly captures the voice, mannerisms and mischief of Dean Martin.

Darren Charles, a trained actor and dancer uses these qualities to re create an incredible tribute to Sammy Davis Jnr. Darren has also appeared in the West End’s Rat Pack Show on numerous occasions.

The show is fully supported by a fabulous six piece swing band under the musical direction of the very talented Mr. Toby Cruse.

In the fifties and sixties these three cool dudes ruled the roost in the entertainment capitol - Las Vegas.

Whether it’s Everybody Love Somebody, Mr Bojangles, Strangers in the Night or New York, New York, this superb show has them all and truly captures the stage presence, comedy timing and great voices of Frank, Dean and Sammy at their very best!

This play is entered in the Kent Drama Festiv

One Man, Two Guvnors by Richard Bean based on The Servant of Two Masters by Carlo Goldoni, with songs by Grant Olding

Featuring a Tony Award-winning performance from host of the The Late Late Show, James Corden, the hilarious West End and Broadway hit One Man, Two Guvnors returns to cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th birthday.

Fired from his skiffle band, Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe Crabbe, a small time East End hood, now in Brighton to collect £6,000 from his fiancée’s dad. But Roscoe is really his sister Rachel posing as her own dead brother, who’s been killed by her boyfriend Stanley Stubbers.

Holed up at The Cricketers’ Arms, the permanently ravenous Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubbers, who is hiding from the police and waiting to be re-united with Rachel. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart. Simple.