What's on at Colchester Arts Centre, Colchester

130 shows coming up at Colchester Arts Centre, Church Street, Colchester. See dates and prices and book direct with the venue.

• Colchester Fringe Festival - FREE CRISPS * – Saturday, 31 October 2026, free
• Colchester Fringe Festival - Josephine * – Saturday, 31 October 2026 (2 dates)
• Colchester Fringe Festival - House of Diamonds * – Saturday, 31 October 2026
• Colchester Fringe Festival - (a play in a) DARK ROOM * – Sunday, 1 November 2026
• Colchester Fringe Festival: The Last Cabaret * – Sunday, 1 November 2026
• French Night 2026 * – Monday, 2 November 2026
• Wonderful Wednesdays - Christopher Brett Bailey: I Saw Satan at the 7-Eleven – Wednesday, 4 November 2026
• The Laughter Zone Comedy Club * – Friday, 6 November 2026 (14 dates)
• Booster Cushion Theatre: Old McDonald and the Three Pigs Plus... – Saturday, 7 November 2026
• Ghosts of Atlantis + Knocked for Six + Mixology DJ Set – Saturday, 7 November 2026
• Michael Spicer: Hope All's Well * – Sunday, 8 November 2026
• Kit Hawes & Aaron Catlow + The Umbrella Factory * – Monday, 9 November 2026
• Milo Edwards: Catamaran – Tuesday, 10 November 2026
• Wonderful Wednesdays - Action Hero: A Song and Dance – Wednesday, 11 November 2026
• Classic Horror Nights: Satanic Rites of Dracula – Thursday, 12 November 2026
• Chai Lates * – Friday, 13 November 2026 (3 dates)
• Frock Swap * – Saturday, 14 November 2026
• Dismanibus - CANCELLED * – Saturday, 14 November 2026
• Vinyl Sessions: Jeff Buckley - Grace – Sunday, 15 November 2026
• Kim Cypher's Funky Latin Jazz Party * – Sunday, 15 November 2026
• Archie Moss, Toby Shaer & Jack Warnock + Sarah Graves * – Monday, 16 November 2026
• Simon Yates of Touching the Void - My Mountain Life – Tuesday, 17 November 2026
• Wonderful Wednesdays - SkelpieLimmer Productions & Brassneck Theatre Company: Anthem for Dissatisfaction – Wednesday, 18 November 2026
• The Rabbitts + Evy Frearson – Thursday, 19 November 2026
• Knightmare Live – Friday, 20 November 2026
• Amazing Addrian - Three Boxes – Saturday, 21 November 2026
• The Specials Ltd. 'Ghost Town' 45th Anniversary * – Saturday, 21 November 2026
• David Ford: Songbook Tour – Sunday, 22 November 2026
• Katie Spencer * – Monday, 23 November 2026
• Blue Rose Code – Tuesday, 24 November 2026
• Wonderful Wednesdays - In Bed with My Brother: Philosophy of The World (BSL interpreted) – Wednesday, 25 November 2026
• Frankenstein (1931) - with a live score performed by Jason Frederick – Thursday, 26 November 2026
• Keep Colchester Cool presents: Myopia + Charcoal + If Not Now – Friday, 27 November 2026
• Fleetwood Bac * – Saturday, 28 November 2026
• Sooz Kempner: Imposter – Sunday, 29 November 2026
• Mambo Jambo + Suzy Cramer * – Monday, 30 November 2026
• Sheyla Bonnick's Boney M Experience - CANCELLED – Tuesday, 1 December 2026
• The Wandering Hearts * – Wednesday, 2 December 2026
• Emotional Madness with MaryAnn & Mates – Thursday, 3 December 2026 (5 dates)
• Mediaeval Baebes 30th Anniversary Tour * – Saturday, 5 December 2026
• The Total Stone Roses & Oaysis * – Sunday, 6 December 2026
• Winter Wonderband * – Monday, 7 December 2026
• John Otway and Wild Willy Barrett - Alive and Gigging! * – Tuesday, 8 December 2026
• Wonderful Wenesdays - John Osborne: Step Into Christmas – Wednesday, 9 December 2026
• I Hear Voices Theatre Company presents… A Ghost Story for Christmas – "The Wrong Doctor" – Thursday, 10 December 2026
• Ignacio Lopez: Nada * – Friday, 11 December 2026
• Colchester Arts Centre's Christmas Daytime Disco with DJs Ben Howard & Sam Leppard – Saturday, 12 December 2026
• Andy Zaltzman: 2026 – The Certifiable History – Saturday, 12 December 2026
• Chai Makes - Masala Magic* – Sunday, 13 December 2026
• A Charlie Brown Christmas: The Movie... And the Music of Vince Guaraldi – Sunday, 13 December 2026
• Narthen: Icicles & Inglenooks * – Monday, 14 December 2026
• Classic Horror Nights: From Beyond the Grave + The Classic Horror Christmas Quiz – Tuesday, 15 December 2026
• Sh!t Theatre present: The Original Sing-A-Long-A Muppet Christmas Carol – Thursday, 17 December 2026 (2 dates)
• Family Christmas Show! Theatre of Widdershins - The Elves and The Shoemaker – Saturday, 19 December 2026 (11 dates)
• Christmas Poetry Bash featuring John Cooper Clarke, Martin Newell, Luke Wright & Ross Sutherland * – Saturday, 19 December 2026
• The 9075 + Fontaines C.D. * – Sunday, 20 December 2026
• Family Christmas Show! Theatre of Widdershins - The Elves and The Shoemaker Relaxed Performance – Wednesday, 23 December 2026
• A Christmas Carol By Candlelight – Wednesday, 23 December 2026 (2 dates)
• The Laughter Zone New Year's Eve Special + After Show Club Night with DJ Sam Leppard * – Thursday, 31 December 2026
• The Great Arts Centre Jumble Sale 2027! – Sunday, 3 January 2027
• Chai Talks * – Thursday, 7 January 2027 (2 dates)
• Evy Frearson + Arthur Black + Dean Frost* – Saturday, 9 January 2027
• Martyn Joseph * – Thursday, 14 January 2027
• The Rezillos * – Saturday, 16 January 2027
• Anna Pool Sings Dory Previn * – Monday, 18 January 2027
• GoatFest featuring Goat Monsoon + Draugrheim + Arms To Oblivion + DJ FettDog – Thursday, 21 January 2027
• Anyone For Tennis? – Friday, 22 January 2027
• Teddy Bear's Concert – Sunday, 24 January 2027
• Cheek To Cheek: Celebrating The Golden Age of Jazz Duets with Marvin Muoneke and Lydia Bell – Sunday, 24 January 2027
• 18th Colchester Winter Ale Festival – Wednesday, 27 January 2027 (4 dates)
• Christina Alden & Alex Patterson * – Monday, 1 February 2027
• Robert White: ‘THAT’ Gay Autistic Keyboard Tanktop Comedy Guy! * – Tuesday, 2 February 2027
• Ultimate Coldplay * – Saturday, 6 February 2027
• Rosie Holt: The Illegal Aliens Have Landed! – Sunday, 7 February 2027
• Jon Boden: 'A Folk Song A Day' Solo Tour * – Monday, 8 February 2027
• Craven Faults – Wednesday, 10 February 2027
• Power to the People - An evening with Tom Heap – Thursday, 11 February 2027
• Rob Auton: Jupiter – Friday, 12 February 2027
• Northern Soul Night featuring The Croupiers – Saturday, 13 February 2027
• Chai Makes * – Sunday, 14 February 2027
• Pierre Novellie: Okay, One More Then Bedtime * – Tuesday, 16 February 2027
• The Black Charade + Fell Out Boy + Dookie * – Friday, 19 February 2027
• Benji Kirkpatrick * – Monday, 22 February 2027
• Michael Akadiri: Don’t Call Me Uncle! – Wednesday, 24 February 2027
• Harriet Kemsley: Floozy * – Friday, 26 February 2027
• Lost Voice Guy: The Cerebral Palsy Puppet * – Saturday, 27 February 2027
• Fabienne Ambuehl – Sunday, 28 February 2027
• Ray O'Leary: I Can See O'Leary Now The Ray Has Gone – Sunday, 7 March 2027
• John Robertson: Excitable Boy! * – Tuesday, 9 March 2027
• Wonderful Wednesdays - Yael Elisheva: The Wise Men – Wednesday, 10 March 2027
• Chloe Petts ‘Call Me by My Surname’ – Thursday, 18 March 2027
• Flat & The Curves: Rosé Tinted – Friday, 19 March 2027
• The Style Councillors 'Café Bleu' Tour * – Saturday, 20 March 2027
• Tape Face: 20 * – Thursday, 25 March 2027
• Rachel Parris - The Rachel Parris Songbook * – Friday, 26 March 2027
• Folk Extra - Daoirí Farrell * – Thursday, 8 April 2027
• Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection – Friday, 9 April 2027
• Martin Stephenson & The Daintees 'Gladsome, Humour & Blue' Tour * – Sunday, 11 April 2027
• Secret Affair + Purple Hearts * – Friday, 16 April 2027
• Orange Claw Hammer – Saturday, 17 April 2027
• Hunter Muskett * – Monday, 19 April 2027
• Ania Magliano: Peach Fuzz – Tuesday, 20 April 2027
• First Time Flyers * – Thursday, 22 April 2027
• Paul Foot: The Future * – Friday, 23 April 2027
• The LipSinkers – Saturday, 24 April 2027 (2 dates)
• Emily Saunders - International Jazz Week – Sunday, 25 April 2027
• Milton Jones and Guests * – Thursday, 29 April 2027
• Amy Gledhill: Thanks For Having Me – Friday, 30 April 2027
• Kane Brown - Crowd Work King * – Sunday, 2 May 2027
• Carl Hutchinson: Fine Whine – Thursday, 20 May 2027
• ExTC - This is Pop * – Friday, 21 May 2027
• London Calling Play The Clash “Should I Stay or Should I Go” Tour 2026/2027 * – Saturday, 22 May 2027
• French Night 2027 with Bof!, Paul Riley & Gwendal Moële and Corbeau * – Monday, 24 May 2027
• Fatiha El-Ghorri: Cockney Stacking Doll – Wednesday, 9 June 2027
• 9 Below Zero 50th Anniversary Tour: '59 Below Zero' – Friday, 18 June 2027
• Guns 2 Roses and Special Guests: Moretallica and Faith No Man * – Saturday, 19 June 2027
• Bruce Foxton '50 Years of The Jam' + Very Special Guests * – Saturday, 26 June 2027
• Mark Simmons & Friends * – Tuesday, 6 July 2027
• Focus - The Diplodocus Tour 2027 * – Sunday, 22 August 2027
• Rudebone – Friday, 27 August 2027
• Alex Hitchcock Quartet – Sunday, 5 September 2027
• Tom Houghton: How The Mighty * – Tuesday, 21 September 2027
• Jeff Innocent * – Thursday, 23 September 2027
• A Head Full of Coldplay * – Saturday, 25 September 2027
• Explosive Light Orchestra (ELO) * – Saturday, 2 October 2027
• Riona O'Connor & Olga Thompson – Sunday, 10 October 2027
• Pete Firman: Jokus Pocus * – Thursday, 11 November 2027
• The FM Songbook - The Ultimate Tribute to Fleetwood Mac * – Saturday, 13 November 2027
• Sun Cutter (AKA Kevin Pearce) – Thursday, 2 December 2027
• Josh Jones: Confessions of a Leggy Blonde * – Saturday, 11 March 2028