Preview our events in 2016 – Comedy, Music & Theatre
Rolling in the Aisles Comedy Club Night – Rob Rouse
Saturday 27th February
Tickets £9 (Concessions £7)
Doors open 7.30pm – 8pm start
Jollyboat, a musical comedy duo get things started and set the pace for another evening of high energy comedy. They will be followed by Birmingham-based stand-up Craig Deeley before our main act, Rob Rouse, takes to the stage. Mitch is not only one of the most sought-after acts on the comedy circuit but is widely acknowledged as one of the best writer/performers of comic songs in the country. Continue reading…
A Potbelly Concert – Govannen
Supporting Act: The Black Feathers
Saturday 5th March
Tickets £8 or £10 on the night
Doors open 7pm – 7:30pm start
Kontra Roots in association with /Kettering Arts Centre present a concert by Govannen, one of the best Celtic bands in the UK. Blending jigs and reels with traditional and contemporary Irish songs, this popular and award winning band are just about the best barn-storming, roof-raising Celtic band in the Midlands if not the UK. With Album Sales of over 10000 worldwide, their five virtuoso musicians are not only musically superb but highly entertaining and are not to be missed! Continue reading…
Romesh Ranganathan: Irrational – Sold Out
Saturday 12th March 2016
Tickets £14 (£12 Concessions)
Doors open 7:30pm – 8pm start
Romesh Ranganathan is back with a new show exploring the rationality of his worldview. Irrational will see Romesh examine the issues close to his heart, and explains why everybody else is wrong about them. Continue reading…
Rolling in the Aisles Comedy Club Night – Gareth Richards
Saturday 19th March
Tickets £9 (Concessions £7) age 14+
Doors open 7.30pm – 8pm start
In March our headline act is the brilliant Gareth Richards whose hilarious stand-up, silly jokes and gorgeously low-key comedy songs have made him an instant favourite on the comedy circuit. Tony Vino and Dan Evans will be the opening and middle acts respectively. Continue reading…
Mark Steel – Who Do I Think I Am?
Saturday 16th April
Tickets £15 age 14+
Doors open 7.30pm – 8pm start
Comedian Mark Steel takes his audience on a sidesplitting search of identity in his newest stand up show, Who Do I Think I Am? On reaching a landmark stage in his life the regular BBC1 Have I Got News for You panelist – and the winner of Columnist of the Year at the 2015 Press Awards for his weekly column in The Independent – is taking a wry inward look into the person that is, or could be, Mark Steel. Continue reading…
Follow on Twitter: @mrmarksteel / @OffTheKerb
Rolling in the Aisles Comedy Club Nights – Richard Morton
Saturday April 23rd
Tickets £9 (Concessions £7) age 14+
Doors open 7.30pm – 8pm start
Topping the bill in April is the stand-up comedian, singer, songwriter and winner of the Time Out Comedy Award, Richard Morton. Support acts on this occasion will be James Dowdeswell and Chris Washington. Continue reading…
Simon Evans – In the Money
Saturday 30th April
Tickets: £14 (Concessions £12) 14+
Doors open 7.30pm – start 8pm
Humour can be found in virtually every situation. This is why it should come as no surprise that the host of BBC Radio 4’s Goes to Market and star of BBC1’s Live at the Apollo, Simon Evans, has garnered material from the realms of high finance after immersing himself in economics for the last couple of years. Continue reading…
Follow on Twitter: @TheSimonEvans / @OffTheKerb
A Potbelly Concert – Peter Donegan
Friday May 6th
Tickets £12 (Concessions £10)
Doors open 7.30pm – start 8pm
Peter Donegan is an accomplished musician who started his education in the entertainment business at the age of five at the Barbara Speak stage school in London – supplemented by lessons from his father, the legendary Lonnie Donegan. Continue reading…
The Pantaloons Theatre Co. present:
The Importance of Being E(a)rnest
Saturday May 14th
Tickets £10 (Concessions £9)
Doors open 7pm – start 7.30pm
Many people may have read this classic piece of literature, but probably not have come across its sub title – Handbags at Dawn. Sub title? Well, yes, if you want to bring the written word to the stage in a production from the much-loved Pantaloons Theatre Company. Continue reading…
Rolling in the Aisles Comedy Club Nights – Steve Royle
Saturday May 21st
Tickets £9 (Concessions £7) age 14+
Doors open 7.30pm – 8pm start
The comedian, actor, writer, juggle and BBC Radio presenter Steve Royle headlines May’s Comedy Club and on stage that night we also have Ria Lina and Neil Cole. Continue reading…
The Pantaloons Theatre Co. present: GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Saturday June 11th
Tickets £10 (Concessions £9)
Doors open 7pm – start 7.30pm
Join Lemuel Gulliver on a fantastical and hilarious voyage into the unknown… Meet the tiny people of Lilliput and the giants of Brobdingnag; visit the floating island of Laputa and a country peopled (or horsed?) entirely by talking horses… Continue reading…
Midsummer Acoustic Blues Night – A Potbelly Concert
Saturday July 16th
Tickets £7 in advance (£9 on the door)
Doors open 7pm – 7.30pm start
The third in our new series of Potbelly Concerts features not one but two of the UK’s top virtuoso blues guitarists and performers – the European Blues Awards 2014 runner-up, Kris Dollimore, and musician’s musician Robin Bibi. Both are great soulful singers and as well as stunning guitarists. Continue reading….
Tickets for some of these events are only available to our members and may be purchased by post including an SAE to Jaime Ferreira at 4 Litchfield Close, Kettering NN16 9BS (cheques made payable to “PCC of St Andrew’s Kettering”). Tickets are also available by contacting Jaime by email at office@ketteringartscentre.com or online at We Got Tickets (subject to a booking fee). Tickets for the general public will be available later in February.
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