Website of monthly magazine Ipswich24. Covering Ipswich, Woodbridge, Felixstowe, Hadleigh, Stowmarket and surrounding areas. Leading whats on and where to go magazine for the area.
23/04/2026
It’s 25 years since the Red Rose Chain performed their first Theatre in the Forest back in 2000. Since then their open-air productions have gone from strength to strength and become a must see each summer. This year sees historic Sutton Hoo again as the backdrop for more Shakespearian fun with A Midsummer Night’s Dream. …
Read More about Review: A Midsummer’s Night Dream – Red Rose Chain
It’s over 20 years since Busted released their eponymous debut and gave us the hits What I Go To School For and Year 3000, back when the band were in their teens. Now in their late 30s and early 40s they are playing those same songs, with similar energy, albeit after some tweaks as per…
Read More about Review: Busted, Newmarket Nights
Disney’s Beauty and The Beast is the latest musical to get The CTC treatment, at Bury St Edmund’s beautiful Theatre Royal. The musical first wowed Broadway audiences in 1994 and since that time has gone on to perform to critical acclaim around the world. It is adapted from the Disney animated classic and still…
Read More about Review: Beauty & the Beast – (CTC Production)
There are some earth-shattering events in history that are etched on our minds forever. The ones where you hear the expression “You will never forget where you were when you heard….” (That Kennedy was killed, man walked on the moon, Elvis died, Lennon was shot and of course the 9/11 attack with planes crashing into…
Read More about Review” Come From Away
The final act for this year’s Forest Live concerts at Thetford Forest’s High Lodge would be the cheeky chappy from Essex and X-Factor runner-up turned Xtra Factor presenter, Olly Murs. Fresh from playing Cannock Chase in Staffordshire the night before, Murs had brought early 2000s star Daniel Bedingfield along for both gigs. The opening act…
Read More about Review: Olly Murs, Thetford Forest
The Forest Live series of concerts have been running for over 20 years now, bringing some of the biggest names into Thetford Forest time after time. This year has already seen Bryan Adams and Sting take to the stage at High Lodge. On Thursday 27th June Paloma was the third headliner of this year’s run…
Read More about Review: Paloma Faith, Thetford Forest
It’s that time of year again, the Jockey Club’s live music season at Newmarket’s July Course kicked off on Friday night. With Pete Tong starting his Ibiza Classics tour at the racecourse. The tour sees Tong once again partnering with conductor Jules Buckley and a 65 piece orchestra to reimagine a selection of club favourites…
Read More about Review: Pete Tong – Newmarket Nights
Most people know Grease as the hit movie starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, but long before it was a hit on the big screen it already had a major following as a stage musical. Grease is a story of teenage love, angst and growing up in America in the late 1950s. The attraction of…
Read More about Review: Grease
Community Service is a story inspired by the life of a community hero Trevor Prince. Back in the 1980s Trevor was an aspiring gospel guitarist living in the Birmingham, he went on to become one of the Midland’s first Black Police officers, this brought him into conflict on the streets as well as within his…
Read More about Review: Community Service
Forget everything you thought you knew about Richard III. Richard, My Richard is a brand-new play written by Phillipa Gregory, a first for this amazing author who is more well known for her incredible historical novels. Phillipa explains in the programme, that a lot of what we are led to believe about Richard III…
Read More about Review: Richard, My Richard