Hilarity Bites Comedy Club feat. Brennan Reece, Catherine Young, and host Roger Monkhouse

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The Dark Musical Comedy 💀
✨ World Premiere coming 12th-14th March 2026 ✨

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The Dark Musical Comedy 💀
✨ World Premiere coming 12th-14th March 2026 ✨

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The Dark Musical Comedy 💀
✨ World Premiere coming 12th-14th March 2026 ✨

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When Matt was little, their dad bought a classic car. A 1952 Sunbeam Talbot Mark II. Dad had ideas that he and Matt would do it up, repair, rebuild together. They never did, and the car festered in a garage.
I mean, Dad had just been through a divorce.
Now in their 30’s, Matt would like to learn how to fix a car engine. They’d like to learn a bit more about Dad, and that time, when Dad and Mum split up. The time when Matt and Dad were closest.
Matt can’t do this alone, which is tricky for a solo show. That’s where Matt’s drag alter-ego Natalie Spanner comes in. She knows all about things that girls like Natalie know about. Like how to build an engine. About maintenance, care and repair.
Together, Matt and Natalie will try to ask, in an increasingly broken world, how might we repair ourselves, together?

A drag show about family break ups, car breakdowns, and how to get over them.

“Delightful . . . a novel collision between queer culture and mechanics” – The Guardian
“Charming and often very funny look at fractured family life” – The Stage

Presented to launch the 2026 Ripon Theatre Festival. Tickets include a glass of bubbly, information about forthcoming festival events and refreshments courtesy of Valentino’s.

Friday 27 March. Doors and refreshments from 7pm, event starts 7.30pm.

Tickets £17

JOHN KIRKPATRICK & SUE HARRIS
With BENJI KIRKPATRICK

John & Sue met in 1970, married in 1971, and began making music together as a duo on the English Folk Scene and beyond. In 1973 they moved to Shropshire, and went on to produce four sons (Benji is Number Two), five LPs, and two Morris Teams, and spent time in Dingle’s Chillybom Band, The Albion Country Band, Umps & Dumps, and The Richard Thompson Band. They provided music, song, and dance for numerous plays in the theatre and on radio, but gradually worked together less and less, until a final appearance in 1992.

Thirty-two years later they have joined forces again for the occasional gig, usually with Benji, who has been striding out in his own right as a soloist and as a member of Bellowhead, Faustus, and The Seth Lakeman Band.

You’ll hear large chunks of their old repertoire, along with a few new compositions and arrangements, solo spots from Benji, and several numbers with all three playing together.

The Arts Hub well stocked bar will be open at 7.00pm, hall at 7.20 and music at 7.45.
This will be an all seated event in this intimate venue.

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RAOS Musical Theatre Company – the team that brought you Calendar Girls and Sister Act, present 9 to 5 The Musical – with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, it is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?!

This is a high-energy show with a jubilant score and easily relatable characters.

This is a community production presented by RAOS Musical Theatre Company.

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RAOS Musical Theatre Company – the team that brought you Calendar Girls and Sister Act, present 9 to 5 The Musical – with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, it is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?!

This is a high-energy show with a jubilant score and easily relatable characters.

This is a community production presented by RAOS Musical Theatre Company.

Book Now

RAOS Musical Theatre Company – the team that brought you Calendar Girls and Sister Act, present 9 to 5 The Musical – with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, it is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?!

This is a high-energy show with a jubilant score and easily relatable characters.

This is a community production presented by RAOS Musical Theatre Company.

Book Now

RAOS Musical Theatre Company – the team that brought you Calendar Girls and Sister Act, present 9 to 5 The Musical – with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, it is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?!

This is a high-energy show with a jubilant score and easily relatable characters.

This is a community production presented by RAOS Musical Theatre Company.

Book Now

RAOS Musical Theatre Company – the team that brought you Calendar Girls and Sister Act, present 9 to 5 The Musical – with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, it is based on the seminal 1980 hit movie. Set in the late 1970s, this hilarious story of friendship and revenge in the Rolodex era is outrageous, thought-provoking and even a little romantic.

Pushed to boiling point, three female co-workers concoct a plan to get even with the sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot they call their boss. In a hilarious turn of events, Violet, Judy and Doralee live out their wildest fantasy – giving their boss the boot! While Hart remains “otherwise engaged,” the women give their workplace a dream makeover, taking control of the company that had always kept them down. Hey, a girl can scheme, can’t she?!

This is a high-energy show with a jubilant score and easily relatable characters.

This is a community production presented by RAOS Musical Theatre Company.

Book Now

Dan Webster and Emily Lawler plus Band

Dan Webster has been described as ‘one of the U.K’s best kept musical secrets and one not to miss!’, ‘Achingly lovely, like sun breaking on a rain swept highway…’ RnR and an ‘An insightful lyricist with a great voice’ Acoustic Magazine. According to Americana UK - ‘He is the missing link, the joining point, where folk fuses with country – as good as you’ll hear on any record out of Austin or Nashville - beautiful – he is Anglicana’. Dan is a road-seasoned English singer-songwriter and guitarist, his music is influenced by the sounds and storytelling traditions of Americana, which he uniquely melds with an honest Northern English perspective in his songwriting. His sound is unashamedly influenced by the US - his heart remains a Yorkshireman’s.
Dan like his band is a formidable live performer - inspiring attention; pulling you into his work with finely crafted melodies and lyrics - delivered with a powerful and honest vocal...fantastic solo, duo, or with his band. They’ll have laughing, dancing and crying.
The press is unanimous!
Dan Webster’s subtle exploration of the human heart resonated with me after each spin of his fine new record... which draws assuredly on folk and country roots from across the Atlantic but remains assertively northern English. RnR ****
Webster proves to be a master story teller and fine entertainer County Music Magazine ****
Dan Webster played an impressive set at Maverick… performing under his name a permanent band… well-honed violin of Emily Lawler and cello of Rachel Brown weaving interesting lines and counter melodies… incorporates folk and bluegrass but also draws on Springsteen… Country Music People Magazine

“Mixing folk, country and even a little rock ‘n’ roll, all delivered with a clear, distinctive voice, some great playing and an immaculate sound, it stopped me in my tracks.” Folk Radio UK

‘There’s a real exuberance to the performance, the audience were soon having a hoe down as the band’s energy became infectious, the crowd were enthralled.’ Kendal Calling review by 3 Songs and Out

‘He is the missing link, the joining point, where folk fuses with country – as good as you’ll hear on any record out of Austin or Nashville - and Alt rock.’ Americana UK 9/10

“His delivery is passionate, this album boasts a big, big heart.” Folk Radio UK

As well as a recording artist, Dan is a skilled producer working with several rising stars of the roots scene including The Magpies, Bella Gaffney, Polly Bolton, Joshua Burnell, Fran Wyburn and Rachel Croft.
For more information and lots of live videos go to-:
www.danwebstermusic.com
This will be a seated event

Fully stocked bar available from 7pm.
Concert hall 7.30
Music at 8pm

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SONS OF TOWN HALL

Welcome to the mythic world of Sons of Town Hall, the international, waterborne duo of George "Ulysses" Brown (UK) and Josiah "Chester" Jones (US). The pair transcends time and space, dressed in threadbare Victorian outfits, they meditate about the ocean, and sing songs that beg you to sing along. Their songs are masterful in their own right, poetic turns of phrases sung with voices so perfectly matched it is impossible to tell them apart, harmonies so sublime they will seem the work of witchcraft, and intricately finger-picked guitar parts worthy of Apollo himself. But it is Sons of Town Hall's presentation that sets them apart from every other guitar-slinging songwriting team out there.

The show is three-parts concert, one-part theater and unlike anything most have ever experienced. George and Josiah's between-song repartee is unique and absolutely hilarious, as they share their tales of traveling the world on the water and roaming the frontier looking for work. The affection they feel for each other is contagious, and audiences leave in love with both of them, with each other, and with life in general.

You will laugh. You will cry. You will be transfixed and transformed, drunk on adventure and the tragic beauty of the human condition.

Highly, highly recommended.

"Seamless vocal harmonies...stories of sea voyages, betrayal and desolation... a more coherent concept you’ll be pushed to find" The Observer

"It’s part balladry, part performance art, and totally cool. … Think Simon & Garfunkel lost at sea, and you get a sense of the mythic world at play here." Philadelphia Inquirer


https://sonsoftownhall.com/
instagram.com/sonsoftownhall
https://www.youtube.com/@SonsOfTownHall

This will be a seated event in an itimate venue

Fully stocked bar available from 7pm.
Concert hall 7.30
Music at 8pm

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Join Ripon Youth Theatre for an enchanting journey through the magic of Disney as we present Dare to Dream. This spectacular musical celebration brings together beloved stories of courage, adventure, and following your heart, featuring iconic moments and unforgettable songs from Disney's most treasured tales.

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Join Ripon Youth Theatre for an enchanting journey through the magic of Disney as we present Dare to Dream. This spectacular musical celebration brings together beloved stories of courage, adventure, and following your heart, featuring iconic moments and unforgettable songs from Disney's most treasured tales.

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Join Ripon Youth Theatre for an enchanting journey through the magic of Disney as we present Dare to Dream. This spectacular musical celebration brings together beloved stories of courage, adventure, and following your heart, featuring iconic moments and unforgettable songs from Disney's most treasured tales.

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Join Ripon Youth Theatre for an enchanting journey through the magic of Disney as we present Dare to Dream. This spectacular musical celebration brings together beloved stories of courage, adventure, and following your heart, featuring iconic moments and unforgettable songs from Disney's most treasured tales.

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Join Ripon Youth Theatre for an enchanting journey through the magic of Disney as we present Dare to Dream. This spectacular musical celebration brings together beloved stories of courage, adventure, and following your heart, featuring iconic moments and unforgettable songs from Disney's most treasured tales.

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