Palace Theatre,Westcliffe Review

Fantastic venue...friendly staff...good bar service. Oh, and the show was also good

Always a good venue if a good show is on.
Bar prices rather too high for Westcliff.

A true theatre with the most wonderful atmosphere of the London west end. A jewel for southend. A++++++

Watched Little Shop of Horrors and it was brilliant. Love the Palace Theatre.

A perfect place to attend to for when you wish to experience the joys of stage entertainment where you get more emotions from really listening to the human voice and for being a part of the reactions of the audience so you can really express what your thoughts are. If you want to be entertained during a sense of nostalgia this is the place, as it takes you back in time from the architecture and its written history, and if you do not feel nostalgic then it can give you the trigger and make you wonder.
The staff there appreciate the audience as the do with the setting.
Before you enter into the actual theatre there is a piano player already there intensely playing beautiful tunes which help get your mind ready for the show and makes you feel welcome as a guest and a friend.

A charming old fashioned theatre with great shows of all genres. Love it

Nice theatre good staff. Very poor sound system.I used their assist system only for it to go flat during the show. I was not happy.

Beautiful old picturesque theatre. In constant use, I'm glad to say

Really enjoyed the play, well acted production and stage management did justice to A portrait of Dorian Gray. Well done.

Black Coffee: 17th March 2014.
I have seen a fair number of plays adapted from Agatha Christies stories and generally have enjoyed them all. Black Coffee last night though was the best of the bunch. From the total professionalism, yet obvious enjoyment, of the actors, to the wonderfully atmosphere of the art deco one-room scene for the entire play, everything was perfect. The lighting, the stage, the ambiance, the clarity of speech, the wonderful 1920's costumes, even the sometimes amusing accents, all were of the highest quality. The superb Robert Powell gave us his own interpretation of Hercule Poirot, which I viewed as a combine based on the Peter Ustinov and Albert Finney versions, while Eric Carte and Robin McCallum took their portrayals of Japp and Hastings straight from the long running TV series, ensuring that we had a night which gave us the best of the many adaptions of Christie's penmanship. It was really nice to see the lovely Liza Goddard again, and to hear Gary Mavers struggle with and effectively defeat the Italian accent brought an unexpected additional lightness to what was actually a murderous plot of true evil villainy.
The Palace Theatre is a friendly establishment that deserves to be well supported by the local community. Thankfully last night's performance was virtually sold out, not bad for a Monday night. There are many plays and shows at the Palace throughout the year, as well as at the Dixon (used mainly by local amateur dramatic societies), so there is always something for everyone at one time or another. It is always a pleasant night out and my wife and I are happy to visit as often as we can.

This is a lovely old theatre well worth a visit... last night's Mindgames play was superby acted keeping tension high & audience guessing right to the end...Please go to see it..on till Sat 27th Jan

Had a great night with family watching a Christmas carol play absolutely great

Very good venue, decent view from the top circle. Reasonable bar and snack selection too

Bit of a down at heel Victorian Lady these days but has charm and character a plenty.

Try The Dixon studio for a more intimate experience.

Palace treatre. Nice clean place great night watching The Circus Of Horrors. Fantastic show..

Saw Joe Pasquale in Some Mother's, theatre great and not too hot considering it was 30oC outside!

Lovely theatre with old fashioned decor but a modern outlook

Nice theater, went to see very good amature production of Singing in the Rain.

Lovely theatre but NO parking makes it a big decision to go

Small and friendly theatre. Avoid upper circle as it's quite restricted viewing, as are to a lesser degree all circle rows past first one.
Downstairs close to stage and all great seats.
Park up the road in pay and display, or try to find a space on residential streets.

The Palace Theatre is a small local theatre that entices some very good productions and actors. It is very welcoming and as it is small, it also has the intense feeling that larger places cannot reconstruct. It has a bar on the ground floor, which I did find was quite expensive, but nevertheless the overall experience was very good.

Lovely theatre good show
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Saw a lovely show of the Very Hungry Caterpillar with our 21m son. It's a clean venue with friendly staff. Unfortunately there are no baby change facilities and they were out of hand soap in the gents

Wheelchair accessible to a point great shows but the queues for the disabled loo are daft

Amazing old theatre doing what a theatre should and putting on great shows

Very poor Guinness. They need to clean the pipes. Horrible metallic taste.

It's easy to book online. I printed the tickets online so went just straight to the right theatre. The experience for the kids plays was amazing! It was also a little interactive so the little ones loved it. Definitely recommend. Also, the last time we attended there were seat boosters to rent for the kids to seat higher.

Amazing service had an an amazing time preforming there on Tuesday 13th would love to do it again x

Staff pleasant and really enjoyed the SODS' production of Rent. As ever, performances excellent production values very good

So lucky to have a great theatre within walking distance. Lots of different types of shows.

Always good plays and great acting but so sad the material is torn and falling away from the front of the dress circle and under the stage. It's time SBC spent some money on it!

Really enjoyed this venue. Loved the old features of decor. Good comfy seats with good leg room too. Looking forward to visiting again.

An adorable, spacious and well maintained theatre, the seats were very comfortable for the two hour performance.

Not really what I was expecting, not as big as I thought, seats up the top abit to far from stage

disappointed, I'm 6'7" and no way i could fit in the seat, my friend is only 5'7" and his shins were up against the seat in-front.spent second half standing at the rear. Aside from that I went to see Jethro who I've loved for years but out of a near 2 hour show minus break in the middle then at least half was a singer who was pub karaoke at best and not what I went to see. In the past, comedians have a comic warm up act, don't know why the singer was there other than to pad out the show, wont be going here again just because of the seating alone. guess ill be restricted to events at the cliffs instead.

Lovely show all the artist work very hard and I enjoyed it very much.

Oliver. Amateur production. Really.,! Totally professional. Amazing voices. Fagon was awesome. Artful dodgers had great voice. Pity only two productions a year

Lovely old theatre, from early last century. You cam imagine the old music hall entertainment being played out there as well as the classics. Great accoustics. A theatre with atmosphere. All seats have good view.

Nice! I enjoyed the show, pleasant old place, love the fact you can get your interval drinks delivered to your chair instead of queuing at the bar