🏠 Indoor☔ Rainy-day friendly
What’s there
- Café on site
- Paid parking
Access & inclusion
- Step-free access
No general on-site parking (allocated disabled bays at rear of theatre); nearby paid public car parks within a short walk: Westgate Shopping Park (207 surface + 224 multi-storey spaces), Eastgate (800 spaces), Great Oaks (1340 spaces).
Only facilities we’ve confirmed are listed — anything missing here we simply haven’t checked, rather than know to be absent.
Towngate Theatre has been entertaining Basildon for 30 years with drama, musicals, classical concerts, comedy and panto. The theatre occupies a prominent position on Saint Martin's Square at the heart of Basildon, 6 minutes' walk from Basildon Station with parking nearby. Inside are multiple performance spaces including the Main Auditorium, Mirren Studio and Gielgud Room. There's a café bar serving coffee, cake, pre-theatre meals and cocktails. The theatre runs youth theatre workshops and education programmes, monthly live music nights, and hosts jazz café events.
Stuff to take with you
The things people wish they’d packed for a day out like this one.
- Refillable water bottleMost places will fill it for free.
- Snacks that survive a rucksackCheaper than the café, and buys you twenty minutes.
- Wet wipes
- Small first aid kitPlasters solve more days out than anything else here.
- A penForms, competitions, name badges.
- Sick bagsYou only forget these once.
- Colouring book and pencils
- Portable phone charger
- Travel sickness bands
- Loose changeLockers and old-fashioned car parks.
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