THE country’s favourite poet, Pam Ayres, comes to Dorchester Arts at the Thomas Hardye School theatre on Sunday 20th September at 5pm, Tiverton Community Arts Theatre at 7.30 on Friday 25th, Taunton Brewhouse on Sunday 27th at 3.30pm, and Weston super Mare Playhouse on Sunday 21st November, with her latest collection, Doggedly Onwards – a…
LANDSCAPE and river painter Nick Andrew is working on four panoramic seasonal drawings, a commission for Dorset County Hospital, Dorchester, to be installed in the new critical care unit, which is due to be opened next year. On Friday 4th September, Nick, whose studio is at Bull Mill, Crockerton, near Warminster, will be showing work…
THE Dorset Monochrome Collective has its second exhibition in the community room at Dorchester’s Borough Gardens, from 14th to 20th September. Founded in 2018 by Alison Webber, the collective consists of a group of friends who share a passion for monochrome photography, whether that is digital or film. Members include the distinguished portrait and landscape…
THAT is not just an alliterative play on words – it is the underlying theme of a fascinating solo play by Anglo-German theatre company, Fish in a Dress, which has four Dorset dates on its autumn national tour, starting at the Bay Theatre at Weymouth on Tuesday 15th September. The City for Incurable Women will…
THE Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis moves from its successful summer rep season to a month packed with music, continuing on Saturday 5th September with the Sambroso All Stars performing the Buena Vista Social Club, celebrating the sounds of Cuba’s golden age. On Friday 11th, the Marine hosts Mark Chadwick, in a special solo gig…
POOLE’s only independent cinema at the Lighthouse arts centre, which has doubled its audience in the last two years, has entered this year’s second British Independent Film Awards’ (BIFA) Cinema of the Year award. “Lighthouse is proud to be Poole’s only independent cinema, audiences have been visiting it in record numbers, and we’d love them…
BATH Children’s Literature Festival returns from Friday 25th September until Sunday 4th October, with a packed programme that ranges from a free Party at the Holburne Museum to a chance to discover the latest How to Train your Dragon adventure. Among the leading children’s writers (and illustrators) taking part will be Katherine Rundell, Michael Rosen…
ROMESH Ranganathan, star of countless television comedy series and and presenter of The Weakest Link, is back on the road from November with a new show, and a massive list of dates and venues, including Yeovil’s Westlands. In this new stand-up show Romesh Ranganathan promises to “Change Your Life.” He is here to help, he…
DORSET Museum & Art Gallery is launching a fundraising campaign to enhance and expand its forthcoming Mary Anning – Fossil Hunter exhibition, which will run from 30th January to 2nd May 2027, celebrating the life and legacy of the pioneering palaeontologist 180 years after her death. This landmark exhibition, which will have a programme of…
STEEL Magnolias is how Americans describe strong, gritty and indefatigable Southern women, and playwright Robert Harling knew all about them. He was born and brought up in Dothan, Alabama, and studied law in Natchitoches, Louisiana, the town in which he based his most famous play and where he still lives. His inspiration came from his…