SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre will be bursting with the sounds of Rodgers and Hammerstein as audiences are transported to the Austrian Alps in the febrile days before the outbreak of World War II and the immortal songs of The Sound of Music. The centre’s Music and Drama Group has chosen the perennially popular musical for its…
IF you have reached the stage when you think “O no, not another juke box musical”, think again – because this stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s 2001 film leaves the rest of them trailing in its wake. Practically every number, from the spectacularly-staged The Sparkling Diamond to the haunting Nature Boy, fits the storyline, which…
THERE is a (small) handful of seats left at Bath Theatre Royal on Sunday 7th July to see and hear Patti Smith, one of the iconic figures of the music world and named as one of TIME’s 100 most influential people in the worl. The pioneering American artist was inducted into the Rock & Roll…
POPULAR films with Moviola in July and August are the latest Bridget Jones (Mad About the Boy) and the courtroom drama Juror No 2. These films are at Moviola venues across the region: July – Bridget Jones (Mad About the Boy) is being shown at Codford St Peter (Woolstore Theatre), Highcliffe (community centre), Charlton Marshall,…
AWARD-winning stage and screen star Ralph Fiennes directs a summer season of plays at Bath Theatre Royal, and plays the joint lead in the opening play, the world premiere of David Hare’s Grace Pervades, running in the theatre from Friday 27th June to Saturday 19th July. Fiennes, BAFTA-winning and Oscar-nominated star of Conclave, plays the…
SIDMOUTH’s Manor Pavilion theatre hosts its annual summer season of plays in repertory from Monday 23rd June to mid-September. The season, at the seaside town’s Manor Pavilion theatre, is now said to be the longest running continuous summer rep in the country. Over 12 weeks, local theatre-goers and holiday-makers are entertained with a programme of…
FORGET all the hype around The Traitors – the hottest, darkest game in town is The Witching Hour! ReBels Young Company, based at Plymouth’s Barbican Theatre, will bring this exciting and very different show to Dorchester Corn Exchange on 29th June as part of a long national tour. Black cats, broomsticks and pentagrams? It sounds…
THERE will be a second and longer season of summer rep at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, following last year’s successful inaugural season, with five popular plays on from 23rd July to 27th August. There’s something for everyone with comedies, thrillers and classic drama, including a Jane Austen adaptation, celebrating the great novelist’s 250th anniversary…
ARTSREACH, Dorset’s rural touring arts charity, has been voted Best Arts, Culture and Theatre organisation in Somerset, Dorset and Bristol in this year’s Muddy Stilettos Awards, which celebrate independent business across 35 counties throughout the UK. The various organisations and businesses are divided into multiple categories for the public top vote for their favourites. There…
SOMETIMES known as the poor relation of the classical strings section – a bit less charismatic than the violin or the deeply emotional cello – the viola has its own poignant and beautiful sound. Spanish-Belgian musician Lorena Canto shows the versatility of the instrument in her Concerts in the West recitals with pianist Yvain Calvo,…