CINDERELLA has a special New Year party at the palace – join her and Bridport Pantomime Players at the Electric Palace from Wednesday 31st January to Saturday 3rd February, at 7.30pm with a Saturday matinee at 1.30. The Players promise an unforgettable performance filled with laughter, music, and glittering fun, directed by Greg Horton, bringing…
SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group has chosen Kipps – The New Half a Sixpence Musical for the summer show, in the second and third weeks of July. There will be an interest meeting at the arts centre on Sunday 5th February at 7.30pm, and auditions will be held later in the month. The…
DIRECTOR and theatre-maker Emma Rice brings her new Wise Children version of the Blue Beard story to Bath Theatre Royal, for its world premiere, from Friday 2nd to Saturday 10th February. Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick, things just seem to vanish. Cards,…
SHAKESPEARE’S Macbeth is having a moment this year, with several productions making their way onto the stage and directors competing with each other to discover contemporary relevance in this story of war, murder, greed, power and mental torment. While David Tennant gives his Scottish king in London and Ralph Fiennes tours unusual venues around the…
ALTHOUGH L Frank Baum wrote 14 stories about the Wonderful World of Oz, the one best remembered is that used for the classic 1939 MGM film The Wizard of Oz, starring Judy Garland. There is no doubting who are the goodies and who the baddies in this version, with Margaret Hamilton’s Wicked Witch of the…
IF you think of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan and ponder their connection with the often dark novels of Charles Dickens, you might say: “Nothing there. What’s your point?” But Opera Della Luna’s founder-director Jeff Clarke looked a bit deeper, considered the things they have in common – particularly Gilbert’s concern with social…
BOURNEMOUTH Symphony’s February programme is a rich combination of classical favourites, rarities and masterpieces, with some of the world’s great soloists joining the orchestra. All the concerts featured here are at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre, but many also have performances at other regular venues – Bristol’s newly refurbished and reopened Beacon (formerly the Colston Hall),…
ONE of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best-loved operas, HMS Pinafore, sails into Bath next week, from Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th January when the always-inventive Opera della Luna makes its Theatre Royal debut as part of its 30th anniversary tour, with its much-praised production of the show that gave the world “the Monarch of the Sea…
ONE of the things that has happened in theatre in recent years is that the majority of the audience whoops and cheers within a second of the final word of a play being spoken. I was heartened and relieved to find that the (largely young) audience at Yeovil’s Swan Theatre was totally silent and still…
WHILE Captain Macheath in The Beggars Opera was none too pleased to have to make a choice between his two lovers, Polly Peacham and Lucy Lockit – ‘ How happy could I be with either, were t’other dear charmer away’ – the audience in the Bristol Hippodrome for the press night performance of Life of…