LESSER-known baroque composers, including Barbara Strozzi, take centre place in Ceruleo’s programme for the July series of Concerts at Bridport Arts Centre for the coffee time concert at 11.30am on Friday 10th July, Ilminster Arts Centre at 7.30pm that evening and Saturday 11th at 7.30pm at Crewkerne Dance House. Described as a group that “feels…
THE Four Seasons rock band was formed in 1960 when two members of the novelty act The Four Lovers, singer Frankie Valli and guitarist Tommy DeVito, were joined by bass player Nick Massi and composer and keyboard player Bob Gaudio. With changing personal, but always with the strong high falsetto voice of Frankie Valli as…
GRAHAM Greene had a dry sense of humour, never better shown than in Our Man In Havana, which has been adapted for the stage by the actor and writer Clive Francis. The new comedy of a vacuum cleaner salesman caught up in espionage in pre-revolutionary Cuba comes to Salisbury Playhouse from 14th to 18th July…
THREE acclaimed actors – Toby Stephens, Amanda Abbington and Noah Valentine – play the leading roles in Peter Shaffer’s dark, probing masterpiece, Equus, which comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 14th to Saturday 25th July, in a production directed by Lindsay Posner, which received rave reviews when it premiered at the Menier Chocolate Factory….
FOR those of us of a certain age, it seems incredible that the television series Fawlty Towers had only 12 half-hour episodes when it was first shown in 1975 … more than 50 years ago. Its set-piece scenes and catch phrases – and of course Sybil’s laugh – fast entered the Comedy Hall of Fame,…
IT is hard to believe that there were only 12 episodes of Fawlty Towers – and almost as hard to find that it is just over 50 years since the BBC showed this absolute classic of English rudeness and gentility at the seaside. Now it comes as a stage play, adapted by creator John Cleese,…
POLLY Lamb’s latest play, Your Move, was sold out before it opened at the Town Hall, playing for the first three days of Frome Festival 2026. Once again, town councillor and fair housing advocate Lamb has created a play that taps into the concerns of the 2020s, focussing on the “new” ways we live and the…
NOEL Coward’s dazzling wit and uncompromising insights into human behaviour rightly won him the title of “The Master”, and his legacy is a collection of brilliant plays set in a time before political correctness and the “classless” society we now claim. That means they need a very careful and specific style to ring true and…
PICTURESQUE Sidmouth is not only a delightful seaside resort and home to the country’s oldest folk festival, it also has the longest-running traditional summer rep season, at the Manor Pavilion theatre, this year continuing to Saturday 19th September. For three months, with a week out for Sidmouth Folk Festival, the theatre has a weekly professional…
FROME celebrates the 25th anniversary of its multi-arts festival this year – and the festival opens on 3rd July, just two days after the funeral of Martin Bax, the actor, former town and district councillor and mayor, who became one of Frome’s most loved and valued citizens. A former actor with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Martin…