TRACY-Ann Oberman is a fearless actress – whether performing as one of the finest Tzeitels in the history of Fiddler on the Roof or wowing audiences with her audacious reimagining of The Merchant of Venice, where she played a female Shylock in the turbulent Fascist-inflamed East London of the 1930s, she clearly relishes a challenge….
A LIGHTHOUSE is a symbol of hope and safety, light in sometimes frightening darkness, a welcome hint of hope if the ship is foundering or there is a man overboard. In her debut play, The Light House, coming to Somerset’s Take Art rural touring charity in September, writer-performer Alys Williams explores a real life story…
THE Billings, a dedicated community venue at the heart of the Theatre Royal Bath, will open in spring 2027. This will be the fourth and final public and performance space within the theatre’s historic city centre site. The project, funded with support from more than 4,200 donors, has been fully approved, and work is now…
SMALL but mighty in its reach and influence – that would be a fair description of the Barn, the tiny independent theatre in Cirencester, which has announced the London transfer of its hit show, Million Dollar Quartet. Following an extended summer run at its Cotswold home, the show, with a cast led by Darren Day,…
TREEHOUSE, a theatre company renowned for their interactive performances and workshops, brings Alice in Wonderland to Dorset for two performances with Artsreach, at Buckland Newton village hall on Wednesday 12th August at 10.30am, and Cranborne’s Cecil Memorial Hall that afternoon at 3pm. Specialists in history and great story-telling, Treehouse aim to introduce young people to…
JOHN Le Carre was the king of gritty espionage thrillers, and his 1963 novel, The Spy Came In From The Cold, is widely considered not only one of the finest of the genre, but one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. Chichester Festival Theatre had a big critical hit with the premiere of…
“THE ship is in her trim; the merry wind blows fair from land*” – exactly the message you need as you’ve packed the picnic basket, stowed the chairs in the car, checked your tickets on the phone (?) and set off for an evening in the open air, surrounded by trees and hedgerows, all ready…
THE Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen is not generally considered a barrel of laughs – “grim up north” would be the usual opinion, but when Cornwall’s inventive Miracle Theatre gets hold of a classic there is usually a comic twist or two, as Artsreach audiences will find when A Comedy of Terrors comes to Ibberton village…
WAITRESS – the musical comes back to Bristol Hippodrome on 4th August as part of its tenth anniversary tour. Dorset residents were the first in the country to see the 2007 film on which it is based, written by Adrienne Shelly and previewed at the late lamented Screen Bites food film festival. Shelly, who also…
CO-INCIDING with the school summer holidays, John Godber’s popular comedy Teechers returns to the Theatre Royal Bath, from Tuesday 28th July to Saturday 1st August, in a new post-Covid version. Originally written in 1987, Teechers was first performed by the Hull Truck Theatre Company at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival. It rapidly became an audience favourite,…