THE first national tour of the wildly successful musical version of Bonnie and Clyde makes two stops in the south and west, and the first is at Southampton Mayflower from 2nd to 6th April. Chosen as the best new musical of 2023, it stars Katie Tonkinson as Bonnie Parker and Alex James-Hatton as her lover…
THE programming at Messums West, the gallery and art centre in the ancient tithe barn at Tisbury, gets ever more adventurous, with a collaboration this year with Salisbury International Arts Festival and a two-month sound installation, created by Orlando Gough and Alastair Goolden, which draws its inspiration, in part from the river Nadder. Running from…
BRISTOL Hippodrome is one of four regional theatres chosen to host a tour of Player Kings, director Robert Icke’s adaptation of King Henry IV parts 1 and 2, starring Sir Ian McKellen as Falstaff. The nearly four-hour reworking of the two plays will be at Bristol from 3rd to 6th July, following the end of…
ONE of Britain’s finest stage and television actors, David Morrissey, leads the cast in a compelling double bill of plays by one of the most influential dramatists of the 20th century, Harold Pinter, at Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov studio from Friday 22nd March to Saturday 20th April. The plays are The Lover and The Collection,…
THE brilliant and multi-award-winning Constellations, by Nick Payne, is the spring production at the Barn Theatre, in Cirencester, from Friday 29th March to Saturday 18th May. Described as a high-concept romance, “a Sliding Doors to the power of 100”, Constellations is a drama about time and memory, about death and grief and the power of…
ONE of the greatest television comedies of the 1990s has been revived with the original cast . Originally screened on Channel 4 between 1990 and 1998, the BAFTA-winning Drop The Dead Donkey ran for 65 episodes across six series, and now it’s back in a live theatre production, coming to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday…
CAMPAIGNING theatre company Townsend Productions brings a new show with music, Behold Ye Ramblers, to Shillingstone’s Portman Hall on Saturday 23rd and Burton Bradstock village hall on Sunday 24th, both starting at 7.30pm. Behold Ye Ramblers is a new play by Neil Gore, produced in association with The Society for the Study of Labour History….
A SHOW that was first staged at Plymouth Theatre Royal and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre, comes to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Friday 22nd March and Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 23rd, both at 7.30pm. Cracking, A Completely Made-up True Story, is a powerful dark and comic tale from the acclaimed Welsh storyteller-performer Shon…
AN acclaimed adaptation of the best-selling novel The Kite Runner comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd March as part of a new nationwide tour. Epic, exhilarating and accompanied by evocative and virtuosic live drumming by tabla player Hanif Khan, this theatrical tour de force is a faithful adaptation of a…
MULTI-talented John Monie, the writer and star of Bath’s annual pantomime and a frequent performer in improv shows, tackles one of the greatest figures of pantomime and comedy history, Joseph Grimaldi, in a new play which has its world premiere at the Bath Comedy Festival from 14th to 20th April. SLAPSTICK! hauls its audiences into…