URINETOWN, The Musical is a brilliantly funny but savage satire on capitalism, greed and corruption, set in a Gotham-like city in a not-too-distant dystopian future. It is the spring production by Merriman Productions, at Bath’s Rondo Theatre from Wednesday 18th to Saturday 21st May. A terrible water shortage caused by a 20-year drought has led…
BATH Theatre Academy is taking to the stage at the Theatre Royal’s Egg for a three week residence from Thursday 12th May to Saturday 28th, ending with a production of Sondheim’s darkly comic musical, Sweeney Todd. The residency by The Egg’s in-house training school starts with a double bill featuring It Snows and The Wardrobe,…
SOMERSET audiences can take a fresh look at the celebrated farce French Dressing, newly translated (and directed) by John Crabtree and coming to the stage of the Swan Theatre in Yeovil from 16th to 21st May. Feydeau’s classic is set, of course, in a perfect little Parisian love-nest, this time the former salon of a…
THE spring production by Sidmouth Amateur Dramatic Society will be Last Tango in Whitby, running from 10th to 14th May at 7.45pm at Sidmouth’s Manor Pavilion theatre. The play is the first production in the society’s centenary year. The 1990 play is by Mike Harding, the multi-talented author, comedian, singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and broadcaster. Last Tango…
TISBURY Arts Group had such a success last autumn with their sold-out production of Murder at Checkmate Manor that they have brought it back for a short tour, continuing on Friday 29th at Dinton village hall and Saturday 30th April at Warminster’s Atheneum centre. The Agatha Christie spoof comedy thriller will be at each venue…
AFTER a two-year pandemic hiatus, Milborne Port Opera is back on stage at the village hall from Wednesday 20th to Saturday 23rd July, performing Franz Lehar’s ever-popular confection The Merry Widow. The operetta, set in Paris, is the story of the young, beautiful and recently widowed Hanna Glavari, whose Pontevedroan banker husband has left her…
THIS year marks the centenary of Sidmouth Musical Theatre – originally Sidmouth Arts Club Operatic Society. The anniversary celebrations begin with the spring production of Kipps, the new version of the Tommy Steele classic, Half A Sixpence, at Sidmouth Manor Pavilion, on Saturday 16th April, and Monday 18th to Saturday 23rd. The company was formed…
THE Dorset-based ImpAct theatre company has chosen Tom Kempinski’s award-winning two hander Duet for One for its Spring production, performed at Ferndown on 6th and 7th, and Bournemouth on 12th and 13th April. Director Patricia Richardson and her cast, Matthew Ellison and Rosie Hodgkinson, have battled with Covid and all the problems it has thrown…
POOLE’s P&P theatre company is putting on one-act plays for the spring, at The Spire in Poole High Street, from Thursday 31st March to Saturday 2nd April at 7.30pm. The first play is The Last Group, by Alison Gilmour, directed by Clare I’Anson. A new member of an art therapy group turns out to be…
THERE are two fund-raising concerts at Yeovil’s Octagon Theatre and Westlands Entertainment Venue, on 1st and 22nd April, to show solidarity and support towards the humanitarian and emergency response work in Ukraine and neighbouring countries affected by the refugee crisis. Both events will be raising funds for School in a Bag’s Ukraine Crisis Appeal and…