EAGER participants in Salisbury Festival’s big community event, Patch’s Parade, went along to Salisbury Playhouse for a day of free workshops early in March. The community play will be performed at Churchill Gardens, following in the sucessful footsteps of 2023’s The Tempest. The discovery day, which runs from 10.30am, also welcomes volunteers for puppeteering and…
DOLLY Parton’s hit song 9 to 5 was not only the theme song for the box office hit film, it also provided the big number for 9 to 5 The Musical, which is the winter 2024 choice for Bath Operatic and Dramatic Society at the Theatre Royal Bath from Tuesday 27th February to Saturday 2nd…
BUCKHORN Amateur Theatrical Society celebrates its 30th anniversary this year and the pantomime at Buckhorn Weston village hall sees a return to the story where it all started, back in 1994 – Red Riding Hood – on 16th and 17th February. The village may have seen many changes over the ensuing three decades – the…
ALADDIN, one of the oldest of the traditional English pantomimes, is the 2024 choice for SNADS, at The Exchange, Sturminster Newton, from Thursday 15th to Saturday 17th February, with matinees on Thursday and Saturday. The company has chosen the script by Ben Crocker, one of the country’s most popular and performed panto writers, well-known for…
THIS year’s Honiton pantomime at the Beehive Centre from 13th to 17th February, is the 40th anniversary production by the town’s community theatre, which began as Honiton Pantomime Society. Over the years the company has grown from being just about pantomime and now produces three performances a year. This new locally-based version of the story…
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…
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…
SHAFTESBURY Arts Centre’s music and drama group wants to whisk you away from a cold and depressing January to the excitement and colour of Neverland, with this year’s winter show, Peter Pan, The Pants, at the theatre in Bell Street from Thursday 25th January to Saturday 3rd February. All the big theatre pantomimes have packed…
AUDIENCES at the Swan Theatre in Yeovil start their 2024 season with the local premiere of Australian Andrew Bovell’s Things I Know to be True, directed by Mark Payne. The touching, funny and bold play, by award-winning screen writer and playwright Bovell, had its British premiere in 2016, at Warwick, Chichester and the Lyric Hammersmith….