THE World Cheese Awards, now in the 36th year, will take place in Portugal for the first time. The 2024 awards will be held in Viseu, from 14th to 17th November. The awards open for entries on Thursday 13th June, and close on Monday 16th September. John Farrand, managing director of the Guild of Fine…
AUDIENCES at Salisbury’s Studio Theatre in Ashley Road had a triple treat this May, when three of the company’s short plays were performed together. The show started with a return of the 2023 production of John Finnemore’s English for Pony Lovers, which was pipped to the post at the Western Area final of the All…
THE energetic and inventive all-female theatre company Scratchworks continues it tour of Hags: A Magical Extravaganza, at the Barnfield Theatre at Exeter on Friday and Saturday 17th and 18th May, and Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Thursday 23rd May. The action begins in Bideford in 1682, where the last witch trial in England took place….
CHARLOTTE Jones wrote her first play, Airswimming, in 1997, and went on to create works including the award-winning Humble Boy for theatre and many works for television. This first play gets its Yeovil debut on stage at the Swan Theatre from 13th to 18th May, in a production directed by Sarah Ambrose. Described as “a…
AN acclaimed West End production of Tennessee Williams’ great play, The Glass Menagerie, starring Geraldine Somerville, comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 13th to Saturday 18th May, following a week at Bristol Old Vic, until Saturday 11th. Geraldine Somerville, whose distinguished career includes leading roles in Cracker, Gosford Park and the Harry Potter films,…
IT’S hard to imagine sitting in the open air on a balmy summer’s evening after the winter and spring we have had, but that clearly hasn’t deterred any of the touring theatre companies from planning a 2024 season full of delights to suit all ages and most tastes. The post-COVID doldrums have receded, and new…
THERE’S no Business like Show Business … so goes the lyric of Irving Berlin’s song from Annie Get Your Gun, and there is nothing better than good comic business to lift even a modestly written farcical comedy into an evening of riotous fun. Although this play may be described as a spoof of a murder…
IF you describe opera as being a story set to music which has virtually no spoken word, then this rap-style, sung through musical is an opera. Such a description would not be welcomed with open arms by the producers, because, whereas modern and classical ballet have, to the benefit of each, embraced each other, classical…
MARLBOROUGH LitFest celebrates its 15th anniversary this year, from 26th to 29th September, and the first event has been announced – the festival’s patron, Sir Simon Russell Beale, will be talking about his memoir, A Piece of Work, on the evening of Sunday 29th September. The book, A Piece of Work, is due to be…
ONE of the most popular and critically successful films ever made about the world of high fashion, The Devil Wears Prada has been adapted into a musical, with a score by Sir Elton John. It makes its debut with a six-week, pre-West End season, this summer from 6th July to 17th August, at Plymouth Theatre…