WEST End stars Lisa Pulman and Joe Stilgoe bring movie musical magic to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio from 23rd to 25th March. The two versatile and popular performers have put together a delightful mix of some of the best-loved songs of our movie-musical lives– from The Wizard of Oz to Wicked, West Side Story…
TORBEN Betts’ latest comedy thriller, Murder at Midnight, is a clever, often hilarious, conflation of Jacobean revenge tragedies with all their gory relish and 21st century attitudes. It all starts as the familiarly-suited SOCOs and an insensitive Met cop chat over the blood-bath left in an Kent super-home when the bodies have been removed. It’s…
PHOTOGRAPHER Lucy Sewill has exhibited and published widely and has work in the National Portrait Gallery. Her portraits of leading actresses are currently on show at Dorset Museum and Art Gallery in Dorchester, until 28th April. Visible Women is a striking and timely series including Juliet Stevenson, Dame Harriet Walter, Dame Meera Syal, Julie Graham,…
ROBERT Louis Stevenson spent some years living in Westbourne, then an affluent suburb of Bournemouth, and it was here that he wrote the novella The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. So it is appropriate for the town’s Palace Court Theatre to be the venue for a striking reimagining of this famous thriller,…
SHOW of Strength, celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, is “making an exhibition of itself,” with 40 years of posters, fliers, photos, films, recordings, programmes and more – and possibly a performance or two – in The Pit at Totterdown from 17th to 19th April. The company started in 1986 with Double Vision, aboard MV…
IT hardly seems more than a month since the 2025-26 pantomime season ended, and already theatres around the country are looking forward to the 2026/2027 season. This early press release will be good news for fans of the festive show at England’s prettiest theatre, Bat Theatre Royal. Nick Wilton will be back as the Dame…
AVALON Archaeology, at the Avalon Marshes Centre on Shapwick Road, Westhay, has completed the construction of a replica Iron Age roundhouse, which will be officially opened on Saturday 21st March, by Charlie Taylor from BBC Radio Somerset. Visitors will be able to explore the building and learn more about Somerset’s prehistory with themed activities taking…
BATH Comedy Festival runs until Sunday 19th April and its lineup has included more than 100 shows, featuring well over 300 performances, with big names at Bath Forum including Dead Ringers, Paul Merton and Suki Webster, Harry Enfield and Troy Hawke. The festival also brings a host of acts to its intimate upstairs room at…
TEN years after Brexit, the British and Irish Cheese Awards, which take place at the Bath & West Food and Drink Festival, over the weekend 20th to 22nd March, have received a record number of Irish entries, with 48 Irish cheeses to be judged in a field of more than 600 entries. The cheese award…
ARTSREACH, Dorset’s rural touring arts charity, has been selected to be part of this year’s Big Give: Arts for Impact campaign. From midday on Tuesday 17th March to midday on Tuesday 24th, every pound donated to Artsreach through the Big Give platform will be doubled – meaning twice the support for the charity’s work across…