WELSH storyteller Shon Dale-Jones comes to Portland’s Royal Manor Theatre on Thursday 12th March with his Edinburgh Fringe First award-winning show, The Duke, for the first of three dates with Artsreach. He will also be telling the tragi-comic tale of a family heirloom at West Stafford village hall on Friday 13th and Burton Bradstock hall…
CERYS Matthews, on her BBC Radio 2 show, described the Mark Harrison Band as “a bit different and kinda groovy too.” Find out more when the trio come to Dorset from 6th to 8th March, for three dates with Artsreach at Broadmayne, Shillingstone and Corfe Castle. Mark is a multi-award-nominated singer-songwriter, storyteller and virtuoso guitarist…
IF you have seen the film Operation Mincemeat, you will know it is an improbable, utterly British story that – amazingly – is true … an account of the ridiculously daring stunt that helped to turn the course of the Second World War. Turned into a hit musical, Operation Mincemeat – The Musical, is on…
GEOFF Norcott is that very rare thing in the UK comedy scene – he is a Conservative! But coming out as a right-winger hasn’t impeded his career too badly, and he is now on a new tour, Basic Bloke 2 – “There’s no Bloke without Fire” – coming to Taunton’s Brewhouse Theatre on 11th March,…
PRIMARY school aged children in around the south west have a chance to experience live music, when the BSO’s Explore the Orchestra tour visits Bristol Beacon on 27th March and Poole Lighthouse on 19th and 20th May with a series of free Explore the Orchestra concerts. With the addition of a digital concert, broadcast live…
A NEW musical based on the life of Walter Tull, a pioneering black footballer and army officer, has several local dates, continuing the Redgrave Theatre at Bristol on 10th March, Poole Lighthouse on 11th March and Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on 12th March, as part of a national tour. Commissioned by Show Racism…
SUSIE Dent, well-known from her television quiz appearances as the ultimate walking dictionary, is as entertaining as she is erudite. She is currently on a national tour, coming to Dorchester Arts at Thomas Hardye School theatre on Sunday 8th March, at 3.30pm. Following her previous hit show, The Secret Life of Words, Britain’s best-loved wordsmith…
FARNHAM Maltings, much-loved on rural touring circuits, return to Dorset and Devon with a new play starting at Dorchester Arts on 3rd March. All For Your Delight is a celebration of the world of variety, with a dazzling mix of comedy, songs and games – plus some spectacular roller skating! The show is with Devon’s…
RALPH Fiennes, who must be one of the world’s hardest working actors on stage and screen, stars in the most-requested Moviola film in March – The Choral. Co-produced and directed by Nicholas Hytner, the film is written by Alan Bennett. Set in 1916, during World War I, in the fictional town of Ramsden, Yorkshire, it…
AFTER the mysterious disappearance of a world-famous magician disappears, the great Sherlock Holmes is called in to investigate in Holmes and Watson: The Curious Case of The Masked Magician comes to Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre on Saturday 7th March at 11am and 2.30pm and Dorchester Corn Exchange on Sunday 15th March at 2.30. 1t’s 1906…