ONE of the most stylish and best-loved musicals of all time, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, is the autumn choice for the award-winning Bath Light Operatic Group at the Theatre Royal, from Tuesday 10th to Saturday 14th September. The classic stage production, which was also a famous film with Audrey Hepburn and Rex Harrison,…
HAVE you heard of Harriet Quimby? Maybe you have – but most likely you haven’t. So Middle-Weight Theatre Company’s new play tells a story you should hear. What’s Next?, at Dorchester Corn Exchange on 14th September at 8pm, is a solo show with actress Victoria Lucie, which brings overdue recognition for the life and achievements…
READING recent reviews of performances and plays seen at this year’s Edinburgh Festival, it would appear that practically every presentation and performance was a smash hit, including Scaffolding. It was therefore a little with the attitude of ‘go on – show me how good you are’ that I arrived at the Bristol Old Vic’s Weston…
PHILIPPA Langley, who came to national attention with her persistent – and ultimately successful – efforts to locate the remains of King Richard III (under a Leicester car park), comes to the Electric Palace at Bridport on Thursday 19th September with a talk about her latest historical investigations. Her talk, The Princes in the Tower,…
IF you enjoy the clever Mischief Theatre productions (The Play That Goes Wrong, etc) look out for Our Star Theatre’s new play, Death(s) At Sea on a lengthy national tour with local dates at Dorchester Corn Exchange on Thursday 19th and Seaton Gateway on Friday 20th. The play, a comedy murder mystery, is when Our…
OPEN-air theatre company SISATA is back on home ground on Portland on Sunday 8th September, nearing the end of a lengthy national and local summer tour, with a production of Peter Pan, in the setting which inspired this retelling of JM Barrie’s famous tale. The performance, next to Portland Bill lighthouse, features four local professional…
IT is common practice nowadays to take a successful musical film or a drama (some with a minimum of music involved), and adapt it for the stage as a musical. A few have benefitted from the transfer, others, like Bonnie and Clyde: The Musical, have fallen by the wayside despite good reviews and audience reaction….
ART, Yasmina Reza’s award-winning hit play, is a very odd thing, when you think about it. It is a play by a French woman dramatist, about three men (the women are only referred to as peripheral characters and frankly get a pretty bad rep), about male friendship and about art. These are very French themes…
THE words of Simon Butteriss and the lyrics of the late, great, John Mortimer – with a few of the greatest hits of Johann Strauss – is a recipe for comic opera heaven, and that is what audiences at IfOpera at Belcombe Court in Bradford-on-Avon enjoyed this season. Simon Butteriss was a favourite in the…
FANS of global music have had a treat at the Marine Theatre in Lyme Regis during September, and the final event comes on Sunday 29th. The focus moves to South America, when Jazz by the Sea welcomes in Alvorada, a Brazilian instrumental quintet introducing their latest album, Faz Tempo. It is a bold and rich…