ONE of ITV’s best-loved murder mystery series, Midsomer Murders is now a successful stage show, and the premiere productions of The Killing at Badger’s Drift is at Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th June. The cast is headed by Daniel Casey as DCI Tom Barnaby, the role first made famous by John…
JULIUS Caesar is centre stage at Grange Opera Festival, where Sarah Brady (pictured) captures the magnetic power of Cleopatra. Christian Curnyn, well-known to local opera lovers from the former Iford Opera Festival (near Bath), conducts his Early Opera Company to accompany the singers, led by countertenor Tim Mead, as Caesar. One of Handel’s most popular…
DYLAN Thomas’s masterpiece, Under Milk Wood, originally written for radio, has had an equally successful life on stage, often as an ensemble piece, but occasionally as a solo show. And the exemplar of solo performers of this poetic and magical work is Guy Masterson, who comes to Bridport’s 100-year old Electric Palace, on Thursday 11th…
FANS of Yes, Prime Minister may sometimes have wondered what happened to the Right Hon Jim Hacker when he left No 10 – or to his nemesis, the inscrutable and indefatigable Sir Humphrey. Well, now you can find out, as the pair return for one final theatrical outing in I’m Sorry, Prime Minister, at Theatre…
YES, that’s Greece, not Grease … the award-winning Mischief company comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 26th to Saturday 30th May with the latest stage mayhem, a musical comedy which offers an (unlikely) explanation for the origins of acting. Thespians, packed with comedy, chaos and choreography sure to have the audience aching with laughter,…
BATH’S Egg theatre has a delightful show for children and their families over the May half term, from Thursday 28th to Sunday 31st May, when Let’s All Dance Ballet Company presents Alice in Wonderland. This magical ballet is recommended for children aged two years and over. Come and join Alice as she enters the curiouser…
THE world premiere tour of Single White Female comes to Bath Theatre Royal from 19th to 23rd May, and promises dark humour and suspenseful storytelling as it updates the 1990s story to the age of social media. It is all about ambition, obsession and the desperate need to belong in an increasingly isolated world Starring…
“THE ship is in her trim; the merry wind blows fair from land*” – exactly the message you need as you’ve packed the picnic basket, stowed the chairs in the car, checked your tickets on the phone (?) and set off for an evening in the open air, surrounded by trees and hedgerows, all ready…
IF you hear the name E Nesbit, you picture the cosy period charm of The Railway Children – but writing as Edith, Nesbit had a dark side, which is explored in an evening of horror story-telling at the Marine Theatre, Lyme Regis, on Friday 15th May at 7.30pm. Following the success of The Masks of…
IN recent years, Mary Anning, the remarkable fossil hunter of Lyme Regis, has been celebrated in print, on stage and on screen – even as a prototype lesbian. But the character remains both enduringly fascinating and slightly elusive. Now a new one-woman play, coming to Dorchester Arts at the Corn Exchange on Thursday 14th May…