IF you know anything about the early years of rock’n’roll, the names Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Elvis Presley will be top of anyone’s list of performers. Add in the unmistakeable voice and charisma of Johnny Cash and you have a recipe for … Million Dollar Quartet, returning to Cirencester’s Barn Theatre for a…
ONE of Thomas Hardy’s great Wessex novels, The Return of the Native, is rarely adapted for the stage, unlike Tess of the D’Urbevilles, Far From the Madding Crowd or The Mayor of Casterbridge. But it is one of the most powerful and atmospheric stories. Hotbuckle Theatre is touring a new stage version of the novel,…
THE play that skewers the brittle, materialist, class-conscious spirit of the 1970s, Mike Leigh’s Abigail’s Party is on a national tour, in a new production starring Tamzin Outhwaite, coming to Bath Theatre Royal from Monday 22nd to Saturday 27th June. A ferocious satire on suburban life, the play is set in the Essex home of…
THE Emma Rice Company will be coming to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio this Christmas with a delightful staging of Dylan Thomas’s A Child’s Christmas in Wales. Adapted and directed by Emma Rice, the play was a sell-out at her company’s Frome base last year, and fans will be delighted to get a second chance…
PETER Talbot, the founder of the brilliant and always original Rude Mechanical Theatre Company, has been awarded an MBE in the King’s Birthday Honours for services to the arts. Pete founded the Rude Mechanical company in 1997 and spent the next 27 years building it into one of the country’s most distinctive touring open air…
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…
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…