APRIL De Angelis’s Playhouse Creatures is a marvellous, funny, touching and convincing imagining of the lives and experiences of the first women to act on the public stage, during the Restoration monarchy of Charles II. A new production,starring Anna Chancellor and Katherine Kingsley, is coming to the Theatre Royal Bath from Monday 28th April to…
CRUEL Intentions, The 90s Musical, comes to Bath Theatre Royal on its first UK tour, direct from the West End, from Wednesday 23rd to Saturday 26th April. The show is based on the film of the same name, and is inspired by Les Liaisons Dangereuses, the infamous epistolary novel about sex, social mores and cruel…
…. stow the chairs – and it’s off to the show THOSE glorious few days of warm sun before Easter were the perfect precursor to the open air theatre season, which will this year get under way in May and bring comedies, tragedies, classics and new stories to audiences across the country until mid-September. While…
ONE of the 21st century’s biggest selling thrillers, The Da Vinci Code, is on stage at Salisbury Playhouse until Saturday 3rd May in a dramatic and technically impressive production, directed by Chelsea Walker, with a script adapted by Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel from Dan Brown’s 2003 novel. Professor Robert Langdon and fellow cryptologist Sophie…
IF you think you know Alice in Wonderland, you are in for a delightful musical surprise at Bridport Arts Centre on Friday 4th April, at 7.30pm, when Platform 4 come to town. A gig theatre journey … for the curious ,,, and the curiouser, Platform 4’s The Alice Project brings this classic tale to the…
JODIE Comer is coming to Bath Theatre Royal in February 2026, reprising her BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winning solo performance in Suzie Miller’s powerful play Prima Facie. Bath is one of nine destinations on the UK and Ireland tour, with the world-famous production appearing at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday 24th to Saturday 28th…
ALFRED Hitchcock, the master of spine-tingling tension and thrills, famously said: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” So expect plenty of terror and nail-biting anticipation as Bath Theatre Royal stages the world premiere production of Alfred Hitchcock presents – The Musical, from Saturday 22nd March to Saturday 12th…
A STORY inspired by Sir Michael Morpurgo’s own family history is brought to the stage by adapter Simon Reade and the adventurous team at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre, from Friday 28th March to Saturday 10th May. In the Mouth of the Wolf is the true story of Morpurgo’s uncles in the Second World War. That war…
DORSET-based writer Ed Viney’s play Pot Licker is on a tour of Dorset, with dates in Exeter and Bath. After its premiere at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre, where it was first seen at a new writing event, it continues at Weymouth College Bay Theatre on 18th March, The Royal Manor Theatre on Portland on 19th,…
A PLAY that began life at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won awards and critical acclaim, comes to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio from Thursday 20th to Saturday 22nd March. Described as “folk horror”, Birdwatching is a drama about the female experience. Black Bright Theatre Company present Madeleine Farnhill’s play which places female, queer…