THOSE of us of “a certain age” who remember Arthur Penn’s iconic 1967 film of Bonnie and Clyde, starring a never-better Warren Beatty and a brilliant Faye Dunaway, are bound to look forward to the award-winning musical version – coming to Bath Theatre Royal from 30th April to 4th May – with a mixture of…
ONE of Alan Ayckbourn’s most popular plays, A Chorus of Disapproval, comes to Salisbury Playhouse from 30th April to 18th May, with previews from 25th April. Directed by Gareth Machin, the artistic director of Wiltshire Creative, the large cast features Damian Humbley as the hapless central character, Guy, and Robert Bowman, seen last year in…
IF you buy a stick of Blackpool Rock you would find the town’s name running through the heart of the sweet. And in a similar vein, Blood Brothers and the two men most associated with the show, author/composer Willy Russell and director/producer Bill Kenwright, have Liverpool running through their hearts. Born within a year of…
SHERLOCK Holmes arrives at Bath Theatre Royal, from Tuesday 16th to Saturday 20th April, in an adaptation of one of Conan Doyle’s original tales, in a production that marks the 20th anniversary of Blackeyed Theatre Company. Blackeyed Theatre’s production of Sherlock Holmes: The Valley of Fear is in Bath before its London premiere at Southwark…
THE iconoclastic Living Spit, led by Stu McLoughlin, now sadly without the late Howard Coggins, tackles one of the greatest stories of all – The Passion, in their latest show, touring this spring, with performances continuing at the Blakehay Theatre at Weston-super-Mare from 25th to 27th April, The Theatre Shop at Clevedon from 29th April…
HURN Court Opera, the company set up to provide performance opportunities for young singers, is this year staging Mozart’s dark comedy, Don Giovanni, at Christchurch Regent Centre on Tuesday 9th April, Theatre Royal, Winchester, on Thursday 11th, both at 7pm, and at Bryanston School’s Coade Hall, Blandford, on Saturday 13th at 4pm. The cast is…
THERE are some shows that have a perennial appeal, perhaps because they push a lot of emotional buttons. And one of the best examples is Willy Russell’s musical Blood Brothers, which returns to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 9th to Saturday 13th April, with a cast led by Niki Colwell Evans, Sean Jones and Scott Anson…
AN exciting partnership has been formed between the Theatre Royal Bath Theatre School and Mary Shelley’s House of Frankenstein in the city. The students and the museum will be producing a new production to explore the life and writing of Mary Shelley, the creator of the gothic horror story, Frankenstein. Around 20 young people, aged…
THE award-winning hit play The Full Monty is coming to the Theatre Royal, Bath, from 2nd to 8th April, with a star cast led by Danny Hatchard, Jake Quickenden and Bill Ward The new tour of Simon Beaufoy’s award-winning play celebrates the 25th anniversary of one of the most successful British films ever made. At…
BATH Theatre Royal has announced a season of plays next summer, in which the actor will star in David Hare’s Grace Pervades, and will direct Harriet Walter and Gloria Obianyo in Shakespeare’s As You Like it. Booking opens for both on Wednesday 27th March (if you are an Associate member) or, for Friends, it’s Friday…