LAURA Main, best known as Sheila Turner in Call the Midwife, is still in the baby business in Chris Chibnall’s new play, One Last Push, which has its world premiere at Salisbury Playhouse, directed by Wiltshire Creative’s artistic director Gareth Machin, from 15th February to 9th March. She joins Sam Alexander, Valerie Antwi, Sherry Baines,…
THE ever-adventurous Barn Theatre at Cirencester is venturing into the foggy and sinister world of London’s Whitechapel, in Victorian times, in a new comedy thriller, Sherlock Holmes and the Whitechapel Fiend, on stage to Saturday 9th March. The world premiere Built By Barn production of Toby Hulse & Ross Smith’s play Sherlock Holmes and the…
DIRECTOR and theatre-maker Emma Rice brings her new Wise Children version of the Blue Beard story to Bath Theatre Royal, for its world premiere, from Friday 2nd to Saturday 10th February. Blue Beard the Magician makes hearts flutter and pupils dilate. With a wink, a stroke and a flick, things just seem to vanish. Cards,…
ONE of Gilbert and Sullivan’s best-loved operas, HMS Pinafore, sails into Bath next week, from Wednesday 24th to Saturday 27th January when the always-inventive Opera della Luna makes its Theatre Royal debut as part of its 30th anniversary tour, with its much-praised production of the show that gave the world “the Monarch of the Sea…
ONE of this country’s favourite actors, David Suchet makes a welcome return to Bath Theatre Royal on Tuesday 23rd January, with his show, Poirot and More: A Retrospective, with performances at 2.30pm and 7.30. Following a hugely successful tour in 2021 and a West End run in 2022, David Suchet – well known not only…
TWO of the most famous characters of Greek myth and legend, the goddess Artemis and the doomed prophetess Kassandra, are at the heart of Wild Visions and Untamed Myth, an evening of storytelling with Katy Cawkwell and Lucy Lill, starting its local tour dates with Artsreach at the Pamela Hambro Hall at Winterborne Stickland on…
A PLAY which began life on a Broadway stage 35 years ago is coming to Dorchester. AR Gurney’s Love Letters comes to the Corn Exchange on Thursday 25th January in a new production by The Group Theatre Co. Have you ever known someone who touched every part of your life? Have you loved someone through…
RETURNING to Bath’s Egg theatre, Snow Mouse is in its ninth season, running until Sunday 11th February. This “delightful” (The Stage) seasonal tale for the very young, is perfect for children aged from six months to four years old and their families. Snow Mouse transports the audience to the snow-covered woods, where a child hurries…
CHRISTMAS 2023 may be behind us, but there are plenty of Christmasses yet to come, and Somerset’s hilarious and multi-talented Living Spit are coming to Dorchester to transport you to their own version of the best-loved of all festival tales, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, at the Corn Exchange on Friday 5th and Pound Arts…
THREE of the country’s finest stage actors – Jane Asher, Clive Francis and Nicholas Le Prevost – head the cast of an acclaimed revival of Somerset Maugham’s elegant social satire The Circle, which begins a UK tour at Bath Theatre Royal from Wednesday 10th to Saturday 20th January. One review of Tom Littler’s production for…