Police officer turned stand-up comedian, Alfie Moore, takes to the stage for Alfie Moore: A Face for Radio at Theatre Royal Winchester on Saturday 2 September. Moore spent 30 years doing shift-work in Sheffield steelworks, and as a police officer on the beat – where he was punched in...
Review: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: The Musical, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 17 August 2023
By Catherine Collins Who doesn’t love Charlie and the Chocolate Factory? As a child, I read the book by Roald Dahl and watched the film starring Gene Wilder, and as an adult with children of my own the remake with Johnny Depp. So when the opportunity to see the...
Preview: Loose Women, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Loose Women will bring the first ever Loose Women Live tour to Southampton on Sunday 24 September, as ITV1’s award-winning Daytime show hits the road. Swapping the studio for the stage, Loose Women Live will bring its iconic panel directly to Mayflower Theatre for an evening filled with laughter,...
Preview: Lewes Big Band Presents: Pete Long’s Jazz Swan Lake & Best of Big Band, Theatre Royal Winchester
Jazz enthusiasts can enjoy an evening performance by Lewes Big Band of composer Pete Long’s Jazz Swan Lake at Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 25 August. The performance will see Lewes Big Band perform Long’s re-imagination of Swan Lake, plus a selection of the biggest and best big band...
Preview: Metamorphosis, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Following Frantic Assembly’s sell-out visit in 2022 with Othello, the company return to MAST Mayflower Studios from Tuesday 26 to Saturday 30 September. Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis is a powerful and vital depiction of humans struggling within a system that crushes them under its heel. Gregor Samsa finds himself transformed...
Preview: I’m Alive! A Celebration of Celine Dion, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of the Grammy and American Music Award winner, Celine Dion, can revel in a brand-new theatre show, I’m Alive! A Celebration of Celine Dion, which visits Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 1 September. ‘Celine’ is multi award-winning tribute artiste, January Butler, who has studied the singer in order...
Preview: Greatest Days, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The official Take That musical, Greatest Days (previously produced as The Band), will return to Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 26 to Saturday 30 September 2023. The musical follows a group of five best friends in the 1990’s who are obsessed with their favourite boy band. The girls then...
September at MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
MAST Mayflower Studios is hosting a huge variety of shows this September – from a variety of music to a slapstick centre court comedy, for everything you wanted from a trip to the theatre. Shows are as follows: Crimes on Centre Court Date: Thursday 7 – Saturday 9 September...
Wickham Festival has been hailed as a “Triumph over adversity.”
Title image of child in mud: Graham Hiley Body images: Striking Faces While many events across the south were forced to cancel by Storm Antoni last weekend, the popular four-day festival overcame a succession of set-backs. Several days of torrential rain left the fields waterlogged at a time when...
Casting Announcement: The Drifters Girl, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Producers of The Drifters Girl, Michael Harrison and David Ian, are delighted to announce casting for the first-ever UK and Ireland tour of the acclaimed new West End musical which tells the remarkable story of one of the world’s greatest vocal groups and the woman who made them. Carly...