Mayflower Theatre has launched Elevate Ensemble, a ground-breaking new initiative aimed at providing young underrepresented performers in Southampton and the surrounding areas with exceptional training opportunities. Elevate Ensemble is a free two-year-part-time comprehensive training program, which has been developed with a commitment to nurturing talent, fostering creativity and empowering...
Preview: Smoked & Uncut, Lime Wood Hotel, Lyndhurst
Here come the girls! Lime Wood has an all female line-up for Smoked & Uncut, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. Headliners, Kelis, Gabrielle, and DJ Harriet Rose will take centre stage at the fabulous summer festival, which takes place on Saturday 8 July at Lime Wood hotel...
Preview: Hip Hop & Graffiti Jam, The Common & The Bargate, Southampton
A Southampton graffiti artist, in collaboration with Do1Cancer, is hosting a charity hip hop and graffiti jam at Southampton Common and the Bargate this weekend. The free family-friendly event, where graffiti, street artists, and the hip hop community come together on the same day and simultaneously paint pieces, will...
Show Announcement: Shrek the Musical, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The smash-hit musical, Shrek the Musical, will arrive at Mayflower Theatre on Tuesday 20 February 2024, for one week only. Based on the Oscar winning DreamWorks film, the Broadway and West End hit show, Shrek the Musical, is a fun filled and hilarious musical comedy with a cast of...
Preview: The Mikado, Theatre Royal Winchester
Audiences can enjoy a fresh take on a Gilbert & Sullivan classic when an all-male adaptation of The Mikado comes to Theatre Royal Winchester from Monday 3 to Saturday 8 July. This recently award-nominated production of one of Gilbert & Sullivan’s most famous operettas begins in 1950s England, where...
“I wasn’t ready to do nothing” – Supporting an African village from a shop in Southampton
By Catherine Collins When Vivienne Gilbert had to give up work due to Fibromyalgia, she wasn’t quite ready to ‘do nothing’, and now she has set up a not-for-profit shop to help support an African village. Kookies Crafts, based in Woolston in Southampton, provides a venue for local crafters...
Southampton International Boat Show is back
Now in its 54th year Britain’s largest festival of boats is back and bigger than ever. Southampton International Boat Show returns from Friday 15 to Sunday 24 September 2023, with something for everyone interested in life on the water. And, this year’s event promises to be show stopping, helping everybody...
One month to go until Buckinghamshire’s biggest festival, PennFest, returns
It’s now just one month until Buckinghamshire’s biggest music festival, PennFest, returns with its most impressive line-up yet – and tickets are selling fast! The two-day festival with optional camping is held in picturesque countryside near the village of Penn Street – just 26 miles from central London, and...
Review: Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story, Mayflower Theatre, 20 June 2023
By Joy McKay Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story was one of the very first ‘Jukebox Musicals’ premiering in 1989. It is part biopic, part gig and 100% celebration of the incredible and tragically short career of the Incongruously bespectacled Rock ‘n’ Roll legend Buddy Holly. After six years the...
Preview: The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The National Theatre’s critically acclaimed adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s The Ocean at the End of the Lane visits Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 4 to Saturday 8 July. Returning to his childhood home, a man finds himself standing beside the pond of the old Sussex farmhouse where he used to...