Preview: Come What May, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

by Catherine Collins. A tribute to the greatest movie musicals of all time including Moulin Rouge, Rocketman, Burlesque, A Star is Born and The Greatest Showman – Come What May – will be at the Mayflower Theatre on Sunday September 26, for one night only. Travel back in time...

Southampton amongst 20 competing for 2025 City of Culture

 It has been announced that Southampton is on the list of twenty places bidding to be the UK City of Culture for 2025. The competition is organised by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) every four years. Those behind Southampton’s 2025 bid have been working hard...

Southampton Pride: Photos

People came together in Southampton in their thousands on Saturday, to celebrate the city’s LGBT+ community and stand against prejudice and bigotry. The event featured a parade, live performances, stalls and more in a colourful carnival with a political message that’s as important as ever, to stamp out hatred....

Pride returns to Southampton this weekend

Southampton Pride returns to Guildhall Square on Saturday (August 28). Featuring live music, entertainment, a market and more, the event is a celebration of the city’s LGBT+ community. This year’s event features a new parade route. The parade will leave Queen’s Park at 11am, heading onto Brinton Street. It...

Preview: Blood Brothers at Mayflower Theatre, Southampton

by Catherine Collins. Bill Kenwright‘s legendary production of the international smash hit musical Blood Brothers returns to the stage of the Mayflower Theatre from September 7-11 2021. The much-loved musical, which performed to sell-out houses and standing ovations on its most recent UK tour in 2019-2020, features Lyn Paul’s...

Controversy as Southampton city centre meadows cut

by Sally Churchward. Southampton residents have taken to social media to express their horror at the meadows outside the city’s Civic Centre being cut. The sight of the much loved meadows being cut to the ground provoked outcry amongst those who feared a much-loved area of urban wildlife was...