New casting has been announced for the brand-new stage adaptation of The Baddies, Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s smash-hit 2022 story, which visits Mayflower Studios from Wednesday 16 to Saturday 19 April 2025. Meet the very worst Baddies in the world! Don’t you dare to come too close to...
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Lulu comes to Poole this May
Pop sensation and bona fide National Treasure, Lulu is renowned for her powerful voice and enduring career having burst onto the music scene in the 1960s with her chart-topping debut single Shout at the age of 15. Last year she played Glastonbury and completed her sold out final tour...
Playmakers Youth Takeover at Theatre Royal Winchester
Playmakers Youth Theatre are back with their annual Youth Takeover at Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 4 April, celebrating months of hard work, presenting a host of original shows inspired by the works of William Shakespeare. The talented young performers of the youth theatre, aged School Years 2 –...
St Patrick’s Day: The rebel consolations of Irish literature
By Benn Orgill. The badness. It’s on the move. It was a long winter – prices rising, plagues lingering, peace talks floundering. And what’s to be done as we watch disaster strike from near and far? Try again, fail again, fail better, as Samuel Beckett would have it. And...
Matilda the Musical returns to Mayflower Theatre in 2026
The Royal Shakespeare Company’s smash hit production of Matilda The Musical, based on Roald Dahl’s beloved book, will add six further dates to its upcoming tour, which includes Mayflower Theatre, Southampton. This anarchic production, about a strong and determined heroine with a vivid imagination, has won over 100 global...
Heritage: The Plaques of Southampton 2
By Martin Brisland. In a previous article in February, I described the blue and other types of plaque that can be found in Southampton. We have just celebrated International Women’s Day. The origins of the day can be traced back to Therea Malkiel, a 35-year-old labour organiser in New York...
The Magic Mod brings magic show to south this April
The Magic Mod – aka Ben Taylor – is a card magician and entertainer of huge esteem who can proudly count himself as a member of the exclusive Magic Circle fraternity. Born in Crawley in South London, he now lives in Belfast and has previously supported The Libertines, Paul...
Disabled bus pass holders hand-deliverd letters to councillors imploring them not to impose cuts which make their lives even tougher
Disabled residents hand-delivered letters to Hampshire County Council cabinet members in Winchester this week (12 March) in a last-ditch effort to persuade them to cancel planned cuts to their bus passes. The cuts will damage the independence and well-being of thousands of people who cannot drive because of their...
Preview: Titanic the Musical Film Screening, Mayflower Studios, Southampton
A film screening of Titanic the Musical, directed by Mayflower’s Associate Artistic Director Thom Southerland, will take place at Mayflower Studios on the anniversary of the ship’s sinking on Monday 14 April. The screening will be accompanied by a special Q&A session with Thom Southerland, Director (Mayflower Artistic Director)...
Reggae Roast to support UB40 at Southampton date
Live Nation and Cuffe & Taylor have announced that Reggae Roast – one of the UK’s leading Reggae, Dancehall & Jungle Soundsystem crews, will be supporting UB40 in Guildhall Square, on Friday 15th June as part of TK Maxx presents Southampton Summer Sessions. Reggae Roast will be bringing one of the biggest names in UK reggae...