Tickets for Let’s Rock: The Retro Festival are selling fast as the popular ‘80s retro event prepares to transform Southampton Common into sea of neon on Saturday 8 July. Thousands of revellers will descend on the city to dust off their dancing shoes and enjoy a day of gloriously...
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Review: The King and I, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 13 June 2023
By Catherine Collins I remember singing along whilst watching the film, The King and I, on the TV as a child, so I was excited to be in the audience when it opened at Mayflower Theatre tonight. Set in 1860s Bangkok, The King and I tells the story of the unconventional...
Review: Winnie the Pooh: The New Musical Stage Adaptation, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 31 May 2023
The new musical adaptation of Winnie the Pooh – which opened at Mayflower Theatre today – brings Pooh, Piglet, Kanga, Roo, Owl, and Tigger, to the stage. Deep in the Hundred Acre Wood, a new adventure is about to begin as we join Pooh and friends on a series...
Preview: Dinosaur World Live, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Back at the Mayflower Theatre, Dinosaur World Live – the interactive children’s theatre show that brings dinosaurs to life on stage – returns on Tuesday 27 June. Dinosaur World Live presents a host of impressive pre-historic creatures including every child’s favourite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, along with a...
Preview: Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Photo credit: Hamish Gill On the back of an incredibly successful 30th year anniversary tour, smash hit rock & roll musical, Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story, visits Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 June. Loved by critics and audiences alike, Buddy tells the enduring story of...
Half-term Highlights for The Point and The Berry Theatre
An open-air adaptation of a David Walliams’ children’s book, Bad Dad, at Itchen Valley Country Park is the highlight of a busy half-term of events at The Point and The Berry Theatre. Heartbreak Productions presents the warm-hearted tale that follows the highs and lows of a father-son relationship on...
Preview: Wish You Were Dead, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Following the critically acclaimed smash-hit primetime ITV series Grace, Wish You Were Dead – featuring DSI Roy Grace – will arrive at Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 6 to Saturday 10 June. Wish You Were Dead follows DSI Roy Grace and Cleo Morey as they take a much needed holiday...
Preview: Welsh National Opera, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Welsh National Opera’s (WNO) Spring Season comes to Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 16 to Saturday 20 May and includes the brand new opera, Blaze of Glory!, and a new production of The Magic Flute. WNO will perform its new production of Mozart’s The Magic Flute under the baton of Teresa...
Preview: Extraordinary Bodies: Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror, the brand-new musical from Extraordinary Bodies and their most ambitious production to date, comes to MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 4 to Saturday 6 May. Set in 1933 Brandenburg, the Nazis are burning books and suspending civil rights. Many are desperate to escape,...
Review: Annie: The Musical, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 24 April 2023
By Catherine Collins When Annie: The Musical opened at Mayflower Theatre last night – I was immediately transported back in time to one of my favourite childhood films of the 80s. The show begins with the set of an orphanage dormitory in New York in the 1930s – during...