By Catherine Collins. The spellbindingly spectacular Wicked is billed as a must-see theatrical experience, and it certainly is that! Wicked is set against a backdrop of propaganda and fake news, and tells the incredible origin story of the good witch Glinda and the green-skinned outcast destined to become the...
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Preview: An Officer and a Gentleman: The Musical, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Prepare to be swept off your feet as An Officer and Gentleman the Musical comes to the stage of Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 25 to Saturday 29 June 2024. An Officer and a Gentleman the Musical invites you into a world where dreams and destinies intertwine. Don’t miss your...
Applause review: Murder in the Studio, Maskers Studio Theatre, Southampton
By Martin Brisland. And now for something completely different! The Maskers, founded in 1968, have performed many types of drama from traditional to modern, from comic to tragic but surely simulating a radio play is a first? It worked brilliantly and provided a most enjoyable evening of entertainment. Reading...
Preview: Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast with Charlie Connelly, Theatre Royal Winchester
Followers of the shipping forecast can tune into Attention All Shipping: A Celebration of the Shipping Forecast with Charlie Connelly at Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 7 June. This year the shipping forecast celebrates 100 years, and bestselling author Charlie Connelly presents an informative, funny, pacy and moving show...
Preview: Cluedo 2: The Next Chapter, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Following the huge success of the critically acclaimed original play, and based on the classic Hasbro board game, Cluedo is back at Mayflower Theatre with a brand-new comedy mystery, from Wednesday 19 to Sunday 23 June 2024. The hilarious whodunnit returns with a new story, a new house, new...
Review: Life of Pi, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 14 May 2024
By Joy McKay. The Life of Pi is on it’s first UK tour following successful runs of the West End debuting in 2021 and Broadway in 2023 and opened at The Mayflower last night (14 May 2024). Based on the Booker Prize winning and bestselling novel of the same...
Preview: The Lion Inside, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
MAST Mayflower Studios are co-producing the production of The Lion Inside, and look forward to it entertaining young audiences in Southampton from Wednesday 29 May to Saturday 1 June 2024. Fed up of being ignored and forgotten by the other animals, Mouse wishes he could roar like Lion. But,...
Review: Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Graham Hiley. It’s not every day that an inanimate object gets a standing ovation – but then it’s not often that a car is the star. And Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is no ordinary vehicle. It has a life and a personality of its own which shone through...
In conversation with Wicked stars Sarah O’Connor (Glinda) and Laura Pick (Elphaba)
Wicked, the spectacular, multi-record-breaking and critically acclaimed production, is set to fly back to the Mayflower Theatre stage from Thursday 23 May to Sunday 16 June 2024. Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two young women – the popular Glinda and a...
Preview: Wicked, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Wicked, the spectacular, multi-record-breaking and critically acclaimed production, is set to fly back to the Mayflower Theatre stage from Thursday 23 May to Sunday 16 June 2024. Wicked tells the incredible untold story of an unlikely but profound friendship between two young women – the popular Glinda and a...