Local young people are invited to audition for a professionally-led musical production of Sleeping Beauty, which will be performed at Theatre Royal Winchester this summer. Sleeping Beauty is the timeless tale of a beautiful princess who is cursed by an evil fairy to prick her finger on a spindle...
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Southampton’s Maskers Theatre return with a farce
‘Cash on Delivery’, a farce by Michael Cooney, is the latest show from popular amateur company Maskers Theatre, based off Emsworth Road in Shirley, Southampton. The play opens on March 18th and runs until the 23rd. Eric Swan’s life comes tumbling down around him following a phone call to...
Preview: The Gruffalo’s Child, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
The perfect wintery production adapted from Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s award-winning storybook, The Gruffalo’s Child, comes to MAST Mayflower Studios from Wednesday 10 to Saturday 13 April 2024. One wild and windy night the Gruffalo’s Child ignores her father’s warnings about the Big Bad Mouse and tiptoes out...
Echo & the Bunnymen come to Bournemouth this week
Echo & the Bunnymen one of the most influential British bands in modern history, have embarked on a major UK tour for March. The tour will celebrate the songs that have brought the band twenty Top 20 hits and nine Top 20 albums so far during their incredible 40+...
Tchaikathon: Southampton conductors present a musical marathon this weekend
Local conductors Craig Lawton and Paul Ingram return to Turner Sims, Southampton, for the 4th instalment of their epic musical marathon fundraisers. Tchaikathon takes place on Sunday 3 March. Over just one day, a hand-picked orchestra, made up of local players from across a number of orchestras in the...
Southampton March gig guide
By Vicky Greer. There’s nowhere quite like Southampton, is there? Somehow, you can always see the biggest stars on the tiniest stages, and this month features one of the best examples of this phenomenon. It’s what makes the city’s music scene so special. Our beautiful venues have been home...
Preview: National Theatre Live: Vanya, Theatre Royal Winchester
Actor Andrew Scott shines in a cinema screening of National Theatre Live’s Vanya at Theatre Royal Winchester on Saturday 9 March. In this radical new version of Russian playwright Anton Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, the TV and film favourite, Scott – whose performance in this production has been described by...
Artful Scribe’s LIT FEST 2024 comes to Southampton in March
LIT FEST 2024 brings literature from around the country to Southampton. This three day festival is produced by ArtfulScribe and delivered in partnership with University of Southampton and with funding from Arts Council England. Featuring a diverse, community-focused programme of showcases, workshops, open-mics and free events, LIT FEST 2024...
Southampton RSA Fellows Festival on this week
Photo by Chris Moorhouse. The Southampton RSA Fellows Festival is taking place from 3.30pm on Thursday 29th February. It aims to bring together a diverse group of leaders from across the City and its institutions to discuss how the City can achieve a sustainable, regenerative future and the courageous...
Julia Donaldson’s stories on stage at Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of children’s author, Julia Donaldson, have plenty of options to see an adaptation of one of her beloved stories – with Theatre Royal Winchester hosting four of them this spring. From 8 – 10 March, the previously featured, Zog and the Flying Doctors, tells the story of the...