Aspiring young scientists and their friends can be amazed by the mind-blowing experiments taking place in Exciting Science at Theatre Royal Winchester on Sunday 23 February. Exciting Science is a brand-new educational show suitable for children aged 4 years and up, packed with fun, fact-filled, incredible experiments carried out...
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Preview: Made in Tennessee – A Night of Country Music, Theatre Royal Winchester
Country music fans are invited to enjoy a taste of Nashville when the sell-out show, Made in Tennessee – A Night of Country Music comes to Theatre Royal Winchester on Saturday 15 February. Made in Tennessee is a celebration of the nation’s fastest growing music genre and a journey...
Preview: Peter James Picture You Dead, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Detective Superintendent Roy Grace returns to Mayflower Theatre in Picture You Dead from Thursday 27 February to Saturday 1 March 2025. The show is adapted from the UK’s number one crime writer Peter James’ bestselling novel. The world premiere of Picture You Dead is the seventh Peter James book...
Preview: Gone Too Soon Live: The Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston Show, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston are invited to an evening celebrating the icons when Gone Too Soon Live: The Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston Show comes to Theatre Royal Winchester on Friday 14 February. Taryn Charles, who is best-known for her breath-taking performance on Britain’s Got Talent...
Preview: Dragons – Eun-Me Ahn Dance Company, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
In Asia, dragons represent resilience, joy and optimism. They are the inspiration for Dragons – the latest work by avant-garde choreographer Eun-Me Ahn, a swirling hallucinatory mix of dance, music, holograms and incredible costumes, which comes to Mayflower Theatre on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 February. In Dragons, Ahn...
Holocaust Memorial Day: Blue Apple Theatre short film with University of Winchester
While the Holocaust is remembered rightly as an act of genocide against Europe’s Jewish population, the Nazis also sent close to 250,000 people with disabilities to their deaths. This grim fact is highlighted by Winchester’s Blue Apple Theatre, whose performers have learning disabilities and have been making a short...
Preview: 50 Years of Fender: The Stratocaster Story, Theatre Royal Winchester
Fans of the world’s most iconic guitar, the Fender Stratocaster, will be excited to learn that a celebration of the instrument returns to Theatre Royal Winchester on Thursday 13 February. 50 Years of Fender: The Stratocaster Story tells the story of the world’s most recognisable guitar through the five...
Preview: Room on the Broom, MAST Mayflower Studios, Southampton
‘Iggety ziggety zaggety zoom!’ Tall Stories is delighted to announce that the company’s Olivier Award-nominated adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler’s classic picture book, Room on the Broom, directed by Olivia Jacobs, will be flying into MAST Mayflower Studios from Thursday 20 to Sunday 23 February 2025. Enchanting...
Interview: Michael Maloney and Bob Barrett on playing Poirot and Monsieur Bouc in Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie Ltd, Fiery Angel and Lucy Bailey (director of the West End hit Witness for the Prosecution) will bring Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of another Agatha Christie classic, Murder on the Orient Express to the Mayflower Theatre stage from Tuesday 18 to Saturday 22 February 2025. We spoke to Michael...
What’s Coming Up In February At October Books?
By Laura McCarthy. Southampton’s beloved independent bookshop October Books will be hosting a variety of exciting events for lovers of reading, writing, and even cooking this February. Things get underway half way through the month, when they will be holding a poetry fundraiser on Saturday 15th February from 2.30pm...