Photo credit: Danny Kaan The smash-hit Wiltshire Creative Production of The Girl on the Train will visit Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 22 to Saturday 26 July 2025. We spoke to Laura Whitmore ahead of her role as Rachel Watson in the tour. The tour calls at Southampton. Does it have any significance...
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Anne Reid and Caroline Quentin in conversation with David Benedict
Photo credit: Nobby Clark Ever since they began playing mother and daughter twenty-two years ago at the start of three seasons of the TV series Life Begins, Anne Reid and Caroline Quentin have been friends. “She even came to live next door to me at one point,” says Reid....
Review: Ghost Stories, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, Tuesday 24 June 2025
By Laura McCarthy. As I walked with my friend, Annie, to the Mayflower Theatre for the performance of Ghost Stories yesterday evening (24 June 2025), we babbled excitedly about our predictions and hopes for the production. For context, despite there even being a film adaption, neither of us had...
Matthew Ball joins Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet cast at Mayflower Theatre
Royal Ballet Principal dancer Matthew Ball will joins the company of Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet for select performances during the Southampton run, as a guest artist in the role of Godfather. The show will tour to Mayflower Theatre from 18 – 21 June 2025. In 1973, guitar smashing rock...
Preview: By Royal Appointment, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
By Royal Appointment – the debut play of Daisy Goodwin, creator of hit ITV historical drama Victoria – tours to Mayflower Theatre from Wednesday 9 to Saturday 12 July 2025. The late Queen Elizabeth II was famous for her discretion. She never said anything in public that could ruffle...
The team behind Quadrophenia: A Mod Ballet on bringing The Who’s iconic rock opera to the stage
by Theo Bosanquet. Sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll may not immediately strike you as obvious themes for a ballet. But then you’ve probably never seen a ballet quite like Quadrophenia. Based on The Who’s landmark 1973 album, which tells the story of a troubled young man, Jimmy, and...
Dinosaur World Live visits Paultons Park ahead of tour
Photos: Stuart Martin To mark National Dinosaur Day on 1 June 2025, Tybalt the T-Rex, star of Olivier Award-Winning Dinosaur World Live visited Lost Kingdom at Paultons Park and Westquay, Southampton for a prehistoric adventure – and to meet the public, ahead of the show touring to Mayflower Theatre...
Preview: Ghost Stories, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s worldwide cult phenomenon, Ghost Stories, will visit Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 24 to Saturday 28 June 2025, as part of its UK tour. When Professor Goodman, an arch-sceptic out to debunk the paranormal, embarks on an investigation of three apparent hauntings – as recounted...
Preview: Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The world premiere of Quadrophenia, a Mod Ballet will tour to Mayflower Theatre from 18 – 21 June 2025. In 1973, guitar smashing rock genius Pete Townshend wrote Quadrophenia. Recorded by The Who – it quickly became an iconic and multi-million selling album. Quadrophenia defined a generation and in...
Mayflower Theatre introduces reusable drinks cups
Mayflower have teamed up with Bargate to enable Mayflower Theatre to eradicate over 120,000 single-use plastic cups per annum by introducing reusable Stack-Cups – a significant step forward on Mayflower’s carbon cutting programme. As part of its carbon cutting programme, Mayflower has also introduced improved waste stream management increasing...