The city’s Mayflower venues (Mayflower Theatre and Mayflower Studios) are celebrating a record-breaking run of festive shows. Over 100,000 people came to see English National Ballet’s Nutcracker, Elf the Musical, A Very Hungry Christmas Caterpillar, Jack and the Beanstalk, and The Wind in The Willows, across both venues. Mayflower...
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Review: Hairspray, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, 7 January 2025
Photo credit – Ellie Kurttz By Catherine Collins. 23 years after Hairspray the Musical first premiered there was no stopping the beat as it took to Mayflower Theatre’s stage last night. From start to finish, this vibrant, high-energy show took the audience along on the journey of teenage misfit,...
Interview: Director Stephen Daldry on reviving An Inspector Calls
Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls will play at Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 28 January to Saturday 1 February 2025. We spoke to acclaimed director Stephen Daldry about reviving his seminal production. When you were first asked to direct An Inspector Calls...
Preview: An Inspector Calls, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Stephen Daldry’s multi award-winning National Theatre production of JB Priestley’s An Inspector Calls will play at Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 28 January to Saturday 1 February 2025. When Inspector Goole arrives unexpectedly at the prosperous Birling family home, their peaceful dinner party is shattered by his investigations into the...
Dear Evan Hansen – Ryan Kopel and Sonny Monaghan interview
By Liam Rudden Media ‘Today is going to be a good day…’ With not one, but two Evan Hansens in the room, that would appear to be a given. Ryan Kopel and Sonny Monaghan may sport very different looks and have an age gap of six years but they...
Preview: Dear Evan Hansen, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The brand-new production of the Olivier, Tony and Grammy award-winning Best Musical, Dear Evan Hansen, comes to Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 21 to Saturday 25 January 2025. Today is going to be a good day. And here’s why… Meet Evan: an anxious high school kid who wants nothing more...
Preview: Now That’s What I Call a Musical, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
The world premiere of NOW That’s What I Call A Musical, a brand-new British musical written by award-winning comedian Pippa Evans and directed and choreographed by Craig Revel Horwood, will visit Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 14 to Saturday 18 January 2025. It’s Birmingham, 1989. Two school friends, Gemma and...
Preview: Hairspray, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
After breaking box office records and delighting audiences in the West End, on Broadway, and on the big screen since 1988, the timeless story of Hairspray comes to Mayflower Theatre from Tuesday 7 to Saturday 11 January 2025. Hairspray centres around heroine Tracy Turnblad, who has big hair, a...
Here & Now, presented by Steps, to tour to Mayflower Theatre
UK pop band Steps have announced that their official musical Her & Now, which has been wowing audiences in Birmingham for the last few weeks, will tour to Mayflower Theatre, Southampton from Tuesday 20 to Saturday 24 January 2026. Welcome to seaside superstore Better Best Bargains, where it’s Friday...
Preview: Jack and the Beanstalk, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
As panto season approaches, Jack and the Beanstalk makes a gigantic return to Mayflower Theatre from Saturday 14 December 2024 to Sunday 5 January 2025. Follow Jack and climb a beanstalk of gigantic proportions to cloudland in this magical family pantomime. Doomed to sell his trusty cow, join Jack...