Playmakers Youth Theatre members share the results of weeks of hard work with their Playmakers Youth Theatre Showcase at Theatre Royal Winchester on Thursday 28 March. The youth theatre groups began a new year of drama and musical theatre sessions in September and the members have been developing their...
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Sleeping Beauty auditions for young people
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...
Preview: Science Museum: The Live Stage Show, Theatre Royal Winchester
Young science enthusiasts and their families are invited to a brand-new production at Theatre Royal Winchester on Sunday 17 March. Science Museum: The Live Stage Show is an unmissable family show aimed at inspiring audiences in new and exciting ways, fuelling their imaginations, capturing their fascination and igniting their...
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...
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...
Preview: Zog and the Flying Doctors, Theatre Royal Winchester
Young fans of children’s book writer Julia Donaldson’s beloved stories will love Zog and the Flying Doctors, which visits Theatre Royal Winchester from Friday 8 to Sunday 10 March. Zog and the Flying Doctors tells the story of Zog, a super keen student turned air-ambulance who, with his Flying...
Perform at Hat Fair!
Playmakers are offering local talent the chance to perform at this year’s Hat Fair festival – and there are two ways for them to get involved. Playmakers are calling upon local singers, musicians, comics, choir members, dance troupes and others with a short performance to apply now to be...
Preview: LORE, Theatre Royal Winchester
Contemporary dance enthusiasts will delight in new production, LORE, which visits Theatre Royal Winchester on Tuesday 5 March. LORE takes audiences on a folklore inspired journey into a pagan world of gods, demons and humans. The show explores a connection with nature and the energy that flows from the...
Preview: Dom Joly: The Conspiracy Tour, Theatre Royal Winchester
Comedian Dom Joly returns with The Conspiracy Tour at Theatre Royal Winchester on Wednesday 6 March. The comic has been travelling around the globe once more, looking into some of the strangest and weirdest conspiracy theories that exist and his tour is a funny, fascinating and anarchic guide to...
Houdini’s Greatest Escape – interview with Feargus Woods Dunlop
Just as his death-defying escapology stunts have him, and his wife Bess, on the cusp of a career-defining performance for King Edward, he finds himself framed for murder by a gang of criminals in cahoots with the chief of police. Can Harry and Bess escape the plot and clear...