Monday, May 19 until Saturday, May 24,
Theatre Royal Bath.
David Harrower’s critically acclaimed Olivier Award-winning play Blackbird appears at the Theatre Royal Bath next week.
Saturday May 17,
Salisbury Arts Centre.
The only person to have appeared in every one of BBC’s Grumpy Old Men, former Yes keyboardist Rick Wakeman suddenly found himself in a new guise as a highly in-demand raconteur, which, mixed with his unique style of piano and keyboard playing, resulted in some highly successful sell-out one-man shows around the world.
Until Saturday May 17,
Neston Memorial Hall.
Neston Drama Group are staging Peter Horsler’s rustic romp On The Verge at Neston Memorial Hall until May 17.
Wednesday, May 21 until Saturday, June 7,
Various venues.
The 60th Bath International Music Festival will start as Sir Colin Davis raises his baton to conduct the London Symphony Orchestra in Bath for the first time.
Until Saturday May 17,
Theatre Royal Bath.
FROM classic novel, to hit film and now an award-winning
theatrical spoof, The 39 Steps is a masterclass in tomfoolery and ingenuity.
Monday, May 12 until Saturday, May 17,
Theatre Royal Bath.
Maria Aitken’s critically acclaimed West End and Broadway production of Alfred Hitchcock’s 1935 spy thriller, The 39 Steps, tours to Bath next week.
Until May 24,
Salisbury Playhouse.
Salisbury Playhouse completes the Spring/Summer season with Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw, which is directed by Philip Wilson, the Playhouse’s artistic director.
Until Saturday May 10,
Theatre Royal Bath.
A play that leaves you speechless has to be a play worth
seeing, and Peter Shaffer’s Equus (the Latin word for horse) is one that will both haunt and shock you.
Intervention/Decoration,
Friday May 9 until June 21,
Various venues, Frome.
Foreground, Frome’s newest arts organisation, is launching
its inaugural exhibition, Intervention/Decoration, on Friday.
Until Saturday May 3,
Theatre Royal Bath.
The Peter Hall company gave theatregoers another chance to see the original 1916 version of George Bernard Shaw’s comedy this week before it opens in the West End.
Until Saturday April 26,
Theatre Royal Bath.
BY 21st century standards, 18th century comedy can seem be a little laboured, but the central joke in Goldsmith’s enduring romp is timeless.
THE third Cloth Road Arts Week takes place next month, celebrating the work of local artists. In the weeks before the event, beginning May 3, we are
featuring those who taking part.
Until Sunday April 20,
Theatre Royal Bath.
THE challenge of staging fantasy is a major one, and Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, which has rapidly achieved iconic status with both teenage and adult readers, requires no small feats of characterisation – how do you portray a person’s animal soul?
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