LIVING Spit’s autumn recipe is on its way to a theatre near you. Mary Mallon is an Irish immigrant, an amiable host … and a killer? A talented cook in New York City in 1906 takes a job preparing delicious meals for yet another high society family, and yet again they begin to fall ill…
SALISBURY’S Celebrate Voice festival, this year from Wednesday 30th October to Saturday 9th November, once again brings a treasure chest of widely ranging music to the city. There is choral music and jazz, cabaret and opera, theatre and comedy and more packed into the 11 days, and no-one needs to feel left out – it…
FOR readers of a certain age, the names of Tony Hancock and Sid James – and their radio and television programme Hancock’s Half Hour – evoke a grumpy pessimist and his optimist Cockney friend. These immortal comic creations return to the stage in Hancock’s Half Hour – the Lost TV Episodes, currently on a national…
BEING a foster parent doesn’t sound like an obvious subject for stand-up comedy, but in the hands of the whip-smart and very funny Welsh comedian Kiri Pritchard-Mclean it provides some unexpected laughs in her new show, Peacock, touring with dates in our region continuing from 18th September. Kiri, well-known from many radio and television comedy…
IF you are among the many who think Thomas Hardy is not a barrel of laughs, Tom Browns at Dorchester will be looking to change your mind with Hardy Har, the town’s first comedy festival, on Saturday 13th July. Laughter comes to High East Street as Tom Browns pub joins forces with Dorchester Arts, The…
GRIFF Rhys Jones has almost as many parallel careers as he has comic expressions – comedian, actor, writer, broadcaster, architectural enthusiast and campaigner … the multi-talented performer is back on the road with his much-anticipated new stand-up tour, and will be sharing his funny observations and comic stories with the audience at Bridport’s Electric Palace…
TIMES Radio presenter and political columnist Matt Chorley is looking forward to the general election and he wants to share his thoughts and expertise with audiences across the country, including the Marine Theatre at Lyme Regis, where he will perform his show, Poll Dancer, on Friday 26th April. Drawing on his own two decades of…
THE ever-popular Fascinating Aida – Dillie Keane, Adele Anderson and Liza Pulman – continues the lengthy countrywide 23/24 tour with stops across the south and west. The trio will be at Bournemouth Pavilion on 20th March, The Playhouse at Weston-super-Mare on 21st March and Kings Theatre, Portsmouth, on 23rd March.
THE hilariously funny, cuddly, wry and inspired Howard Coggins, best known in the south west as co-founder of Living Spit and nationally for his Lottery adverts, has died at the age of 52. He was diagnosed with cancer late in 2022. Frustrated with playing bit parts in other people’s shows, Howard and Stu McLoughlin started…