JODIE Comer is coming to Bath Theatre Royal in February 2026, reprising her BAFTA, Emmy, Tony and Olivier Award-winning solo performance in Suzie Miller’s powerful play Prima Facie. Bath is one of nine destinations on the UK and Ireland tour, with the world-famous production appearing at the Theatre Royal from Tuesday 24th to Saturday 28th…
ALFRED Hitchcock, the master of spine-tingling tension and thrills, famously said: “There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.” So expect plenty of terror and nail-biting anticipation as Bath Theatre Royal stages the world premiere production of Alfred Hitchcock presents – The Musical, from Saturday 22nd March to Saturday 12th…
A STORY inspired by Sir Michael Morpurgo’s own family history is brought to the stage by adapter Simon Reade and the adventurous team at Cirencester’s Barn Theatre, from Friday 28th March to Saturday 10th May. In the Mouth of the Wolf is the true story of Morpurgo’s uncles in the Second World War. That war…
DORSET-based writer Ed Viney’s play Pot Licker is on a tour of Dorset, with dates in Exeter and Bath. After its premiere at Poole’s Lighthouse arts centre, where it was first seen at a new writing event, it continues at Weymouth College Bay Theatre on 18th March, The Royal Manor Theatre on Portland on 19th,…
A PLAY that began life at the 2024 Edinburgh Fringe, where it won awards and critical acclaim, comes to Bath Theatre Royal’s Ustinov Studio from Thursday 20th to Saturday 22nd March. Described as “folk horror”, Birdwatching is a drama about the female experience. Black Bright Theatre Company present Madeleine Farnhill’s play which places female, queer…
The three largest theatres in the south-west region, Southampton Mayflower (seating 2,300) Bristol Hippodrome (1,951), and Plymouth Theatre Royal (1,320), are the places to see the big touring musicals, and their 2025 schedule includes major national tours. The Mayflower will stage Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop American history musical Hamilton (pictured below) , from 18th March to…
MICHAEL Maloney takes on one of the great roles in the whole of crime fiction as he plays Agatha Christie’s Hercule Poirot in a stage adaptation of one of her most popular mysteries, Murder On the Orient Express, coming to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 11th to Saturday 15th March. It’s winter 1934 and an…
THE Gavin Robertson company returns to Dorset in March with three performances of a double bill of Dickens’ short haunted stories, with a comic twist! The Ghost of a Smile will be at Sandford Orcas village hall on Friday 7th, Powerstock Hut on Saturday 8th and Shillingstone’s Portman Hall on Sunday 9th, all at 7.30pm….
IT is one of the most famous films of all time, with a threatening, drumming score that still sends shivers down the spine – amazingly, it is 50 years since Jaws savaged its way into the collective nightmares of a generation. But what happened out at sea when the cameras stopped rolling? Broadway and West…
“A stage where everyone’s story can be told” BATH’s Theatre Royal has received planning permission for Venue 4, a new community studio theatre for the public on St John’s Place. Subject to a fundraising campaign, Venue 4 will be a new home for the theatre’s Engage adult participation programme and will offer a range of…