THE shipping forecast celebrates its centenary this year, and Charlie Connelly, author of the best-selling book, Attention All Shipping: A Journey Round the Shipping Forecast, performs his hilarious and fascinating history of this important maritime service at Bridport Arts Centre on Saturday 22nd June. The shipping forecast started out as (and remains) an essential service…
THE team who brought you The Play That Goes Wrong, and many more, turned their mischievous attention to magic, and the result is Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle, which comes to Bath Theatre Royal from Tuesday 11th to Sunday 16th June, direct from the West End, with a cast led by Henry Lewis…
THIS year’s Bath pantomime will be Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, once again written by panto star and writer Jon Monie, who will co-star with the theatre’s much-loved Dame, Nick Wilton, with children’s television presenter Olivia Birchenough as Snow White. The panto will run from Thursday 12th December to Sunday 12th January. When the…
BATH Theatre Royal has announced a season of plays next summer, in which the actor will star in David Hare’s Grace Pervades, and will direct Harriet Walter and Gloria Obianyo in Shakespeare’s As You Like it. Booking opens for both on Wednesday 27th March (if you are an Associate member) or, for Friends, it’s Friday…
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…
ACTOR Ronald Pickup, who has died at the age of 80 after a long illness, is now best known for his performances as Norman in The Best Marigold Hotel films and as the Archbishop of Canterbury in The Crown. But for those of us lucky enough to have been around for the early days of…