Plymouth

The Dreamboys

he Dreamboys are back and hotter than ever with a brand new Show and UK Tour for 2016.

The Dreamboys are without a shadow of a doubt the UK's top Male Strip Show, perfect for a girls night out with all your friends. Their showcase is unquestionably the most famous Male Stripper act the UK has ever produced. With special guest appearances on some of the UK's biggest TV shows such as The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent, Celebrity Big Brother, Loose Women, This Morning, The Alan Titchmarsh Show and The Only Way Is Essex, plus massive sold out Worldwide Tours, it's no wonder The...

Let It Be

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Monday, July 25, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, July 30, 2016 - 20:30
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The international hit show that celebrates the music of The Beatles is coming to Plymouth! Let It Be showcases the music of the world’s most successful rock ‘n’ roll band, in a spectacular concert charting the band’s meteoric rise from their humble beginnings in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, through the height of Beatlemania, to their later studio masterpieces. The show is packed with over forty of The Beatles’ greatest hits including: Twist and Shout, She Loves You and A Hard Day’s Night, as well as global megahits Yesterday, Hey Jude, Come Together and of course, Let It Be.

Running...

Breakfast at Tiffany's - The Play

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Monday, June 20, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, June 25, 2016 - 20:30
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Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the classic tale of Holly Golightly written by Truman Capote and so memorably portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the iconic 1961 film, is being given a new lease of life in 2016 as a stage play with music in a sparkling, sophisticated production starring the multi award-winning Pixie Lott as Holly.

Adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg and directed by Nikolai Foster, this tale of vivacious, good-time girl Holly Golightly and her fantastical existence in 1940s New York City, is told through the eyes of...

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Wednesday, June 15, 2016 - 20:30 to Sunday, June 19, 2016 - 20:30
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Watch out! The most fantasmagorical musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, lands in Plymouth in 2016. One of the world’s favourite musicals, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will have audiences of all ages flying high with its mixture of madness, intrigue and exuberance.

Can the loveable but whacky inventor, Potts, along with his two children and the gorgeous Truly Scrumptious outwit the bombastic Baron Bomburst who has decreed that all children be banished from his kingdom? What happens when the children are caught and imprisoned with the other youngsters by the evil Childcatcher? Will it all...

1972 - The Future of Sex

Venue: 
Theatre Royal, Plymouth
Event Date: 
Thursday, June 16, 2016 - 20:30 to Saturday, June 18, 2016 - 20:30
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t’s 1972. An era of possibility, polyester and pubic hair.

Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Christine is watching Deepthroat. Brian is confused.

The Wardrobe Ensemble tell the story of the class of ‘72 with a handsome funk guitarist and some spacehoppers. Was it easier back then? Where did we go wrong? A brisk romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters.

http://www.theatreroyal.com/whats-on/2016/1972-the-future-of-sex/

Introducing Yard Sessions in Plymouth

Every Friday throughout the Summer, starting from this Friday 17 June, Urban Splash are hosting Friday night live music sessions at Royal William Yard, an ideal way to wind down from the working week and kick start the weekend.

Each week, the sessions, will feature a different local live music act from 5pm - 7pm on the green outside either Rockets & Rascals or Le Vignoble. There...

Tourism Minister visits Plymouth

Plymouth and Devon food producers showed off their wares at an event to celebrate the best the region has to offer.

Tourism Minister David Evennett met some of the areas most successful producers including representatives from Burts Potato Chips, Devon Hampers and Plymouth Tea at the event at the Plymouth Gin.

They were joined on Thursday by hospitality and tourism businesses...

Jess Glynne

Who knew a trip to Pizza Express could inform a young teenagers life so greatly? One evening in 2003, Jess Glynne’s parents returned home from a night in Soho with a signed CD by a new singer they had seen performing at the restaurant’s regular Jazz night. “It had such a profoundly immediate effect on me,” remembers Jess of her parents playing Amy Winehouse’s debut album, ‘Frank’. “I’d always loved the big pop vocals of Mariah, Beyoncé and Whitney, but hearing a woman’s voice that was basically a jazz vocal, so full of individuality? Then realising she was British and still a teenager?...

Teacher and student to shave heads for charity

A student and teacher from Ridgeway School in Plympton have pledged to shave off their hair if fellow students and teachers can help them raise £500 for charity.

14 year old Maisie Smith and Jim Strachan, Head of Academic Progress for Years 8 & 9, are planning to have their locks shorn off next month, to raise money for Cancer Research.

“Lots of my friends have lost family...

South West Classic Car Show comes to Redlake

Classic buses, cars and vintage vehicles to take over heritage building at Redlake – 23rd July 2016

Fundraising and income generating for the charity set up to help young people – The Eddystone Trust – continues at The Clay Factory, Redlake (5 minutes from Endsleigh) with yet more varied events.

Following the massive success of last year’s inaugural Christmas Extravaganza,...

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