THEATRE

Les Misérables wows Ivybridge audiences

200-STRONG CAST RAISE THE BAR FOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE PERFORMANCES

More than 1,500 audience members were last week treated to a spectacular display of musical theatre, as Ivybridge Community College ran five sell-out performances – from Wednesday 17 July to Saturday 20 July – of ‘the most popular musical in the world’ – Les Misérables.

The 200-strong cast and crew left audiences...

War Horse

The National Theatre’s award-winning production of WAR HORSE begins a ten month, nine-venue tour of the UK and Ireland opening at the Theatre Royal Plymouth on 27 September 2013.

Seen by over 2.4 million people worldwide since its premiere at the National Theatre in 2007, WAR HORSE will visit Theatre Royal Plymouth, Birmingham Hippodrome, The Lowry in Salford, the Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, The Mayflower Theatre, Southampton, Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, Dublin, Sunderland Empire, the Alhambra Theatre, Bradford and the Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff.

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Royal Opera House: Tosca

Duration approximately 3 hours Pre-performance screening starts at 7.10pm Performance starts at 7.30pm Act I lasts 50 mins Interval starts at 8.20pm and lasts 25 mins Act II begins at 8.45pm and lasts 45 mins Interval starts at 9.30pm and lasts 25 mins Act III begins at 9.55pm and lasts 30 mins Curtain down at 10.25pm

http://www.roh.org.uk/about/bp-big-screens/plymouth

Suffrage play arrives in Plymouth city centre

As they continue their journey in celebration of the centenary of The Great Suffrage Pilgrimage, Dreadnought South West Association will be performing free Episodes from a new play in Plymouth city centre’s Piazza at 4pm on Thursday 27 June 2013. The play, Oxygen, looks at how women’s rights have changed in the last 100 years, how protest has changed and seeks to examine if there has been any...

Oxygen

A new play by Natalie McGrath celebrating the centenary of The Great 1913 Suffrage Pilgrimage, which saw thousands of women march across Britain to Hyde Park. The play looks at how women’s rights have changed in the last 100 years, how protest has changed and seeks to examine if there has been any realistic shift in power to ensure that women’s voices are heard in society. Oxygen will be performed at many of the stopping places along the original South West route from Land’s End to London. For more information see www.dreadnoughtsouthwest.org.uk

Lord Mayor's Day brings celebrations to city centre

Plymouth's new Lord Mayor, Vivian Pengelly will lead a special parade through the city centre involving around 800 people.

Cllr Pengelly, a former leader of Plymouth City Council, was invested as Lord Mayor at a ceremony at the Guildhall on Thursday.

Today's celebrations will involve music and entertainment throughout the city centre with plenty of activities for all the family...

City pupils to lead Lord Mayor's Day celebrations with ice age theme

There’s no time to ‘chill out’ for primary school children busy rehearsing for this year’s Lord Mayor’s Day celebrations on Saturday 18 May.

More than 250 pupils have been working with Stiltskin Arts and Theatre Company to stage a spectacular ‘Cattedown Man’ themed children’s parade and are putting the finishing touches to a giant wooden caveman, as well as colourful costumes, masks...

Brendan Cole is coming to Plymouth in style

BBC Strictly Come Dancing’s very own dancer, Brendan Cole will be performing at the Plymouth Pavilions in January.

His new theatrical show ‘Licence To Thrill’ will be presented to the audience on Sunday 27 th January 2013 at 7.30pm.

Brendan Cole will be touring the UK, along with 20 musicians and dancers, wowing the audience with their spectacular night of entertainment....

The Strange Case of Jekyll & Hyde - Plymouth - Muse Theatre (steampunk theatre show)

Performance 7.30pm - 10pm including interval

Tickets £10 adults £8 concessions.

Venue: The Muse Theatre Lipson Co-operative Academy campus Bernice Terrace, Plymouth, PL4 7PG

Tickets can be obtained from https://www.southdevonplayers.com/box-office.html or on the door. This venue has interval teas & coffees, and toilets. This venue has wheelchair access

More information on our touring theatre company and this show, can be found at https://www.southdevonplayers.com,

In a steampunk (Victorian science-fiction) re-imagining of this chilling 19th...

The Magic Flute

Join The Bluebirds Theatre Company for a brand new production of Mozart's opera The Magic Flute; watch a cast of amazing opera singers and puppets in a flight of imagination. Meet monsters, villains, heroes and heroines in a saga of love and deceit set in a magical circus of Light and Dark This is an open air production. Please bring something to sit on and dress for all weathers. The show must go on! This show takes place by kind permission of Powderham Castle with picnics welcome

"Absolutely loved it and it blew me away!"

"Amazing fun! Epic singing, great puppets, silly...

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