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Disney’s beloved Olivier Award-winning stage musical Beauty and the Beast – which has been re-imagined and re-designed in a completely new production –...
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Principal of The Bristol School of Dancing Angela Redgrave has recently received a British Empire Medal in The Queen’s Birthday...
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As Bristol Old Vic prepares to welcome Treasure Island back to its stage this month, we sit down with the theatre’s Heritage Participation Producer, Harriet Wilson, who takes us back through the archives and explains why Bristol audiences have always favoured maritime fiction… As the smoke clears and the dust...
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After 36 years on the British stage, Les Misérables is one of the most successful musicals of all time. Ahead...
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Words by Daisy Game Three wooden doors and a large green ball: The Revel Puck Circus stage is simply set....
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Words by Matt Wolf Samantha Womack has long been a familiar and much-admired presence on TV, but the actress currently touring the country in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe wants to make one point clear: the stage, she feels, is her natural home. “The theatre feels to me...
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Singin’ in the Rain – one of the most joyously uplifting, inventive musicals of our time – is touring the...
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Love, lust – and a whole lot of jealousy: Opera in a Box bring Georges Bizet’s Carmen to The Station. If...
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After almost two years in the making, the powerful world premiere production of Dr Semmelweis has finally made it to the stage at Bristol Old Vic, immortalising the lives of everyone involved in a journey of discovery. To find out more, we chat to the production’s narrator, Maria Semmelweis, played...
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A Victorian Gothic Revival house will provide the atmospheric setting for a spectacular new after-dark experience during February half term....
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As comedian Arthur Smith prepares for his debut performance at the Slapstick Festival on 30 January, we catch up with...
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As Sir Matthew Bourne’s ever-exuberant Nutcracker! celebrates its 30th anniversary and returns to the stage for the first time in 10 years, Melissa Blease chats to the “undisputed king of dance theatre” ahead of its launch at The Bristol Hippodrome next month, This year: so far, it’s all been a...
