Review: The Comedy About A Bank Robbery at Bristol Hippodrome

Jessica Hope laughs her socks off at The Comedy About A Bank Robbery, on at Bristol Hippodrome until 16 February With a bundle of Oliviers, WhatsOnStage, Br...

Bootylicious: Interview with Kinky Boots songwriter Cyndi Lauper

As an award-winning modern musical prepares to hit Bristol Hippodrome, Jasper Rees chats to its songwriter, Eighties pop queen Cyndi Lauper There’s no book,...

WIN tickets to Northern Ballet Bitesize Ballets’ Elves and the Shoemaker

Special event cinema distributor CinEvents is offering two lucky readers of The Bristol Magazine the chance to win tickets for all the family to see the Northe...

If the crown fits: Princess & The Hustler at BOV

Princess thinks she’s beautiful, so why shouldn’t she enter a beauty contest? Award-winning local playwright Chinonyerem Odimba reveals the political and racia...

Mischief-making at Bristol Hippodrome

Following the sell-out success of their multi award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong, Mischief Theatre are back on the road with their latest smash hit,...

Review: Motown The Musical at Bristol Hippodrome

Jessica Hope assesses Motown The Musical, currently on UK and Ireland tour, showing at Bristol Hippodrome until 2 February After racking up an extraordinary...

Emma Rice: The Homecoming

After a turbulent few years in London, director and theatremaker Emma Rice has come home to set down creative roots in Bristol. As her first show with her new ...

Review: A Christmas Carol at Bristol Old Vic

Jessica Hope gets fully festive with Tom Morris’ adaption of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, on at Bristol Old Vic until 13 January Patrick Stewart, Ross...

Swingin’ Shakespeare: Bristol Old Vic’s Twelfth Night

The Lyceum’s latest creation to arrive at Bristol Old Vic is a melting pot of Sixties and Seventies-esque, Warhol-tinged colour, passion, indulgent psychedelia ...

Improbable (but fantastic) fiction: Twelfth Night at Bristol Old Vic

"Blurred genders, crossed boundaries and a world turned upside down" – if ever there was a modern-day era to butt up beautifully against the Bard's barmy comedy...

Curtain up: chef Coco Barone at BOV’s 1766

Melissa Blease meets the Italian chef at the helm of Bristol Old Vic’s brand new kitchen “Food and cooking play a very important part in my family’s life, an...

Education special: Dramatic effect

Don’t underestimate the power of the arts and their impact on adult life, say Bristol schools Cuts to the creative arts are always controversial – it’s widel...