British Theatre Guide

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South West

Reviews

Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer

A Splinter of Ice

Ben Brown

Original Theatre Company

Cheltenham Everyman Theatre

15 April–31 July 2021

Fionn Whitehead

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Henry Filloux-Bennett, based on the novel by Oscar Wilde

Barn Theatre, Lawrence Batley Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre, Oxford Playhouse a...

16–31 March 2021

Alan 'Tweedy' Digweed reading the script for the first time

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit

Nassim Soleimanpour

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham

13 March 2021

News

Stephen Tompkinson (Frank) and Jessica Johnson (Rita)

Rita is coming to Newcastle

20 April 2021

The 40th anniversary tour of Educating Rita will finally reach Newcastle this year.

Peter Andre as Teen Angel in Grease

New dates as Grease revs up for 2021 tour

8 April 2021

Producers of a new tour of Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey's musical Grease have rescheduled its 2021 dates which will start at Leicester’s Curve in July.

Chihiro Kawasaki and Roseanna Anderson in Lady Blackshirt

Impermanence and Bristol Old Vic double bill

30 March 2021

Bristol Old Vic and Impermanence will continue their creative partnership with a new double bill of online dance work.

Still Touch on YouTube

Still Touch from Richard Chappell

30 March 2021

Still Touch is a new film version of Richard Chappell Dance's 2018 work of the same name that explores the need for human contact and connections.

Invisible Dances

PDSW dancing invisibly in the streets

25 March 2021

Pavilion Dance South West will be dancing in the streets with the English première of Elisabeth Schilling's Invisible Dances.