It’s that time again! Another great month of Performing Art shows, concerts and everything you could want on your doorstep. As mentioned in last month’s post, Theatre Group are putting on Dickens’ classic, Great Expectations in the Annex Theatre from Wednesday 14th November until Saturday 17th November. You can get your tickets from the Box…
A seductive, if perplexing, name for the variety show featuring Comedy, Circus and Magic Soc: The Marvellous Emporium of Wonders. It left you laughing, thinking, and taken aback by the depth and range of skill on offer.
Comic books appear to be the source material of choice for TV and film makers at the moment, and you can understand why, with the phenomenal success of Christopher Nolan’s Batman series, and Joss Whedon’s box office topping Avenger’s Assemble. But for every The Dark Knight there is inevitably a Green Lantern to show the…
Comedian Jason Byrne comes to the Guildhall on Thursday 8th November as part of his tour, Jason Byrne: People’s Puppeteer. Showcased at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Byrne’s show was hailed a ‘night of hilarity’. We’ve got two tickets to give away for his show in Southampton. To be in with a chance of winning all you…
The makers of the sitcom Community announced on Tuesday that the premiering of the 4th season on NBC has been pushed back to February 7th, 4 months later than the original date. The 4th season was supposed to begin on NBC on October 19th, but a video featuring the cast was released recently that confirmed…
House of Lies is brash, crude and features a central character who should, by all accounts, be reprehensible. But yet, he is not, and there is something about this show which pulls you in and refuses to let you go. A warning for the easily offended – this is not the show for you. If…
When I found out that I was to review Theatre Group’s Macbeth I was excited but also a little nervous. In my experience, amateur Shakespeare goes very much one of two ways and, whilst I had faith in the cast, I could not entirely shake my misgivings. It is an absolute pleasure for me to…
Over the past few years, we’ve seen some great original UK shows hitting our screens, and ITV’s new supernatural show Switch seems likely to join the ranks. With one of the girls accidentally microwaving her boss’s cat and another romantically enchanting a customer who turns out to play for the other team, what’s not to…
Performing Arts is back with a variety of shows/concerts/plays for the new academic year. To make sure you don’t miss any of them we’ve put together a list of everything you can see this month. Sinfonietta Sinfonietta’s Autumn Concert will consist of the orchestra playing the likes of Rossini L’italiana in Algeri overture, Prokofiev Classical symphony and Dvorak…
This adaptation of The Ladykillers is one I had been looking forward to seeing ever since hearing of the initial West End run. Penned by Graham Linehan (arguably one of the finest TV comedy writers around today) and based on what is a truly classic British comedy, maybe the hype I had created for myself…
Airing its second season on Channel 4 at the moment, Homeland has proved a success in the US and the UK with staggering viewing figures. A third season for the hit US show has now been confirmed, with 12 episodes set to air in late 2013. Homeland’s first season, set around CIA agent (Claire Danes)…
Michael McIntyre’s stand-up may not be the most innovative, but his ability to tap into the everyday aspects of British life has unified countless audiences and has helped McIntyre reach new levels of success. In the realm of Mr McIntyre, something as mundane as a kitchen cupboard can inspire stand-up that’ll contort muscles you didn’t…
Hilary Mantel has become the first woman and the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for a second time. Today, Mantel won the coveted literary award for her novel, Bring Up the Bodies – a follow up Wolf Hall, which also won the award back in 2009. Bring Up the Bodies is the second installment of…
Following its success in London’s West End last year, the stage version of classic British comedy The Ladykillers is coming to Southampton near the start of a national tour which encompasses the end of 2012 until spring 2013. The story follows the tale of a kindly widow who is approached by a man proposing to rent…