Marti Pellow, one of Britain’s great music icons, follows his current run in the West End UK tour of Willy Russell’s smash hit musical Blood Brothers in the role of The Narrator. Written by British playwright Willy Russell, Blood Brothers tells the captivating and moving tale of twins who, separated at birth, grow up on opposite sides…
A blood-curdling experience to remember!
No words and little or no melody but something that everyone can understand! Whether your music tastes are jazz, classical, dance or pop, Stomp provides rhythm and Southampton are lucky enough to have the troupe visiting The Mayflower Theatre in September. Stomp provides a fantastic night of entertainment unlike any other. The group started in Britain…
David Tully chats to Louise Dearman about returning to Wicked and swapping the bubble for the broomstick
Since a Broadway run, starting in 1966, and the successful movie starring Liza Minnelli, Cabaret has won 8 Oscars, 7 BAFTAs and 13 Tonys. Bill Kenwright takes the reigns for this relaunch of the classic Kandar and Ebb musical turning 1931 Berlin in to a very dark and sexual haven. The run at The Mayflower Theatre is immediately prior…
Hope is the most beautiful of all experiences. It is the reason why we get up in the morning, and it is at the core of this book. Somewhere a Bird is Singing is a beautifully crafted collection of five short stories by young writer and Southampton graduate Tig Wallace. Each story, although seemingly melancholy…
Alex Nee chats to David Tully about his time with the show he sums up as “Rage, love and guy-liner”
Last year, US TV show 90210 did something radical. It shouldn’t be radical, but in the world of American teen dramas, it was radical. It was revealed one of the hot leading male characters, Teddy, was actually gay. The third series of the show saw him coming out to his close friends and becoming confident…
David Tully reviews the latest London revival of the Eugene O’Neill classic starring David Suchet and Laurie Metcalf
Smash-hit Broadway musical announces cast ahead of Southampton premiere
Bones is an engaging crime drama, one that has a very fascinating and individual premise – the team at the Jeffersonian Institute solve criminal cases where human remains are compromised. Often, these are older corpses where the only thing left is bone. What makes or breaks a crime procedural drama is the team of professionals…
Alan Ball’s Six Feet Under first aired in 2001, coming soon after the success of American Beauty, for which he wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay. The show concerns the Fisher family, whose existence is thrown into disarray after patriarch Nathaniel Fisher (Richard Jenkins) is killed in a car crash just before Christmas. Widow Ruth (Frances Conroy),…
Filmmaker, television writer and producer Ryan Murphy has had – and hopefully will continue to have – a brilliantly successful career. He has a collection of established, highly popular television shows to his name (Glee, Nip/Tuck and American Horror Story) and he also directed the Julia Roberts drama Eat Pray Love. Murphy is openly gay,…
Kimberley Chambers’s new novel is gripping, easy-to-read and a dramatic reflection on modern families.