Friday, May 3, 2013
STAGE REVIEW South Wight Youth Theatre delivered comedy and tragedy with a double bill of one-act plays, staged at the Quay Arts’ Anthony Minghella Theatre.
Friday, April 26, 2013
STAGE REVIEW A SPARKLING cast and a whodunnit that keeps you guessing right up to the end, is the perfect recipe for a decent night out at the theatre.
Friday, April 26, 2013
STAGE REVIEW MURDER, madness and passion came together last weekend for the Pepperpot Players’ production of Black Widow at Whitwell Village Hall.
Friday, April 26, 2013
STAGE REVIEW THE Trinity Theatre left Cowes on Thursday night to fly light years away for CAODS’ latest production, Return to the Forbidden Planet.
Friday, April 19, 2013
STAGE REVIEW EVERYBODY’S favourite busybody and amateur sleuth came to the Island in the Newchurch Drama Group’s spring production of Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced.
Friday, April 19, 2013
STAGE REVIEW MATILDA Liar, RedTIE Theatre’s latest offering, was a vicious black comedy about a troubled teenager and her family.
Friday, April 19, 2013
STAGE REVIEW IT WAS never going to be easy telling the story of the life of Doris Day through drama and song in just a couple of hours — but Curtain Up more than managed that with their tribute show, Que Sera.
Friday, April 5, 2013
STAGE REVIEW IT’S a brave theatre group that stages Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Sound of Music.
Friday, April 5, 2013
STAGE REVIEW IF YOU’RE looking for a romantic comedy with a touch of magic, you could do a lot worse than the latest production by the Apollo Players.
Friday, March 1, 2013
STAGE REVIEW The Apollo Theatre hosted an unusual double bill of home-grown theatre in aid of the Earl Mountbatten Hospice last Wednesday.
Friday, February 22, 2013
STAGE REVIEW PERFECT pantomime-prince hair, sparkling costumes, cross-dressing dames and Gangnam style all went together for the Wight Strollers’ latest production, Sleeping Beauty, at the Medina Theatre.
Friday, February 15, 2013
STAGE REVIEW There is still time to see the Apollo Theatre’s latest production, Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Friday, February 15, 2013
STAGE REVIEW FINDING the perfect leads for Ventnor Theatre Group’s saucy production of Cole Porter’s classic Broadway musical, Anything Goes, must have been a dream come true for director Anthony Wright and producer Bobby Oddy.
Friday, February 1, 2013
STAGE REVIEW ST LAWRENCE Village Players’ production of A Christmas Carol provided a delightful post-Christmas tonic last weekend.
Friday, January 25, 2013
STAGE REVIEW CHARLES 1 arrived at Carisbrooke Castle in 1647 as the King of England. He left a prisoner, when he was taken back to London where, eventually, he was executed.
Friday, January 18, 2013
STAGE REVIEW EVERYTHING that could go wrong at Christmas does go wrong in Gwen Stevens’s black comedy, Snowed Under.
Friday, January 4, 2013
STAGE REVIEW IT IS unusual to see a ventriloquist’s dummy singing without its controlling hand but that was just one of many hilarious surprises Jack and the Beanstalk Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre had to offer.
Friday, December 28, 2012
STAGE REVIEW THE New Strolling Players’ production of Jack and the Beanstalk scattered Christmas spirit like magic beans.
Friday, December 21, 2012
STAGE REVIEW WHEN it came to talent and the ability to entertain, the Apollo Players went full steam ahead with their latest production — a glorious adaptation of The Railway Children.
Friday, December 21, 2012
STAGE REVIEW FESTIVE FUN was had by all at Cowes Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society’s production of Snow White.