Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds:
Around the World in 80 Days: The classic Victorian tale of derring-do that follows adventurer Phileas Fogg around the globe in order to win a bet but he has Scotland Yard’s finest detective on his tail. A family show written for the Theatre Royal, played in a fast-paced, mad-cap style by three actors switching a lot of hats. Runs from May 21-June 5.
Philip and Robert Glenister will be hosting a fund-raising evening at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on May 23.
- Credit: Theatre Royal
Philip and Robert Glenister: In Conversation: The acting brothers and supporters od the Theatre Royal will talk about life, love, acting, theatre and appearing in such classic TV shows as Hustle, Spooks, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes and Living The Dream. The evening will be hosted by Look East’s Susie Fowler-Watt. The fund-raising evening will be on May 23.
Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds:
Around the World in 80 Days: The classic Victorian tale of derring-do that follows adventurer Phileas Fogg around the globe in order to win a bet but he has Scotland Yard’s finest detective on his tail. A family show written for the Theatre Royal, played in a fast-paced, mad-cap style by three actors switching a lot of hats. Runs from May 21-June 5.
Philip and Robert Glenister will be hosting a fund-raising evening at the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds on May 23.
- Credit: Theatre Royal
Philip and Robert Glenister: In Conversation: The acting brothers and supporters od the Theatre Royal will talk about life, love, acting, theatre and appearing in such classic TV shows as Hustle, Spooks, Life on Mars, Ashes to Ashes and Living The Dream. The evening will be hosted by Look East’s Susie Fowler-Watt. The fund-raising evening will be on May 23.
The New Wolsey has championed disabled performers by forming a production partnership with Graeae theatre company and then took the lead in helping to establish the Ramps on the Moon project. Both projects were incredibly successful at integrating disabled performers into mainstream productions.
With Graeae, the New Wolsey developed the Ian Drury musical Reasons To Be Cheerful, which was originally staged in 2010, was revived in 2012, and ended up being featured in the Special Olympics opening ceremony. The high point of Ramps on the Moon came with a critically acclaimed revival of the Pete Townsend musical Tommy which then went on a UK tour after its Ipswich run.
Published:
11:30 AM May 6, 2021
Sarah Holmes with the team at New Wolsey Theatre. The Ipswich theatre celebrates its 20th anniversary this year
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Spring is a time for renewal and rebirth. At the end of May, the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich will be opening its doors once again, hoping to put the deprivations of lockdown behind it, and looking forward to a future full of colour, innovation and entertainment.
Turn back the clock 20 years, and in 2001, the New Wolsey Theatre was doing the same thing. After two years of closure, following the collapse of the previous Wolsey Theatre company in 1999, the theatre was reborn as the New Wolsey and guided by two new, but experienced theatre-makers, the husband and wife team of Sarah Holmes and Peter Rowe, who had been enticed away from Theatr Clywd in north Wales, to run the Suffolk theatre.
Published:
11:30 AM May 5, 2021
Richard Mainwaring, Violet Patton-Ryder, Matt Joplin, Geri Allen , in rehearsal for a previous Eastern Angles Christmas show Stoat Hall written by Julian Harries and Pat Whymark. Last year s postponed show is being resurrected as a slice of summer silliness
- Credit: Mike Kwasniak
Eastern Angles is bringing some much needed laughter and what would have been seasonal cheer to its newly reopened and refurbished theatre in June – thanks to the inspired invention of writer/actor Julian Harries.
Julian, for many years the ‘architect’ of the Eastern Angles Christmas show, has adapted what would have been last year’s extravaganza into a summer sleuthing caper entitled ‘Sam Snape and the Curse of the Chillesford Chough.’