Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the classic tale of Holly Golightly written by Truman Capote and so memorably portrayed by Audrey Hepburn in the iconic 1961 film, is being given a new lease of life in 2016 as a stage play with music in a sparkling, sophisticated production starring the multi award-winning Pixie Lott as Holly.
Adapted by Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony and Olivier Award-winning playwright Richard Greenberg and directed by Nikolai Foster, this tale of vivacious, good-time girl Holly Golightly and her fantastical existence in 1940s New York City, is told through the eyes of...
Watch out! The most fantasmagorical musical, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, lands in Plymouth in 2016. One of the world’s favourite musicals, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will have audiences of all ages flying high with its mixture of madness, intrigue and exuberance.
Can the loveable but whacky inventor, Potts, along with his two children and the gorgeous Truly Scrumptious outwit the bombastic Baron Bomburst who has decreed that all children be banished from his kingdom? What happens when the children are caught and imprisoned with the other youngsters by the evil Childcatcher? Will it all...
t’s 1972. An era of possibility, polyester and pubic hair.
Ziggy Stardust is on Top of the Pops, Penny is writing an essay on Lady Chatterley’s Lover and Christine is watching Deepthroat. Brian is confused.
The Wardrobe Ensemble tell the story of the class of ‘72 with a handsome funk guitarist and some spacehoppers. Was it easier back then? Where did we go wrong? A brisk romp through the ins and outs of those excellently awkward first sexual encounters.
How to be a man is a light-hearted solo show that explores the crisis of masculinity, male privilege and gender identity.
The theme of masculinity is explored from a queer perspective, examining the causes and reactions to the crisis of masculinity, how in a world built around patriarchy both men and women have suffered. The work is an argument for feminism and a call for gender...
Last month saw the grand opening of the new theatre training room in Main Theatres at Derriford Hospital.
After a £50,000 education grant from Karl Storz UK, state of the art audio-visual equipment has been installed in the new room, allowing healthcare professionals to receive a more hands-on interactive experience than ever before.
Be the first to see BIG, the heart-warming and hilarious Broadway musical based on the classic movie starring Tom Hanks.
Josh Baskin is twelve-years-old and hates being little, until one night at the carnival the mysterious Zoltar machine grants his wish to be big. Now trapped in an adult’s body and alone in New York, he innocently tries to find his way around a grown-up world where it...
It’s fair to say many people have a fear of clowns, which is known as Coulrophobia. A child’s fear of an unfamiliar face has become widespread, with many developing a fear of clowns. The phobia leads to people in later life being anxious when confronted with clown costumes, a clowns facial features and of course their make up. A clown therefore would not seem to be the ideal employment for...
The children of a Plymouth school have something to celebrate after being gifted a theatre performance by Happy Days Children’s Charity, a national charity that is helping local children with a variety of special needs with day trips and holidays.
On 14th January 2016, children from Cann Bridge School will be treated to a performance of Peter Pan when the M&M Productions traveling...
This Christmas you shall go to the ball as Qdos Entertainment, the world’s biggest panto producer, and Theatre Royal Plymouth stage the most magical pantomime of them all, Cinderella!
Everyone’s favourite fashion-guru, Gok Wan, and comedy ventriloquist, Paul Zerdin, will star in this year’s magical pantomime adventure, Cinderella,
The famous rags-to-riches story will be brought magically to life in a sumptuous production which carries the Theatre Royal Plymouth’s hallmark of quality entertainment for all ages; an abundance of comedy, stunning sets, outrageous costumes, some...
This November, Plymouth is in for a blast of high-energy comedy as Hugh McCann brings his debut show, Ensuite, to Theatre Royal Plymouth. The show, which recently began its UK Tour at Exeter’s The Bike Shed Theatre, is performed by McCann himself with direction from New Model Theatre’s Tom Nicholas.
Ensuite is a coming of age story, following the macbook-toting avant garde of...
