Hilary Porter
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PHOTOS: Your favourite pets dressed up in fun costumes
We’ve seen some lovely pictures of your much loved four-legged friends in their festive gear. → Read More
REVIEW: Carmen, Welsh National Opera
SPORTING a vest, baggy brown overalls slung to her waist, high ponytail, hoop earrings and tattoos on her arms and chest could this really be the bewitching Carmen? On first sight she was more Vicki Pollard - Little Britain's famous chav than opera's ultimate seductress! Bizet’s 19th century opera is traditionally set in the heat of Seville, simmering with smouldering gypsies, flamenco and… → Read More
REVIEW: Les Miserables, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
A DECADE since the last sell-out UK tour, Cameron Mackintosh’s acclaimed Broadway production of Boublil and Schönberg’s musical Les Misérables… → Read More
Les Miserables returns to Southampton's Mayflower Theatre next week
NEARLY a decade since the last sell-out tour, Les Misérables is touring again and is back at Southampton’s Mayflower Theatre. → Read More
REVIEW: Matthew Bourne's Romeo and Juliet Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
Think you know the story of Romeo and Juliet? Think again. This inspired production by Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures puts a dark, almost disturbing twist on the classic tale of the star-crossed lovers. The scene is set in the Verona Institute - a psychiatric hospital for young people, where boys and girls are segregated and watched over by aggressive, leering guards. When said guard whisks a… → Read More
LAST NIGHT'S REVIEW: An Inspector Calls, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
This is the same production Stephen Daldry directed as his stunning National Theatre debut some 27 years ago when he radically reshaped the thriller, breathing extraordinary new life into an old war horse. Daldry’s visionary, radical, challenging version has been hailed the theatrical event of its generation and the enthusiastic reaction of a press night audience packed with GCSE school pupils… → Read More
Downton Abbey film opens today... 'I didn't really believe there would be a film'
More than three years after Downton Abbey finished on ITV the movie version is finally here and is released in UK cinemas today ( Friday). → Read More
Heritage Open Days - 13 free events in Hampshire
HERITAGE Open Days - England’s largest festival of history and culture is celebrating its 25th anniversary with thousands of free events across… → Read More
Shappi Khorsandi brings comedy to Ageas Bowl tonight.
THE Ageas Bowl is set to stage the venue’s first ever Comedy Night. → Read More
Ayckbourne comedy live on stage
WILTSHIRE Creative’s production of Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious West End hit comedy Relatively Speaking runs at Salisbury Playhouse from Wednesday… → Read More
Ten things to do this weekend
Included in the price of admission, and for one weekend only, guests can get up close and personal to some of the 'roarsome' dinosaur sculptures. Discover pre-historic Lego brick artefacts in Marwell Hall and dress up in your best dinosaur outfit to join the pre-historic procession with Colin the Compsognathus and his friends, too. Join Spike the stegosaurus for a dance around the park and meet… → Read More
Kinky Boots in Southampton
A DAZZLING sassy global phenomenon strides into Southampton next week . → Read More
REVIEW: Saturday Night Fever, Mayflower Theatre, Southampton
In fact, having seen the stage show several times over the years I believe this is the best production of it yet. What is most striking about this reinvigorated, spectacular, reimagined show - directed by Bill Kenwright and choreographed by Bill Deamer, is the greater dance content which had us on the edge of our seats and ultimately up dancing ourselves. The music remains the second… → Read More
Layton Williams and Shane Richie to star in Everybody’s Talking About Jamie at The Mayflower
BILLY Elliot actor Layton Williams and EastEnders star Shane Ritchie will star in the smash-hit musical Everybody's Talking About Jamie in… → Read More
Voice FM to take over Seaside in the Square today
VOICE FM, Southampton’s community radio station, will send its soundwaves across the sand in Guildhall Square today (Friday) from 4pm. → Read More
Busted and The Vamps to play The Great Wonderfest
A brand new festival ‘The Great Wonderfest’ takes place at Duxmore farm, Isle of Wight from Thursday August 1- Sunday August 4. → Read More
Radio 1 DJ Nick Grimshaw and Sister Sledge to play Smoked & Uncut Festival
RADIO One DJ Nick Grimshaw will DJ at Lime Wood’s Smoked & Uncut Festival this weekend. → Read More
REVIEW:Club Tropicana, Mayflower Theatre
CELEBRATING the era of big hair, big shoulder pads, big phones and more cheese than Sainsbury's Club Tropicana totally fizzes with fun. Whilst boasting a soundtrack filled with feel-good 80's hits it is the outrageously camp, tongue-in-cheek humour - often loaded with sexual innuendo, that makes this such an entertaining show. Imagine a place a little bit Love Island mixed with Island of… → Read More
More than 350 stunning sculptures in the gardens at historic Beaulieu Abbey
For the first time at Beaulieu, a sculpture exhibition featuring the work of over 60 international and national sculptors will showcase more than… → Read More
REVIEW:The Bodyguard The Musical, Mayflower Theatre
REVIEW:The Bodyguard The Musical, Mayflower Theatre → Read More