Curtain Call Creative is to present Mad About Musicals - a 2-night event at Shanklin Theatre - on 6th and 7th March.  Following the popular productions of Les Miserables and Nativity! The Musical, which delighted full audiences last year, the...

Phantom of the Opera - the first show for the recently renamed Shoreline Productions - proved popular with Island audiences. Changing your identity is always a challenge, so when Ventnor Theatre Group became Shoreline Productions, with the ambition of attracting...

February is often a cold, unforgiving time of year, so while waiting for the first buds of spring to appear, cheer yourself up with a visit to one of the great shows coming up this month! There’s still time to...

In the last preview of the year, here's a look at what is coming up in the world of theatre across the Island this December... Welcome to the final theatre column of the year and as you’d expect, it’s packed...

The Way Forward Programme are gearing up for this year’s Christmas show, The Journey to the Lamp. You will be familiar with the pantomime Aladdin: here is a new take on the traditional story. The cast and crew have been...

The New Strolling Players are living up to their name this December by staging a brand new pantomime, written specially for them by local author Cheryl May. Last year’s show, Happily Ever After, not only won the IW Amateur Theatre...

Credit - Brian Curtis Following their open-air sell-out productions of ‘Hamlet’ last year and ‘Comedy of Errors’ in the summer, Ad Lib Theatre is bringing Shakespeare into Bembridge Village Hall with perhaps the Bard’s most famous tragedy, ‘Macbeth’. Or if...

I admit to having approached this production quite nervously, having taken such a dislike to the main character (Kristen or Kristin? – your proofreader couldn’t decide) when I read the play some time ago, that I was prepared for an...

The Ghost Train by Arnold Ridley will be staged at Bembridge Village Hall on 9th, 10th, and 11th November, with a matinee at 14:30 on 12th November.  The original play was written in 1923 by Arnold Ridley, of Dad’s Army...

Yes, the famous green ogre will be visiting Shanklin Theatre from 25th - 29th October, courtesy of The Island Savoyards. Fresh from the sell-out success of ‘The Sound of Music’ in April, this well-known and much respected musical theatre group...