Arts & Entertainment

Jolly hockey sticks and all that jazz!

THEATRE lovers in Shaftesbury are set to be transported back to the 1930s with Daisy Pulls It Off, a…

Music in the garden at Fonthill House

MUSIC alfresco is on offer when Fonthill House, near Tisbury, opens its gardens to visitors later this month. The annual…

Comedy thriller packs them in

by George Jeans Mere Drama Society played to full houses when it presented A Tomb With a View by…

Sax player Tom has mixed with the best

DORSET-RAISED Tom Waters is playing a homecoming gig with his band Electric People at Dorchester Corn Exchange later this…

Journey through a century of musical theatre

THE award-winning Milborne Port Opera (MPO) group will be celebrating 100 years of musical theatre in its next production,…

Sounds of lockdown in Sixpenny Session

MUSICIAN Steve Knightley, one half of folk supergroup Show of Hands, is bringing his one-man show ‘Unlock Me &…

Poetry and stories

ACCLAIMED stand-up poet and storyteller Jonny Fluffypunk is heading to The Gaggle of Geese in Buckland Newton with his…

Funny but thought-provoking theatre

How happily married are the happily married? Every couple needs a little fantasy to keep their marriage sparkling. But…

Wars of the Roses the setting for community play

REHEARSALS are well under way, costumes have been fitted and altered, and lines – almost – learned – which…

Mechanic’s paintings help good causes

by Nicci Brown. PAINTINGS by the late Michael Wells of Tarrant Rushton went on show in an exhibition at Tarrant…