Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester continues at the Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse until 28 December 2019. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ If you want primary colours, loud rock anthems and pyrotechnics, then you must go next door to Salisbury Playhouse’s main house where Robin Hood is doing raucous battle with […]
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INTERVIEW: Composer & musical director Glyn Kerslake brings The Nightmare Before Christmas back to Salisbury Playhouse
Lesley Bates writes: When it comes to Christmas, Salisbury has a special place in GLYN KERSLAKE’s heart. For the past seven years or so, the West End veteran has become a regular fixture at Salisbury Playhouse over the festive season, either as performer or musical director or both, usually for the musically-themed revues offered by […]
The Night Before Christmas – Salisbury Playhouse
The Night Before Christmas continues at the Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse until 30 December 2018. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Pantomime can be a bit loud and scary, not to mention far too long, for tiny tots. When Salisbury Playhouse artistic director Gareth Machin first unwrapped this 55-minute Christmas present for pre-schoolers in the […]
Little Robin Redbreast – The Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse
Little Robin Redbreast continues at The Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse until 31 December. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Every picture tells a story…and there are 24 of them in Salisbury Playhouse’s charming Christmas show for tiny tots and their families. Part of a giant advent calendar that spans the whole of […]
Interview – performer turned composer Glyn Kerslake on his latest show – Little Robin Red Breast at Salisbury Playhouse
You’ll know GLYN KERSLAKE from many beloved cast recordings. He came shooting straight from the hallowed halls of ArtsEd straight to the West End in 1988 in Les Misérables, and has enjoyed a 30-something-year career as a leading man in both town and tour, from Schönberg to Andrew Lloyd Webber to Sondheim and beyond. In […]
A Little of What You Fancy – The Salberg, Salisbury Playhouse
A Little of What You Fancy continues at The Salberg, Salisbury Playhouse until 21 January. Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Glyn Kerslake has become a regular fixture at Salisbury Playhouse over the Christmas period in recent years.This year he features prominently in both festive shows in The Salberg, the theatre’s intimate […]
Interview – Sophie Evans on her role in The Night Before Christmas at Salisbury Playhouse
SOPHIE EVANS, the Welsh singer who first captivated national TV audiences as a 17-year-old in the star search show Over the Rainbow, has rapidly established herself as a stage and screen rising star. Although she just narrowly missed out on the top spot in Andrew Lloyd Webber’s BBC TV talent search in 2010, the girl […]
Come Fly With Me – Salisbury Playhouse
Come Fly With Me continues at the Salberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse until 17 January 2015. At first glance, it looks as though rain is pouring on Stonehenge – a sight familiar to anyone resident in Salisbury just a stone’s throw from the iconic landmark. So it would not be a surprising setting for a show at Salisbury […]
Come Fly With Me brings a musical journey to Salisbury Playhouse
This Christmas audiences at Salisbury Playhouse are being invited to embark on a musical journey celebrating the wonderful world of holidays and travel. Come Fly With Me, running in The Salberg space from 17 December to 17 January 2015 (press night is 18 December), includes songs about getting away from the daily grind, the joy of holidays and […]
