Review By Hazel Thayre   Oscar nominated Stephen Daldry’s dynamic take on An Inspector Calls surpassed all of my expectations. Sitting in Cardiff’s New Theatre, my mind casted me unwillingly back to my high school days. I saw my 15 year old self gnawing frantically at my biro, desperately trying to unpick J. B. Priestley’s play in preparation for my GCSE English exam. As the theatre’s lights dwindled and a cloud of darkness enclosed the all-suspecting audience, the unpleasant memory…

Carl Marsh You’ve got a new show on the 25th of January 2020 at the New Theatre, an (ever-so) slight change from your previous outing (Mike played one of the Ugly Sisters in Pantomime) there? Mike Doyle   Yeah, the show on the 25th of January is called ‘Mike Doyle Rock with Laughter’, we’ve changed the show up over the years now, and I get a chance to play my Fender Strat. When I first had an interest in show business,…

CURRENTLY AT NEW THEATRE IN CARDIFF UNTIL SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER, JASON MANFORD IS APPEARING IN CURTAINS. CARL MARSH CHATTED TO HIM EARLIER THIS WEEK.   EVERYONE WILL PROBABLY KNOW YOU AS THE COMEDIAN SO IT MUST BE NICE BEING ASKED TO DO SOMETHING LIKE CURTAINS,  A MUSICAL SHOW; BUT ISN’T MUSIC IN YOUR FAMILIES BLOOD? It’s a massive privilege, but I think performing in general and being on stage, or the telly (sic) or radio is a privilege, but it…

Curtains: A Musical Whodunnit opened in Cardiff this evening in the first of its weeklong run at New Theatre, Cardiff. The show is full of incredible show-stopping numbers like ‘Wide Open Spaces’ and ‘In the same boat’. Full of energy and featuring an amazing cast including Jason Manford as Lieutenant Frank Coffi. The play follows the story set in an olde west theatre musical set in Kansas and performed in Boston, bound for Broadway, as Lieutenant Coffi tries to solve…

  It is one of the greatest family musicals of all time and now a lavish new production of The Sound of Music is set for a return to Cardiff’s New Theatre. Playing the iconic role of Maria, a role that has previously won her rave reviews is The Voice finalist Lucy O’Byrne. Lucy became a household name when she was the runner up of BBC One’s The Voice in 2015. With Will.i.am as her mentor Lucy became the first…

Stage adaption of tense thriller Gallowglass set to enthral Cardiff audiences. A world stage premiere of Gallowglass, from the pen of one of the world’s greatest thriller writers, Ruth Rendell (writing as Barbara Vine), will play at Cardiff’s New Theatre next week, 30 January – 3 February. It’s a new adaptation written especially for the stage and follows the gritty TV version which aired 25 years ago starring Michael Sheen. In Gallowglass, when Sandor snatches Joe from the path of…

WAIT UNTIL DARK is set amidst the social turbulence of 1960s London and follows the story of Susy, a blind woman (played by blind actor Karina Jones) who, left alone in her apartment, becomes the victim of an elaborate scam hatched by a group of conmen. Left to fend for herself, Suzy eventually finds a way to turn the tables on the conmen and give them a taste of life in the dark. Frederick Knott, best known for writing Dial…

The New Theatre has announced today that local singing sensation Stephanie Webber has joined the cast of this year’s pantomime Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Stephanie joins the previously announced stars Samantha Womack, Gareth ‘Alfie’ Thomas, Mike Doyle, Chico and Tam Ryan, playing the title role of the beautiful princess Snow White from 9 December 2017 – 14 January 2018. Having graduated from the Arden School of Theatre, Stephanie has gone on to appear on television and in numerous…

The World’s Most Successful Rock & Roll Musical Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story Returns to Cardiff’s New Theatre Not seen in Cardiff since 2014, demand for Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story which plays the New Theatre from Tuesday 4 – Saturday 8 July has been phenomenal. Buddy – The Buddy Holly Story tells the enduring tale of the musical icon’s meteoric rise to fame and his final legendary performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, before…

  The sun will continue to shine at Cardiff’s New Theatre over the summer. Audiences will be transported to Greece from Tuesday 27 June – Saturday 1 July for the heart-warming and delightful comedy play Shirley Valentine by Willy Russell, starring Jodie Prenger.   Then we head to the States for “the world’s most successful rock and roll musical” – Buddy, The Buddy Holly Story. The multi award winning West End show charts Buddy’s meteoric rise to fame to his…