STEEL MAGNOLIAS

Thursday, 1st May 2025 – Saturday, 3rd May 2025 – 7:30pm

Barnstormers present… Steel Magnolias by Robert Harling

This play is a beautiful and bittersweet comedy set in the 1980s in deep south Louisiana.    Six very special friends bonded together by mutual triumphs and tragedies played by some of our best local actresses.    Sharing each other’s strength and loyalty, despite their differences, beautiful and impulsive Shelby, her strong-willed mother M’Lynn, beauty parlour owner Truvy, confident wealthy widow, Clairee, sharp-tongued Ouiser and mousey newcomer Annelle are guaranteed to make you laugh as well as shed a tear.

LEGENDS OF AMERICAN COUNTRY SHOW

Monday, 5th May 2025 – 7:30pm

The upcoming tour will showcase highly acclaimed tributes to Dolly Parton, Johnny Cash, Don Williams, Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Tammy Wynette and Kenny Rogers and new tributes to icons Alan Jackson, Shania Twain, Garth Brooks and the new kid on the block Luke Combs with countless other well-known singalong hit songs in this must-see musical extravaganza.  Featuring three superb singers who are all accompanied by a fantastic live band of musicians. Watch that real authentic Tennessee sound coupled with an authentic stage set and state-of-the-art production that is guaranteed to transport you all the way, hand clapping and toe-tapping, to Nashville and back in one night.

THE REGAL FILM SOCIETY – THE LAST SHOWGIRL (cert 15)

Tuesday, 6th May 2025 – 7:30pm

Dir Gia Coppola          US 2025          88 mins

A ‘bruising and beautiful film’ about a middle-aged Las Vegas showgirl who is faced with an uncertain future after learning that the review she has performed for three decades is scheduled to close.

In a remarkable career turnaround, Baywatch star Pamela Anderson gives a fine, nuanced performance as 57-year-old Shelly Gardner, who has given her life to performing in Le Razzle Dazzle, a classic French-style review at a casino resort on the Las Vegas Strip.

THE FREDDIE & QUEEN EXPERIENCE

Friday, 9th May 2025 – 7:30pm

Internationally and critically acclaimed, The Freddie & QUEEN Experience are the UK’s Premier Queen and Freddie Mercury tribute band, who deliver a passionate and energy packed show full of all QUEEN’s greatest hits.  The 5-piece band perform, with replica outfits and instruments, a full recreation of QUEEN’s Live shows, based around QUEEN at their very best – the 86 ‘Magic tour’.

UNVERSED

Saturday, 10th May 2025 – 7:00pm

Unversed … An eager young actor in the city of London has got her hands on a discarded copy of Shakespeare’s first folio. Newly printed and the hottest publication in town, all the plays exist together for the very first time. There’s only one problem: the parts are all too out of reach for women to play on the public stage. Come along and be part of the rehearsal as Antonia gives herself permission to speak the verse and explore the profession of being a woman – both onstage and off.

UNVERSED was commissioned and created for the 400TH anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio for Keats House in Hampstead where it premiered to great reviews and has since toured to Doctor Johnson’s House in Fleet Street, John Clare Cottage and The Painted Room in Oxford and will go to Stratford in 2025.

ROYAL BALLET & OPERA : WAGNER’S WALKURE

Wednesday, 14th May 2025 – 5:15pm

Gods and mortals battle in the second chapter of Wagner’s Ring cycle. Conductor Antonio Pappano and director Barrie Kosky reunite to continue the mythical adventure that began with Das Rheingold in 2023.

On a stormy night, fate brings two strangers together, unleashing a love with the power to end worlds. Meanwhile, in the realm of the gods, an epic battle ensues between their ruler Wotan and his rebellious daughter, Brünnhilde.

DORIAN GRAY

Thursday, 15th May 2025 – 7:30pm

Don’t Go Into the Cellar presents…

Oscar Wilde’s only novel is adapted for the stage in this atmospheric one-man show. What awful secret is stored inside the attic? Only the eternally youthful and charming Dorian Gray knows. But as his appetite for sin leads to ever greater acts of wickedness, Gray will stop at nothing to make sure no one discovers the dreadful truth!

Jonathan Goodwin plays Oscar Wilde in this thrilling one-man performance adapted by himself from the Wilde novel.

THE CONCERT

Saturday, 17th May 2025 – 7:30pm

After its almost sell-out debut concert in June 2024 The Concert is being staged again.

35 excellent local singers form a choir with soloists and are accompanied by a wonderful 20-piece orchestra.

A wide range of light music includes Abba, Miss Saigon, Summertime, Mozart…..

A delightful evening of great music and light-hearted humorous entertainment.

EXHIBITION ON SCREEN: MICHELANGELO – LOVE & DEATH

Tuesday, 20th May 2025 – 7:30pm

The spectacular sculptures and paintings of Michelangelo seem so familiar to us, but what do we really know about this Renaissance giant?  Michelangelo’s genius is evident in everything he touched.  Beautiful and diverse works such as the towering statue of David, the moving Pietà in the Papal Basilica of St Peter and his tour-de-force, the Sistine Chapel ceiling, still leave us breathless today.

ROYAL BALLET & OPERA : BALLET TO BROADWAY:WHEELDON WORKS

Thursday, 22nd May 2025 – 7:15pm

Sensuous contemporary ballet meets the energy of musical theatre in four distinctive short works. Fool’s Paradise, The Two of Us, Us, An American in Paris: four works showing the remarkable choreographic range of The Royal Ballet’s Artistic Associate, Christopher Wheeldon. Choreography: Christopher Wheeldon

  CHRIS MCCAUSLAND : YONKS!

Sunday, 25th May 2025 – 1.00pm, 4.00pm & 7:30pm – ALL 3 PERFORMANCES SOLD OUT.

ANNIE JNR

Thursday, 29th May 2025 – Saturday, 31st May 2025 – 7:30pm

Oasis Theatre Mini’s presents…

Based on the comic strip and adapted from the Tony award-winning Best Musical, with a beloved book and score by Tony award-winners Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse and Martin Charnin, Annie Jnr features everyone’s favourite little redhead in her very first adventure

Tickets for all events may be booked in advance online at https://regaltheatre.co.uk/whatson or from the Box Office (Tel 01643 706430) between 9.30am and 12.00pm Monday – Saturday;