Theatre

Three women in headscarves and hats carrying wicker baskets outside the E Thomas Grocers shopfront in Swansea Little Theatre's Under Milk Wood
Dylan Thomas

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A play about nothing and a play about everything’, Swansea Little Theatre’s Under Milk Wood at the Dylan Thomas Theatre

Dylan Thomas's play for voices returns to the theatre that bears his name, where the writer himself was a member…

Six pantomime cast members in costume against a white background — the Wicked Queen in a black gown holding a red apple, Snow White in a blue and gold dress, the Spirit of the Forest in a silver crown, a dame in a white sequinned gown and gold bow, a comic in a striped waistcoat, and a henchman in a zebra-print coat.
Christian Patterson

SWANSEA: ‘Come on Swansea, give me your very best’: Suzanne Shaw wants the boos as the Grand’s Wicked Queen

The Hear'Say singer has toured as Snow White but never played a baddie. Now she is the Wicked Queen at…

Oliver Jacob Davies in a blue shirt and lanyard, lit from behind in a warm haze, on stage in A Tidy Boy
A Tidy Boy

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘Equally evocative and entertaining’, Grand Ambition’s A Tidy Boy at the Grand’s Arts Wing

Peter Darney's one-act comedy drama about young offenders, and the people trying to turn their lives around, brings Grand Ambition…

Tour artwork for The Archers: Live at 75, a cow peering out of a marquee under an Ambridge Flower and Produce Show banner, with bunting and tables of flowers and vegetables
BBC Radio 4

SWANSEA: Brian Aldridge, Lilian and Jazzer bring The Archers to the arena for its 75th birthday

It's the only Welsh date on the tour, and the nights either side, in Exeter and Bath, have already sold…

Kevin Kennedy in a brown leather jacket, grey scarf and jeans, sitting on a step in front of a red door and smiling
Coronation Street

SWANSEA: Ex-Corrie star Kevin Kennedy plays a ‘deplorable’ villain as Dorian Gray musical heads for the Grand

Fifty years after he first went on stage, the man who was Curly Watts says his new character has “virtually…

Five performers in 1940s shirts, ties and braces dancing in a line on stage in front of a wartime operations board and map
Grand Theatre

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘More than warrants the hype’, Operation Mincemeat at Swansea Grand

Five actors, 20 songs, 24 awards and a dead Welshman: reviewer Jonathan Marshall finds the Olivier-winning musical lives up to…

A performer in a red fez and bright blue suit links arms with a smiling woman in a bridal veil holding a bouquet, in front of a giant red fez and playing card set
Cooper the Musical

THEATRE REVIEW: ‘A heartfelt love letter’ with ‘tremendous potential’, Cooper The Musical at the Grand’s Arts Wing

Stefan Pejic is 'very convincing' as Tommy Cooper in his own new musical at Swansea Grand Theatre's Arts Wing, but…

Michael Sheen, bearded and grey, lowers a battered gold crown onto his own head against a black background
Gary Owen

OWAIN GLYNDŴR DAY: Michael Sheen takes the crown in first Owain & Henry trailer

A teaser released this morning, 626 years to the day since Glyndŵr was proclaimed Prince of Wales, shows the Port…

The Fflamau Penyberth company in rehearsal in a chapel vestry, seated in a circle with a keyboard and sheet music
Gareth Glyn

PENYBERTH OPERA: Saunders Lewis gets a tenor, and every arsonist gets his own accent, as rehearsals begin

The composer of Fflamau Penyberth matched each singer to the home turf of the man he plays, ahead of the…

Erin Dolan as evacuee Rosie Birch, carrying a suitcase and gas mask box with an evacuation label on her coat, with Swansea's Guildhall tower and the bay behind her
Dylan Thomas Theatre

SWANSEA BLITZ: Sold-out play takes 5,000 children from the stage to the city’s real gas masks

Theatr na nÓg's It'll All Be Over by Christmas opens at the Dylan Thomas Theatre this week with every school…

Cllr Elliott King sitting alone among the rows of new red seats in the stalls at Swansea Grand Theatre
Cllr Elliott King

SWANSEA: Grand Theatre’s summer makeover complete as every stalls seat is replaced

The theatre stripped its auditorium back to bare carpet over the summer. Now the new, wider seats are in, alongside…