Grand Theatre
SWANSEA: Council plans to drain £22m from savings pots meant for crematorium repairs and school IT to cover staff equal pay claims
The money was put aside for things like crematorium repairs, the bus station and school IT. Councillors are being asked…
LIVE MUSIC REVIEW: ‘Stirred rather than shaken’, Q The Music’s James Bond Concert Spectacular at the Grand
Former Miss Moneypenny Caroline Bliss comperes as Q The Music bring their James Bond Concert Spectacular to Swansea Grand Theatre,…
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…
SWANSEA: Jazz festival takes a bow after ‘most successful ever’ run, closed by the man who started it all
Four days, more than 50 free gigs, jazz cruises up the Tawe, and a Sunday finale from the Cottle Brothers,…
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…
SWANSEA: Tommy Cooper is coming back to life at the Grand, fez and all, in a new musical by the city’s own Stefan Pejic
The panto favourite has spent six years writing a musical that opens at the moment Cooper collapsed on live television…
SWANSEA: Hannibal Lecter is coming to the Grand as Silence of the Lambs hits the stage
The first stage adaptation of Thomas Harris's thriller arrives at Swansea Grand Theatre next February, with EastEnders star John Partridge…
SWANSEA: Wider seats and a new cooling system for the Grand this summer
Swansea Council is giving the auditorium at the city's Victorian theatre an upgrade for the summer with new seats and…
SWANSEA: ‘Honour of my life’ — standing ovation as Kev Johns awarded honorary doctorate
Months after a stroke, and with the therapists who taught him to walk and talk again watching from the audience,…
THEATRE INTERVIEW: ‘Just do it. Don’t wait for the phone to ring’ — Gorseinon writer Jonathan Houlston on Physical Education and finding his voice
After Grand Ambition's Physical Education drew some of the strongest reviews Swansea theatre has seen this year, our writer Jon…
THEATRE INTERVIEW: ‘Authentic. Dangerous. Tender.’ — Richard Mylan on the play laying bare life for Swansea’s teenage boys
Having reviewed Grand Ambition's Physical Education as "quite simply phenomenal", our writer Jon Marshall sat down with director Richard Mylan…