Plymouth

Extra investment needed for the South West's main line

A national rail investment programme claiming to be the largest since the Victorian age has no funding allocated for the South West's mainline.

Just days after the flood waters have receded from the tracks following a catastrophic failure of the network, Network Rail unveiled their £37.5 billion investment…for everywhere else.

Of the five billion to be invested in the western...

Serious road collision causes tailbacks on A38 at Plymouth

Update: The A38 eastbound was closed at 4.50pm for approximately 30 minutes.

An elderly gentleman is in hospital with what is described as a serious neck injury.

The collision occured just before the Crownhill turnoff, so traffic is now flowing okay around the Manadon roundabout.

Earlier: Police and emergency services are currently at the scene of a serious road collision on...

Dirty Dancing - you'll have the time of your life

Dirty Dancing is an unprecedented live experience, exploding with heart-pounding music, passionate romance and sensationally sexy dancing.

Seen by millions across the globe this worldwide smash-hit tells the classic story of Baby and Johnny, two fiercely independent young spirits from different worlds, who come together in what will be the most challenging and triumphant summer of their lives. Featuring hit songs, including Hungry Eyes, Hey Baby, Do You Love Me? and the heart stopping I’ve Had The Time Of My Life .

Don’t miss your chance to see the...

Western College Players present The Railway Children

Adapted for the stage by Mike Kenny and directed by Gareth Roberts

'Daddy! My Daddy!'

Few who have seen the classic film based on E. Nesbit’s novel will forget those words or the emotion they provoke. This wonderful Edwardian family classic has never ‘run out of steam’ and Western College Players will soon bring it vividly to life on the Drum stage - with all its humour, tenderness and the exhilarations of childhood.

This fresh new adaptation is based on the huge hit that was staged at Waterloo Station in London. So ‘tickets please’ and ‘all aboard’ for the perfect...

Gordon Baldwin: Objects for a Landscape

Venue: 
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Drake Circus
Event Date: 
Saturday, February 2, 2013 - 10:00 to Saturday, May 11, 2013 - 17:00
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This major touring exhibition from York Museums Trust celebrates the achievements of Gordon Baldwin OBE, one of the most important ceramic artists of our time.

The exhibition will include around 100 works shown alongside related drawings, collages and photographs. It will explore Baldwin's influences, from music and landscape, to 20th century art.

There will be some early works but the emphasis will be on work from the 1980s onwards when Baldwin found his artistic voice.

The show will also include a small group of new works made by Baldwin as he approaches his 80th...

BRIT-Award winning singer Beverley Craven: In Concert

Performing all her hits from the 90’s including Promise Me, Holding On, Woman to Woman, Memories & Love Scenes, Beverley Craven is back on the road, playing just a handful of small and intimate venues. “They’re far better suited to the confessional style of my new songs…” she says, “It’s like I’ve invited the audience back to my place!”

Once again with a paired down acoustic line up and stripped back production, she sings candidly about her experience of surviving breast cancer, her recent divorce and current affairs.

Tickets: £18.50/£17.50/£16

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Local band The Needletones play The Watermark

A band now enjoying their fifth year of intensive gigging around the South West, The Needletones have well and truly put their stamp on the music of Jimi Hendrix. As a three piece (or ‘power trio’ as they’d have been labelled in the 60′s) they excel in bringing Hendrix to life on stage, with all of the energy and vigor such music deserves.

The Needletones comprises of Chris Babbage on bass and lead vocals; a man with a Plant-esque shriek who tears through his basses like a young Jack Bruce plugged into the mains. Owen Burgess picks up the lead guitar duties, both doing true justice...

Micky Flanagan

Due to unprecedented demand, one of Britains biggest comedy stars Micky Flanagan has announced he will return to Plymouth in September 2013 for a fourth and fifth date of his ‘Back In The Game’ Tour.

He’ll be stopping off at Plymouth Pavilions on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th September , in addition to his performances in...

Forever House

Forever House is a Drum Theatre Plymouth Production

In a terrace house in the city, three different couples are cautiously looking to the future.

Teenager Richard is...

Welsh National Opera (WNO) - The Cunning Little Vixen

David Pountney’s critically acclaimed new production of Lulu will open WNO’s spring season at the Theatre Royal this April. WNO will also be performing revivals of David Pountney’s The Cunning Little Vixen and Joachim Herz’s classic Madam Butterfly .

Lulu and The Cunning Little Vixen are part of the first of WNO’s themed seasons which aim to link the operas that WNO perform. ‘Free Spirits’ is the theme for...

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