When a house party gather at Gull’s Point, the seaside home of Lady Tressilian, Nevile Strange finds himself caught between his old wife, Audrey and his new flame, Kay. The scene is set for one of Christie’s most intriguing thrillers. Who will be murdered and who will be revealed as a sadistic killer?

A revealing, funny and wonderfully moving portrait of four women who sign up to join the Women’s Land Army during World War II.

It’s the day of Sylvia’s wedding to Marek and the family is excited and overflowing with good wishes for their future happiness, until the vodka starts flowing, and resentments and secrets threaten the day’s harmony…

Neville and Belinda are hosting Christmas for family and friends in their large house. Christmas traditions are a source of constant squabbles and the arrival of Clive, a young writer, takes the turmoil to a whole new level.

Leonard Vole stands accused of murdering a rich widow. The stakes are high with shocking witness testimony, impassioned outbursts from the dock, and a young man’s fight to escape the hangman’s noose.

Based upon the popular children’s book, The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett, the latest musical version by Marsha Norman and Lucy Simon, and adapted by Leicester Drama Society raises the bar, with a tremendous cast as it begins its run at Leicester’s Little Theatre.

A dazzling Christmas cracker of a show bursting with glitz and glamour plus an upright, walking talking feline clad in magical red boots has arrived at Leicester’s Little Theatre, delivering their ever popular and always traditional pantomime. This year being – yes, you’ve guessed it – Puss in Boots.

The killing doesn’t just happen in Christie’s play. It comes thanks to an announcement in the local paper, stating that it will take place at Little Paddocks, Chipping Cleghorn – the genteel home of Letitia Blacklock (Alexandra Elliott) on Friday the 13th at 6.30pm.

Written by Laura Wade. Directed by John Ghent. May 5, 2023 at The Little Theatre Review by Alex Thompson As director John Ghent asks in his programme notes “How would you like to turn back the clock and live in the 1950s?” As someone that was born in the nineties, I immediately imagine those incredible […]

The reviews are in for our family show – The Railway Children: A Musical

Four into three won’t go, except in Bedroom Farce, Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious, award-winning play about marital disharmony.

Recently voted as one of the best plays of the century, The York Realist had its last major outing as a joint staging at the Crucible, Sheffield and the Donmar Warehouse, London in 2018. Written just 20 years ago by Peter Gill, it is set in an impoverished farm cottage in rural Yorkshire in the 1960s.

Alphabetical Order is set in a 1970’s library office of a provincial newspaper – a scene of permanent and utter chaos – that issues constant moral support for needy journalists, run by head librarian Lucy (Emma Bamford), a disorganised earth mother in total disarray, she attempts to bring some semblance of order by recruiting Lesley (Rachael Humphrey), a young assistant with a passion for organisation to do just that.

It’s been three years since Leicester Amateur Operatic Society (LAOS) brought a show to a Leicester stage – their first post-pandemic offering has a local connection.

Poison, murder, a missing formula, and secret identities.

LDS reaches one hundred years of staging theatre in Leicester…

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LDS reaches one hundred years of staging theatre in Leicester…