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Website. www.anvilarts.org.uk. The Anvil is a concert hall and a performing arts centre in the town of Basingstoke in Hampshire, UK. Built on a site originally set aside for the third phase of Basingstoke's shopping centre, The Anvil was built to tackle what was then seen as a 'cultural desert' in the Basingstoke area.
1066641. The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre on Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use. Samuel Foote acquired the lease in 1747, and in 1766 he gained a royal patent to play legitimate drama ...
2019 West End. 2024 UK and Ireland tour. Only Fools and Horses The Musical is a 2019 British romantic comedy musical with book, music and lyrics by Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan, and additional music by Chas Hodges and John Sullivan. It is based on John Sullivan's BBC television sitcom of the same name which ran from 1981 to 2003.
Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (17 December 1852 – 2 July 1917) was an English actor and theatre manager.. Tree began performing in the 1870s. By 1887, he was managing the Haymarket Theatre in the West End, winning praise for adventurous programming and lavish productions, and starring in many of its productions.
Managed by Harrogate (White Rose) Theatre Trust Ltd Harold Pinter Theatre: London 15 October 1881 796 (1,180 originally) Owner – Ambassador Theatre Group: Haymarket Theatre Basingstoke 1865; as theatre 1951, refurbished 2007 380 Her Majesty's Theatre: London 1705 1,216 Owner – Really Useful Group: The Hexagon: Reading 1977 1,686 Highbury ...
The Breath of Life is a 2002 play by Sir David Hare. It tells the story of a woman who is confronted by the wife of her lover. Over the course of one day and one night, the two women reflect on their lives and the relationship with the central, yet offstage, male character. Of the central theme of the play, Hare wrote "You can no longer call it ...
John Drew as Petruchio in Augustin Daly's production at Daly's Theatre, New York (1888). Shakespeare's The Shrew was not performed again until 1844, the last of his plays restored to the repertory, 211 years after the last definite performance. [8] That year, Benjamin Webster directed a production designed by J.R. Planché at the Haymarket Theatre.
Basingstoke is home to two theatrical organisations: the Haymarket, which is situated in the former Corn Exchange, and The Anvil, [49] which is near the railway station. The Willis Museum was founded and directed by Alderman George W. Willis, a local clocksmith, who served as Mayor of Basingstoke in 1923–24. Willis established the museum in ...