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Category: Theatre

  • Everybody’s Talking About Jamie

    Woking New Victoria is home and full house to ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ this week from 15 to 19 March, as it picks up its UK tour featuring Shane Richie as Jamie’s inspirational drag queen,  Layton Williams as the incredible Jamie, and an exceptionally multi-talented, diverse ensemble. This is a real modern fairy tale on… →

  • Carmen

    Bravo to Woking’s New Victoria theatre for adding two operatic performances to this season’s listings. Madame Butterfly played on Friday 11 and Carmen on Saturday 12 March. These one-night-only events, billed as some of Ellen Kent’s ‘dazzling’ productions are currently on a 34-venue tour of the UK, bringing the most classical and enjoyable operas to… →

  • Waitress

    I’m pleased to report that we have a refreshingly new and already highly recognised musical on stage here at the New Victoria theatre in Woking this week. Waitress opened in the US in 2015, swiftly landing on Broadway to rave reviews and multiple outstanding nominations, before a successful US tour leading straight to the West… →

  • Blood Brothers

    Let’s start this with a massive shout-out and respect for Willy Russell, writer of Blood Brothers and modern classics Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine, who has entertained and inspired recent generations by championing the working class, making heroines and heroes out of the unappreciated and the underdogs of society. His works and characters, using Liverpool… →

  • Magic Goes Wrong

    It was only a few weeks ago since a very giggly and laugh-out-loud audience enjoyed the shenanigans of Mischief’s The Play That Goes Wrong at the New Vic, whetting their appetites for this week’s offering of Magic Goes Wrong, which, according to the press releases, promises to be Mischief’s biggest and most daring comedy catastrophe… →

  • The Play That Goes Wrong

    In a week, month, year, world, where everything seems to be perpetually going wrong, the attraction to go and see The Play That Goes Wrong seems unavoidable. I think we have all gone way beyond the fear of tempting fate by asking, what more could possibly go wrong?, as we are repeatedly dealt another perverse… →

  • School of Rock

    Spawned from the highly successful 2003 movie starring love-him-or-hate-him Jack Black, the School of Rock musical is on tour and premiering in Woking this week. Whether you have seen the film or not, it is a simple, heartwarming tale of self-realisation and fulfilment of individual potential, and as satisfying as any Cinderella story viewed from under a duvet on… →

  • Ghost Stories

    Fear; an unpleasant emotion caused by the threat of danger, pain, or harm. Yet, when it comes to ghostly phenomena, fear is something we seem to relish. Campfire tales, novels, horror films and theatrical productions, we just can’t seem to get enough. It is a genre that has been around for centuries, and one that… →

  • Peter Pan Goes Wrong

    The sold-out audience was roaring with laughter right from the start of the first night of Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the New Victoria theatre in Woking on Tuesday night. To be strictly accurate, mirth was abundant even before the start, as the ‘stage crew’ fumbled with hammers, faulty electrics and cabling, and cast members… →

  • Avenue Q

    I think we all need a little distraction at the moment, as the nights darken and Brexit chaos drags on. So if you’re in need of some inspiration, I thoroughly recommend a night out at the New Vic to see the delightfully funny and irreverent Avenue Q. Having won the prestigious Tony Triple Crown for… →