By Jonathan White
Local drama group Acton AOS are to stage the iconic rom-com “Legally Blonde: The Musical” at Crewe Lyceum Theatre next month.
Rehearsals are in full swing where cast members are working to capture the charm, humour, and heart of the musical.
Filming is under way in Nantwich and Crewe on a new feature film called “Tunnels Echo”.
And production teams behind the movie are appealing for local people and organisations to get involved!
A new partnership could see more drama and film production coming to South Cheshire.
The area is already a popular location for leading producers and directors, with shows like Curfew, Paranoid and Sherlock Holmes filmed here in recent years.
A furloughed drama teacher has been keeping Nantwich families entertained during lockdown – with a “Wizard of Oz” themed stage outside her house!
Fliss Finch decided to set up the mini stage and a hopscotch trail next to it in a bid to keep her own two children occupied.
Wistaston Young Drama Group has hit top marks in the London Academy of Dramatic Art examination results.
They earned a Distinction in choral speaking and in solo acting examinations.
Helen O’Grady Drama Academy in South Cheshire is celebrating 20 years of drama with the launch of its new “Show Term” and the performance of a play by Academy Principal Brian Ormrod.
The drama academy, which runs classes in Audlem, Crewe, Haslington, Sandbach, Middlewich, Trentham, Astbury and Northwich, was started in 1998 by Brian.
These pictures capture Game of Thrones screen star Sean Bean and his Sky TV team in Crewe as they film the new drama series, Curfew.
Bean and his co-stars Adrian Lester, Robert Glenister, Phoebe Fox and Malachi Kirby have been in South Cheshire for two days and nights filming scenes from the new series due on Sky One.
Filming of a new Sky TV drama featuring Game Of Thrones star Sean Bean will take place in Crewe this week.
Sets have been built and letters sent out to residents to highlight the filming of new series, Curfew.
Camera crews have descended on Nantwich to film a new ITV eight-part thriller called “Paranoid”.
The drama, by Red Production Company, stars big names such as Indira Varma, Robert Glenister, Neil Stuke, Lesley Sharp and Kevin Doyle.
A talented Nantwich teenager has been invited to stage a poignant show she wrote after being inspired by St Luke’s (Cheshire) Hospice. Emma Rogerson, 15, of Delamere Road, Nantwich, has been taken aback by the huge success of her play We Were There.
A Nantwich theatre company has benefited from a £300 donation from the MARS Milk Fund. The Jude Theatre Company, is a small team of artists and volunteers who deliver Applied Drama workshops in Cheshire.
By Claire Faulkner Kiss Chase follows four old friends who, locked inside the gym at a school reunion, reminisce about old times and lie about new ones. Written by Philip Gladwin, and directed by Patric Kearns this production is an interesting and thought-provoking drama.
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