The Everyman Theatre
Regent Street
Cheltenham
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Box Office: 01242 5725

The Opera House in Cheltenham’s Regent Street opened on 1st October 1891 with a performance of Lady Clancarty starring Lillie Langtry. The theatre was designed by one of the greatest theatre architects of all times, Frank Matcham, who designed nearly 200 theatres in Great Britain including the London Palladium. Over the next seventy years The Opera House was to play host to some of the greatest names in British theatre and variety.

The theatre survived imminent closure in 1959 to rise from the ashes as the re-named Everyman Theatre in 1960. For the next 35 years it was the home of repertory, nurturing such talents as Steven Berkoff, Josephine Tewson, William Gaunt and Penelope Keith.

When the rep ended in 1995 the theatre reverted to being a venue for touring shows and has presented some of the best pre and post West End plays and musicals ever since.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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TEECHERS at Cheltenham and Gloucester

9 December, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
A production from the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham. Teechers is a well-crafted, well observed and, you could say, political comedy that knows where it’s coming from. There are several underlying messages and occasionall...
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CINDERELLA at the Everyman Cheltenham

28 November, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
But of course it is Tweedy and William Elliott who are the stars of the show, Tweedy as the omnipresent Buttons and Willie as the Baroness – Hardup by name, hard-up by nature. The high-spot of the show was probably the...
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RUSSIAN STATE BALLET & OPERA HOUSE at Cheltenham Everyman

13 November, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
Nutcracker contains more well-known tunes per square yard than probably any other ballet and I suppose there is always the danger that familiarity breeds, if not contempt, then a hope that something new will be brought t...
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The Shawshank Redemption at the Everyman, Cheltenham

3 November, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
As with all Bill Kenwright productions, visually it is stunning. The towering, box-like confines of the set by Gary McCann and atmospheric lighting by Chris Davey immediately transport us to the grim environment that is ...
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THE WINTER’S TALE at the Everyman, Cheltenham

28 October, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
Shakespeare’s green-eyed monster, jealousy, raises its ugly head again in The Winter’s Tale. Its destructive power is a gift for an actor, enabling him to work through his whole repertoire of emotions and techniques,...
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MEET TOMMY ATKINS at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham.

22 October, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
The story starts on the final day of the First World War and then, in leaps of approximately ten years, takes us into the late fifties. The tale encompasses all the trials and tribulations facing ex-soldiers in a land fi...
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BRAVE NEW WORLD at the Everyman, Cheltenham

21 October, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
Brave New World, although dealing with similar themes to 1984, was sensible enough not to identify itself in a time period so specific as to make watching a play about what we all know didn’t happen thirty years ago a ...
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THE BOGUS WOMAN at Cheltenham and Oxford

18 September, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
The Bogus Woman is compelling, harrowing theatre which fulfils one of the basic requirements of any form of art – it makes you look at the world differently. All those concerned have a right to be immensely proud of th...
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A Murder is Announced at the Everyman, Cheltenham

15 September, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
Miss Marple has very big boots. To fill them, in light of previous wearers, is no mean feat and one not without certain dangers . . . Miss Marple is usually played as rather prim and proper or, in the case of Margaret Ru...
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ABSENT FRIENDS at the Everyman, Cheltenham

14 July, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
Absent Friends was written in 1974, arguably when Ayckbourn was at his peak – his previous two plays had been The Norman Conquests and Absurd Person Singular. So, although I had not seen Absent Friends before, it was w...
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NEW ENGLISH BALLET THEATRE at the Cheltenham Everyman

6 July, 2015
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By Michael Hasted
". . . I am not a dance aficionado but I can find a night watching a good modern ballet company as satisfying as seeing a great play and wonderful acting. So, it may be just my uninformed imagination, but there seem to ...
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RIVER’S UP at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

10 June, 2015
By Michael Hasted
". . . written in 2000 it has a theme that is perhaps more prevalent now than it was then – rising water levels and the subsequent flooding caused, we are led to believe, by global warming. There are serious, relevant ...
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