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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MADAME BUTTERFLY at the Everyman, Cheltenham

13 February, 2016
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By Michael Hasted
. . . I would feel pretty sure that Madame Butterfly would be considered the world’s favourite opera. It is the most tuneful with some of the prettiest songs in the whole opera canon and has the most tear-jerking endin...
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Beatlemania at the Everyman, Cheltenham

10 February, 2016
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By Michael Hasted
So how does Beatlemania measure up? Can you, with half-closed eyes, imagine you are at a concert of the Fab Four? Well, to be perfectly honest, if you concentrate on the right of the stage, you can. Visually John Lennon ...
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THE MARKED at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

6 February, 2016
By Michael Hasted
I saw Theatre Témoin’s last piece at the Everyman Studio, The Fantasist, two years ago and rated it very highly. Their current offering, a devised play entitled The Marked, is presented as a work in progress and, as I...
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THE PERFECT MURDER at the Everyman, Cheltenham

4 February, 2016
By Michael Hasted
The plot takes us behind the suburban closed doors of unhappily married couple Victor and Joan Smiley whose loathing for each other is convincingly demonstrated by a good half hour of bickering at the start of the procee...
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ALIVE AND BREL at the Everyman Studio, Cheltenham

30 January, 2016
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By Michael Hasted
The French are useless at rock ’n’ roll. They have the look and they have the style but they don’t have the balls. What screws them is their obsession with words, with lyrics; they must say something. Do Wah Diddy ...
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ROUND AND ROUND THE GARDEN at the Everyman, Cheltenham

27 January, 2016
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By Michael Hasted
Unlike the sixties, the 1970s have yet to take on the mantle of sexiness and most things related to it are considered a bit naff . . . Round and Round the Garden is a pleasant enough diversion about boring people – or,...
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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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