SAS Soldiers and Singers
15/09/22
19:00 | £15
Soldiers and Singers, September 15th 2022 will be opened and closed by uplifting performances by the Cardiff Military Wives Choir Caerdydd followed by SAS veteran Robin Horsfall who presents a one-hour rendition of his amazing life as a special forces soldier, bodyguard, martial arts expert, TV pundit and author. He will relate how he joined the army at the age of fifteen, laid on a bomb in Northern Ireland, his suicide mission in the Falklands War and most famously his part in Operation Nimrod the famous raid on the Iranian Embassy in London in 1980 that saved nineteen hostages from certain death. The event is to raise money for Newport Veterans Hub.
The evening will be followed by a book signing in the foyer.
Some Guys Have All The Luck
16/09/22 (rescheduled from 11/03/22)
19:30 | £26.50
Over 50 years since the release of Rod’s first album, Some Guys Have All The Luck – The Rod Stewart Story is back in theatres with a brand new show, bringing to the stage a fantastic live concert celebration of one of rock music’s most successful artistes of all time.
Capturing the excitement, energy and charisma that have made Rod a true rock icon, including those infamous moves and all the hits like Handbags & Gladrags, Maggie May, Baby Jane, Da Ya Think I’m Sexy, Sailing, Tonight’s The Night, The First Cut Is The Deepest, and You’re In My Heart.
Dragma’s Late Night Natterbox
17/09/22
20:00 | £16.50 | 15+
Dragma’s back from her summer holidays zooming around the railways of Wales and is returning to The Riverfront in another bonkers evening with her devilishly defiant granddragdaughters from the House of Deviant.
Hop on down to The Riverfront Theatre on Saturday 17th September for an evening of espresso martinis, laughter and mayhem in this fiercely inclusive night you won’t forget.
The Story of Soul
17/09/22
19:30 | £28
From the producers who brought you Lost in Music and The Magic of Motown.
Get ready as we take you on a journey of Sweet Soul Music.
Join the Love train, as we give you the best of our Love and show you there ain’t nobody who does it better.
This powerful performance from our talented cast will showcase for you some of the biggest hits of a generation.
Featuring songs by Aretha Franklin, Earth wind and Fire, James Brown, Wilson Pickett, Sam and Dave, Chaka Khan, Tina Turner, The Pointer Sisters, Luther Vandross, Whitney Houston, Ben E King, Barry White and many many more.
So, make this the night to remember. Get your tickets now, for the must-see show of the year!
This is a tribute show and is no way affiliated with any original artists/estates/management companies or similar shows.
Mum’s The Word
20/09/22
19:30 | £27 | 16+
The Mother of all shows. Whether it’s leaving the house without your Bra, crying in the Supermarket aisles for no reason or secretly thinking you had given birth to E.T, you won’t feel alone when listening to these women portray the “beauty” of bringing new life into the world… or forgetting where they left it. An uplifting, honest heart-warming show that will have you both roaring with laughter and reaching for the tissues.
Rubicon Dance Company: Triple Bill
22/09/22
19:30
Tickets – £16, concessions – £13, groups of 10+ – £10
Each piece is 20 minutes with a 15 minute interval between each
Everyone will love this sizzling dance programme with its high-octane performances from 8 of Wales’ most exciting dancers.
This Autumn Rubicon Dance Company premieres an exhilarating new show that draws on the highs and lows of the human experience delivered with compelling physicality and skilful storytelling that people will immediately identify with.
We have all been through a lot in recent years and in truth we don’t quite know what the future holds. After so long apart, with few chances to come together for shared moments like this, you won’t want to miss the chance to experience this brilliant live performance and a thoroughly great night out.
Rubicon’s TRIPLE BILL takes you on a journey through the past, present and future and draws inspiration from science fiction, the inside of a therapy room and the boisterous antics of a group of pub regulars.
Read-Only Memory imagines a distant future in which society subverts technology to control and punish its citizens. Choreographed by Jamiel Laurence, Read-Only Memory draws us into an authoritarian regime where affection is outlawed and must be cracked down upon. The result is heart breaking.
24HR lays bare the mental health crisis with incredible athleticism and features a poignant Welsh language soundscape. Choreographer, Anna Watkins’ honesty is both emotional and cathartic and many will recognise how difficultit can be to ask for help.
High Jinks by Marcus Jarrell Willis is a joyful celebration set in the pub somewhere in the 1930s where a group of friends tease each other, fancy each other, play jokes and generally enjoy each other’s company. High Jinks harks back to a simpler time of best nights and great times. With precise choreography, wit and extraordinary musicality High Jinks is an instant classic and vintage Marcus.
An Evening of Burlesque
24/09/22
19:30 |£28.50 | 15+
A night of laughter, cabaret, mystery, and glamour!
Roll up, roll up. . . a scintillating night out of sparkling entertainment – the UK’s longest running burlesque show – is back touring the nation. And, it’s bigger than ever.
Join us for the good old-fashioned night out as we bring you the ultimate variety show, blending stylish cabaret, comedy, music, circus and burlesque to light up all your senses.
With world-class entertainers and stars of the stage and screen – prepare for an extravaganza of glitz and glamour! Expect fun, feathers and fabulous costumes as we pick from the finest selection of specialty artistes, cabaret and circusstars, comedians and champagne showgirls! It’s the perfect night for everyone. An Evening of Burlesque is filled with artistic spectacle that has enraptured audiences for centuries. This sensational variety show brings together a bountyof beautiful stars for an unrivalled variety show for the 21st Century! Expect the unexpected with plenty of glitter and glamour! It’s cocktails and cabaret o’clock!
An Evening of Burlesque – we are waiting for you!
G4 Live
28/09/22
19:30
Tickets – £29.50, concessions – £24.50, VIP Meet & Greet arrive for 6pm start – £72
The UK’s No.1 classical vocal quartet, are back with another exhilarating tour – G4 LIVE!
Having exploded into the industry and the public’s hearts back in 2004 on the first series of the X-Factor, G4 continue to blow people away, year after year, with their unique style and impactful harmonic vocals, which are incomparable to any other. They have to be heard live to truly appreciate the power and passion of their voices!
With five sell-out Christmas tours in consecutive years, G4 are thrilled to be returning to theatres in 2022 with their classic hits of Bohemian Rhapsody, My Way, Nessun Dorma and Creep plus recent heart-stopping tracks from their latest G4 ‘Love Songs’ album as they leave audiences screaming for more, night after night.
Buddy Holly and The Cricketers
29/09/22
19:30
Early Bird Tickets – £18, must be booked before 30 April and subject to availability, after 30 April tickets – £23
30 Years of Rock ’n’ Rolling The World!
This breathtaking show has rock ’n’rolled audiences across the globe from Cardiff to California, Barking to Bangkok and Swindon to Sweden and is guaranteed to have everyone singing along to the music and dancing in the aisles.
It stars some of the finest actor-musicians in the UK whose combined West End credits include Buddy,Lennon, Forbidden Planet and Jailhouse Rock and was endorsed as Britain’s most popular Buddy Holly act when the boys guested on BBC One’s Saturday night live programme, “The One and Only”, hosted by Graham Norton.
The show rarely pauses for breath and is, quite simply, the most compelling concert of its kind. The hits just keep oncoming – That’ll Be The Day, Peggy Sue, Heartbeat, It Doesn’t Matter Anymore, Raining In My Heart, Oh Boy! – and much, much more.
Whatever the season, whatever the excuse to party, make your Heartbeat a little faster with the show that has thousands of fans the world over saying: “I can’t believe it’s not Buddy!”
Comedy Shed
30/09/22
£15
Doors open at 7.45pm
First act at 8.15pm
Bring your colleagues and bring your friends for a shed load of laughs!
This relaxed cabaret-style comedy club on the last Friday of the month offers you the chance to enjoy a drink and sit back and relax, with three professional comedians ready to entertain you. Previous acts have included Alan Carr, Michael McIntyre, Lucy Porter, Nick Helm, Russell Kane and many more.
BBC National Orchestra of Wales: Elemental Explorations
30/09/22
19:30
Tickets £11, concessions £6
Bruch Kol Nidrei
Fazil Say Never Give Up [UK Premiere | Premiere y DU]
Fabien Waksman Protonic Games [UK Premiere | Premiere y DU]
Beethoven Symphony No. 7 | Symffoni Rhif 7
Nil Venditti conductor | arweinydd
Camille Thomas cello | soddgrwth
ENERGETIC |INVENTIVE | ROUSING | WELSH
Bruch’s warm and richly evocative Kol Nidrei takes its inspiration from traditional Jewish melody. Although not Jewish himself, Bruch had strong links to the community and makes masterful use of the solo cello to depict the cantor in the melody of Kol Nidrei, a declaration recited at Yom Kipper, alongside the Hebrew melodies of ‘O Weep for Those that wept on Babel’s Stream’. Also putting the cello to inventive use, Fazil Say’s concerto Never Give Up is a strong political statement about the harrowing terror of attacks in Europe and Turkey, and the need for freedom and peace. Harsh percussive motifs jar with screeching woodwind passages to depict the horrors, before concluding more optimistically with birdsong, waves and traditional Turkish rhythms.
Fascinated with the way Beethoven takes a micro-motif and turns it into a great masterpiece, along with an interest in particle physics and the way high energy collisions behave, Fabien Waksman’s Protonic Games takes seven motifs from Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and uses these as the particles which collide and transform. An explosive opening gives way to a melting chorale, before journeying through to an ecstatic solar chord finish. Given Waksman’s homage to Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony, it is only fitting that we conclude this concert with the original masterpiece that is Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7.
Mae Kol Nidrei cyfareddol ac atgofus Bruch yn cael ei ysbrydoli gan alaw Iddewig draddodiadol. Er nad oedd yn Iddew ei hun, roedd gan Bruch gysylltiadau cryf â’r gymuned ac mae’n gwneud defnydd meistrolgar o’r unawd soddgrwth i ddarlunio’r cantor yn alaw Kol Nidrei, datganiad wedi’i adrodd yn Yom Kipper, ochr yn ochr â’r alawon Hebraeg ‘O Weep for Thers that wept on Babel’s Stream’. Mae concerto Fazil Say, Never Give Up, hefyd yn gwneud defnydd dyfeisgar o’r soddgrwth mewn ddatganiad gwleidyddol cryf am arswyd dychrynllyd ymosodiadau yn Ewrop a Thwrci, a’r angen am ryddid a heddwch. Mae nodau caled offerynnau taro wedi’u plethu â sgrechiadau’r chwythbrennau yn darlunio’r erchyllterau, cyn cloi’n fwy obeithiol gyda chân adar, tonnau a rhythmau traddodiadol Twrcaidd.
Wedi’i ysgogi gan y ffordd y mae Beethoven yn cymryd micro-motiff ac yn ei droi’n gampwaith gwych, ynghyd â diddordeb mewn ffiseg gronynnau a’r ffordd y mae gwrthdrawiadau egni uchel yn ymddwyn, mae Protonic Games Fabien Waksman yn cymryd saith motif o Seithfed Symffoni Beethoven ac yn defnyddio’r rhain fel gronynnau sy’n gwrthdaro ac yn trawsnewid. Mae’r agoriad ffrwydrol yn ildio i gorawl sy’npylu, cyn cloi gyda chord solar ecstatig. O gofio teyrnged Waksman i Seithfed symffoni Beethoven, mae’n gwbl briodol ein bod yn cloi’r cyngerdd hwn gyda’r campwaith gwreiddiol, sef Symffoni Rhif 7 Beethoven.