Entertainment & Reviews

A popular restaurant and bar in Exeter is looking to attract a new breed of customer – the four-legged variety, to be precise.

The Terrace, located in The Guildhall, will be taken over by the Pup-Up Café who specialise in events for man’s (and woman’s) best friend. Each session is split by breed so owners and their dogs of all ages can meet each other.

Doors open on Saturday 1 October from 10am and will see up to 50 Pugs or Frenchies per session, along with their owners.

Venue manager, Mat Jarratt said: “The guys behind Pup Up Café are local and so we thought...

New Play explores James Lovelock’s Gaia theory A new play telling the story of James Lovelock’s Gaia theory will be developed in Exeter. A group of actors and musicians will spend ten days working on the script for ‘Gaia and the Globe’, a play with songs which celebrates the science behind Gaia, and explores the social and cultural implications of the theory. Writer Peter Horton is inspired by the hypothesis which was developed in the 1970s. James Lovelock and US microbiologist Lynn Margulis put forward the idea that the earth and all its organisms are closely integrated to form a self-...

They’re back – Burn the Curtain return with their rambling alfresco museum-experience in Green Circle Parks Mincinglake, Riverside and Ludwell Valley this September and October. They’re inviting you to step outdoors into a fantastical experience and discover a side to your local park that you’ve never seen before!

Burn the Curtain believe that any space can be magical, and that any one of us can create magic moments, and this is what ‘The Imaginarium of Us’ did last year. They're thrilled to be able to continue that work, building upon those magic moments and creating new ones...

The second half of 2022 is looking very busy and exciting for West Country comedy star and Plymouth Theatre Royal Panto Legend Andy Ford.

He is about to launch into the Autumn leg of his Back in the Saddle Live Comedy Tour around the South West, including shows in Plymouth on 18th September, Torpoint on 23rd September and his home city of Exeter on Sunday 2nd October.

Andy says, ‘ The spring leg of the tour was fantastic but coming down to Devon and Cornwall this Autumn is just such a pleasure and of course I’ll get chance to catch up with friends and family in the...