The Torch Theatre has announced an exciting and varied Spring season, featuring some of the best drama and music productions the UK has to offer, as well as busy live broadcast and cinema programmes.

There is quality drama on offer, kicking off with Greville’s Whore (13 January) written by Dave Ainsworth (Oh Hello!). Before Lady Emma Hamilton became the infamous love of Horatio Nelson, she had already led a full and eventful life. This new play examines Emma’s progress from servant, hostess and prostitute to model and muse for artist George Romney.

On 7 February, Daniel Llewelyn-Williams performs his award-winning show A Regular Little Houdini, about a dockworker’s son, smitten by Harrry Houdini, who dreams of magic to escape his suffocating, Welsh working class, Edwardian reality.

On 22 March, Rhodri Miles (Game of Thrones, Eastern Promises, Atlantis) plays Burton, vividly presenting the life of the great Welsh actor in his own words from humble beginnings to Hollywood mega stardom.

For dance fans, on 7 January, Joon Dance presents (Un)Covered, a solo dance theatre performance exploring who we are as women inside our clothes, how we can embody empowerment and fight back against the politicisation and violent control society places on our bodies, via the clothes we wear.

Music and musical lovers are very well served this season with plenty of tribute shows to choose from including the UK’s Number One Elvis Musical, The Elvis Years (2 February), An Evening of Dirty Dancing: The Tribute Show (18 February) and The Dame Shirley Bassey Story (17 March).

Productions from the National Theatre, Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, the Met Opera, Royal Ballet, Royal Opera and Royal Shakespeare Company can also be experienced at The Torch through the live broadcast programme, which runs alongside the theatre’s cinema offering packed full of blockbusters, indie movies and family films.

Details of the full season and ticket booking can be found on The Torch website www.torchtheatre.co.uk or from the Box Office on 01646 695267.