Entertainment

If you pieced a play together out of overheard snippets of British conversation – what would you end up with?

Purr-fect family entertainment is promised this Easter, thanks to Puss in Boots. Starring Hear’Say’s Suzanne Shaw and CBBC star Chris Jarvis, the show is being produced by Imagine Theatre, the...

NEXT WEEK, South Hill Park is setting sail for mystery and magic, thanks to a new production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest.  Director Joe Malyan said that he is taking...

FRANK SINATRA thought New York was so good, he’d had to sing about it twice. But a local orchestral group thinks Holst’s The Planets are so good they have to...

Stars (out of 5) = 3 One-sentence review = Gogglebox for the theatre, with added surrealism. Good for people who = like meta-textual plays about the practice of watching plays....

How do you make people laugh in such unstable, unpredictable times?”, the comedian Stewart Lee asks.  Well, he should know! Last year, after three decades in the business, The Times...

While actors like Judi Dench and Steven Berkoff take to the airwaves to decry the death of arts funding, The Studio Theatre Company (based at South Hill Park Arts Centre)...

IT’S THOUGHT to be the first pantomime to be based on real-life events and organisers of the show are hoping you won’t give it the cold shoulder when it’s performed...

ACTOR Louise Jameson has a stunning CV with some landmark roles, but she is also a champion of the stage. Now she’s going behind the scenes to direct a new...

MILLIONS watched her die at the hands of Coronation Street’s murderer, Richard Hillman. But has Tracy Shaw turned killer herself?  The actor is one of the many star names appearing...