Both comedian-turned-actor Norman Pace and songbird Emma Williams are suffering in the heat. They are appearing on stage in heavy, fringed, buckskins in the summer’s big musical Annie
The last time stage and screen star Max Caulfield visited Milton Keynes he made his 67-year-old wife, Juliet Mills, a member of Britain’s acting royalty, “schlep” (his word)
Jason Donovan as a handsome womaniser? Is this typecasting wonder? Mr Handsome looks at me with those big brown eyes and modestly shrugs off the moniker. Jason is
Kate Anthony, Corrie’s Aunty Pam, comes to West Yorkshire Playhouse in Alan Bennett’s Untold Stories. Leeds’-born Kate faces a long commute back to her home town. She now
West Side Story, a hot-blooded musical about love and violence among the gangs of New York, was ground-breaking when first released in 1957. Teenagers as a species, had
Deborah McAndrew‘s latest play, An August Bank Holiday Lark, comes to Watford Palace Theatre from May 6. Here the writer talks about the inspiration behind the drama. It
In hugely successful career ranging over 45 years stage and screen actor Robert Powell has played them all. But stepping into the immaculately polished shoes of Agatha Christie’s
Michael Morpurgo’s moving and powerful WWI drama, Private Peaceful, revisits the horrors of the trenches which were home to his earlier, award-winning work, War Horse. In the year
Claude-Michel Schönberg, composer of Les Misérables, the most popular musical in history, doesn’t write songs for just anybody. In fact, Schönberg and lyricist partner Alain Boublil have turned
For almost two decades, Gyles Brandreth has been searching for the secrets of happiness. The result of that exploration is Looking For Happiness, a funny, erudite and engaging
Ventriloquist Steve Hewlett was making a modest living as a novelty act on the cabaret circuit before last year striking gold with Britain’s Got Talent. He made it
