TRYING to define a typical audience for one of Matthew Bourne’s dance shows is difficult, because it often looks as though a random cross-section of the public has been rounded up from the pavement outside the theatre.Read
IT’S a hard act to take on one of the nation’s most loved books and television adaptations, especially when it involves a sultry hunk emerging, wet and brooding, from a lake.Read
THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read
THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read
THE only musical where it’s genuinely impossible to work out which is the men’s toilet was welcomed back to Brum by the usual lively crowd of scantily-clad, suspender-wearing fans.Read
WITH the Rocky Horror Show now nearly 40 years old, its creator Richard O’Brien admits he has been asked the secret of its success more times than he cares to remember.Read
STAGED in the studio space of The Door, this drama takes us into the claustrophobic world of mum, daughter, wife and social activist Hildy – a world which is falling apart around her.Read
SHOWBIZ legend Des O’Connor is playing Redditch for the first time in his life tonight – and if he makes any jokes about roundabouts, invisible houses or needles blame me.Read
HE has successfully managed a stage and television career of more than 30 years but taking a part in the musical Hairspray was the first time that actor Brian Conley has donned a dress for his job.Read
IT is the perfect opening question. With actress Paula Wilcox, who first rose to fame playing squeaky clean roles in sitcoms such as The Lovers and Man About the House, on the end of the phone I asked the following.Read
OK, so no-one expects John Steinbeck to be a bundle of laughs but the relentless nature of this adaptation of his epic Dust Bowl novel The Grapes of Wrath is enough to batter us all into the ground.Read
THE HIGH School Musical phenomenon may have conquered the world but actor Les Dennis admits it had totally bypassed him – until he was offered a part in the stage show.Read
WHEN John Osborne’s angry young man became middle aged, and still angry, in the guise of Archie Rice in The Entertainer he probably never imagined his tale of loss of Empire and dying music halls would still strike a chord half a century on.Read
