It's hard to write a review of Stand Up By Royal Appointment (an event which allows newer comedians to get exposure and older ones to try out new stuff) without feeling bad for my readers. I can
Famed detective Sherlock Holmes loves a challenge. And this production of his most famous adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles certainly provides just that. Oldham Coliseum Theatre has joined
What finer way for an opera company to celebrate the Queen's Diamond Jubilee year than with Edward German's rousing patriotic operetta Merrie England? The evening has you transported back to the time of Queen Elizabeth I with colourful period costumes, the thought of witch craft and a love tryst with Sir Walter Raleigh, Queen Elizabeth and a lady in waiting.
I'll admit the only reason I went to see La Bohème at the Hexagon on Sunday was because of a certain American sitcom. Frasier, from the hit show of the same name, and his brother Niles are always swanning off to highbrow sherry-swilling evenings and I wanted to see if I could enjoy the same - sherry aside.
Oh help, oh no - it's The Gruffalo show... I sat with my son in the bright auditorium, a three-year-old fidgeter shuffling with boredom, then down came the lights and an excited silence, even the toddlers showed sudden compliance. A mouse took a stroll in a forest on stage,
He's Doug Stanhope and that's why he drinks. Heavily. On his first major UK tour, the American comedian has shared his dark and twisted view of the world with nearly 40 audiences, so by the time he reached the Reading Concert Hall on Wednesday night he was drunk and tired.
