Dreamboats and Petticoats

HALF a century ago Prime Minister Harold Macmillan told us we had never had it so good.Read

All that jiving pays off

MEMBERS of a talented dance group jived their way to first prize at the UK Ceroc Championships. Club Ceroc, which has branches across north-west London, performed at The Troxy in Limehouse, east London, in the competition, which attracts entrants from all over the country.Read

Blisteringly-good version of Billy Elliot

ONE of the youngest and liveliest casts to grace the stage of the Theatre Royal Windsor in many a moon have been delighting audiences at the old venue this week with a blisteringly-good version of Billy Elliot.Read

If I were you - quick-witted comedy and heartfelt poignancy

IMAGINE waking up in bed one morning to find you've switched bodies with your partner.Read

Bikers rev up on stage

TWO of north England's most famous sons are known as much for their facial hair as for their cookery books and highly successful television series. Simon King and David Myers -Read

Children's writer to the rescue

MARINE conservation is the subject of a new series of illustrated books written for children by an author born and raised in North Harrow.Read

Got the write stuff

Next week, Harrow's budding writers get the chance to perform some of their work in front of an audience at the London Literature Lounge. BECKIE ROWE investigatesRead

Theatre Preview: Experience a play about a wedding....as a guest yourself!

For Better or For Worse - 4th and 5th March 2010, Compass TheatreRead

A rip-roaring revival of Aladdin

THERE was a time, not so many years ago, when the great British traditional pantomime was in the doldrums.Read

Scrooge feels no credit pinch

HOW would miserly Ebenezer Scrooge feel about this ghastly global economic downturn?Read

Pride and Prejudice - a perfect run-in for the festive season

IT’S PANTOMIME time in Windsor next week, but before the Aladdin team move in with their outrageous costumes, terrible puns and zany characters, there’s a chance to revel in little bit of theatrical enchantment of a vastly different, far less raucous nature.Read

Round the Horne, unseen and uncut

ANY visitors from overseas attracted along to the Theatre Royal, Windsor, this week, must have been left in a state of utter bewilderment.Read

Dead cows, war and comedy

Squeaky-voiced funnyman Joe Pasquale returns to the Beck Theatre on Friday with a new comedy routine. SIBA MATTI spoke to him about carrying dead cows on his back, being a prisoner for a reality show and getting bombed in BasraRead

Not black and white: the state of Britain on stage

Aseason of three plays that examine the state of the nation begins at The Tricycle Theatre next month. KATE ROSS looks at what is in storeRead

Pornography for voyeurs of London

Theatregoer AMELIA NALLAMILLI,from Pinner, enjoys a local production of a frenetically-paced drama about the interwoven lives of self-absorbed LondonersRead

Dancing Queen had the audience in the aisles

NO ONE could have predicted the worldwide phenomenon that would erupt from the appearance of four young Swedes at the Eurovision Song Contest of 1974.Read

Behind the scenes

WITHOUT further ado, let's get to the bottom of what the forthcoming double dose of theatre concerns; black women's rears and the concept of being 'bootylicious'.Read

Players get even better

Theatre reviewer VLAD BOURCEANU watched The Hill Players tread the boards for just the third time,and found their performance to be hilarious, then surreal. Read

Pinner Players caught with pants down

Reader JULIE SHARP went to watch the Pinner Players in action and found their farce simply hilarious. Read

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This dream will do

He may not have won BBC TV’s Any Dream Will Do, but Craig Chalmers is triumphant in a sizzling production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, at Windsor this week.Read

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