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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

Can artistic influence span the oceans and the decades since the Raj?

SHOTS of race-goers in Mumbai and a drawing of an elephant god are just two of the works on show at a new exhibition of contemporary Anglo-Indian art. Read

Crunch turns out lucky for actress Hayley

The credit crunch appears to have been a good thing for one local playwright, who has struck success by writing a satirical stage show about the financial troubles.Read

Antony and Cleopatra

Colonialism and the conflict between love and duty are the weighty themes tackled by Proscenium theatre company in a modern production of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra.Read

Join in Gladstone celebration

What better way to enjoy the summer than to watch - or even participate in - an open-air play on the 19th Century Parliamentarian after whom Gladstone Park is named?Read

How to catch your man

In the 1950s women were domestic goddesses - keeping house while the men went out to work. Read

Moved on the road to Damascus

The scene is a hotel lobby in the Middle-Eastern capital of Syria. The smell, which the main character so aptly loses at key points of the play, is one of the desert - of jasmine, of old traditions, and of unrequited love. Welcome to Damascus. Read

Stamp of quality

Classical Indian dance fuses with contemporary styles to tell a story of feuding gangs and forbidden love in a show at Harrow Arts Centre next Friday.Read

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