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

Life's pretty 'royale' for Ricky Tomlinson

Best known for playing couch potato Jim Royle in The Royle Family, Ricky Tomlinson reprises his much-loved character when he visits the Beck Theatre next Wednesday. He spoke to SIBA MATTI about doing prison time, standing by his principles and turning 70...Read

Take a trip back in time to the blitz

A TIMELESS tale of the East End's struggle during the Second World War is coming to Ruislip.Read

Lord of all he portrays

The undisputed king of camp and double entendres tells JAMES RAMPTON about feeling fearless at 50 and his new stage showRead

Playing Over The Rainbow

Over The Rainbow - The Eva Cassidy Story charts the life of one of the world's best loved songbirds, whose untimely death in 1996 caused her record sales to rocket.Read

Legendary skills

The Moscow State Circus is back with a new show, pushing the boundaries of physical ingenuity to the limit. SIBA MATTI chats with tour manager Tony Archer to find out moreRead

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

Soo, is this the way to do Cinderella?

Brenda Longman, the voice behind Sooty's sidekick Soo, talks to SIBA MATTI about topping the music charts with Peter Kay's Animated All Star Band, and her latest role as Fairy Godmother in the Beck's Christmas pantomime, CinderellaRead

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

Panto on a wing and a prayer

For 38 years, the British Airways Cabin Crew Entertainment Society (BACCES) has been delighting audiences with Christmas pantomimes to raise money for charity. Read

Hunt for panto treasure

THE Mall Pavilions shopping centre is holding a series of treasure hunts to welcome Cinderella, this year's fairytale pantomime at the Beck Theatre in Hayes.Read

Gemma just loves to play the evil girls

Gemma Bissix was just nine when she first graced our television screens as a young Claire Bates in EastEnders - and then as the villainous Claire Cunningham in Hollyoaks. Read

Young players jam 'em in with a dance medley

AN ARTS school wowed audiences recently with its biennial production, performing hit musicals with a troupe of 400 dancers. 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

A magical journey

For two weeks each year,the Beck Theatre in Hayes has nurtured hundreds of Hillingdon's budding thespians with its summer youth project. Read

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

All fun and fundraising

OVERCOMING adversity, raising a load of cash and having a foot-tapping whale of a time while you are doing it. The plot of the latest West End musical? A cheesy 1960s Cliff Richard film perhaps?Read

Sex in the city of all secrets

RUISLIP Dramatic Society's latest production takes a look at the permissive society of the early 1970s, through the pen of one of Britain's best-known and best-loved playwrights.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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