1. Theatre Review: Guys and Dolls

    Theatre Review: Guys and Dolls  

    If you feel like taking a school party to a traditional, roof-raising musical then you won’t do much better than this production of Guys and Dolls, a Chichester Festival Theatre show which transferred into the West End. It’s glitzy, funny and pulsating with energy as it sails triumphantly on to its feel good finale.

  2. Book Review: On Shakespeare’s Sonnets – A Poets’ Celebration

    Book Review: On Shakespeare’s Sonnets – A Poets’ Celebration  

    Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets are some of the loveliest and best known poems in English. And as Mr Shakespeare knew they would (“my verse shall stand” – Sonnet 60) they have more than stood the test of time since they were first published in 1609.

  3. Book Review: Wild Lily

    Book Review: Wild Lily  

    This new novel from the veteran author, KM Peyton takes us right back to Flambards territory – and the series of young adult novels which, from 1967, later spawned a television series and an amusement park in Cornwall.

  4. Book Review: Facing the Fear – an actor’s guide to overcoming stage fright

    Book Review: Facing the Fear – an actor’s guide to overcoming stage fright  

    Insightful, empowering and reassuring, Facing the Fear is a book for any actor – for those who are experiencing or have previously suffered from stage fright, as well as for those who want to be fully prepared just in case that day ever comes!

  5. A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Samantha Lane

    A DAY IN THE LIFE OF… Samantha Lane  

    Samantha Lane, Artistic Director and Chief Executive of Little Angel Theatre, Islington chats to Susan Elkin