You arrive at Kidderminster station where children, their parents and grandparents are dressed in Christmas jumpers and hats ...

Shrigley’s artistic sensibility—combining crude draughtsmanship with black comedy and a strain of existential despair—is ...

Alessandro Scarlatti, born in 1660 and father of the better-known Domenico, was, according to my Viking guide, the most ...

This December, Scottish Opera brought the wonder and delight of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to Edinburgh’s Usher Hall in a final ...

McKenna has taken as her inspiration for this Dick Whittington her wife Sharon D Clarke’s parents and the Windrush Generation ...

Stars of the West End, Radio 2 and CBeebies join comedian Jarred Christmas (his apt surname a coincidence as I understand it) ...

His two daughters, Beauty (Israela Efomi) and Bright (Holly Howden Gilchrist), become stuck in a shed with dad hoping for some change to their fortunes. On hearing that one of his ships has been found ...

The star name in Dick Whittington is former Coronation Street stalwart Wendi Peters. As Queen Rat, she’s sufficiently evil.

John Millington Synge National Theatre National Theatre, Lyttelton 10 December 2025 – 11 January 2026 ...

In 2023, The Birmingham Hippodrome launched its first of a kind, in-house musical theatre development programme. Alongside ...

Jack (he who gets linked with the Beanstalk) has the white cow, Red Riding Hood the cape, Rapunzel the golden hair and ...

Stockroom, which announced its closure last month, is probably not a name that many theatre aficionados will instantly ...