Hairspray is one of those rare musicals that can happily combine big, breezy show tunes with a clear political message,…
The extravagant festive shows at Leeds Playhouse have become the stuff of legend and this year they are bringing back…
Most of us have heard the doorbell go and opened it to find a pair of earnest Mormon missionaries keen…
There is no better opening in musical theatre than Chicago as a troupe of ripped and toned dancers shimmy, strut…
Back in the eighties when CDs first came on the market NOW That’s What I Call Music! compilations packed full…
There’s been plenty of novels about the First World War, but Sebastian Faulks’s Birdsong was one of the best, blending…
Thousands of people have changed their lives through the Open University thanks to the vision of radical Labour MP Jennie…
This classic tale of a poor Arabian boy given three wishes by a Genie in a bottle so he could…
All of us have a personal deep, dark fear – mine is enclosed spaces – we’d run a million miles…
When I was at school in the less enlightened 1970s the mere hint of being different would have earned you…