A journey through icier times
	3:29pm Thu 8 May 08
	Nicky Slater just loves being back on the ice.

McGann beards up for musical

3:18pm Tuesday 29th April 2008

Joe McGann has pretty much done all you can do in the acting world.

	Bit of a dog's dinner
	2:44pm Wed 23 Apr 08
	Although what it says on the tin (of dog food) sounds interesting - the real-life tale of a six-year-old Russian boy found living with wolves - in practice this confusing piece of theatre from NIE at BAC simply does not ring true.

Celebrating not such good times in TTC triumph

10:01am Monday 7th April 2008

Why is Michael so foul-mouthed and bad tempered? Why has Christian become clinically withdrawn? What drove their sister to her untimely death?

	Leading Lights
	8:27am Thu 3 Apr 08
	When Ovid wrote his 15-book masterpiece Metamorphoses in 8AD, I doubt he thought it would be performed by puppets two millennia later.

	Fire on ice
	8:22am Thu 3 Apr 08
	Unless you have been watching Suzanne Shaw and Greg Rusedski in Dancing On Ice recently, the chances are you've never seen Beauty and the Beast on skates.

	Ragged to riches
	8:17am Thu 3 Apr 08
	The grimy, disease-ridden streets of Victorian London will fill the Rose Theatre this week when Kingston's very own musical, The Ragged Child, returns to the stage.

	Relight your fire
	8:06am Thu 3 Apr 08
	It is just as well that Stephane Annelli looks good in white. The Laine Theatre Arts graduate has sported a lot of it over his 10-year career, from Tony Manero's suit in Saturday Night Fever to the skintight T-shirts of his latest role at New Wimbledon Theatre.

	Antiquarian's roadshow
	8:13am Fri 28 Mar 08
	When a mid-40s Roy Dotrice first played ageing Elizabethan John Aubrey in his one- man play Brief Lives, the transformation involved a lot of prosthetics and a rather wispy wig.

	Facing the past
	4:53pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	David Harrower's raw, controversial, award-winning play Blackbird continues the Rose's impressive slate of launch projects as the Kingston theatre premieres this production ahead of its nationwide tour.

	Truly madly, Deeply moving
	10:13am Fri 14 Mar 08
	"I still believe that the best plays are about people," said Terrence Rattigan, "not about things." The reason, perhaps, why Rattigan work was for so long out of fashion, overshadowed first by the kitchen tap of the 60s and more recently by the faceless threat of post-9-11 terrorism.

‘Lost’ classic is rediscovered

10:24am Friday 14th March 2008

Teddington's Normansfield Theatre made musical history last weekend when it hosted the only professional revival of Gilbert and Sullivan's Thespis since its premiere at the Gaiety in 1872.

	Life, love and prophylatics at the Orange Tree
	12:57pm Thu 6 Mar 08
	The last time we saw Katie McGuinness at the Orange Tree, she was corsetted up and baring her soul as the eponymous heroine of John Masefield's rural tragedy, Nan.

	Costa relives the glory years
	5:40pm Tue 4 Mar 08
	As a member of one of the biggest boy bands of the early naughties Antony Costa was known throughout the world.

	Spirit of 1966 as Bolshoi's ballet arrives in Richmond
	12:05pm Mon 3 Mar 08
	Much as I'm a fan of Matthew Bourne, I was left frustrated by his technicolour take on Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker, revived at Sadlers Wells and New Wimbledon Theatre over Christmas.

	Greta Scacchi bares all at Richmond Theatre
	10:15am Mon 3 Mar 08
	"I feel I'm walking around the stage naked," said Dame Peggy Ashcroft of playing the lead in Terence Rattigan's masterpiece, The Deep Blue Sea.

Angela great at dishing out the orders

9:24am Monday 3rd March 2008

Angela Thorne, who always had to play second fiddle to Penelope Keith's overbearing Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton in television's To The Manor Born, enjoys a role reversal in Ring Round The Moon at the Playhouse Theatre, London.

	Cherry ripe for picking
	12:21pm Wed 27 Feb 08
	For such a seemingly simple play, discourse on The Cherry Orchard could go on ad infinitum. Anton Chekhov's classic tale of a family struggling - and failing - to stop their estate, orchard and all, being auctioned off to a property developer has more layers than your average theatrical onion.

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