 | 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. |
 | Marooned in Jamiacan culture | | 9:31am Wed 27 Feb 08 | | A DISPLAY of stunning photographs of the self-governing Maroon community in Jamaica is now on show at Museum in Docklands until August 31 as part of the acclaimed London, Sugar & Slavery gallery's rolling community exhibition space. |
 | Enjoy your Wicked side | | 9:19am Wed 27 Feb 08 | | FOR all those who loved pulling the legs of crane flies as children, secretly want the bad guys in movies to win or who are just plain Wicked in every way imaginable, I know you're going to love this show. |
| Jo adds a whacky touch to Gilbert and Sullivan | | 2:41pm Friday 22nd February 2008 | | If you like good music and silly knock-about fun you should love the latest production of Gilbert & Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance at the Gielgud Theatre. |
 | Pygmalion on stage | | 2:46pm Thu 21 Feb 08 | | The Thame Players present George Bernard Shaw's classic, Pygmalion |
 | Love thy neighbour | | 3:04pm Thu 21 Feb 08 | | The Orange Tree has a fine reputation for staging small-scale chamber musicals, from which some of the biggest names in the West End have launched their careers. |
| Aladdin dazzles | | 3:03pm Thursday 21st February 2008 | | It's Chinese New Year and the end of panto season: it's got to be Aladdin! |
 | Be careful what you think - it's Derren Brown | | 3:58pm Mon 18 Feb 08 | | You may be aware that Derren Brown quack sits on the top branch of the illusionist tree. Having single-handedly brought illusion back into the mainstream, many a copycat act has sprung up. They play Smash to his mash, Shakin' Stevens to his Elvis, Lidl to his Harrod's. And you can see the great man's new show, An Evening Of Wonders, at Epsom Playhouse. |
 | Nic and Niamh break through the clouds | | 3:51pm Mon 18 Feb 08 | | Wordsworth wandered lonely as one, Jagger wanted an unknown someone to get off of his, and as I look out my window, there isn't one in the sky. No, not the humble mistle thrush, but a cloud. Those massive bundles of cotton wool/candy floss/Tom Baker's hair (delete according to your childhood interpretation) are the subjects of Battersea Arts Centre's enchanting new show, Cloud Piece. |
 | Consider it to be a family show | | 11:47am Fri 15 Feb 08 | | Mark Oldknow directs the Young Theatre in the musical Oliver!. He talks to Francine Wolfisz about his approach to Lionel Bart’s work |
| Not a spare seat in the house | | 5:22pm Friday 15th February 2008 | | Wycombe Swan Youth Theatre’s latest production, Les Miserables School Edition, has proven a sell-out success a week before the opening night. |
 | Beautiful Butterfly | | 5:15pm Fri 15 Feb 08 | | The ENO's production of Puccini's Madam Butterfly will be enjoyed particularly for its visual content if nothing else. |
 | Kids have a good laugh | | 5:01pm Fri 15 Feb 08 | | CHILDREN will chuckle with delight when you take them to their very own comedy club. |
 | Christie still cream of the crop | | 1:46pm Thu 14 Feb 08 | | Peter Byrne definitely knows his Agatha Christie. How could he not, after stints directing and starring in The Mousetrap, the longest running play in the world at 23,000 performances and counting? |
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