theatre

[rating:4/5] Soap opera...opera? Only The Italian Girl could get away with it...

[rating:4/5] Jen gets all loved up watching this traditional opera

Interview with Paul Carey Jones about the upcoming opera Italian Girl in Algiers, inspired by the Playboy mansion... (Festival Theatre: 25-28th Nov)

[rating:3/5] Rain Man on the stage...Jill Peacock decides if it's worthwhile...

Interview with Dame Allan Stewart for this years King's Theatre panto (28 Nov - 17 Jan)

Interview with Colin McCreddie who's set to play a kid with a lisp in Tim Firth's cosy, Scottish version of Flint Street. Showing at the Festival Theatre 3-19 Dec

Resident opera queen Jen McGregor gets together with Elena Xanthoudakis to discuss the reworkings of this classic opera. At the Kings' Theatre (20-28 Nov)

[rating:3/5] Ten women, one stage, Lorca's epic tale of Spanish oppression retold for our times.

[rating:4/5] The tale of a lad from Barnsley who actually cares for something? Surely not...

[rating:3/5] So how did the peeps of Bounce fair at getting the tragic-comic story of Randall McMurphy across through hip hop?