Archive

  • Remarkable Rebecca's rich reward

    REVIEW: Dalloway at the Swan Theatre, Worcester. IT’S five years since the First World War ended yet its legacy is an open wound that weeps at the slightest touch. There are ghosts everywhere but we should not be fooled into making the mistake

  • It's a Miller masterpiece

    ONE of the outstanding theatrical works of the 20th century arrives in Worcestershire this coming week. It’s All My Sons, the first major success for Arthur Miller and one which established him as one of the greatest dramatists of the last century

  • Salesman sells itself

    THE Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) has just announced that Gregory Doran’s production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Death of a Salesman, will transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End, following its run in the

  • Sweet sounds of The Searchers

    IT’S hard to believe but The Searchers, one of the most successful groups in the Swinging Sixties, are still swinging and singing and local fans will be able to get a glimpse shortly of the band which belted out such hits as Needles and Pins and Sweets

  • Pun-ishing schedule for Francis

    GET ready to be pun-ished for Stewart Francis, one of the stars of Mock The Week, Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow and Live At The Apollo is now on a brand new stand-up tour and his fantastic, hilarious new show - Pun Gent! – hits Malvern next weekend

  • Trading in art

    THE internationally acclaimed artist, Susan Stockwell, has created the largest installation to have ever been commissioned by the Stratford-upon-Avon based Royal Shakespeare Company. This suspended sail installation took over the public spaces

  • Barnt Green macular society holding awareness day

    THE Macular Society's Barnt Green group is holding an awareness day later this month. More than half a million people, mainly over the age of 60, have late stage macular degeneration, and the charity supports people with macular conditions.

  • Thief stole from epileptic woman suffering seizure

    A 'DESPICABLE' thief stole cash from an epileptic woman as she suffered a seizure on the floor of Stourbridge's Ryemarket. The 48-year-old woman was shopping in the market on the afternoon of Tuesday, April 7, when she collapsed and began fitting