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Review: The Secret of Sherlock Holmes, Theatre Royal Bath

8:33am Thursday 11th March 2010

Last year Peter Egan and Philip Franks toured as Sherlock Holmes and his faithful Dr Watson, respectively, in The Hound of the Baskervilles, which was great fun and delightfully tongue in cheek.

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Review: Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw, the Pound, Corsham

8:37am Thursday 11th March 2010

Shaw a bore? Not bloody likely! Brought up on My Fair Lady, the hummable musical film, I confess I expected to find the original play a huge yawn. Not a bit of it.

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Review: Grease: Wootton Bassett School

9:06am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Wootton Bassett School’s vibrant production of Grease fuels nostalgia for the ‘Fifties with an excellent set that depicts the original school – built in that era and now replaced by housing.

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Review: The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Salisbury Playhouse

2:06pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

Tennessee Williams’ autobiographical drama, set in St Louis, Missouri in the Depression of the 1930’s, is an impressive co-production with Shared Experience, directed by Polly Teale.

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Review: Bath Literature Festival: Carol Ann Duffy

1:57pm Tuesday 9th March 2010

Poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy had an audience hanging on her every word as she recited some of her most famous work within the elegant surroundings of the Guildhall in Bath.

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Review: Imogen Cooper: Schubert's last six years; Wiltshire Music Centre, Bradford on Avon

11:54am Monday 8th March 2010

From the first measured chords of Sonata in C, Reliquie, so divinely weighted, to the ravishing resonances of the Presto of the posthumously published Sonata in A, Imogen Cooper held a capacity audience in the palm of her hand.

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Review: The Chalk Garden at the Wharf Theatre, Devizes

10:39am Saturday 6th March 2010

Whatever you say about the Wharf Theatre, Devizes' little amateur gem on the edge of the Kennet and Avon Canal, you certainly get a range of theatrical experience.

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PREVIEW: 84, Charing Cross Road, The Western Players

8:26am Thursday 4th March 2010

Love affair with books spans the Atlantic ocean

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Films from around the world

8:23am Thursday 4th March 2010

PREVIEW: The Global Village Film Festival, Corsham and surrounding villages.

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Bath Literature Festival: Lissa Evans, Frank Cottrell Boyce

2:32pm Wednesday 3rd March 2010

PEOPLE who can write funny stories are usually excellent performers: Frank Cottrell Boyce admitted, in answer to a question, that without the childhood experience of hearing his writing read aloud, and relishing the audience’s reaction, he could easily have ended up as a comedian.

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Review: Underground/Overground: Olga Lehmann exhibition at The Pound, Corsham

6:14pm Sunday 28th February 2010

A £10 painting in a charity shop set Mandie Stone on artistic journey from war time London to the secret underground aircraft engine factory beneath Corsham and into the world of stage and cinema.