Spend Spend Spend

On entering the theatre, the audience is blinded by silver in Grace Smart’s design, with a silver disc for a stage surrounded by small mirrors

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Expendable

In the north of England between 1990 and into the 2010s, hundred of young girls were subjected to grooming and sexual exploitation by predatory men.

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The Little Mermaid

There is nothing ‘little’ about The Little Mermaid; in fact it is a mega, magical, mesmerising show. Lightning, a cascade of falling bursting bubbles, a flashing

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Beauty and the Beast

2024 brings a wealth of celebrations to the Marlowe Theatre, Canterbury. Resident producers Evolution Productions mark their 20th anniversary, whilst musical director Chris Wong reaches

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Dick Whittington

In regional theatres up and down the country, people who still know how to do panto put on a show at Christmas for an audience

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The Crumple Zone

Rather like those classic ‘lonely at Christmas’ songs, there’s something comfortably familiar about a story of love and heartbreak set at Christmas, and The Crumple Zone has

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Pinocchio

The Theatre Royal Stratford opened exactly 140 years ago this month, and Carlo Collodi’s story of puppet Pinocchio is just a year older. It doesn’t

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