When NLP hypnotherapist Mark Darlington organised a beauty pageant for for young, single women without children in Lancaster, he picked the wrong town. Lancaster women mounted a hilarious protest outside […]
This week at the Grand: Girl Traffic
Sneaking into the Grand Theatre this Friday is the ‘local heat’ of the Miss England pageant. You won’t find the Miss Morecambe & Lancaster competition listed on the Grand’s website. […]
Footlights takes on Daphne Du Maurier
The Grand will be dreaming of Manderlay all week as Lancaster Footlights presents Daphne Du Maurier’s Rebecca. In the play, based on the novel first published in 1938 that made […]
In Review: Cabaret
The cast of Cabaret, this year’s joint musical show from students of Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School. Photo: John Charles Taylor (www.jctaylor.co.uk) Liza Minelli and Michael […]
Life is a ‘Cabaret’ for Grammar School students
The cast of Cabaret, this year’s joint musical show from students of Lancaster Royal Grammar School and Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School. Photo: John Charles Taylor (www.jctaylor.co.uk) Students from Lancaster Royal […]
In Review: Chess
The huge amount of information on the internet about Chess shows that critical reception of this 1980s musical has been mixed. Despite going along with an open mind and in […]
In Review: Dancing at Lughnasa (Lancaster Footlights)
Set two miles outside the Donegal village of Ballybeg in 1936, Brian Friel’s Dancing at Lughnasa is a sad play. And this sadness is rendered particularly poignant through dramatic irony: […]
Fall under the 'Godspell'
Local theatre group, About Theatre will stage what’s believed to be the first ever production of Stephen Schwartz’ Godspell in Lancaster in November – the first of the religious rock […]
In Review: Guys and Dolls
Guys and Dolls Based on stories by Damon Runyan Lancaster Girls’ Grammar School and Lancaster Royal Grammar School The actors and production team from the two Lancaster grammar schools are […]