CENTRE STAGE Chris Jaeger of Worcester Live

8:27am Friday 2nd May 2008

Since we re-opened the theatre in 2003, I have had many moments when I have been very glad and very proud that we did.

The essential truth is men are hopelessly inadequate idiots

8:27am Thursday 1st May 2008

IT would be easy to jump to conclusions as scene one unfolds - street girl and cab driver, grubby exploitative sex and nothing more.

Elder statesman rolls back years with a little help from his sons

9:14am Thursday 24th April 2008

THE thing you have to remember about Georgie Fame is that it was performers like him who brought integrity to pop music.

Agatha Christie on drugs

8:47am Thursday 24th April 2008

WITH more plot twists than accidents waiting to happen in a Casualty omnibus, Sleuth is like watching Agatha Christie on amphetamines.

Company’s on collision course for a smash hit

9:18am Friday 18th April 2008

THE ill-fated liner may have plunged to the bottom of the ocean 96 years ago this week but one thing's for sure - this ice-breaker of a show is absolutely unsinkable.

Gigi marks milestone

9:49am Friday 4th April 2008

MUSICALS are not commonly performed in the round.

	Triple bill of music and comedy in city
	9:03am Fri 28 Mar 08
	A TRIPLE bill of award-winning comedy comes to Worcester next week.

Rocking to the Summer Holiday beat

12:18pm Saturday 15th March 2008

MALVERN Light Opera Society had the audience well and truly rocking in the aisles with their excellent production of Summer Holiday.

Complete Works of Shakespeare (abridged) - Swan Theatre

12:07pm Tuesday 4th March 2008

POKING fun at Shakespeare is highly amusing for everyone.

Dead Certain at Norbury Theatre

12:04pm Tuesday 4th March 2008

WALKING into the quaint Norbury Theatre, one of the first images you see of Dead Certain is a striking blonde lady, in a wheelchair, being strangled by a man in corduroy. Already I was intrigued.

Innovation makes Gradgrind such a delight

8:13am Monday 3rd March 2008

THOMAS Gradgrind in Dickens' Hard Times is a man with no time for poetry, theatre or other creative pursuits.

Magical music and magnificent dancing

8:11am Monday 3rd March 2008

MAGIC moments are not random affairs - they come about by design.

Violin and piano duo do justice to sonatas

8:18am Wednesday 27th February 2008

ELGAR'S Violin Sonata is more like an equal duet for violin and piano. Violinist Louise Vale and pianist Alan Maclean are one performing combination that did the work a great deal of justice.

Surges of energy by top musicians

8:18am Wednesday 27th February 2008

PERRINS Hall was an ideal venue for this recital with the acoustic of the spacious hall giving a warm resonance.

You simply must see Swan Lake

9:24am Friday 22nd February 2008

NAO Sakuma and Chi Cao were made for these parts, and if you want to see the logical successors to Nureyev and Fonteyn then you simply must go and see this Birmingham Royal Ballet production of the Tchaikovsky classic.

Signs and Symbols - The Old Joint Stock Theatre, Birmingham

12:13pm Wednesday 13th February 2008

Signs and Symbols, a new play by Nathan Morris, played at the intimate Old Joint Stock pub theatre in Birmingham last week.

Aladdin - The Conquest Theatre, Bromyard

12:19pm Wednesday 13th February 2008

GOING to see a pantomime in February is the best time of year to go.

The Vortex - Malvern Theatres

12:17pm Wednesday 13th February 2008

WHILE there is no longer shock surrounding this play - which the Lord Chamberlain tried to ban - it still packs an emotional punch.

	Cloverfield
	9:22am Thu 7 Feb 08
	Although the Leviathan at the centre of this inspired Monster movie is un-named throughout its debut, I very much doubt that we have seen the last of its ferociously unannounced visits.