The Woman in Black

6:43pm Wednesday 1st October 2008

Monday, October 6 until Saturday, October 11, Theatre Royal Bath. PREPARE to be transported into a terrifying and ghostly world by The Woman in Black as the West End smash-hit returns to Bath.

Confusions

6:39pm Wednesday 1st October 2008

Until Saturday October 11, Rondo Theatre. BATH Drama's production of Alan Ayckbourn's linked comedies Confusions is into its final week of rehearsals and will be opening at the Rondo Theatre on October 8 and running each night at 7.30pm till October 11.

REVIEW: Waves

12:04pm Wednesday 1st October 2008

Until October 4, Theatre Royal Bath. THE turbulent journey from childhood to death and the craving of humans to feel part of a crowd are the central strands of Virginia Woolf’s novel The Waves.

REVIEW: Shout!

8:55am Thursday 25th September 2008

Until Saturday September 27, Theatre Royal Bath. A WAVE of nostalgia has brought many portmanteau musicals of late: Mamma Mia and We Will Rock You relive the 70s and 80s, Never Forget the 90s – well Shout allows we aging hippies to pull on our white boots and chain belts to twist the 60s night away.

REVIEW: The Circle

6:15pm Wednesday 17th September 2008

Until Saturday September 20, Theatre Royal Bath. LIFE seems rosy for MP Arnold Champion-Cheney - he has a pretty wife, a grand home in Dorset and a promising political future.

REVIEW: Cabaret

6:12pm Wednesday 17th September 2008

Until Saturday September 20, Bristol Hippodrome. WILKOMMEN, bienvenue and welcome to early 1930s Berlin and the infamous Kit Kat Club.

REVIEW: The Year of Magical Thinking

6:52pm Wednesday 10th September 2008

Until Saturday September 13, Theatre Royal Bath. VANESSA Redgrave’s solo performance recounting a tragic period in the life of American writer Joan Didion is an outstanding theatrical event on a number of levels.

REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie

6:05pm Wednesday 3rd September 2008

Until Saturday September 6, Theatre Royal Bath. A trapped soul and bitter disappointment dominate Tennessee Williams’ first major stage success.

REVIEW: Storm on the Lawn: Metropolis

5:22pm Wednesday 27th August 2008

Ball Court, Prior Park College, Bath.

REVIEW: Enjoy

5:33pm Wednesday 20th August 2008

Until August 30, Theatre Royal Bath. ALAN Bennett’s close examination of life in a back-to-back house in the working-class slums of the north, showing at the Theatre Royal Bath until August 30, is full of prescient messages about the society we live in today.

REVIEW: Return to the Forbidden Planet

1:14pm Thursday 7th August 2008

Until August 9. Civic Hall, Trowbridge. AS CONCEPTS go, throwing Shakespeare’s words hundreds of years into the future via a cult B-movie and setting them to a backdrop of rock ‘n’ roll music, the idea behind Return to the Forbidden Planet, is a bit of a crazy one.

Storm on the Lawn Metropolis

1:09pm Thursday 7th August 2008

Until Sunday, August 24, Prior Park College, Bath. PREPARATIONS for this year’s Storm on the Lawn began on Monday.

REVIEW: All’s Well That Ends Well

6:57pm Wednesday 16th July 2008

Hazelbury Manor, Box. It’s perishing cold for July and I open my programme with numb hands to bone up on the unfamiliar plot. I suppose the title is a bit of a giveaway. Rest assured, it’ll be all right on the night.

Evita

6:21pm Wednesday 9th July 2008

Monday, July 21 until Saturday, August 2, Bristol Hippodrome. Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical masterpiece Evita opens at The Bristol Hippodrome on July 21 for two weeks only.

Frome Festival

6:19pm Wednesday 2nd July 2008

Friday July 4 until Sunday, July 13, Various venues. Music, comedy and the arts are among the scores of attractions on offer at this year’s Frome Festival, which opens on Friday July 4.

£10bn wiped off bank's shares

Updated 8:18pm Tuesday 7th October 2008

Royal Bank of Scotland shares plunged nearly 40% to a 15-year low as speculation mounted over an imminent taxpayer-funded rescue of Britain's banks.

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