Susie’s cue

10:10am Thursday 10th July 2008

Susie Blake tells Viv Hardwick that she had no second thoughts about quitting top West End show Wicked to take on two Ayckbourn plays

How Craig kept his Joseph dreams alive

9:28am Thursday 26th June 2008

Craig Chalmers is signed up until 2009 as Joseph on tour, after the Pharaoh of British theatre, Bill Kenwright, snapped up the former TV hopeful

Country of contradictions

10:51am Saturday 14th June 2008

China will soon be the centre of world attention as Beijing hosts the 2008 Olympic Games. Student Anna Hodges, from Darlington, gets a taste of an ancient city that is hurtling into the 21st Century.

To the Manor borne

10:03am Saturday 31st May 2008

Tim Wellock finds the perfect retreat in the North Yorkshire countryside for golfers and their widows WING Commander Guy Gibson could probably have done with a bit of holistic total body care when he was planning the Dambusters raid while stationed at Aldwark Manor. But such luxuries were a figment of future imagination during the Second World War.

Star attraction

10:37am Saturday 24th May 2008

As more people look for an alternative to flying, Peta King finds a different, and greener, way to get to the continent.

Bed and Bard

9:50am Saturday 19th April 2008

Taking time out from interviewing celebs, TV writer Steve Pratt spends a weekend taking a look behind the scenes of London's theatreland THE members of the cast of the London West End production of A Weekend At The Strand Palace were assembled in the bar, supping cocktails with producer and host Ben. This was the start of a three-act drama that proved full of laughter, tears and a few shocks with appearances by ghosts, Shakespeare and the women of Troy.

Capital treats

1:01pm Saturday 5th April 2008

Planning a family outing to London this summer? Christine Fieldhouse samples some of the attractions

The show must go on

9:26am Saturday 29th March 2008

This year sees the celebration of 100 years of West End theatre