GIRL power, glamour and gangster rap are the inspiration for a fun new show by two friends who share a love of pop music, as Tamzin Lewis discovers.Read
THERE’S a scene early on in Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina when, impressed by a new ice-skating trick, Levin immediately copies it to impress the beautiful princess Kitty.Read
THE last thing I wanted from Tall Stories was a pernickety stage reproduction of Julia Donaldson’s modern classic about the curious young Gruffalo’s search for the big bad mouse.Read
CULTURE Club members are being offered the chance to win a fabulous family day out with Seven Stories – the National Centre for Children’s Books – and Tyne and Wear Metro.Read
I ADMIRE a wall which is covered in scribbled-on Post-it notes. Lots of small thoughts can be shared on a big space, a bit like graffiti but without having to clean up afterwards.Read
EVEN if I hadn’t been introduced to the art of puppetry by this show’s puppet director, Toby Olié, I would have been fascinated by Sammy, Tom Oakley’s Border collie.Read
AS PART of a clear-out, Eileen Heywood was ripping up old paintings and throwing them on her wood-burning stove when some scraps on the floor caught her eye.Read
YOU may not be familiar with Mr Spoon, Pinchy Parrot, Horace the Van or indeed Katy Ashworth, so by way of introduction, she is a CBeebies presenter who has made her name with the show I Can Cook.Read
Musical theatre lyricist Tim Rice says “story is king”. So we’re off to a good start with JM Barrie’s inventive tale of three children lured from their nursery by the mischievous Peter Pan for an “awfully big adventure” in Neverland.Read
