David Upton

If you’re going to pick a literary pocket, or two, then those of Charles Dickens and Michael Rosen are a good place to start.

The Collectif and then production comes to Lancaster

Hold very tight please! And strap yourselves in for a riveting ride aboard the 555 bus which wends its way hourly from Lancaster to Kendal, and on through the heart of Lakeland to Keswick.

David Upton heads to the seaside for a tatse of Blackpool Rock

It’s panto season in the seaside town.

After success with Sweet Charity, The Producers and West Side Story comes the show whose anthem, Let Me Entertain You, never does anything less . . .

You can mess around with the Ugly Sisters’ gender; drop all that Dandini or Fairy Godmother nonsense; put Cinders in a pair of Doc Martens; AND still have a Ball in this clever, compact and thoroughly-comic version of the traditional tale.

Miss Marple comes to Blackpool in Leslie Darbon’s stage adaptation.

David Upton takes a look at the revival of the classic N. J. Crisp psychological thriller.

The sequel to Gary Clarke’s Coal focusses on the teenagers of a former mining community.