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Laffin’ Boi Productions brings you their next adult pantomime, Beauty And The Beast. The story of a heart broken prince, transformed into a beastly creature, destined to live out his days under the spell of a rose, unless he finds true love. Meanwhile the arrogant huntsman is trying his best to win the hand of Rose, the…

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Can’t Go Back is an original comedy musical set in the glamorous, showbiz world of Yorkshire’s working men’s clubs. Described as Victoria Wood meets Phoenix Nights, Can’t Go Back is an all-singing, all-dancing new musical with a cast of fantastic characters and a collection of hilarious original songs. Jack is a cruise…

The Man in the Shadows: An Original Telling Of Sherlock Holmes Presented by Elementary Five Productions Ltd. AGE RESTRICTION: 15+ WARNINGS Blood & violence, bad language, mention of SA, flashing lights, drug use Seven years into their partnership, Detectives Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson encounter what could be their…

24-28 Sep ​ By Ron Hutchinson MAIN STAGE 1939 Hollywood is abuzz. Legendary producer David O. Selznick has shut down production of his new epic, Gone with the Wind, a film adaptation of Margaret Mitchell's novel. The screenplay, you see, just does not work. So what is an all-powerful movie mogul to do? While fending off…

By Jessica Swales MAIN STAGE London, 1660. King Charles II has exploded onto the scene with a love of all things loud, extravagant, and sexy. And at Drury Lane, a young Nell Gwynn is causing stirrings amongst the theatregoers. Nell Gwynn charts the rise of an unlikely heroine, from her roots in Coal Yard Alley to her…

By Neil Anthony Docking MAIN STAGE Eight months after the Aberfan Disaster of 1966, in which 144 people were killed (116 of them children), a group of bereaved mothers meet weekly above a local hotel to talk, cry and even laugh without feeling guilty. At one of their previous meetings, the women looked at each other and…

A comedy thriller by Miles Tredinnick David Woods is a mild-mannered accountant who sees a sensational way of making a fortune by writing a kiss-and-tell biography about his venomous wife, Sarah, the nation’s favourite actress from the hit soap Doctors and Nurses. He then realises that his book will do even better if she…

By Ian Hallard MAIN STAGE In 1988, two Birmingham school friends tentatively come out to one another: Edward as gay; Peter, even more daringly, as an ABBA fan. Thirty years later, they meet again – and take a chance by forming the world's first ABBA tribute band in drag. It is a riot of platform boots and dodgy beards…

10-15 Dec By Kenneth Grahame, adapted by Mike Kenny MAIN STAGE Tired of spring-cleaning, Mole leaves Mole End and ventures out to the riverbank, where he befriends the resourceful Ratty, the gruff Badger and the infamous Toad of Toad Hall (Poop-poop!). Together they explore the Wide World, and the Wild Wood, and try to…