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An interview with Jack Wolfe   Leaders of youth theatre don't work to get accolades or public thanks, many never see any of their students’ work on the professional stage, but anyone who heard the acceptance speeches given by Jack Wolfe (29) couldn't help but be moved by his references...

Banbury Operatic Society stage performance in their twinned town   Banbury Operatic Society (BOS) has a long history of staging performances for our twin town, and our most recent trip to Hennef, Germany, to perform our concert, Kings and Queens, was another fantastic chapter in this tradition. Hennef is one...

New youth group in a growing community   The village of Witchford in Cambridgeshire is a popular, pretty and growing community about 2.5 miles from the cathedral city of Ely. New houses are being built there, bolstering the existing housing supply of vintage homes and more modern builds, all of...

The best panto villain song written! To say that playing the Wicked Witch of the West has been on my to do list for quite some time would be an understatement. In January of 2025, I got my wish to play arguably one of the greatest female villains ever written....

Harvey Kay, a veteran panto actor, who has trodden the boards since the 1930s, has decided to take his final curtain call after reaching one hundred! Great, great grandfather, Harvey, first took to the stage as a very nervous 8-year-old in the 1930s, at a theatre near his home town...

Plumpton Pantomime Society celebrated a very special 50th anniversary by getting the whole village involved to perform a pantomime, which they even adapted themselves, and wove their Golden Anniversary into the storyline. They are one of the few societies that specialise only in pantomimes, spending almost all year on all...

Local museum celebrates local pantomime society anniversary. When St Giles with St Mary’s Pantomime /Theatre Society, in Pontefract, was contacted by its town’s local authority run museum, they had no idea what would be involved in the next year of planning and research. Interested to see the society promoting it’s...

24-hour fundraiser! Basingstoke Gang Show completed its first ever 24 hour sponsored singathon last December to raise money for their 2025 show, performed in February. Over one hundred cast, crew and alumni from past shows to present day (1980 - 2025) came together reuniting to sing hundreds of songs over...

Feel an instant connection! Have you ever heard a song from a musical that captivated you so completely, you had to explore the entire show—only to find yourself utterly obsessed? That was precisely the experience of the creative team at Manchester Musical Youth (MMY) when Musical Director, Kimberly Holden, first...

Manufacturing heritage takes centre stage. Wolverhampton company, Aldridge Trimmings, opens its doors to Bridgnorth Musical Theatre Company. Who knew that Wolverhampton still holds a connection to the iconic Dagenham Ford factory’s legacy? It turns out that Bridgnorth Musical Theatre Company’s show director, Laura Davies, certainly did! Laura, who also happens...