Behind scenes access to Watford Colosseum
On a glorious summer afternoon, the theatre, famous for being the recording venue for the music of Star Wars and other films, threw open its doors for families and others interested in the...
View ArticleTOWIE hunk Dan Osborne reveals (almost) all ahead of St Albans Dreamboys show
He's already sizzled on our screens in The Only Way is Essex and raised temperatures with a series of steamy photoshoots. Now it’s official – Dan Osborne really is the very hot stuff that dreams are...
View ArticleGetting to the Source of the problem
Source is a new theatrical circus spectacular coming to artsdepot in North Finchley
View ArticleLife on Mars
Pioneer, coming to the Watford Palace Theatre next week, will take you on a journey to the Red Planet
View ArticleThe battle between the burka and the bikini
Nadia Manzoor tells Rosy Moorhead about her new show Burq Off
View ArticleFrom Coronation Street to the West End
Former Coronation Street and Holby City star, and Barnet resident, Angela Griffin stars in a new play, Breeders, at St James Theatre
View ArticleSoap suds and secrets in Happy Birthday Sunita
EastEnders and Bend It Like Beckham star Ameet Chana talks about his new role in Happy Birthday Sunita at Watford Palace Theatre
View ArticleWatford actor Stephen John Davis talks about his role in the West End hit...
Watford actor Stephen John Davis talks about his role in the West End hit Mamma Mia!
View ArticleLove me do! Share your love story for your chance to win a romantic break
Love me do! Share your love story with the Watford Palace Theatre and the Watford Observer for your chance to win a romantic getaway
View ArticleSooty, Sweep and Su head to the Wyllyotts Theatre in Potters Bar for magic,...
Sooty, Sweep and Su head to the Wyllyotts Theatre in Potters Bar for magic, mayhem and mess!
View ArticleLove is in the air
Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran talk to Rosy Moorhead about their stage play Love Me Do, coming to Watford Palace Theatre
View ArticleTweet-Twoo! A Twitter interview with Queen Boudicca
Tweet-Twoo! A Twitter interview with Queen Boudicca ahead of Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain at Watford Colosseum
View ArticleDavid Baddiel: 'The Infidel is not trying to be blasphemous, but religious...
Ten years ago David Baddiel took part in the genealogy documentary show Who Do You Think You Are?. His grandfather Ernst, a German Jew, had fled his native land with his family, weeks before the Nazis...
View ArticleLet your imagination gallop with unicorns
Storyteller Danyah Miller talks to Rosy Moorhead about bringing her one-woman show, I Believe in Unicorns, to Watford Palace Theatre
View ArticleA satirical dig at tabloid media
NSFW (Not Safe For Work)is set in the corrupt and opportunistic offices of lads’ mag Doghouse, which has just chosen the winner of its annual Local Lovely competition.
View ArticleArtsdepot celebrates 10 successful years
Artsdepot celebrates its birthday with a look back over the past 10 successful years
View ArticleKings Langley Players celebrate their 90th birthday
Kings Langley Players celebrate their 90th birthday
View ArticleThirty years after Beverly Hills Cop Steven Berkoff still isn't afraid to...
The east Londoner will be coming to Harpenden this month to give a rare talk about his career.
View ArticlePlease Mill Hill Musical Theatre Company, can we have some more?
Mill Hill Musical Theatre Company stages Oliver! to mark its 60th anniversary season
View ArticleAdapting the Bard for the centenary of World War One
Rosy Moorhead talks to award-winning director Jonathan Munby about his production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, coming to the Watford Palace Theatre
View ArticleGrease is the word!
Eight actors from Watford star in St Albans Operatic Society's production of Grease at the Alban Arena
View ArticleQ&A with Conor Delaney from Stones in His Pockets
Q&A with Conor Delaney from Stones in His Pockets, coming to Watford Colosseum
View ArticleTaking on Pride and Prejudice
Husband and wife duo Joannah Tincey and Nick Underwood play their two-hander of Pride and Prejudice to artsdepot in North Finchley
View ArticleGreek tragedy set in a nightclub
Former EastEnders actor Mark Monero stars in a 20th Century version of Antigone, coming to Watford Palace Theatre
View ArticleThe Naked Hope of Quentin Crisp
Rosy Moorhead talks to actor Mark Farrelly about his show Quentin Crisp - Naked Hope, coming to the Old Town Hall in Hemel
View ArticleQ&A with Queen Boudicca
A Q&A with Queen Boudicca as Horrible Histories - Barmy Britain comes to the Beck Theatre in Hayes
View ArticleAudition for a part in Peter Pan at Watford Palace Theatre in 2015
Audition for a part in Peter Pan at Watford Palace Theatre in 2015
View ArticleFirst look at Benedict Cumberbatch as Hamlet
Here is a first look at Benedict Cumberbatch rehearsing for his much-anticipated role as Hamlet.
View ArticleThe Great Gatsby rides again
ALL the glamour, excitement, swing and sizzle of the roaring twenties in America will be brought to life once more as a new adaption of F Scott Fitzgerald’s much-loved novel, The Great Gatsby, bursts...
View ArticleAsian theme for Shakespeare
MERCHANT of Vembley is a fiery and wickedly funny US hit based on Shakespeare’s Merchant of Venice that is attracting rave reviews.
View ArticleAcclaimed orchestra and jazz dancers get you In The Mood
The Glenn Miller Orchestra and UK dance group The Jiving Lindy Hoppers under the leadership of legendary bandleader Ray McVay present a brand new show for 2015. Colin Anthony and Catherine Sykes join...
View ArticleNancy Dell'Olio shows her support for Elton John's Aids Foundation and you...
THERE’S still time to bid for a pair of VIP tickets to Nancy Dell’Olio’s one woman show at the Hippodrome Casino in London’s West End in support of Elton John’s Aids Foundation.
View ArticleHow high can you dream?
THE inspirational founder of the St Albans-based performing arts phenomenon Living The Dream, Zoe Jackson has now set a new, ambitious dream of her own – to build a new £10 million performing arts...
View ArticleIt's panto time - oh yes it is, our pick of the festive shows for 2015
Sleeping Beauty - The Bull Theatre
View ArticlePlater play
Alan Plater’s play Peggy For You, about a day in the life of his own larger-than-life theatrical agent was first performed at Hampstead Theatre in 1999 with Maureen Lipman as Peggy.
View ArticlePeter Pan at the Alban Arena soars with a five-star review
YOU know you're in for a great ride when Peter Pan flies high over the audience making a dramatic entrance to this year's fabulous panto at the Alban Arena.
View ArticleBrand new comedy club set to tickle your funnybones
A brand new comedy club at the Attico Arts Centre in Watford - The Comedian’s Bookshelf, is also set to tickle your funnybones this year with a whole new approach to reading (and laughing) out loud.
View ArticleThe world goes round - again
Rickmansworth actress Sally Samad, who will be starring in The World Goes Round – The Songs of Kander & Ebb at St James Theatre, in London talks of life as an mum and actress
View ArticleA poppy for remembrance
Former EastEnders actor Mark Rice-Oxley learned to play the accordion for his role in the post-war drama Poppy and George, which opens at Watford Palace Theatre next month
View ArticleDouble bill of the bard at The Old Town Hall
New Shakespeare company, Merely Theatre, has honed a style that strips the playwright's work back to basics - so there will be no gauche sets, frilly collars or fussy props, just the actors, the...
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