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Award-winning Edinburgh show coming to Warehouse Theatre

12:40pm Wednesday 1st September 2010

One of the success stories of this year's Edinburgh Festival, Pants of Fire's Ovid's Metamorphoses, leaves Scotland and heads straight for Croydon's Warehouse Theatre next week.

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Heap and Pebble back to take on the world

11:04am Wednesday 1st September 2010

Previous visitors to Battersea Arts Centre's Scratch festival might remember Dancing Brick and their show, 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won.

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Winter warmers at the Landmark

2:40pm Friday 27th August 2010

The Landmark Arts Centre, in Teddington, has announced a season of song and laughter, with its autumn and winter programme. Music lovers are well catered for as the Festival of Song returns in October and the popular Comedy Works nights are back. There will also be art exhibitions, a quiz night, workshops and a food fair. Here are some of the highlights for the colder months.

Winter's art in the abstract

2:30pm Friday 27th August 2010

William Winter is a remarkable artist. At the age of 83 he is continuing to produce countless works of art and his still flourishing career is now being celebrated with a retrospective exhibition at The Gallery @ Handmade Frames, in Teddington.

Natalie is back on the boards

3:56pm Thursday 26th August 2010

A revival of Arthur Wing Pinero’s play The Thunderbolt opens The Orange Tree Theatre’s new season on Wednesday. For actress Natalie Ogle the production represents a huge challenge, as it will see her perform on stage for the first time in more than a decade, writes Will Gore.

Get on the dancefloor

10:26am Thursday 26th August 2010

Even before Diversity won Britain's Got Talent last year, street and hip hop dancing had begun taking over the world with films about struggling youngsters from the hood coming good on the dance floor popping up all over the place.

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Stagers set for a new stage

10:23am Thursday 26th August 2010

Croydon Stagers return with the annual music hall next week, but don't go looking for it at Stanley Halls.

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Why so Sirius?

10:20am Saturday 21st August 2010

Most 19-year-olds spend their time partying into the early hours but not Sirius Fawkes - he's been busy writing his very own musical.

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Our Town is taking shape

3:40pm Friday 20th August 2010

Rehearsals are well under way for Our Town, a unique community drama project being by staged by the Rose Theatre.

Strings attached at the Puppet Barge

9:40am Friday 20th August 2010

For 25 years the Puppet Barge has been sailing down the Thames from its regular mooring in Little Venice to take up residency on Richmond riverside, writes Will Gore.