When a play starts and the stage lights don’t come up, it’s usually not a good sign. Even in a Freshers’ Late Show.

THEATRE companies from across the globe are coming thousands of miles to appear at Henley Fringe.

Birmingham and the West Midlands have quietly been making their mark on the contemporary arts map. Birmingham might not spring to mind as a centre of excellence for contemporary visual art ..............

Over the next two weeks, London’s Southbank Centre is playing host to the third annual London Literature Festival. The arts centre, which is the largest in the UK, will hold talks by some of the world’s most recognisable writers, as well as actors, pop stars and even an astronaut.

PERFORMING arts students from a city college showcased Shakespeare's famous comedy Twelfth Night in the historic Peterborough Museum.