Leading Lights
	8:27am Thu 3 Apr 08
	When Ovid wrote his 15-book masterpiece Metamorphoses in 8AD, I doubt he thought it would be performed by puppets two millennia later.

	Fire on ice
	8:22am Thu 3 Apr 08
	Unless you have been watching Suzanne Shaw and Greg Rusedski in Dancing On Ice recently, the chances are you've never seen Beauty and the Beast on skates.

	Ragged to riches
	8:17am Thu 3 Apr 08
	The grimy, disease-ridden streets of Victorian London will fill the Rose Theatre this week when Kingston's very own musical, The Ragged Child, returns to the stage.

	Relight your fire
	8:06am Thu 3 Apr 08
	It is just as well that Stephane Annelli looks good in white. The Laine Theatre Arts graduate has sported a lot of it over his 10-year career, from Tony Manero's suit in Saturday Night Fever to the skintight T-shirts of his latest role at New Wimbledon Theatre.

	Lake's Heaven
	5:14pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	Plenty has happened since the last time local-boy-done-good Benjamin Lake made a local appearance at the Adrian Mann Theatre.

	A Wizz with the guitar
	5:11pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	Fame has never been something that is reserved in a tin under the counter for the most talented people. Instead of being a meritocracy, the world of fame is littered with near misses, governed by serendipity and populated by the bloody-minded and handsome.

	King of the Hill
	5:03pm Wed 2 Apr 08
	For a lad brought up on a Shropshire farm with no artistic background in his family and even less artistic talent in his fingertips (his own assessment), John Bloxham has done pretty well in the art world.

	Antiquarian's roadshow
	8:13am Fri 28 Mar 08
	When a mid-40s Roy Dotrice first played ageing Elizabethan John Aubrey in his one- man play Brief Lives, the transformation involved a lot of prosthetics and a rather wispy wig.

	30 years of hurt
	8:03am Fri 28 Mar 08
	Photography nuts will already know Peter Kennard as one of the most influential photographic artists alive. For others, think of an artist along the lines of Michael Moore, John Pilger and Banksy - left wing, high-profile and politically motivated.

	Facing the past
	4:53pm Thu 27 Mar 08
	David Harrower's raw, controversial, award-winning play Blackbird continues the Rose's impressive slate of launch projects as the Kingston theatre premieres this production ahead of its nationwide tour.

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