Lena Davis has been a music producer, writer and Personal Manager; a photographer and journalist and, over thirty years ago, got together with Caroline Scattergood to create the Caring & Sharing Trust to bring music, hope and love into...
Review – The Worst Witch, Royal Theatre Northampton (show seen, Sunday Dec 9)
THEY are pretty tough to impress, ten-year-old girls. They’ve just reached that eye-rolling, arm-folding kind of age. Gone are the days when they’d fall about at a...
Peter Pan starring Darren Day is the Northampton Royal & Derngate main pantomime and runs until Sunday December 30.
The atmosphere in the Derngate foyer before the Christmas panto is like no other show.
It's busier, noisier and buzzier. Yes there...
The NN Cafe has come back to life in Northampton's Guildhall Road and James Acaster, who usually treats his home county to a few intimate Christmas gigs, is bringing the treat forward performing there this weekend.
The show is called...
Shirley Jones' uniquely forensic reflections on the Northamptonshire literary festival which gives us grandeur relaxed...
How can anybody fit into this? A thought commonly held of living in small spaces, but which occurred to me when visiting Althorp for its...
THERE’S a signature dish enjoyed at Casa Penda known as ‘Picky Bits’. This can come in premium and economy versions.
The economy version is basically leftovers, some heated up rice, maybe a handful of olives, half a can of beans,...
Tre Ventour reviews West Side Story which was at Royal & Derngate...
Adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes place in America. Verona becomes New York City in the 1950s. The feuding families are displaced by warring gangs....
Reviewing the Situation with Lena Davis
“Watching You” by Lisa Jewell (published by Century Press)
“China’s Oasis” is co-written by David Gotts and Richard Harris (Monarch £8.99)
Please grab your £12.99 and rush out pronto to buy a copy of “Watching You”...
For a storyteller there can be no greater challenge than to stand in front of your own community and tell their stories back to them.
There might be Oscars, Emmys and Oliviers dished out if you are this season’s national...
Writer, poet and journalist Tré Ventour unpicks The Lovely Bones at Royal & Derngate...
After being brutally murdered, fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Susie Salmon (Charlotte Beaumont) watches her grieving family (Emily Bevan, Natasha Cottriall, Jack Sandle, Ayoola Smart) from beyond the grave...
