The National Lottery have announced that they have awarded a grant of £10,000 to the Hampshire-based theatre company Prime Theatre to support their work in providing work for older actors, and encouraging groups of older people on an outing to the theatre.

 Unless you’ve been living on a desert island for the last few years, you’ll be aware of the stratospheric rise of stand up comedian, actor and writer Ricky Gervais.  Fresh from presenting the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, Gervais now returns to the UK with his brand new stand up tour, ‘Science’.

Love Never Dies is the sequel to Phantom at the Opera. The phantom is no longer in Paris. He’s on Coney Island in New York, running the fairground.

The Brisbane-based acrobatic company concentrates entirely on the physicality of their bodies, flinging themselves about the stage and at each other in a very lively manner.

 What Dennis Lehane’s novels Mystic River and Shutter Island have in common, is a title that connotes a body of water in or around Boston, Massachusetts; a detective assigned to case that forces him to confront his disturbing past; a group of characters with thick Boston accents and two Oscar- winning directors over 65 who have turned both novels into Hollywood films. 

Robert Tanitch takes a look at the latest DVD releases, including 'An Education' and 'It's Complicated'

Unusually for an American film, The Hurt Locker eschewed messages and the specific politics of Iraq for a very human take on war in general.  By contrast, The Green Zone has a big agenda, and a rather preachy one at that.