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Vagina Monologues at Venue Cymru

MEL Giedroyc is miffed with her sister, because she was outshone at a recent family party by her sibling’s stunning apple cake.Read

Review: Roots at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold

WHEN the bright-eyed youngest daughter of a  South Wales farming family  comes home from London  after three years living with  her socialist intellectual boyfriend, she begins to  impress what she thinks are  her ideas onto others.Read

Review: Animal Farm at Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold

HAVING only ever seen the 1954 animated film of this George Orwell classic, I was surprised by a number of unfamiliar plot strands in this stage adaptation by Sir Peter Hall.Read

Why Stephen K Amos is looking forward to performing at the Giddy Goat Festival

RISING comedian Stephen K Amos says he’s out to cheer everyone up amid all the doom and gloom because he thinks laughter really is the best medicine.Read

Osmonds coming to Llandudno

IF HOME was where the heart is Jimmy Osmond would be living in Wales where his ancestral roots lie deep in the southern valleys.Read

Blood Brothers comes to the Rhyl Pavilion

IT’S thanks to the theatre that Sean Jones missed out on a life of crime – or working as a nurse.Read

TV talent show gave musical star his big break

ALTHOUGH he failed to make the final of Any Dream Will Do, his career in musical theatre took off, says Ben James-Ellis.Read

Dancing on Ice baddie Jason Gardiner to appear in panto at Venue Cymru

HE’S the bad guy on TV’s Dancing on Ice and now choreographer Jason Gardiner will make his panto debut as the baddie, Abanazar in Aladdin at Venue Cymru this Christmas.Read

Venue Cymru prepares for the Drifters' soul sound

MICHAEL Williams could never have imagined that he would one day be part of his musical heroes’ group The Drifters, but a chance meeting in a New York nightclub turned his dream into a reality.Read

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Win tickets to Escape Into The Park - Europe's biggest dance and urban music event

We’ve teamed up with Escape Into The Park to offer one lucky reader the chance to win a pair of VIP tickets to Wales’ largest dance and urban music event, Escape Into The Park, on Saturday June 11 in Swansea’s Singleton Park.Read

Rhyl Pavilion to stage Evita musical

WHEN she landed her dream role of Eva Peron in the West End classic Evita, Abigail Jaye knew she had her work cut out in discovering exactly who Argentina’s first lady really was.Read

Jonathan Ansell wants to have fun at Rhyl Pavilion

FORMER G4 front man, X- Factor finalist and Sing If You Can contestant Jonathan Ansell just wants to have some fun when he brings his new solo tour to North Wales next month.Read

TV nerd Ed Byrne heads to Venue Cymru

PERHAPS it is 20 successful years in the comedy business, perhaps it is his appearance on BBC1’s Celebrity Mastermind, but Ed Byrne is now happy to embrace his geekiness.Read

Romeo and Juliet ballet heads to Venue Cymru

THE Peter Schaufuss Ballet performs the world’s favourite love story Romeo and Juliet at Venue Cymru, Llandudno, on Sunday, May 22. Read

X Factor star Olly Murs performs in Liverpool

LAST summer there was a funny story doing the rounds. It was the one about the Essex soul boy with the Mod moves and the too-tight trousers who wowed Saturday night telly in 2009.Read

Review: Gaslight at Clwyd Theatr Cymru

Although publicised as a spooky period chiller, Gaslight is more of a psychological thriller which just happens to be set in Victorian London. It could just as equally be set in 2011.Read

Busy comedian Jason Manford ready for Venue Cymru

JASON Manford is a very busy man these days. Since leaving the BBC’s The One Show to concentrate on family commitments he has been working as hard as ever on his Off On Tour We Go show. Read

The Searchers bring their sixties sound to Venue Cymru

ONE of the world’s most enduring bands which has been wowing the crowds for 50 years – and with the Beatles, helped put Britain on the map as a top music industry nation – is coming to Llandudno.Read

Russell Watson prepares for double stop in North Wales

SINGER Russell Watson has fond childhood memories of driving into the valleys of Llangollen, Betws y Coed and Snowdonia in a Hillman Imp with his family.Read

Count Arthur Strong hits Rhyl Pavilion

STEVE Delaney still can’t believe his luck at having been commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to do an amazing seven series featuring his comic creation Count Arthur Strong.Read

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