Kathryn Adams, 21, from Pensacola, Florida, began dancing at two and has danced ever since: tap, jazz, ballroom and tumbling. Now she is making her British debut in Playhouse Disney Live!, visiting the Grand Opera House, York, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
WHEN the kids pleaded "can we go and see LazyTown" I feared the worst. How could such a high-energy TV show, which blends animation with "real life", work on the stage?
YOU will know the book by that Hungarian Baroness, Emma Orczy; you may recall the assorted TV series starring Marius Goring, Anthony Andrews and Richard E Grant, and Leslie Howard in the 1935 film. You will, however, probably not know the 1997 Broadway musical by Frank Wildhorn and Nan Knighton, or its songs in the full-throttle, neck-bulging style du jour of Boublil and Schonberg with the saving grace of "nincompoop" humour.
Clive Marshall's production for York Opera comes as a powerful reminder of one of the most imaginative creations in our history - effectively the first "musical" in the modern sense, and one ostensibly concerned with "low life". Actually, of course, John Gay's libretto makes it quite clear that upper and lower classes are equally prone to greed and deceit, so making us all laugh at ourselves.
CLASSICAL ballet is going mod. Two of BRB's three dances on the opening night used 20th century scores to provide a bridge between classical and modern styles.
Ryedale Festival Community Opera is looking for singers, dancers, performers and musicians of all ages and abilities to audition next week for this summer's production.
IN A TALE depicting the struggle of being caught between heaven and earth, artistic director Tamsin Shasha portrays a demi-god's fall from grace in Bacchic.
DO YOU have to be a little mad to be a politician? And, beneath the flippancy of that opening gambit, have some politicians actually been, well, a touch insane while in office?
IN his new play Fast Labour, Eastern Europe meets East Anglia as Steve Waters focuses on the growing culture of human exploitation by gangmasters, delving below the surface to reveal the world of the asylum seeker.
INTRODUCING...American actor Jon Farris, making his British stage debut as the psychiatrist to George W Bush in Donald Freed's political tragi-farce Patient No 1.
Ever wanted to see legendary historical figures as they lived back then? If so, prepare yourselves for the highly-animated theatre production of The Terrible Tudors.
HULL Truck has a long history of staging sporting endeavours, from rugby league to football, skiing to darts, crown bowls to keep-fit, judo to wrestling, horse-racing to more rugby league.
