Frankie Goes to Bollywood reaches the Queen Elizabeth Hall on London's Southbank (to 13 August 2024) after a short, successful UK tour. A Rifco Theatre Company production, it is a musical pastiche of the Bollywood genre. As such it offers an affectionate, often lampooning and not uncritical take on the outrageous musical extravagance that is Bollyw...

A new production of the 1964 stage musical Hello Dolly is playing a limited summer season at the London Palladium. It stars Dame Imelda Staunton in the lead role along with a full cast. The plot sees 'meddlesome socialite turned matchmaker Dolly Levi travelling to Yonkers, New York to find a wife for grumpy Horace Vandergelder. He is a miserly, and...

The second major production in the 2024 Regent's Park Open Air Theatre season is The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It runs until 20 July 2024 Images : Alex Brenner This is a children's novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett first published in book form in 1911. A classic of English children's literature, this is a new version by Holly Robinso...

Malta's Gobelin Tapestries are unique, beautiful and priceless Malta lover, frequent visitor and international film star Russell Crowe once said that, of the many thousands of stories that abound in the Maltese Islands, Malta's Gobelin Tapestries are unique, beautiful and priceless. A leading economic consultant has also said that, if all else fail...

The Balearic Islands : Mallorca, Menorca, Ibiza and Formentera have a National Park, four UNESCO declarations and eight Natural Parks. With approximately 40% of the total landscape protected, the archipelago offers a destination to experience an ecological paradise akin to the Galapagos Islands. This ranges from Menorca's turtles found, in s'Albufe...

Chem Chem Safari owns and operates three safari camps in Tanzania. The Chem Chem Lodge, Little Chem Chem and Forest Chem Chem in the 50,000 acre (160,000 hectares) Burunge Wildlife Management Area in northern Tanzania. The land belongs to the communities around Chem Chem, who have set it aside for conservation and wildlife protection. The Kwakuchin...