Working in casting and television and seeing endless shows with amateur kids and teenagers, my expectations of Stage 2 Performing Arts Academy’s ‘The Album’ were limited . . . But, boy oh boy, how wrong could I have been?

Shropshire’s two major have pantomimes have proved to be runaway successes – with theatre bosses hailing one as a recordbreaker.

Shrewsbury was at the heart of the national debate yesterday as BBC’s Question Time was broadcast from the town – with host and panellists praising the audience for a ‘very good’ show.

Feminist writer Germaine Greer and Conservative Party co-chairman Baroness Warsi will be on the panel for Question Time in Shrewsbury tomorrow, it was revealed today.

BBC1’s Question Time will help to put Shrewsbury on the map when the show visits the town this week, it was claimed today.

Protesters are planning to gather outside Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn when an episode of the BBC’s Question Time is recorded there this week.

Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn has been named as the venue for next week’s BBC One Question Time, it was revealed today.

Hope House Children’s Hospice has today received a boost after unveiling new plans to expand its services.

Producers of this year’s record-breaking Aladdin Christmas pantomime in Shrewsbury have been re-hired for the next two years, theatre bosses have revealed.

Theatre Severn has announced record takings at the box office for its latest pantomime Aladdin – and theatres in Telford and Wolverhampton are reporting similar success stories with their festive offerings.

College leavers from Shropshire are being urged to attend a new event at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn next week set up to help them take those all-important first career steps.

“This is my life. I have a wife and a cat. I also have a tortoise, but he’s not funny.”

Two years ago Blood Brothers was one of the headline attractions of the first full season of the newly opened £27 million Theatre Severn.

Theatre bosses today said they hoped to attract 40,000 people to see this winter’s pantomime production in Shrewsbury – as they vowed it would be the best the town has ever hosted.

A colourful taste of the Middle East came to the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury today as the cast of Aladdin headed out on a boat trip to promote this year’s pantomime.

AN INVESTIGATION has been launched into structural problems at Shrewsbury’s £28 million Theatre Severn, it was revealed today.

Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn is to welcome The Osmonds as the world’s best known singing family embarks on its very last tour.

Fashion students from Shrewsbury College ended the academic year in style with a show at Theatre Severn.

The Osmond Brothers are coming to Shropshire as part of their farewell UK tour next year.

Anita Harris, who is appearing in Theatre Severn’s latest production, Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench, took time out to talk about her life and career.

To say that Shirley Anne Field has had a long and successful career is something of an understatement – she’s worked with them all, from Sir Laurence Olivier to Steve McQueen.

To millions of people Anne Charleston will always be associated with Madge Bishop, Neighbours and Ramsay Street. But the actress, who is appearing this week at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn, has had a long and successful career in film and TV in Britain and Australia.

Review: One can imagine the pubs were busier than usual last night in Shrewsbury as all the husbands had late passes because their wives were out at Theatre Severn.

Actress Lorraine Chase talks about her career and her role in Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting On a Green Park Bench, a comedy being performed all week at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn.

Meet the cast of Shrewsbury Theatre Severn’s current production, Five Blue Haired Ladies Sitting on a Green Park Bench. Shirley Anne Field, Anne Charleston, Lorraine Chase and Anita Harris tell all.

TAXPAYERS ACROSS Shropshire have forked out nearly £1 million to subsidise Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn since it opened, it was today revealed.

A stand-up gig by Shropshire-born comedian Greg Davies at a county theatre is becoming an internet sensation.

It was geek nirvana in Shrewsbury, as Canadian Charlie Ross brought the Star Wars story from a galaxy far, far away into the Walker Theatre.

Mel Brooks’s comedy musical The Producers is being brought to life this week  in the “most challenging” local production ever staged at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn.

There’s no trace of bitterness. She simply hasn’t time for negative thinking. Arlene Phillips is one of the UK’s busiest and most hard-working cultural emissaries; her diary is as full as the Air Traffic Controller’s departure sheet at Heathrow.