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  • In which Stan goes to the ballet for the first time

    Ballet, like opera, is one of those performance art forms I've been meaning to take a peak at for many years but never quite got around to. So when the wonderful Susan offered me a couple of tickets to see the Royal Ballet at the O2 last weekend that she couldn't use, the lure of…

  • The Flying Karamatov Brothers – better than Pirates 4

    As we were leaving the Vaudeville Theatre last night, my friend Kate said to me: "Well it was better than Pirates of the Caribbean." A reference to the fourth film, On Stranger Tides, which we'd seen together a few weeks earlier and been distinctly underwhelmed by. And that probably sums it up quite nicely. The…

  • A celebration of Celebrity (Autobiography) or David Tennant does Richard Burton

    Oh my, oh my what an evening's entertainment this one turned out to be. Celebrity Autobiography started out in New York, the brain child of Eugene Pack and Dayle Reyfel who thought of a genius, yet simple, way of mocking celebrity – by letting them tell their own stories. How's it done? Well, and I'm…

  • Actors at the theatre

    I've created a new category for my celeb spots when I'm at the theatre – hey I'll do anything for the clicks these days. It's been a bit of a bumper theatre week, three plays so far and one more to go. The Donmar on Monday night wasn't it's usual rich picking of celeb spots…

  • Stan does tap dancing

    Not actually me shuffling around with metal on the bottom of my shoes, no, the closest I get to tap dancing is having a bit of a bop while I'm cleaning my teeth at the bathroom sink… Anyhoo…tap dancing or rather Tap Dogs at the Novello Theatre. Not my usual thing but an opportunity arose…