Croydon Guardian | Star Interviews

Benn is back in town

Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:43:09 +0100

Musical comedian Mitch Benn returns to Croydon Clocktower next Wednesday with his new tour, The Rhyme Lord. GRAHAM MOODY caught up with him discus what he's been up to, touring without a new album to promote and the history of police boxes.

You can tell when you've been Tangoed

Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:40:49 +0100

When the Croydon Guardian received a press release about the premiere of a film called Last Tango In Croydon, we were expecting a saucy treat, writes Rhian Morgan.

Wicked pleasures

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 09:25:41 +0000

Letitia Dean stars in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs at Fairfield Halls

Sit back and enjoy the view

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:33:00 +0100

Film fans who fancy adding a healthy side order of Oscar-winning snacks to their diet of summer blockbuster fare are in for a treat when the Epsom Playhouse launches its new movie menu.

Gags and gore

Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:32:00 +0000

Art-house acceptance and multiplex adulation are generally considered mutually exclusive.

Kingston's Rose will need careful tending, says Neil Pearson

Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:41:00 +0000

A week tomorrow, the non-existent fly curtain at Kingston's Rose Theatre will finally lift, almost two decades after the original Bankside venue was excavated.

Richard Briers is wild about the west

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 16:52:00 +0000

Christmas isn't Christmas without a major TV marathon. But why not take time out from the spangle of X Factor and Strictly Come Dancing this Saturday for a festive concert in aid of Musequality in Chiswick?

Eastenders' Lucy Benjamin swops Walford for Croydon

Fri, 23 Nov 2007 13:43:00 +0000

I know that TV stars are often smaller in the flesh than on screen, but ex-Eastender Lucy Benjamin is positively minuscule.

Handbags and Gladrags for Penelope Keith

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 17:29:00 +0000

Penelope Keith may tire at times of Margo Leadbetter, the Surbiton house-wife she portrayed in 1970s sit-com, The Good Life.

The rom-com Don

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 15:26:00 +0000

Romantic Comedy might sound like a Scary Movie take on chick flicks but Bernard Slade's play - which comes to Richmond Theatre next week - is more an affectionate homage than a post-modern parody.