Entertainment & Reviews

A new community musical, which Transition Towns’ founder Rob Hopkins has referred to as the 'West Side Story of rooftop gardeners’, is set to become a huge hit with schools, amateur dramatic societies and Transition groups.

Transition Town: The Musical – the brainchild of Matt Harvey, writer and host of Radio 4’s Wondermentalist; award-winning composer Tomas Hewitt Jones; and arts and energy programme manager Chloe Uden – sets out to explore questions and issues presented by oil dependency, sustainable energy and climate change in a friendly, uplifting and inspiring way. Transition...

One of Devon’s biggest independent holiday parks is enjoying a record-breaking start to the year, with bookings up nearly 50%.

Multi-award winning Ladram Bay Holiday Park, on the Jurassic coast overlooking its own bay and beach between Sidmouth and Budleigh Salterton, saw bookings rise by 46% in the first full week of January, and then by 52% the following week, compared with the same period in 2014.

Ahead of re-opening after the winter break on Friday March 13, work is well underway on phase two of a £10 million re-development at the family-run park, with the swimming pool...

Review: B Sharp Vocal Collective, Beer Quarry Caves Concert at Exeter Cathedral There was barely a dry eye in the house as the young voices of the B Sharp Vocal Collective rang out and raised the rafters of Exeter Cathedral last week.

The Beer Quarry Caves Concert was the culmination of a year of musical discovery that has seen children and young people from across the region working with music professionals to produce new music and songs inspired by the Beer Quarry Caves.

The B Sharp Vocal Collective filled the second half of the concert last Tuesday and followed a...

The new programme for spring and summer at Exeter Corn Exchange features comedy, music, dance, children’s shows and a number of speciality events.

Some of the biggest names in stand-up comedy will perform at the City Council run venue with shows by Jim Davidson (28 Jan), Henning Wehn (4 Feb), Alan Carr (13 Feb), Count Arthur Strong (25 Feb), Andy Parsons (18 March), Jeremy Hardy (6 May), Stewart Francis (15 May), Lee Nelson (17 May), Rich Hall (24 May), Al Murray (27 May), Roy Chubby Brown (29 May) and Tim Vine (9 June).

The ever-popular Exeter Comedy Club, featuring four...