Dave Stringer in Conversation with Andrietta Simbi of New Vic Borderlines

Dave Stringer in Conversation with Andrietta Simbi of New Vic Borderlines

Next week there are three days of activities around the theme of Fab Food and Financial Fairytales which aims to support families in need during the school holidays. All participants from the age of 13 to 17 will have a package of sandwiches, treats and activity books to take home with them. The activities are absolutely free as they are financed by HSBC and, although registration is useful, families can simply attend on the day. There are performances in Burton […]

29 October 2026

Theatre Reviews

Theatre Review: Jersey Boys @ The Regent

Review by Dave Stringer: The Tony Award winning musical Jersey Boys is back on tour to celebrate its twentieth anniversary and is spending this week at the Regent Theatre Hanley. The great news is that this beautiful production is showing no signs of showing its age and remains one of those must see pieces of musical theatre. It may well fall into the genre known as jukebox due to its adherence to the music of Frankie Valli and The Four […]

27 October 2026

Theatre Reviews

Theatre Review: The Trial of Romeo Oscar @ The New Vic

Review by Dave Stringer. Imagine a post-apocalyptic world where Earth has been under attacks so severe that most of life has to continue in a subterranean world and – with little living above ground – the only trees to be seen are, as Joni Mitchell predicted, only to be seen in a true museum. To escape the holocaust, many of the world’s inhabitants have been scattered around the universe to re-establish colonies elsewhere. This is the existence that we are […]

22 October 2026

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A View from the Wings S2 Ep. 8

Weclome to the latest episode of A View from the Wings the Moorlands Radio Arts & Entertainment podcast. It's a busy one this week! We have reviews of Annie from the Regent, Oh Zeus from the New Vic and the Addams Family from the Stoke Rep. We have interviews from the ELO Experience, the Mow Cop Players and from the Jersey Boys. We bring to the latest What's On's and there is a look ahead at what we are seeing […]

22 October 2026

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Interviews

Carol Lovatt in Conversation with Ciaran Edwards of Because of Saturday

Carol chats to Ciaran Edwards who recently won the 'Malcolm Rushton Prize for Playwriting Competition' held at Stoke Rep Theatre here in the Potteries for his play Because of Saturday. Ciaran's play is a powerful and poignant piece of writing which explores the interplay between the passion for football and the camaraderie of male friendships alongside emotional and hard hitting personal issues. Carol finds out about the inspiration which led to Ciaran's first attempt at playwriting and how Because of […]

20 October 2026 3

Theatre Reviews

Theatre Review: The Addams Family @ Stoke Rep Theatre

As the producer of the enormously popular View from the Wings - the Moorlands Radio Arts & Entertainment Podcast, I don't normally get out to see shows of any kind. In fact Dave Stringer and Carol Lovatt keep me locked away in a cold dark studio editing their interviews and twiddling the knobs whilst they do the talking. Today, Saturday 17th October I broke out of captivity to attend the afternoon performance of Stoke Youth Musical Theatre Company's latest offering […]

17 October 2026

Theatre Reviews

Theatre Review: Oh Zeus @ The New Vic

On many occasions I have been persuaded to watch a new production that purports to be an offshoot of the classic comedies. So it was with a little apprehension that I made my way to the New Vic. Could the claims that Oh Zeus has a rightful claim to be compared to the likes of Fawlty Towers, Bottom and the Carry On franchise be true? Pleasing to say that any worries had disappeared within minutes of the start of this […]

16 October 2026

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Interviews

Carol Lovatt Chats to Leigh Colclough of the Mow Cop Players

Carol chats to Leigh Colclough, Chairperson of the Mow Cop Players Theatre Company about their new upcoming production on stage later this month at the MAC in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. Leigh explains how the theatre company was set up in 1974 and how it is still going strong fifty two years later. This autumn, over the Halloween weekend, the group are performing The Wizard of Oz as an early fun packed panto production which is sure to delight audiences of all […]

16 October 2026 3

Theatre Reviews

Theatre Review: Annie @ The Regent Theatre

There is always a slightly bigger bounce in my step when I go to a production of Annie – the feel good musical that proved to me that an excellent piece of musical theatre can be so good for the soul. Make no bones about it, this production once again revived my faith in human nature and sent me home with a swelling heart and the unforgettable score winging its way around my brain. The story of red-haired Annie which […]

15 October 2026

The Moorlands Gold Takeover with Douglas Barr

Tony Walley