Home to Terry’s and Rowntree’s, York is inextricably linked to the world of chocolate, as a great new interactive attraction illustrates

Glyndebourne productions which put Glyndebourne itself on stage are nothing new, but for Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos director Katharina Thoma has harnessed a strand of history which has hitherto gone unremarked. In 1940, with opera off the menu, Glyndebourne became a reception centre for evacuee children.

The pert dancer, singer and actress Virginia Gibson brightened several film musicals of the 1950s, notably the classic Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954), in which, as one of the brides, she danced in the barn-raising sequence, one of the most exhilarating numbers in movie history, and led the rest of the girls in the song “June Bride”.

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Speaking of her “dark side”, the 66-year-old said she couldn’t be further from the doting housewife Barbara Good

While Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian is probably the front-runner so far for Steven Spielberg's jury to consider as a Palme d'Or winner it has strong competition from A Touch of Sin, a sprawling but propulsive drama from China.

Eisteddfod-reared singer-harpist Georgia Ruth Williams was raised bilingually in Aberystwyth, as far into Wales as you can get without falling off the edge.

Story of Native American war veteran suffering from trauma has tough competition from Chinese drama A Touch of Sin

His graduation from entertainer to actor came thanks to a part in Alan Bennett's play 'A Day Out'

New urban soap will be performed on stage at the Bussey Building in London's Peckham

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The British artist Haroon Mirza has transformed a space at London's Lisson Gallery into a gleaming symphony of light, reverberation and echo with his newest installation, /o/o/o/o/. Its centrepiece, a reverberation chamber created by Mirza and his architect brother, Omar, will be lit by small, flashing LEDs that correspond to noise from speakers rigged in and about the chamber. The combination of constant, clanging noise and flashing light is set to offer a unique, otherworldly gallery-going experience.

The Hi-de-Hi! actor Paul Shane died today at the age of 72 following a short illness, his agent said.

The new Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London, is a spanking new five-star neighbourhood theatre opening with a three-star play about girls in a 1920s Chicago watch-making factory who are gradually alerted (though not by the bosses) to the dangers of radium in the illuminated dials when one of them becomes seriously ill.