Leba, the acclaimed singer, songwriter, record producer and daughter of the legendary Frederick “Toots” Hibbert, is now fronting up the new look Toots and the Maytals. They’re playing Middlesbrough this May. The transition of Toots and the Maytels into…

Prepare to be enchanted – and perhaps cover your ears – as the Olivier Award-nominated comedy ‘Glorious!’ arrives at the Darlington Hippodrome this May. Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Peter Quilter’s hit play tells the incredible true story of Flore…

The rumours are that white male writers are becoming extinct, but the reality is that rumours of their extinction have been greatly exaggerated. Take David Szalay. White and male and privately educated and Oxbridge and, phew, a Booker Prize winner! The fu…