1. Progress Theatre - Honour

2. Ol’ Blue Eyes is back – on screen

As an interpreter of popular song, Frank Sinatra was in a class by himself – but how does he rate as an actor?

3. Consider yourself a flea, a rat or a roach

They turned up at South Hill Park on Good Friday with nothing more than a passing acquaintance with the songs of the hit musical Oliver!

4. ‘It sounds like a Guy Ritchie film mixed with Shakespeare’

Rehearsals haven’t yet begun, but soon South Hill Park will receive the premiere of an intense and dramatic Steven Berkoff play based on a classic Greek tragedy. Will it be all right on the night?

5. Permission to speak sir...I think we’re lost

DON’T panic! Captain Mainwaring is making a detour from Warmington-on-Sea to defend the Home Front in Goring-on-Thames.

6. Happy birthday!

NEXT week, one of Reading’s most well-known modern landmarks, The Hexagon, celebrates its 30th birthday.

7. Hey, it’s The Fonz!

Henry ‘The Fonz’ Winkler is a glutton for  punishment – he’s crossing the pond this Christmas for his second panto, playing Captain Hook in Peter Pan at Woking’s New Victoria Theatre.

8. Take two – Pursuing a lifelong dream

“I am inspired by people I meet,” says Claudette Flint. “By ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary events. I think it comes from my grandmother: as a young woman she worked at the Hotel Regina in Nice, the same place where Queen Victoria spent her holidays, and she ironed the Queen’s knickers so well that she was given a jar of piccalilli.”

9. A family affair...

THESPIANS Jan Waters and Philip York have been real-life partners for more than 30 years.

10. A hound-some pair

Philip Franks plays Doctor Watson to Peter Egan's Sherlock Holmes in a new stage version of The Hound Of The Baskervilles, which visits Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, next week.