The same team of writer, director and music director that brought you last season's fun-packed Aladdin serve up this delicious Christmas treat. It's the well loved Brothers Grimm fairytale of princess Snow White, her jealous, mirror-gazing step-mother, and her seven vertically challenged friends.

Lovely Snow White yearns for love's first kiss unaware of the plots of the wicked queen. Meanwhile gallant Prince Simon has travelled from far, far Sofaria to seek true love. And in the woods live the seven dwarfs: Pop, Grouchy, Smiler, Blusher, Allergy and Dippy. Can the seven little men save our heroine from wicked Queen Narcissia (surely the most gorgeous villainess in panto)? Fear not. With the help of the good fairy, country bumpkin Goodapple, and the comedy duo Herbie, the veggie huntsman, and glam Dame Dotty (both employed by nasty Narcissia but rooting for Snow White) they make sure of that happy-ever-after ending.

Comedy, slapstick, modern songs, spectacular sets and costumes - here are all the enchanting ingredients to cast a magical spell over your family Christmas.

Art
By Yasmina Reza
10-12 March 2011

Art is a stylish comedy about art and friendship. Serge, Marc and Yvan have been friends for years, but when Serge buys an outrageously expensive large abstract canvas Marc is disgusted and Yvan's efforts at smoothing things over seem doomed.

How can something so trivial - the purchase of a painting - provoke such a rift in their relationship? Concern that a friend has been conned? Suspicion that he is not the discerning art lover they thought him but merely a dilettante following the latest fad? Or plain and simple jealousy?

So whilst the three friends hotly debate artistic values, what they are really arguing about - wittily and humorously - is the nature of friendship itself. When glamorous actress and writer Yasmina Reza conceived Art as an intellectual exercise she was unprepared for it becoming a world-wide comedy hit. Funny and thought-provoking, Art is a scintillating evening's entertainment.

Steel Magnolias
By Robert Harling
19-21 May 2011

Six women regularly hang out together at Truvy's home-grown beauty salon in the heart of America's Deep South. They're very different characters: the outspoken, wise-cracking Truvy; Annelle her eager assistant, curmudgeonly Ouiser, ("I'm not crazy, I've just been in a bad mood for forty years"); sweet toothed Miss Clairee; the socialite, M'Lynn, and her feisty daughter, Shelby. These southern belles may be as fragile as magnolia blossoms - but they're as tough as steel. They gossip about their neighbours, discuss their love life and their menfolk, wisecrack, tell secrets and share the good times and bad with grace, gutsy humour - and great hair! From weddings to divorces, babies to funerals, happy beginnings to sad endings theirs is a slice of life that's as warm and comforting as that great Southern delicacy, sweet potato pie!

Steel Magnolias was one of the hugely popular female buddy films of the 80s and the stage version is perhaps even funnier and more touching