They are being staged at the theatre run by Hollywood star Kevin Spacey. As the curtain came down at the premiere last week, in front of all the media, Spacey, very rightly, wanted to pay tribute to Sir Alan.

He went to bring him up on stage to take the applause, perhaps forgetting that Sir Alan moves a little less easily these days since a stroke last year.

Sir Alan was able to stand and was about to take the applause when Mr Spacey lost his footing and ended up falling on the playwright. Fortunately, the only real bruising was suffered by certain egos.



Lager-swilling, swaggering bloke that he is, it seems unlikely, but perhaps Noel Gallagher will take up an invitation to attend a new exhibition at a Yorkshire art gallery.

The Oasis star recently called Barnsley "a s**t hole" in an interview with the Radio Times. Showing that here in Yorkshire we're generous of spirit, the owners of Hive gallery in the maligned town have extended the olive branch and invited Gallagher to come along to its new exhibition.

The Alphabet print show of the work of Sir Peter Blake opens at the gallery tomorrow and there should be enough to interest the singer from
the band who owe more than a little to The Beatles. Sir Peter famously created the Fab Four's Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album cover. A graduate of the Royal College of Art and a fellow of
the Royal Academy, Sir Peter is known internationally as a key member of the Pop Art movement and a great supporter of artists and musicians.

Curator Patrick Murphy says: "When we opened Hive in April people commented that we were mad opening a contemporary art gallery in Barnsley, and that people wouldn't be interested.

"We have found the opposite to be true. I would love Noel Gallagher to be able to see this side of Barnsley."



The words cheese and theatre put together are rarely a good thing. The last thing you want is a cheesy production (although that doesn't stop certain theatres programming shows like Joseph... ad nauseam).

So it's a strange combination for Swaledale Cheese Company to have joined forces with Richmond's Georgian Theatre Royal.

The theatre is playing host to Northern Broadsides' production of Heidi – A Goat's Tale in a couple of weeks' time. The amusing play re-imagines the story of Heidi as told by mountain goats, and anyone going to see the show could be in with a chance of winning locally-produced
goat's cheese. All ticket holders will be entered into a free prize draw to win speciality Swaledale cheeses – including the goat variety – and cheese will be on sale in the foyer.



Stereophonics frontman Kelly Jones told a Yorkshire radio station that he reckoned without music he would probably be behind bars.

Leeds United fan Kelly told Real Radio Yorkshire: "I don't really like authority that much, to be honest. I'm glad I got into a band because if I had to do a proper job I'd be in prison by now."