Growing up, Cheryl Baker’s parents couldn’t afford stage school but now the singer is hoping to give young people the opportunities she never had.

It’s not over ‘til it’s over – the Canterbury Festival will be bringing music, dancing, culture and entertainment to the county for a second week.

Former Blue singer Duncan James is to star in Priscilla Queen of the Desert when it comes to Kent on tour next year.

Andy Hamilton is the award-winning co-creator of such TV gems as Outnumbered and Drop the Dead Donkey. Now he’s going back to his roots in stand-up.

They may be friends behind the scenes, but two teenagers are set to play fierce rivals when they take to the stage in Chatham this week.

The Canterbury Festival – Kent’s international arts festival – opens this weekend and is jam-packed with more than 200 free and ticketed events.

The hottest West End ticket ever can be seen live on screen this week with Kent's Rudi Dharmalingam on centre stage alongside Benedict Cumberbatch.

Singer Gareth Gates, who has sold 5m records worldwide and now has a successful stage career, will appear at Dartford's Orchard Theatre.

Former Kent uni students, comedy group The Noise Next Door, return to their old haunt when they perform at the Gulbenkian in Canterbury this week.

The greatest creatures ever to walk the earth will be stomping back into the county this week in a new stage production for children.

Summer is just over but signs of Christmas are already appearing on TV screens, shop shelves and Chatham's Central Theatre has launched its pantomime.

Actor and author David Walliams launched the stage show tour of his children's book Gangsta Granny, which comes to Kent soon.

Canadian stand-up Katherine Ryan is back on tour and this time she has her family on the other side of the Atlantic well and truly in her cross hairs

The heat and passion of Spain will be warming up autumnal Kent with a production of Bizet's Carmen.

The stars of the Assembly Halls Theatre panto got together at Chiddingstone Castle to get the countdown to Christmas started.

Shakespeare's Hamlet has been re-written to music with a special happy ending twist in aid of Macmillan Cancer Care support club

This year’s panto star and former X Factor finalist Stevi Richie has entered the Big Brother House with his new fiancée Chloe Jazmine.

Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap, the world's longest running stage play, makes a return visit to Canterbury's Marlowe Theatre.

Four of the finest voices around are coming together for a summer celebration of opera.

The Secret Garden is one of several productions being performed outdoors in Kent.