David Doyle

The Adventures of Pinocchio -- Separated from his father, Pinocchio embarks on a wild series of misadventures that make him want to become a real boy (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas - TV's 'Home Improvement').

The London police is having trouble with organized crime commited by juvenile delinquents, led by an American who is an expert at turning young men into ruthless gangsters. An American cop is asked to help the British to break up the organization.

Suspense-master Willam Golman (Marathon Man) wrote the novel from which this bizarre black comedy was adapted. It's the extraordinary account of a plumber who kills a dowdy matron, a priest who kills a dowdy matron, and a policeman who kills a dowdy matron. Actually they're all the same man, a psychotic master of disguise brilliantly played by versatile Rod Steiger. The killer also gets his kicks phoning in clues to detective George Segal. All of New York trembles as a sixth strangling is reported in the papers. And the man with the makeup kit stalks another victim... the detective's girlfriend (Lee Remick). A suspenseful, macabre game of cat and mouse.

In a candle-lit Victorian brothel, Oscar Wilde sips champagne as pretty prostitutes enact his latest play, "Salome." As Salome performs her Dance of the Seven Veils in exchange for the ruin of John the Baptist, life begins to imitate art and the story becomes a mirror of the life of its author.

The whole world is watching the first manned flight to Mars, but three astronauts are plunged into a hair-raising battle for survival within a clandestine operation involving intrigue and murder. The astronauts are removed from their spacecraft to an abandoned desert hangar and told that their life support systems have malfunctioned. They are ordered to participate in an elaborate charade, simulating a Martian landing as cameras roll and with the entire world as an audience. The astronauts have no choice but to co-operate. Not only does the director of NASA inform them that their mission's success is crucial to the future space programmes but threatens their families' lives as well. The three astronauts escape and separate, hoping that one of them will live to expose the sensational fraud.

Lonely, aging puppet-maker Geppetto (Academy Award-winner Martin Landau - "Ed Wood," "Crimes and Misdemeanors") carves a young boy from a tree which he once carved his love's initials near his village. When the puppet Pinocchio magically springs to life, Geppetto is thrilled to have a companion. However, their time together is unfortunately cut short when wicked showman Lorenzini steals Pinocchio away. Separated from his father, Pinocchio embarks on a wild series of misadventures that make him want to become a real boy (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas - "Wild America," TV's "Home Improvement").

Separated from his father, Pinocchio embarks on a wild series of misadventures that make him want to become a real boy (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas - TV's "Home Improvement").

Separated from his father, Pinocchio embarks on a wild series of misadventures that make him want to become a real boy (played by Jonathan Taylor Thomas - TV's "Home Improvement").

Separated from his father, Pinocchio embarks on a wild series of misadventures that make him want to become a real boy.

Opera's North enchanting staging of The Adventures of Pinocchio, Johnathan Dove's 21st opera, is a wittingly inventive feast for the eyes and ears. A full-length, through-composed grand opera with 29 characters, a sizeable chorus and a profound symphonic score, it is overflowing with visual delights, and children will love it! A sublime achievement by Martin Duncan and team, this production shines a bright new light on Collodi's dream-like original story, full of charm, darkness and magic. The superb ensemble stars Victoria Simmonds in the title role, and the orchestra and chorus respond splendidly under David Parry's vibrant baton.

In 1892, Oscar Wilde (Nickolas Grace) arrives at a high-class brothel where a surprise awaits - the brothel keeper (Stratford Johns) is staging his play "Salome," with parts played by prostitutes.

Framed as a play within a film, Ken Russell's otherwise faithful adaptation of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" -- a tale of a young biblical temptress -- follows the writer (Nickolas Grace) as he watches the performance while lounging in a brothel with his lover (Douglas Hodge). After John the Baptist (Hodge) spurns her advances, Salome (Imogen Millais-Scott) demands that her stepfather, King Herod (Stratford Johns), deliver the disciple's head on a platter.