Radius Housing Association launches 'Radius at the Ritz'.

A SPOONFUL of nostalgia – make that several heaped spoonfuls – helps the joy-infused medicine of Rob Marshall's 1930s-set musical fantasy go down in the most delightful way.

THE costumed alter ego of orphan Peter Parker has been spinning a web of intrigue across popular culture since 1962 in comic books, TV series, newspaper strips, films and a Broadway musical.

WILLIAM Castle was a proper Hollywood huckster, famous for the inventive ways he marketed his movies rather than for the quality of them.

OCEANS rise and standards fall in Aquaman, a bloated origin story for the eponymous DC Comics superhero, which capsizes in a tsunami of splashy digital effects and melodramatic storytelling.

RENOWNED Irish pianist and Ulster Youth Orchestra patron Michael McHale, headlines a special UYO alumni concert at the end of the month.

OLLY Murs has just been asked: How have you managed to last for so long when so many of your X Factor peers have vanished into thin air? It's clearly not an easy one for Murs, who doesn't appear to have an arrogant bone in his body.

Carpenters With The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra WHO knew all we needed to heal our hurting hearts at the end of this somewhat dire year was the music of the Carpenters reworked with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra? Upon listening to these new reworkings, it's almost baffling to think the US duo's original music was not recorded this way.

EMILY Blunt may be bringing a new Mary Poppins to the big screen, but in the eyes of author-illustrator and children's laureate Lauren Child, Julie Andrews will always be the public's favourite nanny.

1. When did you think about a career in writing and what were your first steps into it? I've been writing since I was about 11.

THE centenary of the most important general election in 20th century Ireland is being marked on Saturday by a conference at Ulster University, Belfast.

BOOK OF THE WEEK Becoming by Michelle Obama is published in hardback by Viking, priced £25 (ebook £11.

A PLAY about Brexit, which will be updated every night to reflect changes in the political landscape, will premiere in London next year.

1. When did you think about a career in performing and what were your first steps into it? I was a full-time doctor until a few months ago.

BELFAST comedian and Irish News columnist Jake O'Kane is back on the road next month with a new show called Nobody Shouted Stop.

NORTHERN Ireland audiences can go back to 1992 and the music of Take That via a new musical by award-winning writer Tim Firth, which is coming to the Grand Opera House.

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