The best of theatre for the week ahead.

The Great Gatsby may be coming to the big screen (again), but the real magic still lies between the pages

Lusting after something that you simply cannot afford right now? Here is the high street alternative…

Sophie Lipton reviews ‘And the girls in their Sunday dresses’ at the Contact Theatre

Josephine Lane reviews the UK premiere of American Idiot, performed at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton on October 9th

Kate Bullivant talks to John Shenton about five-a-side football, BA Econ and future careers.

Meet the newly established Veg Soc – representing all the vegetarians and vegans.

Find out what’s going on this week….

Inject some fruity fun into your Halloween celebrations with Clare Procter’s guide to the traditional game

Should celebrities really promote such drastic weight loss regimens?

We talk to Politics and Spanish student Charles Brooke about spending the year at Seville FC

George Latimer-Butler finds the precursor to todays’ Bond movies in the 1959 Hitchcock masterpiece

As The BOP was forced to pull its ‘Armed Forces and Taliban’ fancy dress theme Lucy Gardner explores the issue behind controversial costumes

Ben Weich explores André Villas-Boas’s start as Tottenham manager

Halloween brings you a fairy feast

Why? bring their unique blend of hip hop and folk to one of Manchester’s more eccentric venues.

Introducing the new way of getting movies funded

Sankeys 12th October 5/10

The Compton rapper’s latest record proves that there’s still more to hip hop than controversy and materialism

University of Manchester v Manchester Metropolitan University (starts 7.30pm)