Friday, December 22, 2017
The intimacy of the Georgian Theatre Royal is perfect for panto. Gary Bridgens, returning for his eight season as dame Glinda, is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMMonday, December 11, 2017
After stellar success last year with Pinocchio the same creative team returns to Scarborough with a radically different take on A Christmas
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:35AMMonday, October 14, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: David Thacker has a great track record of staging classic American drama and this production is surely a highlight.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Oldham Coliseum Theatre: Most of us have seen Chicago the Musical on stage and screen. Here is something a little different, a sparkling revival of an earlier version of the play, not seen i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMMonday, September 9, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: JB Priestley's enigmatic classic comes around quite frequently these days but here is one to savour and remember, full of insight and intuitive understanding - …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMTuesday, May 28, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Pam Gems' play sounds a rousing fanfare at the end of the 2012-13 season. Written some 35 years ago, it remains a deeply moving homage to France's greatest…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMFriday, May 24, 2013
2 Albion Street, Oldham: It's long been recognised that legitimate theatre does not have to be performed beneath a proscenium arch. It's now clear that a charity shop will do nicel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMMonday, April 29, 2013
Octagon Theatre Bolton: Dario Fo's play can best be described as satirical slapstick. Set in Italy, in 1974, in a period of national unrest, it has an overtly serious purpose highlighti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMTuesday, April 2, 2013
Octagon, Bolton: If you want classic American drama, then the Octagon is the place to find it, season after season - and David Thacker (one of Arthur Miller's favourite directors) is th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMFriday, March 1, 2013
A house in Bradford, Yorkshire: We traverse Bradford's notorious Thorpe Edge estate before being invited to let ourselves into a council house with a riot of a lawn strewn with empties.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: The Octagon, under David Thacker's inspired stewardship, is consistently at the cutting edge - and this is another highly innovative play.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:16AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Oldham Coliseum Theatre: In Fine Time Fontayne and Richard J Fletcher, the splendidly refurbished Coliseum is blessed with two of the finest festive frolickers on the panto scene - and they …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMMonday, November 19, 2012
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: The Octagon's Christmas show is a highly charged, deeply moving version of this perennial favourite. It owes much to the dramaturgical skills of director, Eliza…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Octagon Theatre Bolton: That the world premiere of Lighthearted Intercourse has come about redounds to the credit of director David Thacker, who made sense of the many extant drafts and note…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMMonday, April 2, 2012
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: For several decades Terence Rattigan's plays were out of favour, dismissed for having an upper middle class milieu. However, attitudes began to change around th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
Lawrence Batley, Huddersfield : How is it done is the question on everyone's lips. Smoke and mirrors is the phrase that comes to mind - except it's actually smoke and sliding slive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMMonday, February 20, 2012
Grange Arts Centre, Oldham: As the sun began to sink on the 1970s, Robin Herford was touring with Alan Ayckbourn's latest play, Taking Steps. One of the venues was the Grange, which by …
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