Monday, September 15, 2014
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Peter Rowe and Ben Goddard have concocted a heart-warming theatrical treat about a 25-year university reunion in a cottage in the middle of Wales, featuring some…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMWednesday, August 13, 2014
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: Director Mark Sterling first helped to produce this comic thriller as a student at Manchester University in the 1970s, with the late Rik Mayall as Holmes. This emoti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: More than 30 years since it became the longest-running thriller on Broadway, Ira Levin's play within a play still packs an evil punch. The force of that pun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:39PMMonday, July 14, 2014
Theatre in the Forest, Jimmy's Farm, Suffolk: The atmospheric venue, radical set and costumes and funky musical interludes ensure that this production of The Comedy of Errors makes a favoura…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:28AMTuesday, March 18, 2014
Needham Market Community Centre, Suffolk: Less than four years after its first staging by Eastern Angles, Segun Lee-French's semi-autobiographical tale of a family reunion and the resul…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMMonday, February 10, 2014
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Martina Laird was nominated for Best Actress at the Evening Standard Awards when this production, with its themes of hard life and tough love in Trinidad, ran at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMThursday, January 2, 2014
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: No glorified red coats, no questionable celebs, no cheese - three reasons a New Wolsey pantomime succeeds like few others. Another is the magical alchemy cooked …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Fram Theatre, Framlingham: With an uber-thesp vocal delivery that hilariously tiptoes the line between celebrating and lampooning the art form, Julian Harries is compulsive viewing (and list…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:23AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich: By transplanting the Bronte sisters to a rotten borough on the Suffolk coast, Eastern Angles subjects an audience eager for spoof and send-up to a laborious …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMMonday, August 12, 2013
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: While time has done few favours to the flavour of this sauce - what passed for cheeky chappy-ness in the 1960s feels more like tardy sleaziness these days - Coon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:10AMMonday, August 5, 2013
Jimmy's Farm, Ipswich: Red Rose Chain's Theatre in the Forest series gives The Taming of the Shrew a fresh air injection of brilliantly crafted buffoonery.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMMonday, July 15, 2013
St Edmund's Hall, Southwold: In the opening scene of JB Priestley's razor sharp dissection of upper middle class insensibilities, some odd staging sees factory owner's son Eric Bir…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:21PMFriday, February 15, 2013
New Wolsey, Ipswich: A sure-fire way of minimising the suspense in a thriller is to give the actors too many lines and too much back story to impart. By the end of the first act of the prodi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Sir John Mills Theatre, Ipswich: The knack of delivering a punchline or visual gag with unadulterated glee as if it is the first time it has ever been performed is a rare thing indeed. Altho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: There's a moment in Sleeping Beauty, as we await the grand entrance of evil witch Morgana (Karen Mann), where the actor/musicians take a break from belting …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:50AMThursday, September 27, 2012
New Wolsey, Ipswich: That curious yoof culture spat between mods and rockers in the 1960s is the pleasingly compatible setting for a musical update of Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergera…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMFriday, August 17, 2012
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh: Tapping into the cultural appetite for vampirism and coinciding with the 100th anniversary of Bram Stoker's death, Suffolk Summer Theatre presents what, by and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:08PMMonday, July 30, 2012
Theatre in the Forest, Rendlesham Forest: It was what happened off, almost as much as what happened on stage that made this performance of King Lear so watchable. The setting, in a forest cl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMSt Edmund's Hall, Southwold: At the heart of this play is a neatly constructed mystery penned by Frederick Knott, of Dial M For Murder fame. In the hands of the newly-formed Suffolk Summer T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, February 15: This is the first Eastern Angles production written by Ivan Cutting which he does not also direct. Instead, Naomi Jones is at the helm for Private Resis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMNew Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich: Back for a second run at the New Wolsey, and with the economic climate now so similar to that of the late 70s when Ian Dury and The Blockheads were in their char…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AM 
