Friday, May 16, 2014
Poet, rapper and former English teacher Mark Grist, has the titles Poet Laureate of Peterborough and Chief Bard of Fens Grist is touring his show Rogue Teacher, which was a big hit at last y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00PMSaturday, May 3, 2014
The dance world is becoming increasingly aware of the talent of Carlos Pons Guerra. Daring, audacious and sublimely, riotously funny he has found a style and dancers to match. His company, D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30PMThursday, April 24, 2014
York Theatre Royal Studio: The Tutti Frutti company looks at declining memory in an older person and how we build memories in its deeply moving new play, Monday's Child. Two characters …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:30PMSunday, April 20, 2014
Breakin’ Convention, the international festival of hip hop theatre, bursts into action over the May bank holiday weekend at Sadler’s Wells in London. Dancer/actor Ukweli Roach will be ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
Riley Theatre, Leeds: A slight break with tradion at the Northern Schools spring showcase. Selected third year solos were on view on each of the four nights. Third year dancers will be seen …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMMonday, March 10, 2014
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Martha Leebolt looks ravishing in the title role, her power and beauty are captivating. Her costumes and those of her hand-maidens (played by the corps de ballet) are d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMThursday, February 13, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Sharon Watson has not put a foot wrong since becoming Phoenix Dance Theatre's artistic director in 2009. She has built on the company's heritage, n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Theatre Royal, Wakefield: John Godber's universally popular look at nightclub life in the 1970s goes back to its roots to begin this touring production. Or rather quite close to its roo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AMTuesday, December 31, 2013
Wednesday, December 18, 2013
Bradford Alhambra: With Pearce as the star, the Alhambra's panto has always been among the very best - Ed Curtis knows how best to frame and stage and encourage Pearce's prodigious…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMTuesday, December 17, 2013
Barnsley Trades and Labour Club: For 25 years Sean Glenn and his Stage Door Productions team have toured pantomimes to scores of clubs and village halls across the northern counties.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire: For the fourth Christmas in succession Tony Lidington has put together a thoroughly joyful pantomime for the Georgian Theatre Royal, a pant…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMMonday, December 9, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Liam Steel, the choreographer of the Les Miserables film, and his creative team reach back to Rudyard Kipling's original Jungle Book stories for this ne…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Harrogate Theatre: Another year and yet another outstanding pantomime at Harrogate Theatre - clever, endlessly playful and fun throughout. Each character has his or her own distinct comic vo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMWednesday, September 11, 2013
Harrogate Theatre: Sundry lively characters rise, seemingly out of the woodwork, inhabiting the stage as if they were part of some extravagant political cartoon. Music is heard and on stride…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMMonday, September 9, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: David Nixon's beguiling staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, set on the night sleeper to Edinburgh, is on tour again. Once again the train, the st…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMCast, Doncaster: The Doncaster writer Richard Cameron's play is a fitting choice to open Cast (the town's brand new performance venue comes without a definite article). First shown…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMThursday, September 5, 2013
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: There is nothing at all serious going on here, and no tenderly drawn characters. Just four superbly silly people getting themselves into superbly silly s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMWednesday, August 14, 2013
Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, Whitby: A play we missed seeing the first time, perhaps a play we would love to see again, or maybe a play whose worth we need reminding of. The Esk Valley The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: When stuck on a railway platform time drags, or appears to, and the mind tends to wander, reflecting on past meetings and remembering encounters at other…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMWednesday, July 10, 2013
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Given the content of Muddy Cows - seven amateur rugby players taking on an unbeatable team - and given that John Godber is the author, there will be imme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMFriday, July 5, 2013
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds: When Winston Churchill was in Munich in 1932 Adolf Hitler proposed a meeting. It never took place. The Harrogate writer Tony Tortora's debut play imagines …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMTuesday, June 25, 2013
Sun Pavilion, Valley Gardens, Harrogate: Gloucester-based alfresco company The Festival Players has two shows on separate tours in this its 28th year: Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:44PMWednesday, June 19, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Kneehigh's revival and reworking of the old Cornish romance is exuberant, adventurous theatre, by turns clever, poignant, passionate, sexy and cheerfull…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMWednesday, June 12, 2013
Stephen Joseph, Scarborough: A barely remembered Ayckbourn play from 1992 is revived and two Ayckbourn premieres will follow during the summer months. Time Of My Life was played end-on at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMFriday, May 24, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Sherlock Holmes is shuffling around his Baker Street flat in his pyjama trousers, listless, vulnerable, near bankrupt and more than ever dependent on opiates…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMFriday, May 3, 2013
Harrogate Theatre Studio: Dumas' tale of revenge and deadly reckonings is given a curious and intriguing twist in this new production from the Thunder Road company.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMThursday, May 2, 2013
20 scholarships are launched this week which could see you training at a Razzamataz Theatre School near you. Kevin Berry sets out the details
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMFriday, April 12, 2013
Fewston Village Hall, North Yorkshire: Billed as a loose sequel to the company's Back To The Land Girls (2009), Badapple Theatre's newly premiered Lights Out Land Girls, which is n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMThursday, April 4, 2013
Riley, NSCD campus, Leeds: Any showcase performance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance is a refreshing and stimulating experience. Always there is the temptation to compare the per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PMThursday, March 28, 2013
The Spa, Scarborough: Just seven people are allowed into each performance of 101 and what an experience the unlucky ones have missed. This is serious one-on-one theatre, not by any means a g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AM 
