Thursday, 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 10:07AMClive Wolfe Auditorium, Scarborough: Lights sweep across the auditorium, thumping music is being played and a club full of dancers is poised - all fierce expressions and unflinching postures…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Welbeck, Hull University Campus, Scarborough: Insults are hissed and then hurled, relationships are stripped bare and various things get thrown around in Yasmina Reza's comedy of modern…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMStephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Breman Rajkumar's new play is the inaugural production from InDepth Theatre, a professional company formed by recent Warwick University graduates an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMTuesday, March 26, 2013
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Two years ago at the NSDF there was a memorable production of Simon Stephens' Pornography, a play that looks at the cracks in society in the hours l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMOcean Room, Spa Theatre, Scarborough: It is so good and so refreshing that Nottingham University's New Theatre company is at the NSDF - and in force. There are two other productions her…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Ocean Room, Scarborough: This gorgeous piece of devised physical theatre begins superbly, with the white-faced cast striking alarming poses, and continues to intrigue and drip with venom unt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMHolbeck Building, Hull University Campus, Scarborough: Wry, sophisticated and yet eagerly playful, this series of linked tales has its roots in the Grimm brothers and Jeanette Winterson'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMMonday, March 11, 2013
The Carriageworks, Leeds: Time spent on remand in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison led to Ben Tagoe writing about humans living in a harsh system, where the first instinct is survival and emoti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Grand Theatre, Leeds: A rhapsody in creams, elegant costumes, divine dancing and the most fitting of music (played live by the Northern Ballet Sinfonia) from Richard Rodney Bennett and other…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMMonday, March 4, 2013
Harrogate Theatre: Alan Ayckbourn's tale of platonic love across a 50-year age gap is the eighth co-production involving Harrogate Theatre and Oldham Coliseum.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Viaduct, Halifax: Githa Sowerby's play was a hit with critics and public alike when it was premiered 101 years ago. Yet when critics discovered she was a woman, many of them recanted th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMThursday, February 7, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: It is a measure of the standing of Phoenix Dance Theatre that Richard Alston, who usually stays with a commission until final rehearsal, felt able to head ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMWednesday, February 6, 2013
February 5-9, then touring until May 9: Robert Tressell's book staged as a two-hander? It is played rather briskly, but it is effective.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Theatre Royal Wakefield: John Godber's fourth play for his eponymous company is, according to his programme notes, his first two-hander with a realistic core.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMonday, January 28, 2013
Robert Cohan, one of the founding fathers of British contemporary dance, has been recognised with the De Valois award for outstanding achievement in dance at the 13th Critics’ Circle Dan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMThursday, January 10, 2013
Alverthorpe WMC, Wakefield: Sean Glenn has been touring pantomimes to largely working men's club audiences in Yorkshire and the East Midlands for many years. He gives opportunities to f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMThursday, December 27, 2012
Monday, December 24, 2012
Civic Theatre, Rotherham: This Peter Pan is at ease with itself and rightly so. It has plenty of banter, hearty call and responses and well executed traditional routines. Despite all that th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMGrand Opera House, York: For the 14th year in succession, the New Pantomime Productions company is at the Grand Opera House offering traditional family entertainment - that is entertainment …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Lund Village Hall, Yorkshire: Scrooge as a Yorkshire farmer? What a capital idea. It grew from the widespread belief that we Yorkshire folk are rather tight with the pennies, but we don'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThursday, December 20, 2012
Grand, Leeds: There may be a surfeit of Nutcrackers around over the Christmas season but there is always room for Northern Ballet's Regency-set interpretation.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMVictoria, Halifax: Staging Beauty and the Beast as a pantomime will almost always set up problems with the narrative flow.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, December 19, 2012
Alhambra, Bradford: This staging of Cinderella has the most effective opening 15 minutes of a big budget, number one theatre pantomime seen by this reviewer in 30 years of panto watching. Ev…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMMonday, December 17, 2012
York Theatre Royal: Back for his 34th consecutive appearance as dame at York Theatre Royal is Berwick Kaler, and the wave of love and affection for him is something to experience.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire: That master showman and esteemed performance historian Tony Lidington creates pantomimes that are so wonderfully appropriate for the Georgi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Calling the wicked fairy Bad Nana Sandra is a masterstroke (see, you're laughing already), but Nana Sandra (Celia Adams) is not all that bad. She is jus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:44AMThursday, December 6, 2012
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: Rock 'n' roll is here to stay, according to the old Danny and the Juniors hit. After last year's hugely successful introduction of rock '…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
December 4-January 19: Ian Brown's second production of The Wind in the Willows at the West Yorkshire Playhouse is a triumph in all aspects. Tickets are going to be hard to come by.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
The Carriageworks, Leeds: Now that the City Varieties Music Hall has opted for a regular rock'n'roll pantomime, the Carriageworks is the one place to go to in Leeds for traditional…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Harrogate Theatre: Harrogate Theatre's pantomime has had an excellent reputation for many years, regularly earning plaudits from fellow critics. In more recent times it has attained an …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AM 
