Monday, 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 05:28AMWednesday, November 28, 2012
Stephen Joseph, Scarborough: Well now, Cinderella (a spirited Martina Horrigan) actually lives in Scarborough, her parents take tourists around the bay in their boat, the wicked stepmother c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMMonday, November 26, 2012
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: With a narrative from the pen of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and a willingness to explore darker issues, Ballet Lorent's Rapunzel is more epic folk legend t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMTuesday, October 30, 2012
Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds: What a smashing creation, and how thoroughly worthwhile. Ugly Duckling is Northern Ballet's first ballet for young children and whichever adult…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMMonday, October 29, 2012
Flash mob producer Gary Lloyd talks about how the show fuses different dance forms
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMMonday, October 22, 2012
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: Top of the bill at this third in the City Varieties' autumn series of Good Old Days weekends is the legendary character comedian Peter John, alongside …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMOtley Courthouse, West Yorkshire: Actors Dominic Goodwin and Emanuel Brierley clearly enjoy being onstage together - the trust they share is palpable, as is the respect they have for each ot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMTuesday, October 16, 2012
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Yorkshire audiences so rarely have the opportunity to see a Tennessee Williams play and this staging of his personal favourite is the first at the West Yorks…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Harrogate Theatre Studio: Bones will have the senses reeling, emotions struck numb. Its portrait of a teenage boy contemplating how best to kill a baby is as uncompromising a piece of theatr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMThursday, October 4, 2012
Theatre Royal Studio, York: Rapunzel's hair has grown long enough to reach the ground so she cuts it off. Why? "It was weighing me down," is the exasperated response and, she …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMThursday, September 27, 2012
Harrogate Theatre: Two desperate men on a lighthouse and a month until the relief boat arrives. Which one is telling the truth and who is that rather attractive swimmer? The two men die horr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMMonday, September 17, 2012
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: First seen as a project for Ballet du Rhin, in 2008, David Nixon has brought his version of Ondine, the adult fairy tale, to his own Northern Ballet dancers.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Harrogate Theatre: Updating Gogol's satire of human greed and relocating it to an obscure Pennine town has such an impact that one wonders why Northern Broadsides has never done it befo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMMonday, August 13, 2012
Mount Grace Priory, Northallerton: Outdoor theatre is of necessity bold and expansive with little opportunity for subtlety and stillness. Not so with this Chapterhouse company production of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, North Yorkshire: Bernard Slade's play, which had its Broadway premiere in 1975, is so rarely staged in this country but many will remember the Alan Alda/E…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Chris Monks has made his reputation with acclaimed adaptations of Gilbert and Sullivan and other operas - one thinks of The Mikado on a cricket pitch whi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMTuesday, July 31, 2012
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Lost and Found are two separate but connected plays from Jane Thornton and her husband John Godber. Commissioned by the Stephen Joseph Theatre and set in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: We are living longer, but can love live longer? This is a key theme in Alan Ayckbourn's future-set 76th play Surprises. Bill Champion's mega-su…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMFriday, July 6, 2012
The Carriageworks, Leeds: Brian Daniels returns to his first play for this second New End Theatre Beyond/Carriageworks co- production. A Big Day For The Goldbergs was first seen, in 2010, as…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMWednesday, June 27, 2012
Firth Hall, University of Sheffield: Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning classic is revived by the Shota Rustaveli company and proves a highlight of this year's ISDF programme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTuesday, June 26, 2012
The Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University: Two couples playing out their relationships with the language of home decoration makes for sophisticated entertainment. Rarely will anyone have heard t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMHallam Hall, Sheffield Hallam University: Here is a study of survival and what it takes to remain human. The respected Japanese writer Juro Myosho wrote Tainai, which means 'in the womb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMCrucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield: What a buzz this production is causing, and with good reason. If Room Enough is the hottest ticket at the ISDF and this reviewer is finding it difficult t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMMonday, June 25, 2012
Hallam Hall, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield: This poignant and important piece of theatre stems from Lucy Flack seeing pictures of suitcases on a website. Neatly stacked, but covered…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMCrucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield: Having seen the members of the DugOut Theatre Company triumph so deservedly at last year's National Student Drama Festival, with their version of Pat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMCrucible Theatre, Sheffield: Stellar performances from some of the principal players give a considerable boost to this production of Sweeney Todd, from the Newcastle University Theatre Socie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMThe Hubs, Sheffield Hallam University: A lorry-load of leather sofas is hijacked by a shotgun-wielding Kiwi in a cowboy hat, played by Joseph Murray. He finds out that there is something dod…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMTheatre Workshop, University of Sheffield: Adapted from the cult book of the same name, this production of Zombie Haiku demonstrates commitment from the ensemble cast, but they are let down …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMDrama Studio, University of Sheffield: While most of the cast have worked on a Howard Barker play previously, this staging is a world premiere of an unpublished play. Apparently a visiting l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMWednesday, June 13, 2012
Stephen Joseph, Scarborough: Premiered in Scarborough in 1972, Absurd Personal Singular is the most commercially successful of Alan Ayckbourn's plays. At the Criterion Theatre the follo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMThursday, May 24, 2012
Grand, Leeds: Surprisingly, ten years have passed since David Nixon's superb celebration of the Gershwin brothers was last staged by Northern Ballet. It was originally conceived as a fa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AM 
