Playhouse, Nottingham: Men behaving badly doesn't begin to describe the 10 assembled members of Oxford's revived Riot Club, bent on drinking, trashing and asserting their inborn ri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThe Playhouse, Nottingham: Old actors never die: they end up in a Home for Ageing Thespians in Erik Gedeon's smash-hit musical comedy, adapted and directed by Giles Croft and making its…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMPalace Theatre, Mansfield: Princess Briar Rose was never really under threat and has already been restored to life by the interval in what is something of a cheerful nod to the story. But go…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38PMTheatre Royal, Nottingham: I'm still marvelling how these Seven Dwarfs managed to dance on their knees, in a neat twist to the plot that presents them as banished courtiers. This is a m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMThe Studio, Derby Theatre: Derbyshire-based Red Earth Theatre has a Christmas residency here as the culmination of its national tour of Hansel and Gretel, a bright, upfront and wonderfully w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMDerby Theatre: Jim Barclay plays Ebenezer Scrooge and an accomplished ensemble of seven actor-musicians - several with roots in Derby - share the narration and double, triple and quadruple r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMPlayhouse, Nottingham: Kenneth Alan Taylor's 31st successive panto at the Playhouse is his best yet, as clear as a bell and wildly funny. He has assembled a cast over the last few years…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMThe Hippodrome, Birmingham: Peter Wright's Nutcracker is world-famous, created as a thank-you to the city of Birmingham when Sadler's Wells moved from London in 1990, and always re…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMLakeside Arts, Nottingham: Candoco's double bill of two new commissions showcases everything that makes this contemporary dance company of disabled and non-disabled dancers so extraordi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMThe Studio, Derby Theatre: Daniel Chrisostomou's portrayal of the hideously deformed Joseph Merrick is almost unbearable to watch at times, for the pity of the man's situation and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMPlayhouse, Nottingham: Tom Stoppard loved the language and landscape of Derbyshire and Lord Byron is one of Nottingham's own, so this stunning final contribution to the Playhouse's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMDerby Theatre: Sarah Brigham, Derby Theatre's artistic director, identifies shows with "authenticity and a big heart" as going down particularly well with audiences in Derby, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMDerby Theatre: Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and Theatre Royal Stratford East collaborate on Roy Williams' startling contemporary version of this classic Greek tragedy. The streets of Th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMKilworth House Theatre, Leicester : Everyone ends up transformed in this show, which is why it brims with the feel-good factor. Redemption is in the air as the sober Catholic priest becomes …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMWollaton Hall, Nottingham: What Chapterhouse does is theatre at the coalface, carried by the power of acting, cheeky engagement with the audience and a refreshing absence of anything techni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AMDerby Theatre: John Godber revisits this delicious two-hander, written in 1992 and refreshed in the light of awakened vexations over Europe and hardship at home. It's familiar territory…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMKilworth House Theatre, North Kilworth : This is the eighth season at the purpose-built, open-air Kilworth House Theatre, where the natural surroundings are as much a part of things as what …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMCurve, Leicester : The Spanish dance company, Aracaladanza, join with <a href="http://mokodance.com/shows/constellations/" target=_blank>Moko Dance</a> to present the U…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMNottingham Playhouse : Andy Barrett's compelling new play about the Sherwood Foresters regiment is packed with the local colour he loves to paint, but its universal First World War cont…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMThe Hippodrome, Birmingham: This British premiere receives a rapturous reception at the Hippodrome, proof of David Bintley's ability to spin straw into gold - although this, Benjamin Br…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMPlayhouse, Nottingham: Watching this production is like being carried along in a protest march, banners in your face, accosted until you're almost desensitised. An ambitious collaborati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThe Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: A translator's power to convey truth or distortion is nowhere more deeply considered than in this powerful play, the second in Sheffield Theatres' …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:13AMMac, Birmingham: This great, surging dance spectacle from Motionhouse makes you feel as if you have been present at the creation and destruction of the world. It's cataclysmic. High imp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMSheffield Theatres Studio: An inspired piece of casting for the first play of Sheffield Theatres' Brian Friel Season brings together Niamh Cusack as Sonya and Sean Gallagher as Andrey o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThe Studio, Repertory Theatre, Birmingham: This is an extraordinary play, arguably Bryony Lavery's finest. It's hard to watch because of the terrible subject matter it confronts us…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMThe Assembly Rooms, Derby: Dean Elliott is as plausible a Paul Simon as he was as Buddy Holly in the West End musical in which he made his name. For this tribute theatre show, he's team…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMThe Playhouse, Nottingham: Stepping into the life of someone you hero worship could be a risky business. But it's a kind of catharsis for Susie Boyt, on whose book <a href="http…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMThe Playhouse, Nottingham: Amanda Whittington has a particular gift for getting inside the skin and head of tough but vulnerable young women. This compelling one-woman show, on its first nat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMDe Montfort Hall, Leicester: Panto makes a storming return to the De Montfort Hall after a 20-year absence, in celebration of the venue's 100th birthday. It couldn't have wished fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AMMansfield Palace Theatre: It's heart-warming stuff at Mansfield, where Ruth Madoc's confident Fairy has been promoted to Fairy Godmother, has a pay-as-you-go wand and, in a brief a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMLakeside, Nottingham: This is a joyful and original take on Dickens, for very young children who aren't likely to have encountered the story yet. Read the full review
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