Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury: Sadly this is not a panto to rival previous productions at this delightful theatre and it seemed ages before the comedic element of Paul Hendy's heavy-handed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMMonday, December 15, 2014
Oakengates Theatre, Telford: This is a panto which certainly takes its time - it was at least 30 minutes before the plot got going during which time we went through one
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMMonday, June 16, 2014
Kinlet Hall, Kidderminster: Once again Rain or Shine theatre company take an open-air playing space and fill it with marvels and unexpected delights.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Witley Court, Worcester: The play begins in a gondola, with a cheeky gondolier poling Antonio and a few of his mates through a Venetian lagoon.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMMonday, December 23, 2013
The Playhouse, Cheltenham: Jenny Nimmo is that rare thing - a talented writer who, like JM Barrie, recognises that within all of us there is a deep childishness, which, throughout our lives,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Oakengates Theatre at the Place, Telford: With his usual sense of what makes a good panto, Ian Billings presents a smashing evening that sets out the story clearly, presents the various tale…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Festival, Malvern: Under Chris Pizzey's intrepid direction, this version of the fairy tale starts sluggishly with a certain amount of tedium (not helped by colourless settings) and incl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton: The Qdos technicians produce some spectacular effects for this Sleeping Beauty, which certainly light up the night but also scald your retina in the process. Ye…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury: If Sleeping Beauty pricks her finger on the well-known poisoned spindle, she'll sleep for a century and take the whole court with her into dreamland.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: Back again at the Belgrade by popular request, Alan Pollock's play about the bombing of Coventry takes a monstrous, large-scale disaster and brings the focus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Kinlet Hall, Bewdley: Rain or Shine Theatre Company clearly believes fiercely in getting the play out to its audiences whatever the weather. And never was a group of travelling players bette…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Belgrade, Coventry: Helena Kaut-Howson's re-working of Chekhov's Platonov, a sprawling indictment in its day of the corruption and crumbling moral values of early 20th century Rus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: Laurie Lee's hauntingly beautiful novel is set in his beloved Cotswolds, and so there is a certain piquancy about this production staged at the <a href=…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Belgrade, Coventry: Gogol's farce may well have been deeply funny when it was first given an airing in the smid-19th century but times have changed, and small-town Russian life in the 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMMonday, December 24, 2012
Swan, Worcester: This is a cheer-up family panto with pretty scenery, rousing song and dance numbers and a dedicated team of actors who work their socks off to give Chris Jaeger's produ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Theatre Severn, Shrewsbury: In a way, this is an ideal panto, with all the established virtues firmly in place. The villagers twirl happily in the opening number, a mere mention of the naugh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Festive, Malvern Theatres: There is a wonderful energy which runs throughout this deeply funny evening. In a splendid way, Scott Richie, (who directs with a keen understanding of the needs o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:57AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Wolverhampton Grand Theatre: Those in need of a cheer-up in these days of floods, frosts and fiscal failures should hurry along to the Grand Wolverhampton for a brightly-staged panto, which…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Oakengates Theatre, the Place Telford: You don't need a million pound budget to stage a successful panto, you just need commitment, warmth, and a spoonful of that elusive ingredient - t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Royal Spa Centre, Leamington Spa: This is a panto which is fun without being funny.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMRoses, Tewkesbury: Aladdin (Madeleine Leslay) is the battling hero hopelessly enamoured of the Princess (Millie Booth), and if a perceptive child might get slightly confused between the Prin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMMonday, December 3, 2012
Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham: When Kelli Maybank, as Dick Whittington, strides on looking for the London milestone, she looks every inch a true pantomime principal boy, from her smart thigh …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMThursday, November 22, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Birmingham Hippodrome: Peter Wright's Swan Lake is a masterpiece, with all the elements which make up a superb production securely in place.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Birmingham Hippodrome: This is David Bintley's masterpiece, admired and deeply loved. He has reworked Thomas Hardy's beloved novel into a ballet which has the power to move us to l…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
International Dance Festival Birmingham 2012, Crescent Theatre, Birmingham: Birmingham's International Dance Festival provides an amazing umbrella for movement of every kind from hip-ho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AM 
