Monday, December 10, 2012
Assembly Rooms, Derby : The creative team has gone a long way to solving the difficulties of staging panto at the Derby Assembly Rooms, a venue that doesn't lend itself to live theatre.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMFriday, December 7, 2012
Town Hall, Loughborough: Loughborough's panto is always one of the fastest paced and jolliest in the region, and evil doesn't have a chance of triumphing here. But Sion Lloyd'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:50AMMonday, December 3, 2012
The Playhouse, Nottingham: I can't remember how many times he's hung up his red shoes but Kenneth Alan Taylor just can't resist it. He's back playing the dame in his 29th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMWednesday, November 7, 2012
Curve, Leicester: Paul Kerryson's production screams rebellion from the outset, with a barrage of video stills that include a smiling Jimmy Savile with a smiling Enoch Powell. The rasp …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:17AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Chilwell Arts, Nottinghamshire: There are moments of tenderness and enchantment in Mary Swan's adaptation of this well-loved children's classic, which captures the essence of the s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMFriday, September 28, 2012
Thoresby Lawns, Nottinghamshire: It was a rough night for the Northumberland Theatre Company, with an audience member suffering a medical emergency that emptied the auditorium and delayed th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMThursday, September 27, 2012
The Old Rep, Birmingham: I love this angry and beautiful play. It says everything about the transforming power of theatre and its essential role in society. Max Stafford-Clark's own com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
The Playhouse, Nottingham: There's artifice in town and artlessness in the countryside in Giles Croft's nicely understated production at the Playhouse. The characters look and beha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMFriday, August 24, 2012
Kilworth House Theatre, Leicester: Helena Blackman, runner-up in Andrew Lloyd Webber's Maria quest, gets to play the role at last and does it sublimely. There are echoes of Anne of Gree…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon: Words are almost inadequate to describe this glorious piece of theatre, commissioned for the World Shakespeare Festival. It explodes on to the RSC sta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMWednesday, July 18, 2012
Nottingham Playhouse: Here's the next best thing to being on holiday in Southwold, with its iconic beach huts and storybook lighthouse. The creators of CBeebies' popular live-actio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMThursday, June 28, 2012
The Hippodrome, Birmingham: I think they should scrap the opening ceremony for the Olympics and just have BRB perform David Bintley's new ballet, Faster, based on the games' motto …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMThursday, June 21, 2012
The Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Jude Owusu gives voice and passion to Cinna the Poet in the fifth in Tim Crouch's series of plays exploring Shakespeare's minor characters. He's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMThursday, June 14, 2012
Kilworth House Theatre, Kilworth, Leicestershire: There aren't many outdoor venues that can accommodate a tennis court and a croquet lawn as part of the set, but this is Kilworth House …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Curve, Leicester: Gulliver's Travels is a weird and uncomfortable story on many fronts, a satire that shows human nature at its most base and disgusting.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:43AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Curve, Leicester: I don't think there's a single moment in Philip Ridley's highly acclaimed play when the two characters, Man and Woman, take their eyes off each other. They s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
Curve, Leicester: Michael Morpurgo's absorbing tale of the enduring relationship between a boy and a lion translates exquisitely to the stage in this adaptation. Like all the best child…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMThursday, March 22, 2012
Guildhall, Derby : You wonder in the opening minutes where Tyrone Huggins' two-hander is going. It doesn't immediately grab. But it becomes wholly absorbing, a beautifully crafted …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AMMonday, March 5, 2012
The Hippodrome, Birmingham: A double bill of Daphnis and Chloe and The Two Pigeons makes for a feast of colour and passion, a canvas of events exuberantly danced by an energetic company. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:59AMThursday, February 23, 2012
The Hippodrome, Birmingham : Two words get uttered in this warm and tender ballet from David Bintley, a production with a feelgood factor that is almost off the scale. They are 'By gum…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMMonday, February 13, 2012
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme: The hallmark of Northern Broadsides' comedy is mischief, and the company pulls out all the stops for this 20th anniversary production. Played in the round…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AMWednesday, February 8, 2012
Derby Theatre, Derby: Pete Meakin tackles the problematic ending of the Shrew full on, inviting an open-mouthed audience to view Kate's capitulation to Petruchio in a very different lig…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:34AM 
