Friday, December 13, 2013
Lakeside, Nottingham: This is a joyful and original take on Dickens, for very young children who aren't likely to have encountered the story yet.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMThursday, December 12, 2013
The Assembly Rooms, Derby: Panto has really found its feet at the Assembly Rooms. This is the best of its seasonal offerings so far, a warm, colourful, spectacular show that owes much to the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMTuesday, December 10, 2013
Town Hall, Loughborough: Loughborough loves its traditional panto, successfully delivered by the same company for a decade. The Town Hall took a risk in refreshing it with a wholly new compa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:56PMDerby Theatre, Derby: A Santa who steals presents, a sleuth called Shirley Holmes, Puritans who ban sherry trifle and a King with the Bling could only be Horrible Histories. His heroes trave…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMMonday, December 9, 2013
Theatre Royal, Nottingham: It's one big and very noisy party at the Theatre Royal, with just a nod in the direction of JM Barrie.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMFriday, December 6, 2013
Curve, Leicester: There's an utter decadence about Paul Kerryson's production, the centrepiece of Curve's fifth birthday celebrations. He has poured all his genius into it and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
The Rep Theatre, Birmingham: This is a storming start for Tessa Walker in her first production as associate director at the Rep, a big vision that exploits to the full the great height of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMMonday, November 25, 2013
The Hippodrome, Birmingham: Sir Peter Wright's production is spellbinding in every respect, exquisitely danced and magnificently staged. It breathes enchantment, from the hushed moment …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMMonday, November 18, 2013
The Old Rep Theatre, Birmingham: David Wood's award-winning adaptation is a joy, so simple and yet so multi-layered. It is just the vehicle for Birmingham Stage Company and the Old Rep …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMFriday, November 1, 2013
Playhouse, Nottingham: There is a huge revival of interest in Richard III following the discovery of his remains under a Leicester car park. If he was the villain Shakespeare made him out to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
The Playhouse, Nottingham: Michael Eaton remembers following the exploits of Victorian burglar and womaniser Charlie Peace in a Buster comic strip when he was growing up. Eaton is from Notti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMWednesday, October 2, 2013
Curve Theatre, Leicester: The first half of this show is very brief at 40 minutes and still had the feel of a radio play, the medium in which David Rudkin first attempted to get inside the h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:59PMThursday, September 19, 2013
Nottingham Playhouse: Orwell's Appendix to 1984 sets out the principles of Newspeak, the official language of Oceania. It provides the framework for this startling adaptation, so grueso…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
The Theatre, Derby: This is Sarah Brigham's debut as artistic director at Derby, now a producing and receiving house. She couldn't have chosen a better play or a stronger cast, and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMTuesday, September 17, 2013
The Studio, Birmingham Rep : Soweto Kinch describes this staged performance of his album, The Legend of Mike Smith, as all-immersive, something that has pushed him physically, mentally and c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AMTuesday, September 10, 2013
The Rep, Birmingham : The Rep has reopened with a flourish after its remodelling and attachment to the adjacent new £189 million Library of Birmingham on Centenary Square. The mass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMTuesday, August 13, 2013
Kilworth House Theatre, Lutterworth: One of Mitch Sebastian's great skills is in peopling a stage so that there's always something to observe and delight on the multi-layered sets …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMFriday, June 21, 2013
The Hippodrome, Birmingham: This is poetry in motion. Everything about David Bintley's 1999 production is gloriously Romantic, from the tumbling waterfall in Giselle's village to t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMMonday, June 17, 2013
Kilworth House Theatre, Leicestershire: The full house here is testament to the perfection of the musical offering and the quality of the Kilworth House experience. Torrential rain got its o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMWednesday, June 5, 2013
The Hippodrome, Birmingham: The dancer Deborah Bull reflected on the radio last week how fortunate she had been to live her life to the sound of a full orchestra. Here's a perfect examp…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMTuesday, May 7, 2013
Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham: New Perspectives have an unerring instinct for what will strike a chord with the rural audiences into which the company takes its high quality theatre. Bren…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Derby Theatre : What a fine writer Lee Hall is - theatrical moments come thick and fast in this play and there is so much to savour in the dialogue. It's about cooking, sex, loss, despa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
The Playhouse, Nottingham : This is the European premiere of Matthew Spangler's adaptation, first performed in the US in 2007. It's a searing and sobering story, even harder to wat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMThursday, April 25, 2013
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon: Maria Aberg says she could not imagine directing this play with any Rosalind other than Pippa Nixon, whom she deems extraordinary. She is. She has a d…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMWednesday, April 3, 2013
The Sabai Pavilion, Derby : There are some rough edges to be smoothed around Glamorous Amorous, the new The Lady Boys of Bangkok tour. It delivers on sheer sizzle and flamboyance, with hundr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
The Rep (at the Old Rep Theatre), Birmingham: This collaboration between Philip Pullman and Teresa Ludovico is a marriage made in heaven. Her adaptation is so imaginative and so fluent. Scen…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:09PMThursday, January 31, 2013
The Playhouse, Nottingham: What the audience doesn't see here is as funny, riveting and important as what it does see, whether it's watching one player and invisible opponent in a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AMWednesday, December 12, 2012
Derby Theatre : This is beautiful. Roger Haines has scaled down Charles Strouse's Broadway musical, transposed it to the West Country of the 1950s and tailored it for Derby Theatre, whe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMPalace Theatre, Mansfield : It's always an advantage when the panto director is also the writer, because they pull the very best out of the script. And Andrew Ryan's script is a ni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMTheatre Royal, Nottingham : If all the spectacular stuff failed and the only people left to carry this show were the Grumbleweeds (Robin Colvill and Graham Walker), I reckon audiences would…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMonday, 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.…
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