Crucible, SheffieldThe scaled-down version of Kern and Hammerstein’s musical is still a big beast and Daniel Evans’ final festive show laudably refuses to beautify an ugly subjectJerome …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMLawrence Batley theatre, HuddersfieldA collaboration between Tell Tale Hearts, the circus company Pif-Paf and a class of nine-year-olds adds extra coal-mining, jazz-playing crocodiles to the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsThe musical adaptation flies higher and farther than ever before thanks to scintillating choreography, precipitous video design and a fluid steampunk setIan Fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMCurve, Leicester Lionel Bart’s undisputed high point is performed with gusto by an impressive cast, young and old – plus a barking mastiffIf Lionel Bart were composing Oliver! today, he�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:52AMDance City, NewcastleThe Scottish Ensemble and Andersson Dance team up for an infectious, sonorous dance interpretation of the Goldberg VariationsThe composition of Bach’s Goldberg Variati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMHe bet his mum he’d be a superstar DJ in two years. Now he looks set to be a superstar stage director as well. The rising star talks mind-reading, discovering Plan B – and rescuing Sondh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, MoldControversial stories by the renegade writer Caradoc Evans are inflated into a carnival of the grotesque in this hallucinatory new adaptationIn 1915, the Ceredigion w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:16AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsSometimes life can play the cruellest tricks. Five years ago, Toby Jones was a jobbing actor who thought he had finally hit the big time with a minor part in N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:50AMHull Truck theatreGodber’s construction trade piece doesn’t break new ground, but has enough passion to see it through John Godber has always had a fondness for punning titles: Perfect P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:46AMStudio theatre, Crucible, SheffieldSet during the riots of 2011, Deborah Bruce’s study of motherhood and friendship is frank, funny and fired with resentmentIt is Crucible policy to ensure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMCarriageworks, LeedsEmma Reeves continues her fine record for dramatising troubled children with a story that doesn’t shy away from the unfairness of family lifeA woodcutter and his wife l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMHome, ManchesterSpinning quickly through the cycle of slaughter and reprisal, Blanche McIntyre’s innovative spotlights the chorus in a welcome, ritualistic reinventionYou wait 2,500 years …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMHull Truck theatreRichard Vergette’s play about sweethearts from opposite sides of Hessle Road lifts the lid on the north-eastern town’s suffering in the second world warHull was the mos…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMHarrogate theatreNorthern Broadsides bring Shakespeare, partying hard, to New Year’s Eve 1999 for an intense and moving eveningThe Winter’s Tale is a long story – 16 years, including t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:20PMBradford Interchange stationSet in an unlovely transport hub, Freedom Studios’ site-specific piece is a tribute to the people who keep the wheels rolling Bradford’s Freedom Studios has a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMNottingham Playhouse This admirable revival of James Phillips’s play, based on the case of the first US civilians to be executed on espionage charges, could not be more timelyIt is 10 year…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13PMCrucible, SheffieldFreddie Fox’s sophisticated Romeo is smitten with Morfydd Clark’s sweet Juliet in this seamy, urban productionThe contemporary setting of Jonathan Humphreys’ product…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38AMNorthern Stage, NewcastleMiranda wears men’s cast-offs and Prospero becomes a make-do-and-mend magician in this loose-fitting take Related: 'One audience member tried to punch an actor': t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:15AMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterCaroline Steinbeis’s production gives us a John Proctor for the surveillance age to prove Miller’s point that a threatened society turns on itselfIt’s a commo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:50AMHe’s played everyone from a Labour party leader to a kitchen fitter on Corrie. But for the Wakefield-born actor, bringing ‘heir of York’ Richard III to the West Yorkshire Playhouse for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:27PMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsTennessee Williams’s memory play is boldly staged by Ellen McDougall with strong performances from a cast including Greta ScacchiPerhaps the most compelling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AMOctagon, BoltonStrong performances bring Bill Naughton’s candid kitchen-sink drama to life, as newlyweds Violet and Arthur struggle to consummate their relationshipThey do well by Bill Nau…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMHe is one of our most uncompromising scriptwriters. Now Jonathan Harvey is returning to the stage – with a musical comedy about gay Britain's big battles'The advantage of writing for TV,&q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMLiverpool PlayhouseA 90-year-old man suffers a fall at home and drifts through his recollections of a naval campaign and a long-dead romance in Lizzie Nunnery’s thrillingly enigmatic memor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMDespite having to deal with endless locks, cabin fever and chemical toilet mishaps, the Mikron theatre company is flourishing, thanks to its passionate followingSmall-scale touring is all ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterPoet Glyn Maxwell’s wistful adaptation of Kenneth Grahame’s riverside story plays down Toad and ramps up its proto-psychedelic moodIt is hard to i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThis compelling outdoor production stills the rustling of sandwich wrappers by adapting perfectly to its environment, with food fights and fizzMeasuri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMStephen Joseph Theatre, ScarboroughA cast of five take on more than 20 roles in this notoriously tricky Acykbourn comedy – but it all makes more sense than ever in a terrific revival direc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PMWilliamson Park, LancasterDickens’ urban fable works well in a semi-rural setting, and there’s real menace in Fagin’s gang, despite the wind whipping away some dialogueCharles Dickens …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMPavilion theatre, ManchesterComedy collective the Invisible Dot dine out on this Dostoevsky-inspired tale of an actor consumed by a crocodileFyodor Dostoevsky is possibly the last figure you…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMCrucible, SheffieldThe audience are evacuated from the smouldering auditorium, witness a suicide bombing and are kettled behind the town hall as site-specific theatremakers Slung Low envisio…
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