Wednesday, July 15, 2015
Crucible, 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…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMMonday, July 13, 2015
Opera House, ManchesterCBeebies’ resident clown shares his origin myth at a Manchester international festival appearance that is seriously sillySo who is the hottest ticket at this year’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PMFriday, July 3, 2015
National Railway Museum, York‘Railway King’ George Hudson is the inspiration behind this unforgettable walking tour celebrating York’s locomotive historyYork has been a Roman city, a V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:33AMWednesday, July 1, 2015
The Wicker Man is a cult horror classic. Are the team of Scots who have turned the film into a musical – and rejigged its shocking ending – worried about offending fans?The Wicker Man is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMMonday, June 29, 2015
His name made Charles Dickens howl and Thomas Carlyle dismissed him as a ‘swollen gambler’ but George Hudson has almost been written out of history. A new steam-powered show keeps track …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMNew Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeInspired by the 2009 discovery of the Staffordshire hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure, this festival puts the ancient kingdom of Mercia back on the map Relat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:21AMThursday, June 25, 2015
Coliseum, OldhamOldham’s Dreamers has been overlooked by music nostalgists – but that hasn’t stopped three of its former regulars writing an affectionate musical about itThe north-west…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:14AMThursday, June 18, 2015
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickThis verse drama claiming King Arthur as a son of Cumbria is turgid, oblique and alarmingly misogynistic If Camelot was a fiction, there’s a greater likelihood …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AMWednesday, June 10, 2015
Octagon, BoltonMichael Frayn’s brilliant back-to-front farce about the inexplicable rituals that keep us from chaos is a fantastic romp in David Thacker’s farewell productionOver six yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AMThursday, May 28, 2015
Nottingham PlayhouseThere’s a satisfying sense of craftsmanship at work in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane trilogy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52AMWednesday, May 27, 2015
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsVagina Monologues playwright Eve Ensler returns with a harrowing new work that follows a young woman being transported in a container of rotting avocados Conti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThis sassy, campy off-Broadway hit about women seeking younger lovers is not exactly heavy on plot, but it has plenty of buzz and bite Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:57AMMonday, May 25, 2015
Friday, May 22, 2015
Two new productions of Arnold Ridley’s drama about travellers stuck in a haunted railway station prove this 1923 comedy thriller hasn’t run out of steamWhat is the greatest stage ghost s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWednesday, May 6, 2015
Octagon, BoltonThe playwright’s latest work is a deeply affecting and authentic tale of the pursuit of youth by three middle-class English fiftysomethingsIt’s tempting to suggest that Ji…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMMonday, May 4, 2015
He grew up on a northern council estate then ran off to live in a London squat, before hitting the big time with Little Voice. As his new play opens, Jim Cartwright takes Alfred Hickling on …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AMThursday, April 30, 2015
Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolIf Munch’s Scream could talk, this is what it might have sounded like Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMWednesday, April 29, 2015
Royal Exchange, ManchesterChris Urch’s play examines the persecution of gay people and the hate campaigns published by a virulent Kampala tabloid Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMTuesday, April 28, 2015
Live, NewcastleA bar-room encounter for a Labour MP forced constantly to apologise for the Iraq war sparks Torben Betts’ slightly contrived contribution to election drama Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMMonday, April 20, 2015
New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeWith its cluttered set and ungainly action, the latest version of the Ealing comedy feels like a remake of a remake Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:37AMMonday, April 13, 2015
Liverpool PlayhouseElla Carmen Greenhill writes lightly about caring for someone with the condition, without ever taking it lightlyThe signs first became clear when Mikey developed an obsess…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Live theatre, NewcastleThere’s no mistaking the first-hand experience playwright Paddy Campbell brings to his socially orientated work – and this blisteringly funny children-in-care play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMThursday, April 2, 2015
Belgrade, CoventryIn Emteaz Hussain’s intelligently directed drama, two amiable star-crossed lovers are threatened with Pakistani gang violence Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMWednesday, April 1, 2015
Everyman, CheltenhamJonathan Guy Lewis is remarkable as Eddie Carbone in this touring production of Arthur Miller’s Brooklyn-set drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:41PMTuesday, March 31, 2015
Octagon, BoltonElizabeth Newman ramps up the drama and her cast excel in a potent version of the classic comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMSunday, March 29, 2015
Everyman, LiverpoolNick Bagnall’s ingenious production sets the action amid the chalk clouds of a minor public school – and in an enchanted forest that’s properly sinister Continue rea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMWednesday, March 25, 2015
Royal Exchange, ManchesterJo Clifford reorchestrates Tolstoy’s vast, five-act opera for a string quartet in this pared-down adaptation Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMThursday, March 19, 2015
Crucible, SheffieldSiân Phillips is outstanding as a member of the Auschwitz Women’s Orchestra, helping to redeem one of Arthur Miller’s most contentious plays Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMMonday, March 9, 2015
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsSamuel Adamson’s new adaptation has some uncompromising outbursts, but a defeatist air wafts through the countryside … and the theatre Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:09AMWednesday, March 4, 2015
Jonathan Miller is notching up his eighth Lear. How did he persuade Barrie Rutter to play the king? By telling him it’s a comedy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:38PMDerby theatreThe late author’s tale about a teenager who road-trips around Ireland under a false persona proves a great vehicle for Rebecca RyanSiobhan Dowd, who died of cancer in 2007 age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:39AM 
