Thursday, December 6, 2018
Mel Brooks’ musical version of his 1967 film debut was such a success because it got so many things right. Its standout
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMMonday, November 26, 2018
It’s hard to bring something fresh to Cinderella. But Rhiannon Hannon’s confidently mounted production adds some novel touches to a familiar tale
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMMonday, October 29, 2018
Those unable to get a ticket for Marianne Elliot’s well-received, gender-swapped reimagining of Company can console themselves with this enjoyable – if
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMThursday, October 25, 2018
First seen in 2007 and revived in 2010, this play written by Bolton Wanderers fans about the club’s near mythical FA Cup
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMTuesday, October 23, 2018
For 25 years, Barrie Rutter was the face of Northern Broadsides, so when he stepped down there were some pretty big shoes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMThursday, October 4, 2018
This collection of musings on what it means to be human in an increasingly technologically assisted age is certainly impressive on the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMThursday, September 27, 2018
With its main house takeover the Coliseum is offering smaller theatre companies, who normally occupy studio spaces, a shot at performing on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMThursday, September 20, 2018
Shakespeare’s Margaret is the closest the playwright gets to a full-on warrior queen. The actual Margaret of Anjou was a French royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMThursday, September 13, 2018
Published 100 years ago, Rebecca West’s The Return of the Soldier paints a picture of the after-effects of battle from a unique
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMThursday, August 23, 2018
One of the biggest challenges for companies mounting al fresco site-specific productions – aside from the possible inclement weather – is finding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMMonday, July 30, 2018
The proliferation of open-air, promenade-style productions continues as Feelgood Theatre returns to Manchester’s Heaton Park for the second summer running. Romeo and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMTuesday, July 24, 2018
The landscaped splendour of Lancaster’s Williamson Park provides such a striking backdrop for open-air theatre that it’s no surprise that the Dukes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:13AMThursday, July 12, 2018
A middle-sized Andrew Lloyd Webber success when it first appeared in 1989, Aspects of Love is now chiefly remembered as the show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:43AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
It feels like Maxine Peake is on home turf with her third play for the stage. Like Beryl and The Last Testament
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMTuesday, June 5, 2018
In many ways this revival keeps things joyfully simple. It’s ostensibly a remounting of Michael Gyngell and Mark Haddigan’s 1990s stage adaptation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMWednesday, May 2, 2018
The micro-budgeted but innovative Mikron theatre company’s stock in trade is an ability to pop up in any sort of small venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMFriday, April 27, 2018
Punk troubadours the Tiger Lillies – ostensibly singer-songwriter Martyn Jaques and a rotating line-up of band-mates – have been peddling their persuasively
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMMonday, April 23, 2018
This deliciously concocted dissection of middle class mores was Alan Ayckbourn’s first major theatrical hit, setting him on the path to future
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMWednesday, April 11, 2018
Kathrine Smith’s two-hander. All I See Is You – one of the recent winners of the Octagon’s annual prize for new writing –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMWednesday, April 4, 2018
When it first sprang up on Broadway 12 years ago, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s angst-ridden, hormone-drenched rock musical about repressed 19th
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:21AMTuesday, March 27, 2018
Based on Helen Tse’s family memoir recounting the inspiration behind her Sweet Mandarin Chinese restaurant in Manchester and the three generations of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMFriday, March 23, 2018
Ayub Khan Din’s much-loved East Is East, first performed at Birmingham Rep in 1996 and adapted successfully for the screen in 1999,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:21AMMonday, March 19, 2018
In some ways you can’t really go wrong with Whisky Galore, Compton Mackenzie’s cheery wartime tale of wily Outer Hebrides islanders banding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMTuesday, March 6, 2018
This pithy two-hander was one of the winners of the Octagon’s annual prize for new writing, which last year asked for submissions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMFriday, March 2, 2018
Philip Ridley’s play – first staged at Hampstead Theatre in 2000 – offers a searing look at the lives of two people
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:31AMTuesday, February 27, 2018
Though set in 1977 and concerning a dereliction of duty that happened more than 45 years ago, Peter Morgan’s gladiatorial depiction of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMMonday, February 26, 2018
Having played the lead role in Sheffield Crucible’s Julius Caesar last year, Jonathan Hyde is returning to the venue to play the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMWednesday, February 21, 2018
Hard Times has always been a bit of a hard sell. Its dour tone and uncharacteristically disjointed narrative makes it one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMThursday, February 15, 2018
This adaptation of neuroscientist Lisa Genova’s novel, Still Alice, about a Harvard professor with early-onset Alzheimer’s disease has one obvious challenge –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AMMonday, February 12, 2018
The family at the heart of Tom Wells’ semi-autobiographical slice of northern life – first performed at London’s Bush Theatre in 2011
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AMThursday, January 25, 2018
A new musical based on the real adventures of a 50-something woman in dating much younger men has – in the present
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