Thursday, 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
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMTuesday, January 23, 2018
The Octagon follows up last year’s brilliantly atmospheric retelling of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall with another visit to Bronte country. The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:32AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
Any seasonal production of Peter Pan has something of a struggle on its hands, torn between honouring JM Barrie’s original stage version
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMFriday, December 15, 2017
The Opera House’s Qdos-produced pantos are known for being lavish, big-money affairs. And this year’s offering, boasting retina-scorching lighting, all-encompassing sound and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMMonday, November 27, 2017
Sticking slavishly to the standard panto playbook, this in-house show doesn’t offer much in the way of surprises. However, what it lacks
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMFriday, November 24, 2017
It’s hard to find fresh ways to stage Charles Dickens’ evergreen Christmas fable. The Octagon creative team deserve credit for not trying
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMMonday, November 13, 2017
The Coliseum’s annual yuletide offering follows a now very well-established formula both on stage and off. Traditionally opening early in the festive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMMonday, October 23, 2017
James Fritz’s play, winner of the Bruntwood judges award in 2015, hangs on one shocking and incendiary act of seemingly inexplicable self-destruction.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMFriday, October 20, 2017
Although its themes of corruption in high places and moral turpitude are perennially relevant, Brecht and Weill’s densely packed hybrid of opera
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMWednesday, October 11, 2017
In truth, John Godber’s scrappy underdog of a sports comedy, Up ’n’ Under, had its moment in 1984 when it kicked off
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:37AMFriday, October 6, 2017
The tragic events 150 years ago that inspired this modest two-hander happened only a few miles away from the Manchester venue in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMFriday, September 22, 2017
Despite its subtitle, there is no opera and very little actual football contained in We’re Not Really Here, a quietly radical collaboration
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMWednesday, September 20, 2017
This Northern Broadsides production has the whiff of another era about it. It might well be set in 1920s Yorkshire and adapted
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMWednesday, April 5, 2017
Youngest Bronte sister Anne is considered by many these days as a grittier and more radical writer than her older siblings. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMMonday, December 19, 2016
This seasonal offering from Tip Top Productions – only the second professional panto the company has presented in this bijou performance space
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMFriday, December 9, 2016
The Theatre Royal’s decision to go beyond its usual local talent pool for casting this year’s panto has mixed results. Importing two
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMWednesday, February 11, 2015
Anthony Hopkins Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: What usually shines through in any new version of Shakespeare's often performed revenge thriller is the protagonist's very modern…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMMonday, December 22, 2014
Grange, Northwich: There may be no Baron Hardup or Dandini and only one ugly sister, but this modest production makes up for what it lacks in cast members with vim, energy and sheer hard wor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMThursday, December 18, 2014
St Mary's Centre, Chester: With so many stage and screen adaptations of Lewis Carroll's beloved adventures with Alice crowding our consciousnesses, Theatre in the Quarter deserve huge p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMMonday, December 15, 2014
Plaza, Stockport: The Plaza has scored something of a coup for the under-12s crowd in its casting this year. Because joining Gary Damer from CBBC's Hotel Trouble - who returns to likeab…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMThursday, December 4, 2014
Anthony Hopkins Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Peter Rowe's tried and tested formula of pairing traditional pantomimic shenanigans with rock'n'roll standards - all deliver…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Emlyn Williams Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: So much of what we know about the First World War - the sights, the sounds and the first-hand horrors - has come to us through the prism of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
The Brindley, Runcorn: Any fresh attempts to bring the horrors of the First World War to life have to work hard to stand out among the current barrage of programming and events marking the c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Anthony Hopkins, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: For a decade-long run that straddled the 1940s, Tommy Handley's radio series It's That Man Again kept Britain laughing, broadcasting, as …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:44AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: If he were plying his trade today Henrik Ibsen would not be out of place on the writing staff of Coronation Street or EastEnders. Emma Lucia's solidly mounted …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMFriday, June 13, 2014
Cutting Room Square, Manchester: Last year the temporarily homeless Library Theatre Company brought its season of site-specific productions to a climax with Manchester Sound: The Massacre, a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMWednesday, May 14, 2014
Royal Exchange, Manchester: It is perhaps fitting that one of the greatest poems in literary history has been adapted by one of our best-loved living poets. And while it is a little verbose …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
Palace, Manchester: Critics were not kind to this mid-1980s LA-set, hair metal-inspired jukebox musical when it transferred from Broadway to the West End in 2011, largely dismissing it as pu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Royal Exchange, Manchester: When theatre descends from its lofty position of comfort to wallow in the lives of society's most deprived and most vulnerable, the results, however well int…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMMonday, March 10, 2014
Phones 4u Arena, Manchester: The past few years has seen a meteoric rise for the south-west London raised son of former theatrical agent Michael - now a willing sidekick/stooge - culminating…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Royal Exchange, Manchester: Towards the end of this sparky and fleet-footed adaptation of Virginia Woolf's gender-bending comic 1928 novel, the central character is described as being &…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM 
