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 06:48AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Dylan Thomas famously had a love-hate relationship with the land of his fathers. Never is this more evident than in this, his dramatic masterwork - celebrating its …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMPalace Theatre, Manchester: Although it has never quite matched the success of Ben Elton's previous jukebox musical - the world-conquering We Will Rock You - this love letter to the son…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMAlbert Halls, Bolton: You know what you are getting with the Albert Halls panto, with its old-school approach and jokes and routines as old the hills. It can seem a little cheap and cheerful…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThe Plaza, Stockport: It is a pleasure to see this beautiful old listed building being used, let alone filled to the rafters with a noisy and appreciative audience. And Extravaganza Producti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: This unnassuming little number from Victoria Wood - a play with music as opposed to a full-blown musical, as the press information and the author herself takes ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: After the triumphs of previous years, writer/director Peter Rowe's glorious hybrid of panto and rock'n'roll jukebox musical has become something of a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMOctagon, Bolton: There have been so many near-identical versions of Robin Hood that the Octagon deserves credit for trying to do something different with the legend. The twist here is to add…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMLowry, Salford: The hitherto unexplored emotional consequences of organ donation are at the heart of this new work from the Manchester-based Box of Tricks. And former Paines Plough writer-in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: It is hard to make your mark when reviving a play that is so fresh in living memory. And it doesn't help that Michael Frayn's cerebral 1998 drama - a rumi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMClwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Brian Friel has been dubbed the 'Irish Chekhov', and while this 1979 dissection of a once-powerful aristocratic Catholic family sees arguably Ireland'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMSecret location, Manchester: This third and final site-specific production from the Library Theatre, before it moves to its new home, is a deliberately schizophrenic affair. Ambitiously, it …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: Mancunian writer Rory Mullarkey shows a lot of promise in this, his first full-length professionally produced play. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: Harper Lee's enduring fable about man's inhumanity to man, but also his capacity for compassion, is brought vividly to life in this imaginative Royal Ex…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMTheatre Royal, St Helens: This panto offers good, raucous, uncomplicated, but not necessarily clean, fun. Read the full review
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMTheatre Royal, St Helens: If you're looking for good, raucous uncomplicated fun, you could do a lot worse than the Theatre Royal's seasonal offering for 2012. But those of a slight…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMThe Grange, Northwich: It comes as a pleasant surprise to find such an impressive theatre space attached to a school. But there is nothing school-production-like about this traditional-as-mi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMAlbert Halls, Bolton: Though a lot less lavish than other local seasonal offerings, the Albert Halls has a reputation for delivering quality pantomines. So it is a shame that this year'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMThe Edge, Manchester: This enjoyable, family-friendly musical adventure is the first in-house production from this new theatre based in a former Sunday school in Chorlton, Manchester. An ori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: With his tales of drawling southern belles, thwarted passions and mental fragility, you know what you're getting with Tennessee Williams. All of which makes …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: If you had to watch just one Restoration comedy, it could be argued that William Wycherley's bawdy concoction of sexual machinations, misunderstandings and g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:55PMNumber One First Street, Manchester: The lines referred to in this production, which transforms a featureless floor in Manchester's Number One First Street office block into a higgledy-…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMManchester Evening News Arena: The road to this musical celebration of the world's longest-running soap opera has been a long and winding one. So long, in fact, that in 2010 it was beat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMRoyal Exchange, Manchester: August Strindberg's taut dissection of class warfare and sexual politics is rendered faithfully in this handsome Royal Exchange revival. And while adapter Da…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMOctagon, Bolton: We are now so used to seeing Shakespeare's tragedies reinvented and transplanted to alternative historical settings that we've become rather inured to the tactic. …
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