Wednesday, December 18, 2019
The Swan Theatre’s Christmas shows are blissfully free of crassness and commercialism. This year’s Snow White is no exception. It’s pervaded by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMFriday, December 21, 2018
This year’s pantomime at the Swan Theatre breaks with tradition by placing Maid Marian rather than Robin Hood centre stage, and pairing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Electrifying energy and imaginative audacity charge this year’s 20h anniversary Peter Pan at Hereford’s Courtyard Theatre. The challenge in pantomiming this particular
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMFriday, July 13, 2018
This year’s Worcester Repertory Theatre’s outdoor performance at the Commandery is an outrageous satirical spoof, reminiscent in many ways of Tom Stoppard’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMFriday, April 6, 2018
The mysterious 11-day disappearance of Agatha Christie during the 1920s, remains a source of fascination, and a story worthy of one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:41AMFriday, December 15, 2017
The Swan’s Sleeping Beauty eschews trendiness for the traditional and time-honoured. Its unashamed romanticism and lyricism is counterpointed by quite preposterous panto-damery
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:58AMThursday, November 30, 2017
This year’s Courtyard pantomime is a determinedly de-Disneyfied Sleeping Beauty, pleasingly free of schmaltz and crass commercialisation. Lyndsay Maples’ script is true
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMWednesday, December 21, 2016
With not a telebrity in sight, a resurgent Swan presents a delightful and sensitive adaptation of this most cherished of all fairytales,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:38AMWednesday, November 30, 2016
Hereford is very fortunate to have at its heart a theatre as dynamic and innovative as the Courtyard. This year’s Aladdin deserves
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:45PMMonday, June 16, 2014
Ludlow Castle, Ludlow: The revamped, resurgent Ludlow Arts Festival's invitation to Stafford's Gateway Theatre to restore open-air Shakespeare to the castle is, on the evidence of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMMonday, December 2, 2013
The Courtyard, Hereford: Who needs a telebrity-centred, commercialised panto when the Hereford Courtyard can stage a show of such home-grown artistic integrity? Cinderella is the archetypal …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AMMonday, February 18, 2013
The Courtyard, Hereford: Vamos is rapidly establishing itself as one of the most innovative, exciting full-mask mime companies currently touring. Finding Joy will only enhance its reputation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AM 
