Friday, February 14, 2020
When Deborah Warner takes over as artistic director of Bath’s Ustinov Studio in the autumn, she will inherit an enviable reputation for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Oscar Wilde plots don’t come much more convoluted than The Importance of Being Earnest. Yet the adventurous Barn Theatre in Cirencester is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Yasmina Reza’s acerbic comedy of ill manners God of Carnage, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton, was a highlight of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMTuesday, December 17, 2019
Gloucestershire panto fans can wrap themselves in the traditional Christmas-time comfort blanket of familiarity with this year’s production of Aladdin at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMThursday, December 12, 2019
Disney Cruise Line performer Kathryn Nash brings a welcome injection of trans-Atlantic pizzazz into this strictly traditional West Country pantomime. Based in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Soap opera luminary Shane Richie has become synonymous with the pantomime Robin Hood in recent years. This Christmas, though, he has been
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMFriday, December 6, 2019
What has turned Ebenezer Scrooge into a curmudgeonly miser with his deep-seated aversion to Christmas? This is the ingenious debate conducted by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMThursday, December 5, 2019
Tom Morris is celebrating his game-changing 10 years as artistic director of the Bristol Old Vic with a revival of one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Yet more new territory for Theatre Royal Bath’s intrepid Ustinov Studio to explore. Artistic director Lawrence Boswell has added Asia to his impressive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMFriday, October 25, 2019
Winsome Pinnock’s psychological drama about family grief and the search for reconciliation was first presented at the then Tricycle Theatre in 2005.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMMonday, October 21, 2019
Aside from the works of Shakespeare, few if any plays can have inspired as many spin-offs as Edmond Rostand’s heroic romance Cyrano
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Jane Austen’s literary classic as karaoke? It seems an unlikely fit at first, but Isobel McArthur’s roistering all-female pop musical adaptation, Pride
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMThursday, August 15, 2019
William Boyd is used to having his formidable array of novels adapted for the screen. Here, though, he has written – only
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMFriday, July 12, 2019
Intrepid Cornwall-based open-air touring company Miracle Theatre is marking its 40th anniversary with this trademark lampoon by founder/director Bill Scott of famous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMThursday, June 20, 2019
No summer season at the Theatre Royal Bath could claim to be authentic without a Noel Coward, a Bernard Shaw or an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThursday, June 13, 2019
Not exactly buy one, get one free. But an imaginative piece of Theatre Royal Bath summer season programming has linked next month’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
The Mousetrap is not just another Agatha Christie whodunnit. It’s a London institution (and, by extension, a tourist attraction), akin to Madame
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
First performed in 1988 and inspired by the stories of first-ever convicts shipped to Australia, Timberlake Wertenbaker’s political powerhouse, Our Country’s Good,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMThursday, April 18, 2019
Former children’s laureate Michael Morpurgo has already lauded the Barn Theatre’s adaptation of his African morality play, The Butterfly Lion, as so
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMMonday, April 8, 2019
It would be difficult to imagine a more turbulent time in the UK than the last 18 months. Yet this is the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMThursday, April 4, 2019
Ustinov Studio artistic director Laurence Boswell brings down the curtain on an inventive season of UK premieres from the Americas with The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMThursday, March 14, 2019
Marie Jones’ Olivier-winning black comedy Stones in His Pockets, currently out on a 14-week national tour 20 years after its West End
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
One of the many joys of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is the numerous opportunities it provides for ingenuity and extravagance. Director Mike
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMThursday, February 14, 2019
Blue Door is the name given by some African Americans to the ancestral belief that painting door frames in this colour would
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:10AMThursday, January 17, 2019
Bath-based New Old Friends have expanded its spoof thriller targets this year to include Noel Coward and the early Ealing comedies, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMThursday, December 20, 2018
The regular return of pantomime production teams to the same theatre is usually a sure-fire marker, and Evolution Pantomimes’ vibrant production for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:48AMShakespeare had the notion first in The Comedy of Errors – the comic opportunities presented by two sets of estranged siblings separated
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMMonday, December 17, 2018
Peter Pans are thin on the ground in West Country theatres this Christmas. This curate’s egg of a Theatre Royal Bath production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMWednesday, December 12, 2018
If this year’s Cinderella at the Bristol Hippodrome had failed to offer the best dressed Ugly Sisters in pantoland, management would surely
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMBrazilian professional circus clown Tiririca (it means Grumpy) has just won a seat in his country`s parliament for the third election in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMThursday, December 6, 2018
The Bristol Old Vic lowers the curtain on a memorable Year of Change season with this bold and resourceful re-working of Charles
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