In 2017, Robert Hastie announced himself as the new artistic director of Sheffield Theatres with his inaugural production – a thrilling version
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMIt’s the start of a new era for Paines Plough. Charlotte Bennett and Katie Posner took over last year as joint artistic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMRichard Cameron’s The Glee Club was the first ever production at Doncaster’s Cast theatre in 2013, so it seems an appropriate venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMBenjamin Britten’s adaption of Henry James’ novella The Turn of the Screw presents a number of challenges to any director, not least
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMMozart’s most famous opera has been staged so many times it’s difficult to see how much freshness can be brought to a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMTo coincide with International Holocaust Remembrance Day, James Brining revives his production of David Greig’s 2001 short play, Doctor Korczak’s Example. Brining’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:38AMBilly Pearce is as much as a Bradford institution as curry houses and wool mills. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMDoncaster’s Cast theatre’s pantomime has always been a more modest, small-scale production, eschewing celebrity casting and gimmicks and this year’s Cinderella is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMIt must be quite a challenge to stage something as iconic as The Wizard of Oz. How do you breathe new life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThere can’t be too many pantomimes that begin with a Hamilton parody, but that’s exactly how Rhiannon Hannon’s production of Jack and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMWritten in 1987 and performed many times since, Charlotte Keatley’s play has never been staged in the way that Sheffield Theatres and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMBefore she helmed the global hit Mamma Mia!, Phyllida Lloyd began her career as an opera director with Opera North in 1991.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMAn eccentric leader sweeps to power, promising to put his countrymen first. His leadership is initially welcomed with dancing in the streets,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMJust as there are ‘unfilmable’ novels, it’s difficult to imagine how Matt Haig’s Reasons to Stay Alive could be adapted for the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMBohuslav Martinu’s The Greek Passion may be more than 60 years old, but its contemporary relevance is stinging. The Czech composer’s opera,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:57AMOne Man, Two Guvnors may only be eight years old, but it feels like it’s been around a lot longer. Since its
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMHelen Edmundson’s musical adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s classic children’s novel Swallows and Amazons is proving to have quite a shelf life. Following
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMIt was hard to envisage how any theatremaker could possibly do justice to Yann Martel’s Booker-winning multimillion-selling novel about a boy named
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMEven though Amanda Whittington’s play was written more than 20 years ago, and it’s set in the mid-1960s, there’s something eerily prescient
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:50AMLeeds Playhouse follows Amy Leach’s intense, sprawling production of Hamlet with Toby Hulse’s irreverent, pacy and unashamedly silly adaptation of Jules Verne’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMPark Hill flats have stood over Sheffield for nearly 60 years, as much a part of the city’s history as steel, snooker
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMIt starts with a good-natured fencing battle. It ends with a slightly less good-natured fencing battle, with bodies strewn across the stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMTaio Lawson’s revival of Debbie Tucker Green’s 2015 play Hang is incredibly tense. The incessant hum of the air conditioning, the flickering
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AM7.37am. An alarm clock blares, a family stirs. It’s the start of another day, in which children complain about their burnt porridge
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM...sorry, where were we? John Murphy reviews Third Angel's detective story about distraction and misdirection. The post Review: The Department of Distractions at Sheffield Crucible appeared …
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:11AMRaising the roof: John Murphy reviews Sheffield Crucible's slick and spectacular production of the Cole Porter classic. The post Review: Kiss Me, Kate at Sheffield Crucible appeared first on…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 04:51AMThere’s a brand new pantomime team installed at Doncaster’s Cast and Ben Crocker and Chris Lawson have marked the occasion by mashing
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMPaul Hendy’s Christmas pantomimes have become something of a Sheffield institution, with Peter Pan marking his 12th consecutive production for the Lyceum.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMIt takes skill to inject freshness into A Christmas Carol. Yet Amy Leach has managed just that, by adding some pantomime elements
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AM"Be a mother to another": John Murphy writes on Akeim Toussaint Buck's engaging and accessible solo dance piece on the diasporic experience. The post Review: Windows of Displacement at Sheff…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 10:33AMLeeds Playhouse’s pop-up season opened last month with Jim Cartwright’s Road, and the theme of community continues on a more global
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:09AM