Monday, January 23, 2017
In 2016 Martin Blackburn’s first play Alright Bitches! proved a firm favourite with Above The Stag audiences. A brash, bawdy comedy in
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As we hit the third week of auditions to find a boy band for Gary Barlow’s new musical, I can’t help thinking
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While London’s King’s Head Theatre is running a revival of Tommy Murphy’s Strangers in Between, south of the river the Big Boots
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Mitchell is not having a good week. His girlfriend has kicked him out, his car has been torched and he’s lost his
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There’s more to performing a successful cabaret than getting up on a stage and belting out a set. A cabaret singer has
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It seems that Gary Barlow managed to clear his first hurdle with Let It Shine, by winning the ratings battle with ITV’s
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The Twentieth Century Way is a euphemism for a blow-job, something which had risen in popularity with the onset of better public
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It’s been eight years since the BBC launched a talent contest aimed at casting a stage musical. After a flurry of series
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Phil Willmott’s annual residency at the Union Theatre usually sees the director accessing the work of classic playwrights with productions that hope
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While Disney’s Aladdin plays to packed houses in the West End, Guildford offers its very own take on the pantomime version of
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Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’ take on A Christmas Carol is a curious blend of Broadway and Dickens. The familiar story has been
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You’ve got to hand it to the Krankies. The husband and wife team have been in the industry together for 50 years
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This production has all the charm of JM Barrie’s original Peter Pan, but it’s very much a panto Pan. Paul Hendy’s knowing
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It’s unlikely that when Art premiered at the Comedie des Champs-Elysees in Paris in 1994 anyone could have predicted its global popularity.
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In a similar manner to the Palladium pantomime, The Adventures of Dick! takes place in Soho – or rather Soho-ho – and
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It’s been nearly 30 years since a pantomime has appeared on the stage of the London Palladium, so this current production of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32PMThis is Simon Fielding’s 10th pantomime for the Towngate and it seems that the years of work are paying off. Sleeping Beauty
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:06AMThis is the first pantomime in Tara Arts’ new theatre and the script to Bollywood Jack doesn’t shy away from celebrating that
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When it comes to creating a pantomime, there are few designers working today with Terry Parsons’ breadth of experience. In a career
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There’s a sense of deja-vu about this Sleeping Beauty that has nothing to do with returning visits from either Chris Jarvis as
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The Royal Variety Performance returns for a second time to the Apollo Hammersmith, with HRH Charles, the Prince of Wales on duty,
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For much of the year, Charles Court Opera is committed to producing boutique classics such as The Magic Flute or The Barber
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As metaphors go, the yacht True Love is a fairly clumsy one, but it acts as a linchpin to the Cole Porter’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMThis year’s offering at Sevenoaks hit the headlines when a local resident complained that the pantomime was “too black”. The inflammatory remarks
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The Above the Stag pantomime has become something of an adult entertainment institution and this year’s adaptation of La Belle et la
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For its 30th anniversary, NoFit State Circus, completes the Bianco trilogy with Here Be Dragons. Director Firenza Guidi, who also devised the
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Following a brief UK tour, writer and performer Rani Moorthy brings her one-woman show, Whose Sari Now? to Theatre Royal Stratford East.
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After a stalled opening due to licensing issues, the White Bear Theatre is finally up and running in its new space above
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Whatever your thoughts on its place in the theatrical calendar, the annual pantomime is big business. If it wasn’t making money for
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It’s difficult to discern from the studious look on Anthony Pinnick’s animated face whether or not this production is going to be
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As a writer, Peter Quilter is probably best known for End of the Rainbow, the hit play imagining Judy Garland’s swansong, before
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