Monday, April 28, 2014
The Rep, Birmingham: Being a journalist in theatres of war isn't fun. The BBC's Clive Myrie reporting from Baghdad with Scud missiles flying over, or John Simpson ducking bullets i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMThursday, February 6, 2014
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: The Belgrade's director, Hamish Glen, has continually rendered provincial theatre viable by mixing major - often rarely staged - classics with a sophisticate…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThursday, December 19, 2013
Palace Theatre, Redditch: Who'd have thought we'd find nice Mark Fowler from EastEnders playing a baddy? But Todd Carty, who was in the BBC soap between 1990 and 2003 before switch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: Oh No It Isn't! is a very funny show. The pace zips along and Nick Walker's wit is sly, ironic and ticklish. His Alan Bennett-paced storyline is subtle.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: The Belgrade's Jack and the Beanstalk is a smooth recycling of last Christmas's Sleeping Beauty, killingly funny, masterfully directed and inimitably pe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMThursday, October 24, 2013
Curve Studio, Leicester: The Beauty Queen of Leenane (1996) is the third of Martin McDonagh's western Ireland trilogy to be performed at Curve, after The Pillowman and The Lieutenant of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMFriday, September 20, 2013
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: This is Cymbeline as you've never seen it before. Shakespeare's drama, with its late play theme of loss and resurrection/restoration, remains intact; in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:03AMThursday, July 4, 2013
Church End Brewery, Nuneaton: This show blows hot and cold. It wastes time getting going, with ponderous, audience-patronising preliminaries, and is woefully short on cogent, useful ideas. Y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, Sutton Cheney: This is Michael Dyer's ninth all-male Shakespeare staging with his inventive company, The Festival Players, whose talent and daring …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMTuesday, January 22, 2013
Cambridge Arts Theatre: Patrick Barlow's The 39 Steps is an absolute hoot. And after its triumph in the US, where it picked up two Tony Awards, and extensive touring, it is now a hit wo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMFriday, December 14, 2012
Belgrade Theatre 2, Coventry: Forbes Masson's show Crackers split the Belgrade audience last Christmas: one can see why. 'An anarchic slice of musical madness', it has a glori…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Civic Hall, Bedworth: This cheerful but thinly-scripted, limply directed show disappoints. Here is old-style, Edwardian-style (or even Plautian) panto, mainly aimed at young children, but wi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: No one could sleep through this Sleeping Beauty. Iain Lauchlan, who writes, directs and stars (the unforgettable Dame Nanny Knot) is a talent of Falstaffian flab …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:55AMWednesday, October 24, 2012
Belgrade Theatre, Coventry: American playwright William Inge (1913-1973) has been somewhat overlooked. He certainly saw the latter stages of his career that way, leading to his suicide in Lo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:14AM 
