Thursday, October 3, 2013
Royal Court, Liverpool: During a lifetime co-joined in comedy, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy made generations of people roar with laughter - and the laughs keep on coming in Ken Alexander…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:28PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
Playhouse, Liverpool : Given it's an edgy cross-pollination of beatboxing, hip-hop culture, teen lingo and street art with classical music, puppetry and a conventional drama about three…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMThursday, September 19, 2013
Palace Theatre, Manchester: If any current musical leads a charmed life it must surely be Wicked. Ever since its Broadway premiere in 2003 the multi award-winning show inspired by L Frank Ba…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
Epstein Theatre, Liverpool : Any revival of Neil Simon's salute to America's vaudeville era comedy giants faces two challenges. Firstly, how to convey convincingly the love/loathe …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMWednesday, July 24, 2013
Royal Court Liverpool : Ever since they first appeared on stage at the 1977 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, John Godber's four doormen of the apocalyptic nightclub scene have been constantly…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMMonday, July 15, 2013
Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre, Chester : Arts production company Chester Performs returns to Grosvenor Park for a fourth summer season, with additional seating that turns the terraced venu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMThursday, June 20, 2013
Royal Court, Liverpool : First staged by Hull Truck in 2005, Amanda Whittington's likeable comedy about a group of working women having a boozy beano at the races has enjoyed a charmed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:15PMFriday, May 17, 2013
Liverpool Unity Theatre: Northern Spirit is on wondrous mission: to counter corny cliches about life in the north of England by celebrating life as it is lived. Instead of an everyday existe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMWednesday, April 17, 2013
Oldham Coliseum : "Inside every woman there's a blonde bombshell trying to get out," war-time band leader Betty tells naive new recruit Liz near the end of Alan Plater's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Royal Court, Liverpool: Long before Scot Williams' new psychodrama reaches its surprising conclusion there's a scene where a character describes the meaning of the word "hope&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Embarking on a tour of studio venues in the North West and South West of England, the latest in Box of Tricks Theatre's Word:Play series takes six 'emergin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Liverpool Playhouse : There's a rare theatrical synergy at Liverpool Playhouse, where artistic director Gemma Bodinetz and popular poet Roger McGough have formed a sort of spiritual bon…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMTuesday, February 12, 2013
Crucible Studio Theatre, Sheffield: Water cooler politics are hung out to dry in Mike Bartlett's short, slick and emotionally unflinching new play in which two members of a sales team f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: A combination of the Octagon's in-the-round intimacy and cladding the auditorium walls with wood fencing not only corrals the audience within a ranch-style encl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMTuesday, December 18, 2012
Liverpool Empire: With gleaming costumes, sparkly decor, scintillating choreography and shining performances throughout, this has got to be pantomime at its most glittering.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Epstein, Liverpool : The first pantomime at the recently refurbished former Neptune Theatre contains all the traditional fairytale elements and plenty of saucy hilarity - but is so overwritt…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:38AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Middleton Arena, Rochdale: The show almost didn't go on when the company scheduled to fill Middleton Arena's Christmas slot suddenly withdrew two weeks before opening night. Fortun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMTuesday, December 4, 2012
Royal Court Liverpool: Take the spoofiness of Young Frankenstein. Add the zombie zaniness of Shaun of the Dead. Mix in dollops of Scouse humour. The result is a festive fright night packed w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMTuesday, November 13, 2012
Liverpool Playhouse Studio: "It's mundane, but completely shattering," says David to his brother Simon while raging at the insanity of their mother Mary's descent into th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41PMThursday, September 20, 2012
Liverpool Playhouse: Biting and satirical, Ben Jonson's expose of the human capacity for self-deception probably had Jacobean audiences rolling in the aisles. Today, too much exposure t…
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