Monday, January 19, 2015
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Celebrating the centenary year of Arthur Miller's birth without a David Thacker production is hardly worth the candle. The creative synergy of this writer-direc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMMonday, January 12, 2015
The Lowry, Salford: By the end of this year, a top grade in A-level maths may well come in handy for calculating the ever-increasing audience statistics for Marianne Elliott's multi-awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:05AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
Hippodrome, Birmingham: This stupendous production may be a late starter in the festive season schedules but it has got to be the clear frontrunner of this year's panto pack. Michael Ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMFriday, December 19, 2014
Crucible Theatre Studio, Sheffield: No conventional fairytale princess? A dried pea the size of a gobstopper? A pea-brained king living in a castle created from clutter in a "museum of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:17AMWednesday, December 17, 2014
Empire Theatre, Liverpool: If anyone invents a gold standard for pantomime, this show would get close to reaching it. It's not just the dazzling bling of lavish sets and exquisite costu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMTheatre Royal, St Helens: After Kurtis Stacey's Jack slays the Giant and Linda Nolan's Mrs Fleshcreep stops doing the ogre's dirty work and leads the finale with I'm in t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMTuesday, December 16, 2014
Southport Theatre and Convention Centre: It's impossible to be caught napping watching this boisterous production written by two experienced creators of television and stage shows for c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMCarriageworks Theatre, Leeds: Some pantomime stars might be lip-syncing songs this year, but there's no fear of miming whenever Jonathan Ansell launches into romantic mode as Prince Val…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMThursday, December 11, 2014
Opera House, Manchester: Perhaps it's a sign of the times that pantomime baddies get the best lines. Priscilla Presley, reprising the Wicked Queen after making her stage debut as the va…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMWednesday, December 10, 2014
Playhouse, Liverpool: The Playhouse has a track record of presenting new adaptations of Moliere farces, but Stephen Sharkey's festive season foray into the ferociously funny extra-marit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMMonday, December 8, 2014
Unity Theatre, Liverpool: A programme note explains how this Action Transport Theatre adaptation of one of Grimm's grimmer folktales employs a 'predominantly emerging cast', a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Whatever the merits of the national touring production parked at London's Dominion, this Irving Berlin songfest is approached very differently in Leeds,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:03AMMonday, December 1, 2014
Albert Halls, Bolton: Bolton's Albert Halls may not offer the ideal backstage spec for mounting full-scale theatrical productions. Even so, purveyors of pantomime ought to at least pres…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: The sixth successive Royal Court Christmas show for grown-ups by Fred Lawless takes inspiration from his previous offerings with punning titles such as Scouse…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMMonday, November 24, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Given that Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's playwriting credits include a clutch of Lyric Hammersmith pantomimes, her new stage version of Lewis Carroll's mad-as-a-h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMWednesday, November 5, 2014
Theatre Delicatessen, the Moor, Sheffield: After five years of creating pop-up theatre experiences in disused buildings in London, Theatre Delicatessen has popped up north for the first time…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMMonday, October 20, 2014
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Not so much a Bohemian rhapsody, more a Czech tale of love in a cold war climate, Daniel Slater's 1998 Opera North production won much praise for reimagining Smeta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Part family saga of self-discovery, part paean to the pitfalls and pleasures of parenthood, part down-to-earth domestic comedy and partly tapping into the current …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMMonday, October 13, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: After reliving the terrors of trench warfare in RC Sherriff's Journey's End, the Octagon continues its commemoration of the First World War's outbreak…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMFriday, September 26, 2014
Lantern Theatre, Liverpool: In an online age, when tweets and blogs are seen as essential tools for political campaigning, this new play about events surrounding the successful 1972 building…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMThursday, September 25, 2014
ReTale, Oldham: Hard Graft not only does pop-up theatre in temporary venues but apparently will pop along to any space with enough room to swing an actor. Indeed, over the years, Mark Whitel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Long before shipwrecked Viola has togged herself up in her lost twin brother's military uniform and asks "how will this fadge?", when she realises…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMWednesday, September 17, 2014
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: To be Hamlet, or to be Hamlette? Wearing big baggy breeches and a natty, cropped choirboy haircut, there is no question that Maxine Peake brings a breath …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMThursday, September 11, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: In terms of noise, this show could well go on to generate the loudest laughs in town when, later this month, it joins an ambitious line-up of stand-ups as the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: The gifted song and dance kids of High School Musical exist poles apart from the disadvantaged street-savvy teens in Willy Russell's musicalised version of his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMTuesday, September 9, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: David Thacker's autumn season opener may be an obvious choice of play to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, but the production em…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:40AMWednesday, July 30, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: Originally intended as a last-minute stopgap when a planned production was dropped from last summer's programme, Bob Eaton's Liverpool-angled adapta…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMMonday, July 28, 2014
City Centre, Liverpool: A grandmother giant who walks with a stick as high as an elephant's eye and carries a head full of First World War memories; her 18-ft Little Girl companion who …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMThursday, July 10, 2014
Wythenshaw Park, Manchester: According to JM Barrie's boy who never grows up, Neverland is "wherever you want it to be": which gives Heartbreak Productions' summer tourin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThursday, July 3, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: As Yorkshire gears up to host the opening stages of the Tour de France 2014 (this weekend), it is the perfect moment for West Yorkshire Playhouse to stage a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Krapp trapped in a shed? As an associate director of Sheffield Theatres, Richard Wilson has directed several plays in the Crucible Studio over the past three yea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AM 
