Wednesday, 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 06:27AMThursday, June 26, 2014
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: Do we need a new Beggar's Opera? Most certainly when it's Kneehigh's fiendishly clever re-write of John Gay's scabrous satire on the human ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMWednesday, June 25, 2014
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: After Lee Hall's additional new opening scene, set in the present day when the door has practically slammed shut on mining coal in Britain, Alan Plater's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMMonday, June 23, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: There's an unusual neatness about the way Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall's adaptation of Erich Segal's 1970 novella unites in small-scale musical th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: After successful runs in 2010 and 2013, Bob Eaton's tribute to John Lennon may have found its natural Liverpool home.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMFriday, May 23, 2014
Opera House, Manchester: Dorothy Fields once recallled that when researching for this musical she discovered that sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler were "about the dullest peo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: A woman of many talents, Claire Sweeney has now co-scripted her first show, and it's an adults-only comedy set in the twilight world of a late-night sex …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: One man, three fiancees - that's the starting point of Marc Camoletti's consummate sixties farce in which debonair Parisian architect Robert juggles th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMMonday, May 19, 2014
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Gale-force laughter is set to batter the UK and Ireland over the next 10 months as the National Theatre's award-winning production of Richard Bean's The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMThursday, May 15, 2014
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: The plush new Everyman may have flung open its doors with Shakespeare, but historically its essence was always to be found in bold new writing - and the inaugura…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: "I came here with a hamper full of praise sandwiches" an oily government minister tells a group of primary school teachers placed on special measure…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool: Viewed from any angle, Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse associate director Charlotte Gwinner's utterly compelling new production adds an emotionally raw pe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMThursday, March 27, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Is the NHS so unwell it's about to keel over and die? Is healthcare really safe in the hands of politicians bent on turning a national treasure into a private g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMFriday, March 7, 2014
Playhouse Theatre, Liverpool: Marking the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, this terrific revival of Simon Reade's stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's children&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMTuesday, March 4, 2014
Palace Theatre, Manchester: The Beatles may have given up touring in 1966 to become a studio band, but this tribute concert proves that John, Paul, George and Ringo's back catalogue sti…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMThursday, February 6, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Denise van Outen's new one-woman play with music is a kind of theatrical selfie. Co-written with Terry Ronald, Van Outen plays a high-flying lingerie qu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:55AMWednesday, February 5, 2014
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: As relationship complications pile up and comfy mattresses inevitably turn into lumpy battlegrounds, the constant bedroom hopping in Alan Ayckbourn's 1975 come…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMMonday, January 27, 2014
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: Ever since its London premiere in 1916, Harold Brighouse's comedy, set in a boot shop, has rightly earned a reputation as a mini-masterpiece. And although David…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Empire Theatre, Liverpool: "I am youth, I am joy," crows Peter Pan midway through his awfully big adventure.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Epstein, Liverpool: A confusing plot, half-baked characters, flaky acting, crummy comedy, missed entrances, mediocre costumes, feeble scenery, dismal lighting, technical cock-ups - it's…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMFriday, December 13, 2013
Opera House, Manchester: Britain's Got Talent winners Ashleigh and Pudsey were last year's hot ticket at Woking. This year the mistress and dog duo send the box office temperature …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Evolution's seventh co-production with Sheffield Theatres is big in every sense. Director Paul Hendy uses the Lyceum stage to its fullest depth, with Helga Wo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Theatre Royal, St Helens: American professional ballroom dancer Brian Fortuna joins a cast of Theatre Royal regulars for this transformed panto version of JM Barrie's classic tale. As t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Playhouse, Liverpool: A rock 'n' roll tradition that began at the Playhouse's soon-to-reopen sister theatre, the Everyman, continues with a riotously funny re-invention of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
The Lowry, Salford: The Library Theatre Company's last Christmas show at the Lowry before they move to their new Manchester city centre home in 2014 is certainly not wanting in the stor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMMonday, December 2, 2013
Royal Court, Liverpool: It is a relief to know that the end of the world is not nigh now that Fazakerley has entered the space race.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMFriday, November 22, 2013
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: The <a href="http://www.coliseum.org.uk/plays/jack-and-the-beanstalk/"> Coliseum's pantomime tradition</a> goes back to the days of weekl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
Playhouse Studio, Liverpool: Set in a struggling Fleetwood scrapyard, Daniel Matthew's debut play about people trapped on the margins of a decaying coastal community certainly reveals a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:47PMTuesday, October 8, 2013
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Shakespeare's tale of sexual jealousy and loving reconciliation can require a leap faith from audiences buying into its fable-like mix of royal intrigue, ps…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMMonday, October 7, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: James Brining's reassessment of Sondheim's masterpiece retains elements of his award-winning 2010 Dundee Rep production, most notably David Birrell…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMThursday, 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 12:28PM 
