520 stories by "Alfred Hickling"
Crucible, Sheffield Shakespeare's fanciful tale of jealousy and remorse is given a vivid and superbly acted updateThe Winter's Tale is perhaps Shakespeare's ultimate test of an audience's wi…
York city centreThis epic, bittersweet drama is staged on the streets of York and follows the first world war's impact on rival chocolate factoriesYork was founded by the Romans, settled by …
Playhouse, LiverpoolHip-hop dialogue features alongside puppetry and a cellist in this gritty tale of tough teenage life beyond the care homeGreat theatre ought to be about taking risks: Liv…
Royal Exchange, ManchesterArthur Miller's play becomes an account of the African American experience in this flawless production by Michael BuffongThree years ago, Michael Buffong directed a…
Live theatre, Newcastle upon TynePaddy Campbell's production shows the humiliation of untreatable alcoholics in our society's forgotten underclassThere is nothing Live theatre would have wis…
Coliseum, OldhamBanishing all trace of the departed West End giant, Oldham reclaims Chicago's raw power in a sharp and intimate productionIt is now fairly common to see behemoth Broadway mus…
Harrogate theatreThis obscure Marxist parable of suicide, unemployment and tuba-playing hits a few bum notesLast year's Northern Broadsides reworking of Gogol's Government Inspector was one …
Theatre Royal, YorkIt has been a momentous week for the monarchy, with not one but two future kings proclaimed. The first, born in a hospital in Paddington, you already know about; the secon…
Theatre Royal, YorkIt has been a momentous week for the monarchy, with not one but two future kings proclaimed. The first, born in a hospital in Paddington, you already know about; the secon…
Grosvenor Park theatre, Chester"Here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal," declares Peter Quince. I couldn't agree more. In four years, Chester's Grosvenor Park theatre has gro…
Grosvenor Park theatre, Chester"Here's a marvellous convenient place for our rehearsal," declares Peter Quince. I couldn't agree more. In four years, Chester's Grosvenor Park theatre has gro…
Grosvenor Park Theatre, ChesterShakespeare is the staple at Grosvenor Park, so it's good to see the repertoire expand to include Edmond Rostand's romance about a cavalier with the soul of a …
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughWomen's rugby is booming " though not in the league inhabited by Scarfield Ladies RUFC, where the female game seems to have become the country's fastest-sh…
Williamson Park, LancasterIt has been two years since the last of the Dukes' popular walkabout shows in Williamson Park, during which time the authorities seemed to have clamped down on…
Theatre Royal, YorkWhen is a trilogy not a trilogy? When it's a matter of editorial convenience. Shakespeare's disparate collection of dramas dealing with the Wars of the Roses arguably beca…
The Globe are taking Shakespeare's war plays to their real-life locations " including the bloodiest battlefield on English soil'Look " a molehill!" After scouring a Yorkshire field for the b…
Live theatre, Newcastle upon TyneIn medieval times, the river Tyne was so well-stocked with salmon that some apprentices' contracts specified that they wouldn't have to eat it more than twic…
Chester Cathedral, ChesterThe great cycles of medieval mystery plays were based on the 15th-century equivalent of product placement, as local tradesmen adapted the portion of the Bible that …
Stephen Joseph theatre, Scarborough "We always seem to come to this restaurant," says Gerry Stratton, the head of a northern family building firm. "Anniversaries, birthdays " I don't know wh…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAlthough Kneehigh has been in existence since the 1980s, it was this scintillating deconstruction of pre-Arthurian legend that truly established the company as…
New Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeWhen the writer and critic William Archer first met George Bernard Shaw in the reading room of the British Library, he had a copy of Das Kapital and the …
Various venues, AngleseyThe small town of Llangefni, on the island of Anglesey, is pregnant with local myths and legend. There's the town clock that once blasted off into outer space; the al…
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickSo what exactly is the correct pronunciation of Vincent van Gogh's surname? Certainly not the Americanised travesty that rhymes with "tango", or even the English …
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What do acid-house raves and a century-old bloodbath have in common? Quite a lot, according to Manchester's Library TheatreIn an empty industrial building to the north of Manchester, the 19t…
