206 stories by "Fairy Powered Productions"
Switch_MCR are a Manchester-based theatre company creating new and exciting accessible work. The company was founded by Royal Exchange Young Company members and is now one of the biggest ind…
Underbelly Festival is currently home to Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch and promises to be brimming with dark comedy, blue eyeshadow and a myriad double entendres.
Life is complicated, relationships especially so, and Natalie Ekberg's new play Diversifications at the Old Red Lion offers valuable insights into how the decisions we make can affect both.
The trio of characters in Gaia Fay Lambert's beautiful debut play The Blue House at the Blue Elephant Theatre live in the same house but are all crippled by loneliness and grief. Lambert's w…
Women's football today and in the past is the basic framework for Sabrina Mahfouz and Hollie McNish's play Offside, but mental health, intrusive journalism, racism, coming out, parenting, wo…
Featuring Oliver Award-winning talent in the form of Denis Lawson and Simon Callow, as well as musical theatre royalty such as Kerry Ellis and Bonnie Langford, this energising performance of…
The ultimate feel-good comedy, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em is wonderfully entertaining with gags galore and innuendos, matched with a great script and a brilliant and talented cast.
Written in response to revelations about social media influencers, and playing in the aftermath of the Heard/Depp trial by TikTok, Lauren Morley's The Collab is a refreshingly unsensational …
Legally Blonde is the freshest, frothiest and funniest pick-me-up in theatre. With a wonderfully diverse company, Regent Park Theatre's production is joyous from the opening chords.
Murder On The Orient Express at Chichester Festival Theatre is first class entertainment, packed with mystery, intrigue and standout performances. A memorably murderous evening out, highly r…
Directed by Joyce Branagh, Chester Storyhouse Theatre hosts the word premiere of Tim Firth's brand new musical Now Is Good. In all, this play is something very different. It is laced with su…
Five Characters In Search Of A Good Night's Sleep tells you pretty much what you're going to get as a quintet of older people mull over their lives while courting elusive sleep in a series o…
Based on the incredible true story, The End of the Night takes place in the house of Felix Kirsten (Michael Lumsden), who has invited Nazi Heinrich Himmler (Richard Clothier) to meet with Je…
So many female performers and creatives currently at the top of their game in a male-centric world. This makes The Cher Show an extra special, female empowering watch.
It is easy to see why this story of racial prejudice in 1930s Alabama made such an impact on Broadway in 2018 when Trump's presidency swept aside any notions that these attitudes were consig…
A group of college friends organise a reunion dinner. So far, so normal. One is busy cooking in the kitchen, three " including the 'outsider' Georgia, recently engaged to Chris " are chattin…
A Monster Calls, which is based on the book of the same name, is an absolutely wonderful play about a boy as he struggles to come to terms with his beliefs about his mother, who is in the la…
It's not just the nice girls who love a sailor, everybody who has the chance to see this show will fall in love with the ridiculously talented crew of HMS Pinafore
Adapted by Jeff James to combine 19th-century literature with modern-day music and clothing, this show takes two things that seem like polar opposites and smashes them together, creating a w…
We join Elders Price and Cunningham (Robert Colvin and Connor Peirson) as they try to speak to a tribe in Uganda and preach to them the word of God " the Book of Mormon.
The trial and execution of William Corder for the murder of Maria Marten caused a sensation, with thousands showing morbid curiosity.
Can you imagine how difficult it must be for parents to lose a daughter at the age of 17? It must be absolutely heartbreaking. But what about her little sister?
In 1987, the film of Fatal Attraction was a shocking, erotic thriller that put "bunny boiler" into our everyday language.
The story is told in 90 riveting minutes in conversations between just four actors who portrayed their characters with impeccable dynamism.
I cannot understand why they decided to try to adapt the story of The Da Vinci Code to the letter. The novel did not fend well as a film and it appears to have suffered the same fate as a li…