51 stories by "Julie Watterston"
Swan Theatre, High Wycombe: Qdos - staging some 24 pantomimes this festive season - prides itself on some of the best pantos in the country and this production does not fail to meet the grad…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: With Newbury's Corn Exchange Theatre producing the traditional festive offering, the Watermill always opts for the Christmas family show option and what a del…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: Our long fascination with Sherlock Holmes has extended beyond Conan Doyle's original stories and, it seems, the public can't get enough of the belligeren…
Wilde Theatre, Bracknell: There have been numerous productions of Dracula over the years, creatively conceived and generally well staged, but few have drawn so effectively from the timing of…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: The story of Laurel and Hardy's rise to fame, told from beyond the grave by the two men themselves, is a poignant and beautifully crafted theatrical tribute.
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Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: The collaboration between the Watermill's Outreach project and this all-male experimental theatre company began two years ago at the Edinburgh Fringe and has …
Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell: Local newspaper headlines abound with OFSTED results and the lack of school places at this time of year, and the playground is full of …
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, Newbury: The Miser is the first production at the Watermill under the auspices of Freewheel, the theatre's initiative to support emerging young artists, mento…
Reading University: At last Reading has its own professional repertory theatre company to offer discerning theatregoers an intimate experience of small-scale drama in the studio environment …
Watermill Theatre, Newbury: Dated it may be, but Shaffer's intricately woven web of Russian roulette still works as a light-hearted thriller almost half a century after it won awards on…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: This corny cornucopia of memorable music hall medleys brings together victorious vignettes and entertaining interludes in a show which has the audience smiling fro…
Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: The Original Theatre Company is one of those increasingly scarce companies whose productions belie the struggles of touring groups by creating not only fantas…
Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke: Huge, expressive gestures and larger than life characters abound in this excellently staged and very traditional pantomime that has all the ingredients we love an…
Hexagon, Reading: The Hexagon's offering this year is not quite so on-the-button as last year's by the same production team.
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Swan, High Wycombe: What a revelation and a joy to see Strictly's Mr Nasty set himself up for criticism by taking to the stage as the Wicked Queen. Yet despite laying himself open to ne…
Corn Exchange, Newbury: Obscure traditionality is a new paradigm for the Corn Exchange panto this year. While convention converges with creativity in the hope of building on last year's…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: A delightful evening of storytelling awaits the audience in Bagnor in a very traditional style mixed with the usual Watermill resourcefulness and originality. Last…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: The idyllic isolation of a magical isle, with an enforced captivity enabling intellectual study and mystical creativity, is the setting for Ben Crystal and Paul Ha…
Wilde Theatre, South Hill Park, Bracknell: Overcoming adversity is a timeless challenge that draws upon the understanding of an audience, be it in the face of Nazism and the Second World War…
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: It's difficult not to draw comparisons between the Watermill's musical production of Thoroughly Modern Millie and the venue's philosophical and stra…
Watermill, Bagnor: Epic to microscopic. A cast of 125,000 reduced to a cast of four. The big screen to the tiny stage.
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Watermill Theatre, Bagnor: As a novel that Steinbeck evidently created with a mission to write for the theatre, it is true that the dialogue and setting needs little adaption for the stage. …
Watermill Theatre, Bagnor, West Berkshire: Richard Attlee's inspired dramatic compilation of a series of short stories by Anton Chekhov has resulted in this enchanting myopic. Focusing …
Haymarket Theatre, Basingstoke: One of the most poignant thoughts on watching Lilies on the Land is that, had this been written ten years later, it may never have been written at all and the…
Anvil Theatre, Basingstoke: Hormonal Housewives follows on from Girls' Night Out and other such productions that attract a wholly female audience. Although it is not as sophisticated in…
