99 stories by "Kevin Berry"
Poet, rapper and former English teacher Mark Grist, has the titles Poet Laureate of Peterborough and Chief Bard of Fens Grist is touring his show Rogue Teacher, which was a big hit at last y…
The dance world is becoming increasingly aware of the talent of Carlos Pons Guerra. Daring, audacious and sublimely, riotously funny he has found a style and dancers to match. His company, D…
York Theatre Royal Studio: The Tutti Frutti company looks at declining memory in an older person and how we build memories in its deeply moving new play, Monday's Child. Two characters …
Breakin' Convention, the international festival of hip hop theatre, bursts into action over the May bank holiday weekend at Sadler's Wells in London. Dancer/actor Ukweli Roach will be making…
Riley Theatre, Leeds: A slight break with tradion at the Northern Schools spring showcase. Selected third year solos were on view on each of the four nights. Third year dancers will be seen …
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Martha Leebolt looks ravishing in the title role, her power and beauty are captivating. Her costumes and those of her hand-maidens (played by the corps de ballet) are d…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Sharon Watson has not put a foot wrong since becoming Phoenix Dance Theatre's artistic director in 2009. She has built on the company's heritage, n…
Theatre Royal, Wakefield: John Godber's universally popular look at nightclub life in the 1970s goes back to its roots to begin this touring production. Or rather quite close to its roo…
Kevin Berry reviews 2013's stomping successes and memorable moments
Bradford Alhambra: With Pearce as the star, the Alhambra's panto has always been among the very best - Ed Curtis knows how best to frame and stage and encourage Pearce's prodigious…
Barnsley Trades and Labour Club: For 25 years Sean Glenn and his Stage Door Productions team have toured pantomimes to scores of clubs and village halls across the northern counties.
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Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire: For the fourth Christmas in succession Tony Lidington has put together a thoroughly joyful pantomime for the Georgian Theatre Royal, a pant…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Liam Steel, the choreographer of the Les Miserables film, and his creative team reach back to Rudyard Kipling's original Jungle Book stories for this ne…
Harrogate Theatre: Another year and yet another outstanding pantomime at Harrogate Theatre - clever, endlessly playful and fun throughout. Each character has his or her own distinct comic vo…
Harrogate Theatre: Sundry lively characters rise, seemingly out of the woodwork, inhabiting the stage as if they were part of some extravagant political cartoon. Music is heard and on stride…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: David Nixon's beguiling staging of A Midsummer Night's Dream, set on the night sleeper to Edinburgh, is on tour again. Once again the train, the st…
Cast, Doncaster: The Doncaster writer Richard Cameron's play is a fitting choice to open Cast (the town's brand new performance venue comes without a definite article). First shown…
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: There is nothing at all serious going on here, and no tenderly drawn characters. Just four superbly silly people getting themselves into superbly silly s…
Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, Whitby: A play we missed seeing the first time, perhaps a play we would love to see again, or maybe a play whose worth we need reminding of. The Esk Valley The…
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: When stuck on a railway platform time drags, or appears to, and the mind tends to wander, reflecting on past meetings and remembering encounters at other…
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Given the content of Muddy Cows - seven amateur rugby players taking on an unbeatable team - and given that John Godber is the author, there will be imme…
Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds: When Winston Churchill was in Munich in 1932 Adolf Hitler proposed a meeting. It never took place. The Harrogate writer Tony Tortora's debut play imagines …
Sun Pavilion, Valley Gardens, Harrogate: Gloucester-based alfresco company The Festival Players has two shows on separate tours in this its 28th year: Romeo and Juliet and A Midsummer Night&…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Kneehigh's revival and reworking of the old Cornish romance is exuberant, adventurous theatre, by turns clever, poignant, passionate, sexy and cheerfull…
Stephen Joseph, Scarborough: A barely remembered Ayckbourn play from 1992 is revived and two Ayckbourn premieres will follow during the summer months. Time Of My Life was played end-on at th…
