West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Sherlock Holmes is shuffling around his Baker Street flat in his pyjama trousers, listless, vulnerable, near bankrupt and more than ever dependent on opiates…
Harrogate Theatre Studio: Dumas' tale of revenge and deadly reckonings is given a curious and intriguing twist in this new production from the Thunder Road company. Read the full review
20 scholarships are launched this week which could see you training at a Razzamataz Theatre School near you. Kevin Berry sets out the details
Fewston Village Hall, North Yorkshire: Billed as a loose sequel to the company's Back To The Land Girls (2009), Badapple Theatre's newly premiered Lights Out Land Girls, which is n…
Riley, NSCD campus, Leeds: Any showcase performance at the Northern School of Contemporary Dance is a refreshing and stimulating experience. Always there is the temptation to compare the per…
The Spa, Scarborough: Just seven people are allowed into each performance of 101 and what an experience the unlucky ones have missed. This is serious one-on-one theatre, not by any means a g…
Clive Wolfe Auditorium, Scarborough: Lights sweep across the auditorium, thumping music is being played and a club full of dancers is poised - all fierce expressions and unflinching postures…
Welbeck, Hull University Campus, Scarborough: Insults are hissed and then hurled, relationships are stripped bare and various things get thrown around in Yasmina Reza's comedy of modern…
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Breman Rajkumar's new play is the inaugural production from InDepth Theatre, a professional company formed by recent Warwick University graduates an…
Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: Two years ago at the NSDF there was a memorable production of Simon Stephens' Pornography, a play that looks at the cracks in society in the hours l…
Ocean Room, Spa Theatre, Scarborough: It is so good and so refreshing that Nottingham University's New Theatre company is at the NSDF - and in force. There are two other productions her…
Ocean Room, Scarborough: This gorgeous piece of devised physical theatre begins superbly, with the white-faced cast striking alarming poses, and continues to intrigue and drip with venom unt…
Holbeck Building, Hull University Campus, Scarborough: Wry, sophisticated and yet eagerly playful, this series of linked tales has its roots in the Grimm brothers and Jeanette Winterson'…
The Carriageworks, Leeds: Time spent on remand in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison led to Ben Tagoe writing about humans living in a harsh system, where the first instinct is survival and emoti…
Grand Theatre, Leeds: A rhapsody in creams, elegant costumes, divine dancing and the most fitting of music (played live by the Northern Ballet Sinfonia) from Richard Rodney Bennett and other…
Harrogate Theatre: Alan Ayckbourn's tale of platonic love across a 50-year age gap is the eighth co-production involving Harrogate Theatre and Oldham Coliseum. Read the full review
Viaduct, Halifax: Githa Sowerby's play was a hit with critics and public alike when it was premiered 101 years ago. Yet when critics discovered she was a woman, many of them recanted th…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: It is a measure of the standing of Phoenix Dance Theatre that Richard Alston, who usually stays with a commission until final rehearsal, felt able to head ba…
February 5-9, then touring until May 9: Robert Tressell's book staged as a two-hander? It is played rather briskly, but it is effective. Read the full review
Theatre Royal Wakefield: John Godber's fourth play for his eponymous company is, according to his programme notes, his first two-hander with a realistic core. Read the full review
Robert Cohan, one of the founding fathers of British contemporary dance, has been recognised with the De Valois award for outstanding achievement in dance at the 13th Critics' Circle D…
Alverthorpe WMC, Wakefield: Sean Glenn has been touring pantomimes to largely working men's club audiences in Yorkshire and the East Midlands for many years. He gives opportunities to f…
Kevin Berry looks back on the year's dance highlights
Civic Theatre, Rotherham: This Peter Pan is at ease with itself and rightly so. It has plenty of banter, hearty call and responses and well executed traditional routines. Despite all that th…
Grand Opera House, York: For the 14th year in succession, the New Pantomime Productions company is at the Grand Opera House offering traditional family entertainment - that is entertainment …