Lund Village Hall, Yorkshire: Scrooge as a Yorkshire farmer? What a capital idea. It grew from the widespread belief that we Yorkshire folk are rather tight with the pennies, but we don'…
Grand, Leeds: There may be a surfeit of Nutcrackers around over the Christmas season but there is always room for Northern Ballet's Regency-set interpretation. Read the full review
Victoria, Halifax: Staging Beauty and the Beast as a pantomime will almost always set up problems with the narrative flow. Read the full review
Alhambra, Bradford: This staging of Cinderella has the most effective opening 15 minutes of a big budget, number one theatre pantomime seen by this reviewer in 30 years of panto watching. Ev…
York Theatre Royal: Back for his 34th consecutive appearance as dame at York Theatre Royal is Berwick Kaler, and the wave of love and affection for him is something to experience. Read the f…
Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, North Yorkshire: That master showman and esteemed performance historian Tony Lidington creates pantomimes that are so wonderfully appropriate for the Georgi…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Calling the wicked fairy Bad Nana Sandra is a masterstroke (see, you're laughing already), but Nana Sandra (Celia Adams) is not all that bad. She is jus…
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: Rock 'n' roll is here to stay, according to the old Danny and the Juniors hit. After last year's hugely successful introduction of rock '…
December 4-January 19: Ian Brown's second production of The Wind in the Willows at the West Yorkshire Playhouse is a triumph in all aspects. Tickets are going to be hard to come by. Rea…
The Carriageworks, Leeds: Now that the City Varieties Music Hall has opted for a regular rock'n'roll pantomime, the Carriageworks is the one place to go to in Leeds for traditional…
Harrogate Theatre: Harrogate Theatre's pantomime has had an excellent reputation for many years, regularly earning plaudits from fellow critics. In more recent times it has attained an …
Stephen Joseph, Scarborough: Well now, Cinderella (a spirited Martina Horrigan) actually lives in Scarborough, her parents take tourists around the bay in their boat, the wicked stepmother c…
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: With a narrative from the pen of poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy, and a willingness to explore darker issues, Ballet Lorent's Rapunzel is more epic folk legend t…
Stanley and Audrey Burton Theatre, Leeds: What a smashing creation, and how thoroughly worthwhile. Ugly Duckling is Northern Ballet's first ballet for young children and whichever adult…
Flash mob producer Gary Lloyd talks about how the show fuses different dance forms
City Varieties Music Hall, Leeds: Top of the bill at this third in the City Varieties' autumn series of Good Old Days weekends is the legendary character comedian Peter John, alongside …
Otley Courthouse, West Yorkshire: Actors Dominic Goodwin and Emanuel Brierley clearly enjoy being onstage together - the trust they share is palpable, as is the respect they have for each ot…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: Yorkshire audiences so rarely have the opportunity to see a Tennessee Williams play and this staging of his personal favourite is the first at the West Yorks…
Harrogate Theatre Studio: Bones will have the senses reeling, emotions struck numb. Its portrait of a teenage boy contemplating how best to kill a baby is as uncompromising a piece of theatr…
Theatre Royal Studio, York: Rapunzel's hair has grown long enough to reach the ground so she cuts it off. Why? "It was weighing me down," is the exasperated response and, she …
Harrogate Theatre: Two desperate men on a lighthouse and a month until the relief boat arrives. Which one is telling the truth and who is that rather attractive swimmer? The two men die horr…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: First seen as a project for Ballet du Rhin, in 2008, David Nixon has brought his version of Ondine, the adult fairy tale, to his own Northern Ballet dancers.…
Harrogate Theatre: Updating Gogol's satire of human greed and relocating it to an obscure Pennine town has such an impact that one wonders why Northern Broadsides has never done it befo…
Mount Grace Priory, Northallerton: Outdoor theatre is of necessity bold and expansive with little opportunity for subtlety and stillness. Not so with this Chapterhouse company production of …
Robinson Institute, Glaisdale, North Yorkshire: Bernard Slade's play, which had its Broadway premiere in 1975, is so rarely staged in this country but many will remember the Alan Alda/E…