140 stories by "Roger Foss"
Theatre Delicatessen, the Moor, Sheffield: After five years of creating pop-up theatre experiences in disused buildings in London, Theatre Delicatessen has popped up north for the first time…
Grand Theatre, Leeds: Not so much a Bohemian rhapsody, more a Czech tale of love in a cold war climate, Daniel Slater's 1998 Opera North production won much praise for reimagining Smeta…
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Part family saga of self-discovery, part paean to the pitfalls and pleasures of parenthood, part down-to-earth domestic comedy and partly tapping into the current …
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: After reliving the terrors of trench warfare in RC Sherriff's Journey's End, the Octagon continues its commemoration of the First World War's outbreak…
Lantern Theatre, Liverpool: In an online age, when tweets and blogs are seen as essential tools for political campaigning, this new play about events surrounding the successful 1972 building…
ReTale, Oldham: Hard Graft not only does pop-up theatre in temporary venues but apparently will pop along to any space with enough room to swing an actor. Indeed, over the years, Mark Whitel…
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Long before shipwrecked Viola has togged herself up in her lost twin brother's military uniform and asks "how will this fadge?", when she realises…
Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester: To be Hamlet, or to be Hamlette? Wearing big baggy breeches and a natty, cropped choirboy haircut, there is no question that Maxine Peake brings a breath …
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: In terms of noise, this show could well go on to generate the loudest laughs in town when, later this month, it joins an ambitious line-up of stand-ups as the…
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: The gifted song and dance kids of High School Musical exist poles apart from the disadvantaged street-savvy teens in Willy Russell's musicalised version of his…
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: David Thacker's autumn season opener may be an obvious choice of play to commemorate the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, but the production em…
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: Originally intended as a last-minute stopgap when a planned production was dropped from last summer's programme, Bob Eaton's Liverpool-angled adapta…
City Centre, Liverpool: A grandmother giant who walks with a stick as high as an elephant's eye and carries a head full of First World War memories; her 18-ft Little Girl companion who …
Wythenshaw Park, Manchester: According to JM Barrie's boy who never grows up, Neverland is "wherever you want it to be": which gives Heartbreak Productions' summer tourin…
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds: As Yorkshire gears up to host the opening stages of the Tour de France 2014 (this weekend), it is the perfect moment for West Yorkshire Playhouse to stage a …
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: Krapp trapped in a shed? As an associate director of Sheffield Theatres, Richard Wilson has directed several plays in the Crucible Studio over the past three yea…
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: Do we need a new Beggar's Opera? Most certainly when it's Kneehigh's fiendishly clever re-write of John Gay's scabrous satire on the human ca…
Coliseum Theatre, Oldham: After Lee Hall's additional new opening scene, set in the present day when the door has practically slammed shut on mining coal in Britain, Alan Plater's …
Octagon Theatre, Bolton: There's an unusual neatness about the way Stephen Clark and Howard Goodall's adaptation of Erich Segal's 1970 novella unites in small-scale musical th…
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: After successful runs in 2010 and 2013, Bob Eaton's tribute to John Lennon may have found its natural Liverpool home.
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Opera House, Manchester: Dorothy Fields once recallled that when researching for this musical she discovered that sharpshooters Annie Oakley and Frank Butler were "about the dullest peo…
Royal Court Theatre, Liverpool: A woman of many talents, Claire Sweeney has now co-scripted her first show, and it's an adults-only comedy set in the twilight world of a late-night sex …
Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: One man, three fiancees - that's the starting point of Marc Camoletti's consummate sixties farce in which debonair Parisian architect Robert juggles th…
Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield: Gale-force laughter is set to batter the UK and Ireland over the next 10 months as the National Theatre's award-winning production of Richard Bean's The …
Everyman Theatre, Liverpool: The plush new Everyman may have flung open its doors with Shakespeare, but historically its essence was always to be found in bold new writing - and the inaugura…
