69 stories by "Will Ramsey"
Times are tough at the Six Bells. This pub turned community hub, with a plastic skeleton’s hung on the wall as an
The end of the world has arrived " in a city at the “end of the line”. Hull is never mentioned in
The Kennedys’ home has seen better days. Along with the dingy paint, there's a jagged row of bricks, as ominous as shark's
When Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, Hull's fishing fleets were making perilous trips to the Arctic. The thought of those icy
As the dust settles on Clinton and Trump's battle for the US Presidency, this revival of Richard Vergette's drama, As We Forgive
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: Here's a toast for the downtrodden and all who have ever felt marginalised. Mike Kenny's adaptation of Cinderella is a plea from below the stairs - under …
York Theatre Royal, York: In the war against panto cliche, Berwick Kaler makes for an impressive, if unlikely, general. With his wandering fake bust - alarmingly unmoored during one "wa…
Hull New Theatre, Hull: There's a lack of sparkle about this year's Hull New Theatre panto, despite the bling of the props.
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The streets of York and 17 Colliergate, York: There can't be many places better suited to a Dickensian tale than York, and so it proves with Nightshade Productions' take on A Chris…
Hull Truck Theatre: There is something charmingly quirky, and particularly British, which persists throughout Idle Motion's drama, which roams back and forth across five decades: it is …
The Guildhall, York: After successive reinventions as a muscular, action-hero type (Guy Ritchie's two films) and as a present day otherworldly genius (the BBC's series, starring Be…
York Mansion House: Theatre Mill's site-specific production of Earnest, with its greetings from immaculately dressed flunkies and Pimms in the drawing room disturbing the discreet charm…
KC Lightstream Stadium, Hull: It might be slight in running time, but Anthony Clavane's Playing The Joker packs a lot into 50 minutes.
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Hull Truck Theatre: The Kitchen Sink has had a polish and this new production of Delaney's play has made something altogether more hopeful from this gritty 1950s drama.
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York Theatre Royal: Rachel Wagstaff's script reworks her West End production as a memory play and fits together with great ease.
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York Brewery: In a small room above a York brewery a revolution's being staged.
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Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough: It might be pure Victoriana but there's something imperishable about The Schoolmistress.
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De Grey Rooms, Theatre Royal, York: The birds are knotted scraps of cloth, the cat a bundle of wool.
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Grand Opera House, York: Muddles looks a little surprised at the muted "aaah" from the audience. "The sympathy levels are low tonight," he says.
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Hull New Theatre: As Dame Trott, Christopher Biggins' wardrobe includes a milk-maid themed number - with two sheep strapped to the front - and a cake tray with a giant iced bun as a hat…
Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: Here the phrase 'lost in a book' is made flesh - Mick Martin's comedy, which follows unemployed dreamer Chris McCann, is a delight.
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York Theatre Royal, York: It might date from the dark days of the Second World War but there's something imperishably fresh about See How They Run. The appeal of seeing the humiliation …
Theatre Royal, York: This Arthur is far from the knight of old in Mike Kenny's delightful play. The future king starts out as a high-spirited youth who, having bunked off from a school …
York Theatre Royal, York: That this will be a bloody, vengeful epic is signalled in the opening scene of Nick Bagnall's production.
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Hull Truck Theatre, Hull: There aren't many dramas which capture as honestly, or as amusingly, the struggle towards happiness. For Frank, it's the distant - very distant, judging b…
