Friday, May 31, 2013
Theatre Royal, Bristol: No fewer than five leading provincial theatres have teamed with ground-breaking theatre company Complicite for this ingenious adaptation of Zizou Corder's best-s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMFriday, April 19, 2013
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The growing reputation of successive seasons of new plays at the Ustinov is being enhanced this time round by a couple of A-list names among the cast. Diana Quick opene…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMThursday, April 11, 2013
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Good fortune continues to alight on Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory. Hard on news of a £121,988 Arts Council England grant, to improve the comfort of i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMFriday, March 8, 2013
Theatre Royal, Bristol: The creative team that brought War Horse to the stage, director Tom Morris and South African puppet company Handspring, have linked again for this challenging version…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMThursday, February 28, 2013
Theatre Royal Bath: August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning exploration of the African-American experience is so ingrained in the cultural milieu in the States that it has long been a se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: You can`t keep a bad man down. No sooner have archaeologists confirmed that it was Richard III`s skeleton that lay buried beneath a Leicester carpark, than here we …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMFriday, December 21, 2012
Tobacco Factory Brewery, Bristol: Tobacco Factory theatre director Ali Robertson has assembled the usual eclectic mix of Christmas entertainment, closing off each day with this entertaining …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMTobacco Factory Brewery, Bristol: Time is running out in the Lost Present Department.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMMonday, December 17, 2012
Theatre Royal Bath: Theatrical all-rounder Nichola McAuliffe appears to be making the Theatre Royal Bath her second home. Here she is in flamboyant form as the Wicked Queen in Snow White, at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:33AMThursday, December 13, 2012
Wyvern, Swindon: When Keith Chegwin starred as Buttons at the Wyvern Theatre in Swindon last Christmas, it was announced he would be returning this year in Jack and the Beanstalk. Plainly, h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMTuesday, December 11, 2012
Bristol Hippodrome: First Family Entertainment has introduced the modern concept of work sharing into this year's Christmas spectacular at the Bristol Hippodrome.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMMonday, December 10, 2012
Bristol Old Vic Studio: This appealing Christmas show for the under-sevens in the Theatre Royal Studio in Bristol is a bit like pressing the red button on a television remote control and fin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMThe Egg, Theatre Royal, Bath: Who could resist the story of an innocent little girl with a heart of gold who changes the lives of everyone she meets?
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMTobacco Factory, Bristol: The Tobacco Factory Theatre goes from strength to strength, especially at Christmas time. Last year's highly unusual Cinderella has transferred to the West End…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMWednesday, December 5, 2012
Theatre Royal, Bristol: Sally Cookson cut her teeth as a Bristol Old Vic director with Christmas shows for the under-sevens in the Studio. It was a good grounding. For here she is in charge …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMFriday, November 30, 2012
The Ustinov Studio, Bath: Ustinov Studio artistic director Laurence Boswell always makes a point of directing one of the new works in his excellent repertory season, now an established and m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:08AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Creative Common, Bristol: If The Invisible Circus truly lived up to its name, in the style say of a play by Pirandello or a piece of music by John Cage, this review should consist of nothing…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMThursday, October 4, 2012
Theatre Royal Studio, Bristol: Fledging Bristol theatre company Idiot Child, already making favourable ripples in their home city, are out on tour for the first time with this offbeat one-ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMThursday, September 20, 2012
The Ustinov Studio, Bath: The creative theme behind the third season of repertory at this studio theatre is bringing strong literary works to the stage for the first time. It is what goes on…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:35AMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Theatre Royal Studio, Bristol: One of the mantras of Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris is to tackle innovative work in conjunction with other theatre companies. The theme is much …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMTheatre Royal, Bristol: Plays about the theatre can often have a curate's egg quality, and this Restoration romp by prolific Irish writer John O'Keeffe, chosen by Bristol Old Vic a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
Theatre Royal Bath: Adrian Noble, the third distinguished director to be parachuted in for the summer season at Bath, has form over Shakespeare's magical final play. It was the hit of t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:03AMMonday, August 6, 2012
Theatre Royal Bath: Any playwright who can conjure a meeting of minds between Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein, as Terry Johnson did in Insignificance, should find a fictional confrontatio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMFriday, July 13, 2012
Brass Works, Kingswood: Although the big theatrical news in Bristol this summer is the re-opening of the Theatre Royal following its £10 million facelift, brand new small-scale ven…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMWednesday, July 11, 2012
Theatre Royal Bath: After eight years under the aegis of Sir Peter Hall, the baton of responsibility for the high-profile summer season at the Theatre Royal Bath has passed to the in-house p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMMonday, June 11, 2012
Gate Farmhouse, Alveston: Gloucestershire's Festival Players, who have doubled their size this year with the take-over of actor-manager Wendy MacPhee's London-based Theatre Set-Up,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMMonday, May 28, 2012
Various venues: Bristol Mayfest co-founders Matthew Austin and Kate Yedigaroff, who have recently set up their own performance production company MAYK, again teamed up with the Bristol Old V…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMThursday, May 17, 2012
Ustinov Studio, Bath: A film that opened in America this week, titled Hysteria and starring Maggie Gyllenhaal and Rupert Everett, tells the history of the female vibrator from Victorian days…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:44AMThursday, April 26, 2012
Wickham Studio, University of Bristol: Controversial playwright Sarah Kane had already stirred so many theatrical hornets' nests with the savagery of her onstage violence that she used …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThursday, April 12, 2012
Bristol Old Vic Studio: These two short plays are being staged in the Bristol Old Vic Studio ahead of this September's phased re-opening of the entire Theatre Royal complex. They are am…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMThursday, April 5, 2012
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory is no closed shop. For this is the third time in seven years that artistic director Andrew Hilton has trodden the primrose path o…
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