Wednesday, August 13, 2014
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The summer season at the Theatre Royal Bath usually concentrates on the main house, with plays by writers of international repute. This year, however, there is a late a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMWednesday, August 6, 2014
Playhouse, Weston-super-Mare: Theatrical shows aimed at the very young usually last an hour at most. So mums seeking summer holiday time-filling activity for their three to seven-year-olds w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMThursday, July 17, 2014
Bristol Zoo Gardens: Heartbreak Productions has the knack of finding unusual settings for its open-air Shakespeare offerings, especially those with a war background. A few summers back, it t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Brewery Theatre, Bristol: There is something wonderfully ironic about a press invitation for 8pm to review a stage version of HG Wells' novella about time travel at Bristol's Tobac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMThursday, June 19, 2014
Old Vic, Bristol: It seems a little unlikely, even at this early stage of the tournament, that in 48 years' time we will be watching a show built around how England won the 2014 World C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMThursday, June 12, 2014
Beaudesert School, Minchinhampton: The acquisition of London-based Theatre Set-Up continues to pay dividends for open-air troupe the Festival Players, with a combined 60 years of professiona…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Claverham Village Hall, North Somerset: The Festival Players, who rank among the more enterprising of open-air Shakespeare companies, are bucking the political trend and placing themselves f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThursday, May 29, 2014
The Rondo Theatre, Bath: West Country-based physical theatre company Angel Exit Theatre, which is building an enviable reputation for vivid and unusual work, has chosen the dark story of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Theatre Royal Bath: Natalie Imbruglia already has a richly varied portfolio of showbiz success - Australian soap star, award-winning pop diva and cinema leading lady opposite Rowan Atkinson …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMWednesday, April 16, 2014
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The third season of UK premieres of American plays at the Ustinov continues to impress with this hard-edged Chicago street drama, first staged in the US in 2007, about …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Aside from the occasional sideways glance at the likes of Chekhov and Middleton, this is the first time that Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has moved away from …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:32AMFriday, March 21, 2014
Rondo Theatre, Bath: Two one-act plays by Arthur Miller that indirectly explore aspects of Miller's marriage to Marilyn Monroe represent a bold double challenge for the debut production…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThursday, March 13, 2014
Ustinov Studio, Bath: Former RSC artistic director Michael Boyd picks up the director's baton for the first time since leaving the company two years ago to launch the Ustinov's thi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AMFriday, February 21, 2014
Old Vic, Bristol: Charlotte Bronte might be a mite surprised, I suspect, at this bold and vibrant two-part adaptation of her great Gothic novel. But it is likely she would lend unqualified a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory has launched a £15,000 appeal for its 15th anniversary celebrations, highlighted by an extended end-of-season national …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Playhouse Theatre, Weston-super-Mare: Once it was pop stars who were parachuted into pantomime land in a bid to add box office appeal, often on the strength of a single hit record. Now the m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMFriday, December 13, 2013
The Brewery, Tobacco Factory, Bristol: Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Or is it our caped crusader Super Sam, zooming in with his cohort Mega Max to rescue Christmas for the boys and girls of B…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMThursday, December 12, 2013
The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath: The Moomin children's stories of Tove Jansson, with their extraordinary array of bizarre creatures, are much loved far beyond her Finnish homeland, with eve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon: The adventures of the giant-slaying Jack have rocketed up from fifth place to number one in the 2013 league table of the UK's most performed professional pantom…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMMonday, December 9, 2013
The Tobacco Factory, Bristol: On the bounce from providing London's newest theatre, the St James in Westminster, with its first Christmas show last year, Bristol-based Travelling Light …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:31AMThursday, December 5, 2013
Old Vic, Bristol: The Bristol Old Vic has teamed with beatboxer Shlomo and musician DJ Walde to create the underwater vocal world for this highly entertaining modern version of Hans Christia…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMWednesday, December 4, 2013
Old Vic Studio, Bristol: The computer-animated dancing penguins in the Hollywood Happy Feet films have nothing on their skating counterparts in this imaginative Christmas show for the very y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMBristol Old Vic Studio: The computer-animated dancing penguins in the Happy Feet films have nothing on their skating counterparts in this imaginative Christmas show for the very young at the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Ustinov Studio, Bath: Sparky young women dressing up as men to go in pursuit of fickle lovers is in no way a device exclusive to Shakespeare. Here we have it cropping up even in the title of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMUstinov Studio, Bath: Spanish master playwright Lope de Vega is believed to have penned 2,200 works, of which 300 are said to survive. So it is hardly surprising to find him represented twic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMWednesday, October 16, 2013
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The now well-established spring and autumn seasons of three linked plays at the Ustinov in Bath has embraced a more traditional repertory theatre slant this time round.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMThursday, October 3, 2013
Theatre Royal, Bristol: With only nine cast members, a Greek chorus and a black actor playing Miss Havisham, this is no television-sanitised version of Dickens's great dark-hearted mora…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:41AMThursday, August 22, 2013
Theatre Royal, Bath: It is a while since the Theatre Royal Bath included an out-and-out French farce in its summer season. This year though, as if to make up, the management has decided to g…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMThursday, August 1, 2013
Theatre Royal Bath: Come not between the dragon and his wrath, the once omnipotent Lear warns his loyal follower Kent at the start of Shakespeare's great tragedy. Sound advice amid the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMFriday, July 19, 2013
King Street Open Air Arena, Bristol: Needs must forced the Bristol Old Vic to stage its 2011 flagship production of Treasure Island on the cobbles outside its King Street home. The main hous…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMFriday, 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 06:58AM 
