Sound and silence are hugely significant to writer and performer Sophie Woolley. Born a hearing child to a deaf mother, she lost
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMMess is missing from so many pantomimes these days, so it’s refreshing to see it in all its sudsy glory in Basingstoke.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMThis is the third collaboration by musical theatre veteran Glyn Kerslake and Wiltshire Creative artistic director Gareth Machin on a Christmas-themed show
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMWiltshire Creative has become adept at programming timely revivals. Thus we have Hugh Whitemore’s 1986 play Breaking the Code in the year
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMSexual attitudes might have undergone massive changes in the 50-odd years since Alan Ayckbourn scored his first major hit with Relatively Speaking,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMAs the UK continues to navigate Brexit, a global spotlight focused relentlessly on the country’s second female prime minister, this revival of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMLondon’s streets might be paved in gold, but this lavish Dick Whittington is worth its glittering weight in it. The Mayflower, celebrating
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMThis Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is very much a pantomime of two halves. The first half is overlong with too many
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMTheatre Royal Winchester’s Beauty and the Beast might not have the most glittering sets or the greatest number of costume changes but
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMClean Break is a theatre company committed to highlighting the injustices women experience in and beyond the criminal justice system. This co-production
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMWhen Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s Her Naked Skin premiered in 2008, it was the first play by a living female playwright to be staged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMGosh, what larks were had at the 19th hole in PG Wodehouse’s golfing tales. Writers Jon Glover and Edward Taylor move the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:57PMShiona Morton’s play Hansel, which won last year’s Theatre Fest West, is a multi-faceted little gem, thoughtfully crafted, deeply absorbing, poignant and
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMThis is the 10th time that Gary Turner has donned the hook of Peter Pan’s arch nemesis for UK Productions and at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMSalisbury Playhouse has created a dream panto team in writer Andrew Pollard, director Ryan McBryde and Richard Ede as Dame for this
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMHarold Pinter’s claustrophobic 1978 three-hander, Betrayal, is one of his greatest works. A tangle of lies, deceit and middle-class philandering, it spools
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMAwful families have always made for great theatre. The craven, social-climbing Skinners in W Somerset Maugham’s short story Before the Party are
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMA raucous comedy about a disastrous family wedding in a Dorset back garden was an unexpected choice for Broadchurch writer Chris Chibnall’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMSalisbury Playhouse has taken a leaf out of Marie Lloyd’s songbook and is currently serving up A Little of What You Fancy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMBig on spectacular lighting and visual effects, but short on plot, the Mayflower’s Robin Hood is essentially a star vehicle for Shane
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:35AMForget modern twists. Winchester Theatre Royal’s Cinderella is traditional, old-fashioned panto at its best. It even manages a principal boy of sorts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMSalisbury Playhouse is going all out to cater for every age range with this charming family musical, aimed at the tiniest tots
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMAs a script writer and dame, Andrew Pollard’s panto pedigree is impressive. Aladdin is the fifth he’s penned for Salisbury Playhouse and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMSalberg Studio, Salisbury Playhouse: Glyn Kerslake seems to have taken root at Salisbury Playhouse with numerous appearances in main house shows and this, his fourth Christmas appearance, in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMSalisbury Playhouse: Who knew that the fountain of youth bubbles beneath Stonehenge just a spit away from Salisbury Playhouse where Mother Goose is in residence this Christmas? Read the full…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMNuffield Theatre: Blue spangled icicles, frosty haze and glittering snow fill the stage of the Nuffield as it continues its tradition of producing alternative Christmas shows with a quirky n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:08AMSalisbury Playhouse: The second of Salisbury Playhouse's autumn season in-the-round productions is much more successful than the first, breathing fresh air into Rattigan's linked o…
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