Despite Absurd Person Singular being set across three successive Christmases, it takes until the final act of London Classic Theatre’s production for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PMIn a week that has seen the conviction of Harvey Weinstein, James Fritz’s thought-provoking 2014 play about consent, power and the internet’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:31AMWith the permission of playwright Willy Russell, Mina Anwar has tweaked the script of his 1986 play Shirley Valentine to re-set the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMThere’s nothing Muna (Asha Hassan) likes more than chatting with her friends or sitting in front of Judge Rinder with a packet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMThere are several references to familiar children’s characters in Joyce Branagh’s production of Sleeping Beauty. Hayley Russell’s Belladonna Bile channels Maleficent with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMFor the staging of Kate Ferguson and Susannah Pearse’s musical adaptation of Treasure Island, the Octagon has moved from the cosy intimacy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMLike many traditional children’s tales, Mark Twain’s The Prince and the Pauper has dark undertones and serious messages. In adapting the story
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:30PMA huge, ugly fissure runs across the back of the set. It’s an early indication that the family who live at 57A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMLoosely based on Chekhov’s The Seagull, Beth Hyland’s new musical tells the story of an aspiring band, Seagulls, and their quest for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:02AMFor a production ostensibly about a major thoroughfare, The D Road is actually about stasis, and the bonds that bind us to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PM“I will make my mark”, vows determined British cyclist Beryl Burton (Vicky Binns), desperate to prove her doctors and teachers wrong when
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMFiona Buffini’s revival of her sister Moira’s play about the relationship between the Queen and “that bloody woman” Margaret Thatcher occasionally suffers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMShakespeare’s Rose Theatre is back in York for the summer, with the central Clifford’s Tower site playing host to this pop-up venue
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMDavid Greig’s 2011 play tells the story of a straight-laced academic whose conference trip to Kelso veers disturbingly into the unknown. Anna
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMJessica Blank and Erik Jensen’s 2002 play The Exonerated recounts the experiences of six death row prisoners found to have been wrongfully
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:08AMMost of the characters in Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest are concerned with appearances. Algernon Moncrieff keeps track of current
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:07AMAlthough ostensibly about a colliery band aiming to reach the national brass band championships, Brassed Off is a deeply political piece about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMFittingly for a play about the importance of effective communication, Yellow Is the Colour of Sunshine seamlessly fuses music, movement, sign language
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:45AMLizzie Nunnery’s 2007 play Intemperance is set within the Irish community in 1854 Liverpool. A single dour room houses five members of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThough this new touring production from Bill Kenwright’s Classic Thriller Theatre company is unapologetically old-fashioned, it’s also stylishly staged and winningly performed.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMIn Patrick Barlow’s Olivier-winning 2005 reworking of the classic John Buchan spy caper, pretty much everything – even death – is a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMRags first appeared on Broadway in 1986 but closed after only four performances. The writers have since had other musical successes (notably
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMMartin McDonagh has enjoyed cinematic success of late, most notably with Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, but the dark humour of his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMDavid and Marian’s bathroom is spacious and sumptuous. His and hers sinks and a roll-top bath hint at the couple’s outward prosperity.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMIn Much Ado About Nothing, Beatrice and Benedick are at “merry war”. Director Conrad Nelson takes the concept of wartime amusement and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AMDave has passed on a love of Rod Stewart to son David, but they don’t share a genetic link or even the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMBolton’s Octagon Theatre is on the move again, with the town’s Albert Halls playing host to The Rise and Fall of Little
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMFor Club Mex, a new musical penned by comic Tamar Broadbent, Manchester’s ever-versatile Hope Mill warehouse space is transformed into a Mexican
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMWith Cannon and Ball, silly deviation is very much their schtick. It’s just a shame that their talents are not harnessed to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMThe vibrantly-lit magic carpet taking flight above the stalls is a stand-out moment in Lawrence Batley Theatre’s production of Aladdin. A triumph
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMThe opening of Oldham Coliseum’s Cinderella signals the start of pantomime season. To begin with Cinderella (Shorelle Hepkin) seems to be stepping
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