Home, ManchesterSophie Anderson’s novel about a ‘yaga’ ushering the newly dead to the next world is put on its feet in this exuberant show Is the house going to grow chicken legs and r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMLeeds PlayhouseWhile unrefined, this show based on Tess Seddon’s failed attempt to stand for parliament, has a heart the size of at least one of the Ridings There is a neat irony here: had…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMHull TruckOne-liners and vernacular idiosyncrasies at the ready, the Hull-born One Man, Two Guvnors playwright Richard Bean takes us back to 1971 and the founding of a local institution Ori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMCrucible, SheffieldWith hula hoops and a giant cake, this show bashes the narrative with disco glitz but keeps tragedy at its centre That the props department had to source a giant birthday …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMOctagon, BoltonThe regional premiere of Vinay Patel’s six-decade, three-continent story features a fantastic first professional performance from Saba Shiraz Early on in this three-act, two…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMStudio, SheffieldRyan Calais Cameron’s story of two young men who grew up together in care is flawed yet has a visceral rawness A writer singled out as a future star, Ryan Calais Cameron (…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMLeeds PlayhouseAfter a run at the Tokyo Olympics, this production arrives in Britain with every ounce of humour and verve exploited to the full A witty retelling of a classic that leaves no …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMCrucible, SheffieldThis story of loneliness and romantic disappointment is not obvious Christmas show material but has a lot to say about the season An attempted suicide, characters in the g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMDerby theatreJim Hawkins becomes a young woman (or two) in this joyous but flawed adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale While this is a sometimes flawed production, with an o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMThe Civic, BarnsleyProper Job’s staging of Kafka’s unfinished novel has a watchable lead and some cracking jokes, but leaves us short on connection There is a clue about what is to come …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMLeeds PlayhouseFor a tale of the undead, Imitating the Dog’s inventive blend of live theatre and tech is bursting with life Having tackled zombies in its most recent production, Night of t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMCrucible, SheffieldA group of female prisoners come together for a concert in Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s energetic and joyful play You wait three years for a new Morgan Lloyd Malcolm play and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMAs a boy, Nick Ahad idolised the wrestlers he saw on Saturday TV. Now he has revisited the sport’s northern heartland in Glory, a state-of-the-nation play that captures the thrill of the r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMChristopher Biggins arrives on stage as Widow Twankey in a cake emblazoned with a great 20™ and the curtain call ends with
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMAs the only brown person in the room at The Glang Show, I couldn’t shake a sense of otherness when a quip turned sourI’m a few months into a new career as a standup comedian. I’ve had …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMAsk anyone who has trained with Philippe Gaulier: clowning is seriously hard work. A reminder of just how hard comes in Keepy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:36AMWith his background writing for Coronation Street, playwright Ben Tagoe knows how to crank up the tension in a confined space. With
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMIn the 50th anniversary year of Bolton’s Octagon Theatre, current artistic director Elizabeth Newman has invited back previous holders of the role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMThe Bradford Alhambra pantomime, part of the Qdos stable, is one of the biggest in the country and this year it doesn’t
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