Friday, April 1, 2022
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 06:18AMSunday, March 27, 2022
Leeds 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 07:18AMSunday, February 27, 2022
Hull 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 07:48AMFriday, February 11, 2022
Crucible, 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 06:48AMThursday, February 10, 2022
Octagon, 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 06:48AMFriday, January 28, 2022
Studio, 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 08:03PMThursday, January 6, 2022
Leeds 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 07:06AMFriday, December 17, 2021
Crucible, 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 06:18AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Derby 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 05:24AMMonday, October 25, 2021
The 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 07:42AMThursday, September 30, 2021
Leeds 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 08:42AMWednesday, September 29, 2021
Crucible, 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 08:42AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
As 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 02:04AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Christopher 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 12:38PMThursday, August 30, 2018
As 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 05:33PMThursday, May 10, 2018
Ask 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 10:36AMTuesday, April 24, 2018
With 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 07:19AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
In 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 09:53AMWednesday, December 20, 2017
The Bradford Alhambra pantomime, part of the Qdos stable, is one of the biggest in the country and this year it doesn’t
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AM 
