Staged in-the-round, Mark Babych’s production of Jim Cartwright’s pub-set play draws you in, as if you’re idling over a pint as an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMMaster of ceremonies Marc Graham arrives on stage astride an inflatable shark at the start of Middle Child’s irreverent Christmas show. Bantering
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMIn Hull New Theatre’s version of Aladdin, dancer and actor Jake Canuso rarely stands still. Sporting “magical cha-cha heels” he shows off
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMAfter the bite of last year’s production of Oliver Twist, which didn’t shy away from depicting the grimmer aspects of Victorian London,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMThe farmhouse walls are partly torn down in Hull Truck’s new production of Martin McDonagh’s breakout play. It feels as if the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMPinter’s play bamboozled some critics when it premiered in 1975. It remains a conundrum. It remains quite hard to know what it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:58AMIn this revival of Ben Benison’s 2008 play, originally staged in Scarborough, Shakespeare’s tragedy plays out in a domestic setting – that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:19AMIt might not be a festive tale but Goodnight Mister Tom, with its themes of redemption and acceptance, chimes with Christmas. In
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMMiddle Child’s panto has a new home this year, moving from its previous base in Fruit, a converted warehouse, to Jubilee Central.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMHull Truck’s take on Oliver Twist is convincingly Dickensian, both in its vivid characters and in the momentum of the narrative, holding
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:10AMResplendent in an array of eye-wateringly bright costumes, including a traffic light and zebra crossing print combo, David Dale’s Claudia delivers one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMBeverly enters the room like a star from Hollywood’s golden age, flinging open the double doors with outstretched arms. Though this glamorous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMWhile fake news isn’t at the centre of Better Off Dead, it certainly swirls around the edges of this bleakly comic play.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMDavid Lindsay-Abaire’s 2011 play, Good People, is set within the tough underbelly of South Boston: “Southie” to its citizens. With Donald Trump’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:09AMThe thumping drumbeats of Iggy Pop’s Lust For Life roar out of the speakers as flickering video images projected on to the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AMHull’s alternative panto more than matches anything in the city for its invention. This sixth Middle Child Christmas show – it’s now
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMPanto’s flexing its muscles at the redeveloped Hull New Theatre. In Peter Pan, the first festive show since its £16m facelift, Qdos
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMThe Ghost of Christmas Present emerges from a gift-wrapped box, her skirt wreathed in festive lights. “I’ve had tinselitis”, she tells us
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMA gang of swaggering lads, hair Brylcreemed and suits sharply cut, are making eyes at a group of women, who are languidly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:31AMA young woman paces her cramped flat, fussing with her hair, trying on different necklaces. It appears that she’s preparing for a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMFifty years of married life, and 50 years of a city. John Godber’s comic drama threads the life of the Malcolm and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMThe need to escape is signposted all over the stage set for this adaptation of Marina Lewycka’s novel. Ladders are propped up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMThe lime and white logo of the Kasang corporation is stamped throughout the entryway to its glass-fronted office. The beaming staff –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AMFrom its opening scene, at a northern university’s hall of residence during the early 1980s, to its close in 2010, a simple,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:45AMIt’s a tale of a girl and a boy and a a singing asteroid (words I never thought I’d type). Staged in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMTimes are tough at the Six Bells. This pub turned community hub, with a plastic skeleton’s hung on the wall as an
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AMThe end of the world has arrived – in a city at the “end of the line”. Hull is never mentioned in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMThe Kennedys’ home has seen better days. Along with the dingy paint, there’s a jagged row of bricks, as ominous as shark’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:57AMWhen Robert Louis Stevenson wrote Treasure Island, Hull’s fishing fleets were making perilous trips to the Arctic. The thought of those icy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMAs the dust settles on Clinton and Trump’s battle for the US Presidency, this revival of Richard Vergette’s drama, As We Forgive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:33AMHull Truck Theatre, Hull: Here's a toast for the downtrodden and all who have ever felt marginalised. Mike Kenny's adaptation of Cinderella is a plea from below the stairs - under …
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