Happy Days
Bromley Churchill Theatre 13th-18th January 2014 Brighton Theatre Royal 20th-25th January Hull New Theatre 28th January-1st February Dublin Bord Gais 4th-8th February Southampton Mayflower 11th-15th February Sheffield Lyceum 17th-22nd February Glasgow King’s 24th February-1st March Bristol Hippodrome 3rd-8th March Norwich Theatre Royal 10th-15th March Southend Cliffs Pavilion 17th-22nd March Woking New Victoria 31st March-5th April […]
Charity Auction
So I’ve just finished uploading all of the auction links for my Online Charity Theatre Auction which starts this coming Friday at 9am! 24 amazing items are listed so far, with more still to come this week before the auction starts! All proceeds from this auction will go to MAD Trust, the Theatre Charity helping […]
Pride & Prejudice: The Panto
Show name: Pride & Prejudice: The Panto Show dates: 15th December, 16th December Show description: By Jove’s uproarious take on a beloved English classic is back! Following a packed out run at the White Bear Theatre Club last year, the company bring Pride & Prejudice: The Panto to The Cockpit for three shows only in […]
The Showstoppers
Show name: The Showstoppers: An Improvised Musical Show dates: November 22nd, 28th 2013 and December 13, 2013 Show description: A brand new musical comedy is created from scratch at every single performance of this award-winning show. Audience suggestions are transformed on the spot into an all-singing, all-dancing production with unpredictable and hilarious results. The Showstoppers […]
Mansfield Park
Rating **** Reviewed by Verity Wilde Theatre Royal, Northampton 28th October 2013 Mansfield Park is not my favourite of Jane Austen’s works and when I came to re-read it over the weekend I found it heavy going, but this adaptation (a touring production by the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds) is as light as air […]
Cinders
Guildford’s first professional adult panto has opened its box office… oh yes it has! Thursday 12th December – Saturday 21st December. 8pm The Back Room, The Star Inn, 2 Quarry Street, Guildford, Surrey, GU1 3TY Guildford Fringe Theatre Company is over the moon to announce their first Christmas production kicking off with Cinders – the adult […]
The Cherry Orchard
Show name: The Cherry Orchard Theatre: Hampstead Parish Church Show website: http://Www.hampsteadplayers.org.uk Show dates: 26th – 30th November 2013 Show description: The Cherry Orchard was Chekhov’s last and greatest play, a wonderful mixture of comedy and pathos, in which lively movement alternates with quiet reflection. It us rooted in pre-Revolutionary Russia, but in its richly […]
Beauty Queen of Leenane
Rating *** Reviewed by Verity Wilde Curve Leicester, 22nd October 2013 Leicester Curve’s 5th birthday season continues with Martin McDonagh’s Beauty Queen of Leenane. Maureen Folan is a 40 year old virgin, stuck living with her demanding and manipulative mother, Mags, in the wilds of western Ireland. Maureen tries to grasp her last chance at […]
The beauty of theatre
One woman’s trash is another woman’s treasure (so the saying goes) and this applies to theatre as well. I was recently surprised to read a one star, scathing review of a show I had loved and awarded five stars to. And then the other night I found myself having a conversation with someone, raving about […]
Drunk
The McOnie Company Presents THE WORLD PREMIERE OF “DRUNK” A THEATRE DANCE REVUE DIRECTED AND CHOREOGRAPHED BY DREW MCONIE WITH MUSIC AND LYRICS BY GRANT OLDING PREMIERING AT CURVE THEATRE, LEICESTER PRIOR TO A LONDON RUN AT THE BRIDEWELL THEATRE FROM WEDNESDAY 5 FEBRUARY TO SATURDAY 1 MARCH 2014 The McOnie Company is delighted to […]