York Theatre Royal's TakeOver Festival has been brilliant " it's been full of fantastic pieces of theatre and has allowed young people the opportunity to see inside the inner workings of the…
It's awesome when theatre companies draw on the past to create new, fresh and original work. This is what Actors of Dionysus has done with its new piece Helen, which brings to the audience a…
For me, theatre is all about bringing something unique and different to an audience, whether it be a good hard-hitting play, a good bit of storytelling or a wacky piece of performance art th…
Theatre is such a diverse performance platform that it can catapult all kinds of work at an audience, and this is exactly what York Theatre Royal's TakeOver Festival is all about. A fitting …
Every so often, a little gem of theatre comes along into your life and blows you away – or, at least, diminishes your ability to think about anything else for a few moments after the s…
Theatre is one of the most unique ways to shine lights on subjects that are often kept in the dark, especially for my current generation. This is exactly what Bryony Lavery's new play Queen …
As I keep saying, theatre is such a diverse performance platform that can accommodate such a vast amount of art. Such examples include serious dramatic plays, dazzlingly spectacular musicals…
Theatre is, and always has been, incredibly different from film and television. It's raw, evocative and, most importantly, alive " and these aspects come to life in a spellbinding new ada…
There's nothing like a modern revival of a classic play to breathe life into some old themes and ideas that are relevant in the world we live in today. This is the case with Roy Williams'…
Every once in a while, it's nice to take a break from the big, exciting shows that catch most of the public's attention on a theatre's main stage, and catch some new work in a much smaller v…
In my last review of Harold Pinter's play Betrayal, I mentioned that there's nothing like a good old-fashioned play to bring an audience to its senses, especially in a theatrical climate tha…
In the current theatrical climate that's awash with abstract and mind-bogglingly inaccessible productions, it's very easy to forget how powerful a good old-fashioned play can be. This is the…
After blowing us away with their cracking contemporary version of A Streetcar Named Desire, Secret Theatre Company has torn down the blank white walls of Stella Kowalski’s house and re…
The Secret Theatre Company is slowly building quite a reputation for itself, and is becoming known for bringing both new and classic plays to life in a unique way. The company began to estab…
There are a lot of heroes in our world that a fair few people haven’t heard of. Take cycling legend Beryl Burton, for example – while she may have been one of the most determined…
Theatre is such a broad performance platform. It can play host to limitless staging, lighting and sound options that ultimately shape the course of a show and how an audience perceives it. I…
After success with Bennett’s classic play Enjoy, the West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Alan Bennett season continues with the musical comedy Betty Blue Eyes, based on his scree…
If you're a lover of plays, pies and pints, then it's well worth popping along to the West Yorkshire Playhouse's new aptly named 'A Play, A Pie and A Pint' programme, which does exactly what…
Playwright Alan Bennett has recently turned 80, and with a career in theatre, film and television spanning over fifty years, it’s easy to see why he’s one of the nation’s m…
The National Theatre Connections festival is a unique festival in which the new work of playwrights from across the country is showcased by youth theatres and schools. This month, the youth …
Theatre is all about stimulating the imagination and letting it run free. It shows us things that film and television can't and offers us a unique experience. Glass-Eye Theatre Company provi…
Theatre is fantastic when it comments on those areas of society that are rarely explored in other media. In this case, playwright Evan Placey's new work Pronoun, performed by the West Yor…
The last time I saw Headlong Theatre Company a few months ago, they were presenting to the audience a wild and electric adaptation of George Orwell's novel 1984, which was met with great acc…
It seems like such a long time since I took my GCSE English Literature exam; it was only two years ago but I've been in love with John Steinbeck's 1937 novel Of Mice and Men ever since. And …
It's a shame when great theatre doesn't make an appearance for quite a few years. However, Errol John's play Moon on a Rainbow Shawl is back after more than 20 years, in a new revival create…