115 stories by "Chris Bartlett"
Clwyd Theatr Cymru, Mold: Brian Friel has been dubbed the 'Irish Chekhov', and while this 1979 dissection of a once-powerful aristocratic Catholic family sees arguably Ireland'…
Secret location, Manchester: This third and final site-specific production from the Library Theatre, before it moves to its new home, is a deliberately schizophrenic affair. Ambitiously, it …
Royal Exchange, Manchester: Mancunian writer Rory Mullarkey shows a lot of promise in this, his first full-length professionally produced play.
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Royal Exchange, Manchester: Harper Lee's enduring fable about man's inhumanity to man, but also his capacity for compassion, is brought vividly to life in this imaginative Royal Ex…
Theatre Royal, St Helens: This panto offers good, raucous, uncomplicated, but not necessarily clean, fun.
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Theatre Royal, St Helens: If you're looking for good, raucous uncomplicated fun, you could do a lot worse than the Theatre Royal's seasonal offering for 2012. But those of a slight…
The Grange, Northwich: It comes as a pleasant surprise to find such an impressive theatre space attached to a school. But there is nothing school-production-like about this traditional-as-mi…
Albert Halls, Bolton: Though a lot less lavish than other local seasonal offerings, the Albert Halls has a reputation for delivering quality pantomines. So it is a shame that this year'…
The Edge, Manchester: This enjoyable, family-friendly musical adventure is the first in-house production from this new theatre based in a former Sunday school in Chorlton, Manchester. An ori…
Royal Exchange, Manchester: With his tales of drawling southern belles, thwarted passions and mental fragility, you know what you're getting with Tennessee Williams. All of which makes …
Royal Exchange, Manchester: If you had to watch just one Restoration comedy, it could be argued that William Wycherley's bawdy concoction of sexual machinations, misunderstandings and g…
Number One First Street, Manchester: The lines referred to in this production, which transforms a featureless floor in Manchester's Number One First Street office block into a higgledy-…
Manchester Evening News Arena: The road to this musical celebration of the world's longest-running soap opera has been a long and winding one. So long, in fact, that in 2010 it was beat…
Royal Exchange, Manchester: August Strindberg's taut dissection of class warfare and sexual politics is rendered faithfully in this handsome Royal Exchange revival. And while adapter Da…
Octagon, Bolton: We are now so used to seeing Shakespeare's tragedies reinvented and transplanted to alternative historical settings that we've become rather inured to the tactic. …
