224 stories by "Kristy Stott"
Directed by Carrie Cracknell and Lucy Guerin, this production - starring John Heffernan and Anna Maxwell Martin - is startlingly different to any other versions of Macbeth I have seen before…
Wit is Margaret Edson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, a humorous, emotional and ultimately devastating story set in the final few hours of Dr Vivian Bearing's life.
Since Big Fish Little Fish launched in Manchester in November 2015, their family raves have proven to be the hottest ticket in town. Always a sell-out gig, with tickets selling out for the M…
Get a ticket and go and see The Girls. It is a phenomenal production. A thunderous applause and a well deserved standing ovation greeted the passionate performers and production crew on the …
It has been an exciting year for Upstaged Manchester and I feel blessed and nostalgic as I remember the productions that have lifted my heart, helped me to question and generally captivated …
Hetty Feather was left by her mother at the London Foundling Hospital as a newborn baby. Written by best-selling author Jacqueline Wilson, Hetty Feather traces the life and experiences of a …
Adapted from popular children's book by Richard and Florence Atwater, Mr Popper's Penguins is a festive theatrical treat for all of the family. The story proved its popularity back in 2011 w…
With a notoriously challenging musical score that makes even highly accomplished musicians run for the hills, the Exchange makes Into the Woods look like a walk in the park. Laden with wit, …
Following the success of Rapunzel, balletLORENT are back with a striking adaptation of the Brothers Grimm classic, Snow White.
One of my earliest theatre memories is playing the part of Gerda in a very traditional production of Hans Christian Anderson's Snow Queen. It's always been one of my favourite stories and so…
The sound of crickets chirping and the steady beat of tribal drums give way to shrieking and chanting. Boys with shredded school uniforms, ties wrapped around their heads and faces smeared w…
By Bourne's own admittance the familiar story of Sleeping Beauty always left him 'a little cold' " understandably so " it is a tale about a Princess who spends most of her time asleep. Takin…
Following the success of James and the Giant Peach, Director Sarah Esdaile returns to Bolton Octagon to direct another Roald Dahl classic. In this adaptation by David Wood, The BFG tells the…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has bounded into The Lowry Theatre in Salford on the last leg of its UK tour. Winner of 5 Tony Awards, this adaptation by Simon Stephens bri…
Pantomime is always a huge amount of fun for any creative team to work on and this year's festive offering from the team at Oldham Coliseum is a sparkling example of this. Mother Goose offer…
UPSTAGED RATING: Alastair McDowall’s Pomona was first performed in the round at the Orange Tree Theatre in 2014 before transferring to the National Theatre in 2015. Now, it plays…
Being a huge fan of Sheffield based experimental theatre company Forced Entertainment " I was very keen to find out more about their first production for young people, The Possible Impossibl…
The Proper Job Theatre Company arrived at The Lowry Theatre in Salford with their spine-chilling Nosferatu just in time for All Hallows' Eve. Their latest touring production, Nosferatu is wr…
It's pretty apt that the newest theatre in Manchester brings one of the first great works of theatre to its stage. The Oresteia, a Greek tragedy, is a trilogy which first saw the light of da…
What would the world be like if we could annihilate pornography? How different would our world be if we could ban online porn and just start again? It's an interesting debate and the subject…
Fellswoop Theatre have collaboration at their heart " working as a creative team consisting of a director, two performers and a musician " their main aspiration is to fully integrate the mus…
There is the eerie flickering of candlelight and the faint sound of Edwardian music hall as we walk into Manchester's Royal Exchange Studio and take our seats. Barber Owain Sawyers (Gary Lag…
Your car is starting to get iced up in the morning, you’ve turned your central heating on and your local shop has made room on the shelves for fiery orange pumpkins, massive tubs of je…
Date: 7 october 2015 Upstaged Rating: I was thrilled to attend HOME in Manchester last night to watch the weird and wonderful production, GOLEM by theatre company 1927 Pro…
DATE: 24 september 2015 UPSTAGED RATING: Inspired by the Salem witch hunts of the seventeenth century, Arthur Miller’s The Crucible offered a commentary on McCarthyism and the Ho…
