Rutherford & Son, York Theatre Royal, May 30 - June 1

Playwright, poet, literary editor, memoir writer, children’s author, essayist and novelist Blake Morrison

11:06am Wednesday 22nd May 2013

He has edited north eastern playwright Githa Sowerby’s 1912 play Rutherford & Son for Northern Broadsides. Edited, note; not adapted.

Review: Horrible Histories: Terrible Tudors, York Barbican

10:41am Tuesday 21st May 2013

Since the early 1990s, Terry Deary’s Horrible Histories have been teaching children (and adults) how much better history is when you leave the gruesome bits in.

Review: Sherlock Holmes – The Best Kept Secret, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until June 8

6:55am Tuesday 21st May 2013

YORKSHIRE playwright and television writer Mark Catley is opening a new case for Sherlock Holmes at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Whistle Down The Wind, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, May 25 to 31

Coraleigh Hobson, as Brat, Robyn McIntrye, as Swallow, and Oscar Rogers, as Poor Baby, in Whistle Down The Wind

10:50am Monday 20th May 2013

RYEDALE professional musical actor Scott Garnham flies out of New Zealand at the weekend to take the reins for York Stage Musicals’ production of Whistle Down The Wind.

Daniella Westbrook to star in York Barbican pantomime

9:09am Saturday 18th May 2013

SOAP stars Daniella Westbrook and Danny Young will star in York Barbican’s Christmas panto Dick Whittington.

Mystery Woman, Bedern Hall, Bartlegarth, York, May 21

8:28am Saturday 18th May 2013

MYSTERY Woman, York playwright Ged Cooper’s new play inspired by the York Mystery Plays 2012, will receive its first public reading on Tuesday night at Bedern Hall, Bartlegarth, York.

Review: Bin Men, York Theatre Royal Studio, until May 25

8:25am Saturday 18th May 2013

YORK playwright Mike Kenny is so prolific, so constantly inventive, that you come to believe he could create a play from any old rubbish.

Review: Opera North in Albert Herring; Howard Assembly Room, Grand Theatre, Leeds

3:14pm Friday 17th May 2013

Britten’s comic opera is thoroughly well-suited to the studio proportions of the Howard Assembly Room. Its oval shape, with orchestra at one end and stalls audience within toe-touching distance of the singers, makes it ideal for theatre in the round.

The Misanthrope, York Theatre Royal, May 21 to 25

Zara Tempest-Walters and George Potts in The Misanthrope

3:01pm Thursday 16th May 2013

LIVERPOOL poet, performer, pop star and playwright Roger McGough has completed a hat-trick of Moliere adaptations, much to his surprise.

Bin Men, York Theatre Royal Studio, until May 25

Musician Nigel Waterhouse with Mick Jasper and Iain Armstrong

2:50pm Thursday 16th May 2013

PROLIFIC York playwright Mike Kenny has not one, not two, but three new shows in the diary for 2013 at York Theatre Royal.



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