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

Jason Durr as Sherlock Holmes and Adrian Lukis      as Mycroft Holmes

9:00am Saturday 25th May 2013

SHERLOCK Holmes undergoes more reinventions than David Bowie.

Review: The Misanthrope, York Theatre Royal, until May 25

Zara Tempest-Walters as Celimene and Harvey Virdi as Arsinoe

11:35am Friday 24th May 2013

Tartuffe in 2008 and The Hypochondriac in 2009, The Misanthrope completes a trilogy of plays by “Roger McGough after Moliere”. Or McGoughiere, as he calls this writing “partnership” across the centuries.

Hitchhiker fans throw in the towel...

Grand Opera House staff celebrate Towel Day to promote the forthcoming production of the Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy. From left, Steve Lorains, Lizzie Richards, Celestine Dubruel and Rachel Alexander-Hill

8:09am Friday 24th May 2013

A NEW production of Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy – Live! will be performed at York Grand Opera House this year featuring the original cast of the radio and television shows.

Just A Quickie with… Scott Garnham, director of York Stage Musicals’ Whistle Down The Wind

Scott Garnham

12:51pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

SCOTT Garnham first caught the eye as a teenage prodigy in York and Ryedale youth theatre shows. Now a professional actor, working regularly in the West End and on tour in musical theatre, he is returning home to direct Andrew Lloyd Webber and Jim Steinman’s Whistle Down The Wind for York Stage Musicals.

Being Tommy Cooper, Grand Opera House, York, May 29

Being Tommy Cooper, Grand Opera House, York, May 29

12:26pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

DAMIAN Williams was always compared with Tommy Cooper. Now he is being Tommy Cooper in a play of that name by Tom Green that visits the Grand Opera House, York, for one night only on Wednesday.

Northern Broadsides’ Rutherford & Son, York Theatre Royal, May 28 - June 1

Barrie Rutter

12:16pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

Barrie Rutter of Northern Broadsides tells Charles Hutchinson that Rutherford & Son is a prescient piece for today’s audiences and is a play that has long been on his shelf.

Northern Broadsides’ Rutherford & Son, York Theatre Royal, May 28 - June 1

12:14pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

NORTHERN Broadsides artistic director Barrie Rutter first came across KG Sowerby’s long-neglected play Rutherford & Son maybe ten or 12 years ago.

Githa, York Theatre Royal Studio, May 28 - June 1

12:11pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

SOME THINGS just go together. In planning the Yorkshire Season at York Theatre Royal, it made perfect sense to run Hannah Davies’s one-woman show Githa in the Studio at the same time that Northern Broadsides’ production of Githa Sowerby’s play Rutherford & Son was running in the main house.

Poe, Six Lips Theatre, Friargate Theatre, June 7

12:08pm Thursday 23rd May 2013

YORK company Six Lips Theatre return from a ten-day run of their show Poe at the Brighton Fringe to mount a Yorkshire tour of this celebration of one of the most revered yet slandered authors of early modern fiction, Edgar Allan Poe.

Beyond The Veil, Mikron Theatre, Scarcroft Allotments, May 29

Caroline Hallam as beekeeper April in Losing The Plot in 2012

11:40am Thursday 23rd May 2013

HIVES, honey and homicide? What on earth can be going on at the Scarcroft Allotment in York? Find out at 7pm next Wednesday, when Mikron Theatre presents Beyond The Veil, a crime-thriller with a sting in its tail.



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