York Press | Theatre

Review: Hairspray, Main School Hall, Lower Site, All Saints School, York

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:56:22 +0000

TAKING up an invitation to review a school production was a fascinating one-off experience.

York couple set up Hedgepig Theatre

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 09:50:44 +0000

YORK actors and freshly bonded husband-and-wife team Andy Curry and Gemma Sharp are setting up a new independent theatre company, Hedgepig Theatre.

Easter pantomime heading to York Barbican

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:03:38 +0000

YORK Barbican is extending the pantomime season to Easter by presenting The Wizard Of Oz in April.

Waiting For Godot, West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, until February 25

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:44:11 +0000

WAITING For Godot is being staged with an all-black British cast for the first time in a co-production between the West Yorkshire Playhouse and Talawa Theatre Company.

Review: Moscow City Ballet in Swan Lake, York Barbican

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:02:39 +0000

In the middle of a punishing three-month tour of England, with four productions in their repertory, it is astonishing that the dancers of Moscow City Ballet can still bring freshness to old chestnuts like Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake.

York Stage Musicals presents David Copperfield, Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, February 21 to 25

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:01:15 +0000

CHARLES Dickens’s 200th birthday falls on Tuesday.

New season at York Theatre Royal starts with The Diary Of Anne Frank

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 10:58:37 +0000

AS the lights finally fade on The York Family Robinson tomorrow night, thoughts turn to the new season at York Theatre Royal, one that will be dominated by a production outside the theatre.

Review: Six Lips Theatre, Person In Law, Friargate Theatre, York, last Friday to Sunday

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:19:35 +0000

YORK company Six Lips Theatre presented Matt Harper’s new play Person In Law at Friargate Theatre last weekend.

Review: Once Upon A Time In Wigan, Hull Truck Theatre

Mon, 30 Jan 2012 12:24:34 +0000

IN a first for Hull Truck Theatre, the company is marking its 40th anniversary by employing a repertory company of actors to perform two “very different” plays in tandem over a six-week season.

Review: Big Society!, Red Ladder & Chumbawamba, Leeds City Varieties, until February 4

Sat, 28 Jan 2012 11:15:33 +0000

AT the restored home of The Good Old Days, the Leeds double act of Red Ladder theatre company and agit-prop folkies Chumbawamba take you back to the bad old days of 1910.