York Theatre Royal will present Patient No. 1, a stark comic satire set in a not-too-distant future by American political writer Donald Freed, the theatre's playwright in residence, from May 1 to 17.
ALAN Ayckbourn will conclude his tenure as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, with The Things That Go Bump season, three Ayckbourn plays about the ghosts that lurk in the dark corners of all our minds.
THE Lambeth Walk musical by Yorkshireman Noel Gay pops up every handful of years in York: York Amateur Operatic and Dramatic Society in 1997, York Light Opera Society in 2003, and now New Earswick Musical Society.
AFTER the first night, artistic director and choreographer Javier De Frutos let it be known he would prefer Phoenix Dance Theatre's first full-length dance drama to be considered as a musical.
IN a fog of Victorian pipe smoke, Jerome (John Sackville) and his accident-prone friend Harris (Jonathan Race) and City slacker George (Drew Mulligan) are slumped in their armchairs. What they need is rest and a complete change: a trip up the Thames.
STEPPING into the glitzy cabaret set of Copacabana, it was time to relax and enjoy the musical theatre world of Ryedale Youth Theatre, where "music and passion are always the fashion".
Oh yes it was - a success! From the minute the curtain went up on Abanazar, the wicked magician played by the highly talented Alun Nixon, audiences knew they were in for a pantomime evening of music, fun and humour.
Jimmy Carr, Repeat Offender, Grand Opera House, York, Wednesday and Thursday
WHEN you have comic timing, like the immaculate Jimmy Carr, even the luck of the comedy gods can fall your way.
THE luminous green programme is printed in recycled paper, a decision typical of Marcus Romer's funky and fun, earthy but sharply aware new staging of Raymond Briggs's cult children's story.
HISTORY has it that George Orwell was going to call his futuristic final work 1948 - the year he wrote it - until his publisher suggested 1984. Not so in Roy Smiles's biographical play, where Orwell says he chose 1984 as it would be a Year Of The Rat, to tie in with the rat cage in Room 101.
JOHN Godber wrote Our House for Hull Truck's 30th anniversary in 2001, staging the first half of his Chekhovian drama in a warehouse, the second in the main auditorium as the story moved inside from the garden.
THE screaming pom-pom waving children who filled York's Joseph Rowntree Theatre on Wednesday evening loved every minute of Disney's High School Musical.
Helena Blackman, BBC's How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria? runner-up, did her theatrical reputation a great deal of justice in Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific.
DANIEL Bye, new part-time artistic director for this renamed company, brings to the stage his first show, We'll Meet Again, billed as "the most ambitious the company has ever attempted".
ASIDE from the revival of Alan Ayckbourn's interlinking Intimate Exchanges octet in Scarborough, no set of plays by one writer on a Yorkshire stage has been more rewarding than Richard Bean's run at Hull Truck.
