Calamity Jane
Watermill Theatre production at Sunderland Empire
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Philip's Top 5
Every week London editor Philip Fisher selects the top five plays in London.
- Matilda the Musical (Cambridge Theatre)
- Once (Phoenix Theatre, London)
- Dara (National Theatre (Lyttelton Theatre))
- The Hard Problem (National Theatre (Dorfman Theatre))
- Closer (Donmar Warehouse)
The Alternative Top 5
- The Book of Mormon (Prince of Wales Theatre, London)
- The Play That Goes Wrong (Duchess Theatre)
- Made in Dagenham (Adelphi Theatre)
- The Changeling (Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe)
- Beautiful—The Carole King Musical (Aldwych Theatre)
Latest reviews
Blood Brothers
Bill Kenwright by arrangement with Bob Swash at Palace Theatre, Manchester
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Dance 'til Dawn
Adam Spiegel at New Victoria Theatre, Woking
Seasons of Love
Martin Flitton at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
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The Rise and Shine of Comrade Fiasco
Gate Theatre, Notting Hill
The Brontë Season (Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall)
Butterfly Psyche at The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham
The King's Speech
Birmingham Repertory Theatre in association with Chichester Festival Theatre at Birmingham REP
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Macbeth
David Shopland at Lost Theatre
The Life of Riley
Contemporary Irish Plays
Methuen Drama
Contemporary Scottish Plays
Methuen Drama
Contemporary English Plays
Methuen Drama
Dreaming in Code
2Faced Dance Company at Stanley & Audrey Burton Theatre
The Caucasian Chalk Circle
Lyceum Theatre Company at Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh
Lippy
Bush Moukarzel and Dead Centre at Young Vic
Harajuku Girls
Papergang Theatre at Finborough Theatre
Loserville
Union Theatre
Madam Butterfly
Raymond Gubbay at Royal Albert Hall
The Indian Queen
English National Opera at The Coliseum
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Children's Touring Partnership at Chichester Festival Theatre
My Brother's Country
Soroush and Routes North at The Lowry (Studio), Salford
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Multitudes
Tricycle Theatre
John
DV8 Physical Theatre at The Lowry, Salford
Boi Boi is Dead
West Yorkshire Playhouse, Tiata Fahodzi & Watford Palace Theatre at Courtyard Theatre, West Yorkshire Playhouse
1898 - Adieu / Absinthe / Scene To Be Seen / Beholder of Beauty
Print Room at the Coronet
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A Journey Round My Skull
KILN at The Dukes, Lancaster
Man and Superman
National Theatre (Lyttelton)
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Birdsong
The Original Theatre Company at Northern Stage, Newcastle
While You Wait
BTG has partnered with Fuel Theatre on a series of podcasts called While You Wait.
- Waiting... Now by Paul Clark in collaboration with Bill Brewer
- Waiting... to be born by Lewis Gibson in collaboration with Debra Bick and Sarah Beake
- Waiting... in a hairdressers by Malika Booker in collaboration with Emily Butterworth
- Waiting... to come home by Caroline Horton in collaboration with Jennifer Wild
- Waiting... for a Cancer Diagnosis by Brian Lobel, in collaboration with Iain Perdue
- Waiting... are we? By The Company in collaboration with Jonathan Reades and Raphael Woolf
- Waiting... for a loved one to die by Rachel Mars in collaboration with Fliss Murtagh
- Waiting... for the inevitable by Toby Jones in collaboration with Peter Giese
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Theatre productions in the north east in the week beginning Monday 2 March 2015.
Midlands productions
Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 2 March.
NW Productions
Round-up of regional productions opening week beginning Sunday March 1.
Opera North's Salford line-up
Opera North returns to The Lowry in Salford with a new production of Marriage of Figaro, an exciting double-bill and the return of the highly-successful La traviata.
Lancaster Theatre fest to mark Women's Day
To celebrate International Women’s Day a Theatre Festival—Hear Me Roar! takes place in various venues in Lancaster.
Liverpool opening for new play
Plastic Figurines, a new play by Ella Carmen Greenhill opens at Liverpool Playhouse Studio April 9.
Double bill for Opera House
Manchester Opera House will live up to its name when iconic operas Rigoletto and Madama Butterfly return as part of a national 2015 tour.
Liverpool Playhouse gets all political
A trio of politically-engaged plays come to Liverpool Playhouse this spring.
Manning the Barricades for 15 years
Beyond the Barricade celebrates 15 successful years touring when it comes to the Opera House, Manchester.
Two take on a Lakeside pub
Two by Jim Cartwright, opens at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake March 21.
Chichester announces 2015 season
Chichester marks its first full season following its major redevelopment with ambitious large-scale productions.
“Vibrant” season this summer at Derby Theatre
Derby Theatre’s summer 2015 season promises “an exciting theatrical ride for audiences and participants of all ages”.
New Vic gets its teeth into Dracula adaptation
A new adaptation of Dracula will evoke Bram Stoker’s Victorian England and will pit scientific advancement against superstition at Newcastle-under-Lyme’s New Vic.
Adrian Mole musical gets Leicester première
Leicester’s favourite teenager Adrian Mole is to commentate on everything that happens around him in a new musical that has its world première at the city’s Curve Theatre.
RSC reveals casts for Merchant of Venice and Othello
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced the casts for its summer 2015 productions of The Merchant of Venice and Othello which will run in repertoire in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre at Stratford.
Derby fire due to “design and maintenance failings”
A major fire 12 months ago which closed Derby’s Assembly Rooms was due to failings in its design and maintenance, according to a draft report.
Jabberwocky Market returns to Darlington
The twice yearly theatre festival, Jabberwocky Market, returns to Darlington in March.
Kicking and Screaming throughout the NE
Theatre company Tangled Feet tours parenthood play Kicking and Screaming throughout the north east.
Alphabetti opens new venue
Alphabetti Theatre opens a new fringe venue in Newcastle.
No GIFT Funding in 2015
The Gateshead International Festival of Theatre has failed to secure funding for 2015.
Guildford's Arnaud awarded Theatres Trust grant to improve access
Last year, Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre was awarded one of the Theatres Trust small capital grants.