Category: Regional

In a landmark moment for both the venue and the company, Les Misérables makes its long-awaited amateur debut at Nottingham’s Theatre Royal – and Nottingham Operatic Society’s production (in conjunction with Carlton Operatic Society and The Cast) rises superbly to the occasion. Directed by David Covey and staged as part of the society’s centenary year celebrations, this…

Currently touring the UK and stopping off at Stoke’s Regent Theatre, & Juliet is a glittering pop-powered reimagining of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, asking what might happen if Juliet didn’t die, but chose to rewrite her own story instead. Penned by Schitt’s Creek writer David West Read and bursting with pop anthems from Max Martin…

Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show has long been a gleeful, gender-bending rebellion against theatrical convention – and even after half a century, it continues to draw crowds ready to shout, sing, and step to the left. This week’s stop in Stoke sees the latest UK tour bring its usual blend of glam rock, B-movie…

Currently haunting the Theatre Royal Nottingham as part of its first full UK tour, Ghost Stories proves why it has become a worldwide cult phenomenon. Written and directed by Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, the production manages the rare feat of bringing genuine horror to the stage — no easy task — and does so…

Stepping into Theatre Royal Nottingham for Murder, She Didn’t Write feels a little like checking into an Agatha Christie novel that’s been rewritten by Monty Python after too much coffee. The show’s concept is dazzlingly simple: the audience provides the raw ingredients—location, murder weapon, and even victim—while the cast spins these suggestions into a completely original murder…

The UK tour staging of & Juliet playing at  Theatre Royal Nottingham this week delivers an empowering and modern twist in the classic Shakespearean tale Romeo and Juliet, injecting it with with uplifting energy and a playlist of popular pop anthems. This musical reframes Juliet’s story which allows her to choose her own path through life beyond…

There’s something enduringly delightful about an Agatha Christie mystery: the tight plotting, the complex web of motives, and the slow, satisfying unfurling of the truth. Murder on the Orient Express, in this new UK and Ireland touring production adapted by Ken Ludwig and directed by Lucy Bailey, proves no exception to that rule — a…

Stepping into Beyond Unity feels less like entering a conventional theatre piece and more like plunging headfirst into a whirlwind of sensation, thought, and lived experience. Alex Draghici’s one-woman performance is a bold, unflinching exploration of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), blending comedy, movement, sound, and visual art into an experience that is as disorienting as…

War Horse first exploded onto stage at the National Theatre in 2007 and the current touring production shows why, nearly twenty years later, it is still playing to capacity audiences around the world.  It is a story that depicts the First World War on all its scales, from the nightmarish monstrosities of field artillery and…

Based on the classic 1953 Warner Bros. film, Calamity Jane tells the story of the brash and outspoken frontierswoman of Deadwood City, whose larger-than-life personality often gets her into trouble. Set against the backdrop of the American Wild West, the story blends comedy, drama, and classic musical numbers like “The Deadwood Stage” and “Secret Love”.…