Theatre
Coronavirus: will the arts survive? Northern arts practitioners and performers tell us their stories
At the time of writing, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden had just announced that indoor live theatre performances can recommence on August 1.
“I think theatre will come back and thrive.” Northern Soul talks to playwright Jonathan Harvey and director Joseph Houston
While theatres remain closed, many venues have created online events to connect with audiences.
Online Theatre Review: The Empathy Experiment
Opera Review: The Marriage of Figaro and The Turn of the Screw, Opera North, The Lowry
For OperaWatch, it’s a welcome return to The Lowry for Opera North’s 2020 spring season.
Theatre Review: Back to The Future – the Musical, Manchester Opera House
Somewhere far along the event horizon, every last hit 80s movie will have been adapted into a stage show – presumably the day they announce Police Academy: The Musical.
Theatre Review: Our Lady of Blundellsands, Everyman, Liverpool
This would have been a better play with just two people in it.
Theatre Review: Alone in Berlin, York Theatre Royal
More and more these days I am reminded of the prescience of W.B. Yeats’s poem The Second Coming, and particularly the line ‘The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.’
Theatre Review: The Talented Mr Ripley, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
There’s a challenge to taking a story as well-known as Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley and making something fresh and new without losing the spark of the original.
Theatre Review: Quality Street, The Lowry, Salford
For most people these days, J.M. Barrie’s name is linked entirely with his brainchild, a figure ambiguous enough to change with the shifting emphases of popular culture – Peter Pan, the child who never grew up.
Theatre Review: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Oldham Coliseum
The iPhone has a lot to answer for.
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