Ashbourne is promising us 17 days of non-stop entertainment during its annual festival from June 21-July 7. As […]
Category Archive: Drama
The wealth of amateur theatre talent in Derby, and surrounding towns and villages, will be celebrated once again […]
Derbyshire based Ava Hunt Theatre, brings to the stage a new musical using the true story of internationally […]
Belper Arts Festival may have only just finished for 2019 but plans are already under way for 2020. […]
A rustic upstairs bar room, gentle fairy lights and heavy rain set a cosy scene to entice the […]
Since Paul Kerryson became CEO at Buxton Opera House late in 2016 he has made it a priority […]
When Alan Ayckbourn wrote his trilogy – The Norman Conquests – in the early 1970s it is said […]
Quite how the young Captive Audience cast remembered all their lines for their latest production Romeo and Juliet […]
For two dates only this month, Derby Theatre’s Artistic Director, Sarah Brigham will co-direct a stage adaptation of […]
Shakespeare’s classic love story is brought to new life by a young cast of Larry Waller’s Captive Audience […]
Derby Cathedral Quarter Business Improvement District (BID) will stage its first CQ Saturdays free street entertainment event of […]
This weekend Buxton Drama League return to the Pavilion Arts Centre with Alan Ayckbourn’s hilarious comedy, Bedroom Farce. […]
Identifying what makes a community tick and helping the people express themselves artistically is what motivates playwright and […]
Artsbeat has agreed to print a selection of articles written by students studying magazine writing at the University […]
It is 1840. A young governess agrees to look after two orphaned children in Bly, a seemingly idyllic […]
Peak Performance Dance and Theatre School is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2019. Principal Jill Ferguson says she […]
Jim Cartwright’s Road could so easily have been written about Austerity Britain. The inequality and hopelessness of Thatcher’s […]
The Jungle Book is a superb example of Derby Theatre’s ability to create shows that appeal to children […]
The Good Companions Stage Society, which celebrates its 60th anniversary this year very nearly found themselves with nowhere […]
Fame The Musical is a stage show full of breathtaking singing and dazzling dancing. It is a bittersweet, […]
Looking at the stereotypes from leprechauns and nuns, to Michael Flatley’s mother, nothing is left unsaid as Moxie […]
Author Derek Webb attended a Marlowe Players’ performance of his play The Lady Vanishes at Darley Abbey – […]
Belper Arts Festival is preparing the biggest festival to date with over 1,000 participants – many of them […]
A Nobel Prize winner in 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel, Remains of the Day, is a story for anyone […]
A young woman goes missing. The search for her uncovers secrets which threaten to destroy her family…. The […]
The Marlowe Players are to present one of their most challenging productions since they moved to Darley Abbey […]
Why would a confident, party-loving Muslim teenager, who likes nothing more than a drink and smoke with her […]
The Wonderful Discovery of Witches in the County of Lancaster by Dawn State is an intimate and spellbinding […]
The Mayor is in a cold sweat. News has reached him of an imminent investigation by a high-ranking […]
Set in Manchester, Oldham and London, My Mother Said I Never Should is a poignant, bittersweet story about […]
Treachery, corruption, rebellion, betrayal and death – the life of Mary Tudor could never be described as dull. […]
The poignant political novel Noughts and Crosses is more than just another Romeo and Juliet parable – it […]
Before the four refugee actors in Pizza Shop Heroes began telling their stories the house rules were light-heartedly […]
When Present Company was told last week that months of painstaking preparations and rehearsals for the world premiere […]
As I sat down to write this feature on New Year’s Eve the lead item on the 3pm […]
Caroline Mortimer is the nation’s favourite TV cook. In the glow of the studio lights, she has it […]
Looking back on a devasting breakup, master storyteller James Rowland of the Tangram Theatre Company shares his hilarious […]
Derby Theatre and the University of Derby, in partnership with leading practitioners in Applied Theatre from across the […]
It really shouldn’t be possible to set Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens’ portrayal of poverty, child labour, abuse and […]
Derby Theatre has turned the much-loved fable Hansel and Gretel into a fiendish feast of merriment for the […]
