When Present Company was told last week that months of painstaking preparations and rehearsals for the world premiere […]
Category Archive: Drama
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 […]
Little Ed was launched in Derby this year as a brand new fringe-style festival and its organisers, who […]
If you would do anything to be transported to the Dickensian streets of London or take to the […]
The Addams Family has been disturbing and amusing people for about 80 years and has proved to be […]
A brand new version of the classic The Three Little Pigs with a garlicky, French twist, where the […]
The star of stage and screen, Ian McKellen, will be coming to Buxton Opera House as part of […]
Confessions of a Cockney Temple Dancer is a humorous, honest and compelling solo show about growing up within […]
Instinctive, curious, bold and bouncy; Sarah is a mighty proud square peg, which wouldn’t be such a problem […]
Derby Shakespeare Theatre Company are offering you the chance to join them for a pre-show talk about their […]
Lost Dog’s new show reveals the real story of Romeo and Juliet. It turns out they didn’t die […]
The reign of Mary Tudor, England’s first Queen Regnant, is the subject of a new play by Belper-based […]
Bill Kenwright’s inaugural Classic Screen to Stage Theatre Company production of Rain Man, is coming to Derby Theatre […]
I wanted to leave the theatre last night saying I had been pleasantly surprised by what I had […]
It is the summer of 1978, Simon and his friends should be looking forward to leaving school, but […]
Derby County Community Trust, in partnership with Derby Cultural Education Partnership and Derby Sport Forum, have been awarded […]
Belper Players return this month with an Alan Ayckbourn play which goes deeper and darker into the mind […]
Derby Theatre’s RETOLD series of one-woman plays is an ingenious idea by its artist director Sarah Brigham where […]
Baroque Theatre Company will be bringing the first ever national tour of Edith in the Dark to the Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield, on […]
Chatsworth Players will perform one of the great tragi-comedies of the last century, The Dresser at Chatsworth Theatre […]
Fifty years ago the women workers at the Ford plant in Dagenham took a stand and went on […]
It’s been over 40 years since Mike Leigh’s gauche hostess Beverly slow-danced her way into theatrical history, but […]
Surprising shows in surprising places is what arts organisation Live & Local promises – and that’s exactly what […]
Derby-based Maison Foo are to premiere their groundbreaking new show – A Thing Mislaid – at Déda on […]
New Perspectives delivered a powerful piece of theatre in this skillfully adapted version of Chigozie Obioma’s The Fishermen. The […]
A powerful new play called Beyond Shame is being staged at Derby Theatre in partnership with Karma Nirvana, an […]
A Derbyshire student has wowed guests at the opening night of her degree show with an unusual design for […]
Exciting times are ahead for one of the oldest amateur drama groups in Derbyshire which is celebrating sell-out […]
Founded in 2009 with the aim to produce quality Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in a concentrated rehearsal period, […]
Buxton Festival Fringe is preparing for another bumper event with 181 entrants, as performers now see it as […]
Departure Lounge is a fantastic summer festival of fresh and thrilling theatre with a bumper line-up of shows, […]
Buxton Drama League opens up the great archives of British social history with the latest production Telling Lives, […]
Six women with one thing in common – Henry – the man they all had the misfortune to […]
On Sunday 15 July at 7pm the wealth of amateur theatre talent in Derby, and surrounding towns and […]
It’s June, so that must mean that Derby’s Furthest From the Sea arts organisation is about to stage […]
