Peak Performance Dance and Theatre School is celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2019. Principal Jill Ferguson says she […]
Category Archive: Drama
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 […]
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 […]
