It’s been over 40 years since Mike Leigh’s gauche hostess Beverly slow-danced her way into theatrical history, but […]
Category Archive: Drama
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 […]
The ever-popular outdoor theatre and cinema season will return to Markeaton Park Craft Village in Derby this summer. […]
Derby-based Smoking Guns Theatre Company have been named as one of two artistic organisations to be awarded the […]
Marking the centenary of the end of the First World War, Derby Theatre will present Rachel Wagstaff’s highly […]
Wannabe playwrights are exceedingly lucky to have an enthusiastic amateur theatre group like Marde Hen Productions willing to […]
The Kite Runner has become one of the great fictional successes of the century. Khaled Hosseini’s novel, published […]
Larry Waller admits he likes a challenge and he certainly took one on when he decided to stage […]
Don’t Dress For Dinner staged by the Quarndon Amateur Dramatic Society was one of the most hilarious couple […]
I went along to Derby Theatre unsure. After all Graham Greene’s novel, written 80 years ago, and the […]
Mountains is a compelling story of survival and determination that considers the desire to understand family history – […]
Ever feel like you are constantly disappointing people? Meet Rumi, a British Pakistani woman who’s referred to as […]
Quarndon Amateur Dramatic Society (QUADS) return to the stage this month with Marc Camoletti’s Don’t Dress For Dinner […]
Mountains – The Dreams of Lily Kwok is the first major mid-scale tour of a British East Asian […]
When you have young actors with the talent of Joseph Riley among your ranks it must be tempting […]
Dickens’ story is one of the greatest in the English language and is recalled often for the character […]
Belper Players are reviving a classic British comedy from the 60s at the Strutt Centre in Belper from […]
Creative Cow, the team who delighted audiences with Travels with my Aunt and Our Man in Havana, are […]
Michael Palin’s first stage play The Weekend, described as a comedy with teeth, will be the next production […]
Some ordinary people become involved in extraordinary situations. The way they react can become the stuff of legends. […]
Focusing on the life of one woman, Here I Belong explores the changing nature of English village life […]
Just occasionally a piece of theatre captivates, charms, disturbs and moves like no other experience can. The […]
The design of the on-stage boozer for Jim Cartwright’s Two at Derby Theatre had to be faultless for […]
It’s rare that I leave a theatre to a chorus of moans and groans when I’ve been reviewing […]
If you had the chance to enact revenge would you take it whatever the cost? The Tempest is […]
The new kids on the block at Buxton Opera House will surely be a force to be reckoned […]
When casting for the part of pub landlord in Jim Cartwright’s Two at Derby Theatre, actor Sean McKenzie […]
Buxton Drama League and its predominately Burbage audiences know what to expect of each other other and for […]
