http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/ York Press /whatson/theatre/ en-gb Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:05:52 +0000 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:05:52 +0000 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/rssterms/ M6 nvincent@newsquest.co.uk webmaster@digitalmedia.newsquest.co.uk http://www.thepress.co.uk/resources/images/178952/?type=rsslogo http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/ http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848406.Two_York_premieres_for_York_Stage_Musicals_in_2009/ YORK Stage Musicals have secured the rights to two York premieres for 2009. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:20:00 +0000 66fb18aff3c84efb125f85e2fc0eb4a0 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848402.Preview__York_Stage_Youth_present_The_Wiz__Grand_Opera_House__York__November_20_to_22/ YORK Stage Youth will “Ease On Down The Road” in The Wiz, but not a roadway of the usual yellow brick variety. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:18:36 +0000 74604032475731c74ba027c30018ba46 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848341.Sold_on_Miller/ Directing Death Of A Salesman has particular resonance for Damian Cruden, as he tells CHARLES HUTCHINSON. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:06:14 +0000 3765c7b07900bc1a126c16b78e87f257 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848324.Cast_wanted_for_On_The_Shore_Of_The_Wide_World/ Old Bomb Theatre Company will present On The Shore Of The Wide World in The Studio at York Theatre Royal next March. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:03:13 +0000 222cc872460258786cb607080c92dbb5 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848287.Preview__Kathakali__National_Centre_for_Early_Music__York__November_14/ The Kala Chethena Kathakali Theatre Company is celebrating its 21st anniversary with a British tour of Kathakali, a classical dance-drama from South India featuring the Kathakali master Kalamandalam Gopi. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:58:36 +0000 ccbaf3014b455ffc124380af37b4d532 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848005.Preview__Shared_Experience_presents_Mine__West_Yorkshire_Playhouse__Leeds__November_18_to_22/ SHARED Experience move into the modern world for the first time to confront the painful social, moral and political questions surrounding adoption today in Mine, on tour at the West Yorkshire Playhouse from Tuesday. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:17:28 +0000 15e06baad0c5b802ea26fd7c88ea955a http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3847986.Review__The_Merchant_Of_Venice__York_Shakespeare_Project__41_Monkgate__York__until_November_22/ THE Merchant Of Venice has left the sinister shadows and dark backwaters of 16th century Venice for the Edwardian era. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 11:14:31 +0000 2ea50675ae51834f2a61973bc4d6cbec http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3848393.The_Merchant_Of_Venice___the_difficult_drama/ The Merchant Of Venice is Shakespeare’s most difficult play – is it or is it not anti-Semitic? – but York Shakespeare Project debutant Robbie Swale would prefer to broaden the perspective. Fri, 14 Nov 2008 12:15:20 +0000 9e4610d3311548df52e45c5db53cb2e4 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3843324.Review__Hello__Dolly___Joseph_Rowntree_Theatre__York__until_November_15/ New Earswick Musical Society’s production of Hello, Dolly! is a mixed bag; it has moments of theatrical brilliance but, at times, the nerves and mistakes bring the performance crashing back down to earth with a bitter reminder of its amateur status. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:44:26 +0000 b4ecaf60856f0eb8d4c6c3973c08e2d5 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3843336.Review__I_Want_That_Hair__The_Studio__York_Theatre_Royal__until_November_22/ LYDIA Denno’s design uses every last inch of the stage space in The Studio. Thu, 13 Nov 2008 09:45:57 +0000 4eed3feb8508feeb22a43f0c1d2b8fae http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3839133.Review__Rupert_Brooke__The_Useful_Donkey_Theatre_Company__York_Theatre_Royal/ MARK Payton sets the Church clock free from standing at ten to three in his biographical drama about Rupert Brooke, the soldier poet of the First World War so romanticised by Winston Churchill. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:12:11 +0000 3d97ef7ac49613dd10c9c3b0146cd39e http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3839130.Review__Spyski___Peepolykus__West_Yorkshire_Playhouse__Leeds__until_November_15/ THE Playhouse Tannoy and programme cover and biographies insist you are about to watch The Importance Of Being Earnest, and for a short while you are: a thickly sliced, hammy, over-acted Wilde rehearsal on a ramshackle set. Wed, 12 Nov 2008 08:10:44 +0000 97d0d6b9ffc4f7a157bc66b41f5272d5 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3829323.Preview__The_Merchant_Of_Venice__York_Shakespeare_Project__41_Monkgate__formerly_Stagecoach___November_12_to_22/ York Shakespeare Project will unravel Shakespeare’s most divisive drama, Shylock’s tale of prejudice and betrayal, The Merchant Of Venice, from Wednesday in York. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:10:30 +0000 3e7146c0d2261fc1de9cfdd7a4d1b5f4 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3829300.Preview_____Tis_Pity_She___s_A_Whore__The_Mooted_Theatre_Co__Harrogate__November_13__Skipton__November_14___Leeds__November_20_to_22___York__November_27_to_29/ The Mooted Theatre Company opens a Yorkshire tour of John Ford’s Jacobean blood-fest ’Tis Pity She’s A Whore – the one with the ripped-out heart and incestuous love story – on Thursday at Harrogate’s Sun Pavilion. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:05:47 +0000 b27a88ff037db73c1100acf3107b9d59 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3829171.Preview__I_Want_That_Hair__The_Studio__York_Theatre_Royal__until_November_22/ WHERE Fossgate and Walmgate once housed myriad pubs in the heavy-working days of the Irish navvies, now these York streets are full of hair salons and barbers. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:58:33 +0000 c14d104ab984d6112e371dee1a317a08 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3827096.Charles_Hutchinson_reviews_Death_Of_A_Salesman/ If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. Fri, 07 Nov 2008 08:52:29 +0000 97b65b7636691caec78d84dbab6896ca http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3808878.Review__Vanity_Fair__York_Settlement_Players__Friargate_Theatre__York_October_31_November_1/ DIRECTOR Roger Calvert is true to his words of warning. “We won’t let you just sit back in your seats watching the panorama unfold,” he said. Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:23:54 +0000 0e8ddd70624a6d2020d61ce9a3a8b88e http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3807836.Preview__I_Want_That_Hair__The_Studio__York_Theatre_Royal__November_5_to_22/ HOW come John Godber, artistic director of Hull Truck Theatre down the road, is directing a show – Jane Thornton’s hair salon tragic-comedy I Want That Hair – at York Theatre Royal? Fri, 31 Oct 2008 09:58:06 +0000 2c40e140680c4ee98c8730ffd1feab3c http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3805169.Review__Animal_Farm__West_Yorkshire_Playhouse__Leeds__until_November_8/ NIKOLAI Foster, the 28-year-old Yorkshire director of the moment, has already overseen the musical drama Bollywood Jane and feminist study of love, loss and loneliness, Salonika at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. Thu, 30 Oct 2008 11:22:50 +0000 b2c92e11f599c5acfff8c99b313c862e http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3801733.Review__Secret_Solstice__Illuminating_York_Festival__York_Theatre_Royal_Youth_Theatre__Piccadilly_Car_Park__York__until_Saturday__8pm__/ ILLUMINATING York is a chance to see the city in a different light. Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:50:20 +0000 7233e6440aad7d0beadd05d228b397e1 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3789419.Preview__York_Theatre_Royal_Youth_Theatre_presents_Secret_Solstice__Piccadilly_Car_Park__Piccadilly__York__tonight_until_November_1/ IF YOU go down to Piccadilly Car Park after 6.30pm, normally it is dark, although the top deck becomes the preserve of the city’s skateboarders. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:07:57 +0100 7ad60a577e9503f31afad6a62905c00c http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3788541.Preview__Death_Of_A_Salesman__York_Theatre_Royal__October_31_to_November_29/ NAME me anything better, says George Costigan, issuing a challenge to think of a mightier theatrical work than Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:53:11 +0100 9e6c3541b9e0905d2fd2931ce97b75c1 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3787901.Charles_Hutchinson_reviews_Welcome_To_Ramallah__iceandfire/ PLAYWRIGHT Sonja Linden and human rights theatre company iceandfire first struck a chord at York Theatre Royal with a short run of I Have Before Me A Remarkable Document in October 2004. Fri, 24 Oct 2008 08:44:24 +0100 0e353c1ce4e398981d2fc3189076c8b2 http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3783903.Charles_Hutchinson_reviews_Jack_Lear__Stephen_Joseph_Theatre__Scarborough/ DIRECTING and playing the title role in Jack Lear is a “busman’s holiday” for Northern Broadsides’ founder and heartbeat, Barrie Rutter. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:06:22 +0100 7f304f92e57cf2856cd1a717936b443e http://www.thepress.co.uk/whatson/theatre/3783901.Review__The_Yeomen_Of_The_Guard__Theatre_Royal__York__/ When an opera company dives into operetta, purists often look askance. They should not, especially when the piece is the most operatic of the Savoy operas. Thu, 23 Oct 2008 08:05:21 +0100 4c07bf292f175ed192918a14c1bb5d50