The Sleeping Beauty’s a massive ballet with three acts and a prologue that’s as long as an act itself. Its total running time is three hours, it uses
Incredibly it’s 16 years since Matthew Bourne’s reinterpretation of that gold standard of classical ballet, Swan Lake, was first unleashed on an unsuspecting theatre public.
No one who
I’ve been looking forward to seeing this production ever since it was first announced and Chris Stanley’s directorial take on this classic play is no disappointment. One good
Take a cosy vicarage somewhere deep, deep in the country one Christmas Eve shortly after the Second World War, mix in a family reunion with log fires blazing, and then,
This is the first of Intimate Theatre’s annual Christmas celebrations I’ve managed to catch and I hope it won’t be the last.
Now that I’ve seen
This is the big one, the Christmas show of shows. If you’ve never been to the ballet before, in fact especially if you haven’t, give yourself the perfect
The Lichfield Players have a habit of rediscovering classics and this time they deserve full marks for dusting off this little gem of a play which manages to infuse vigorous
To describe this production as a masterpiece would be a dramatic understatement. Nothing like it has been seen on the British stage since Matthew Bourne’s Car Man two years
In 1957 the left-wing Royal Court Theatre was desperate for a follow-up to John Osborne’s ground-breaking first play Look Back In Anger which had upset nearly
Phil Preece talks to Andrew Hall about his role as Director of John Osborne’s The Entertainer at the Lichfield Garrick.
I’ve got to admit I really didn’t think this was going to be my kind of play but actually, I really loved it. On paper its title makes
This production proved two things, first, why Agatha Christie’s murder mysteries have lasted so long and second how lucky Lichfield is to have the Players still keeping the true
