Preview: Tommy , Grand Opera House, York, September 9 to 13

10:10am Friday 15th August 2008

YORK Stage Musicals will stage Pete Townshend’s rock opera Tommy from September 9 to 13 at 7.30pm nightly at the Grand Opera House, York.

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Review: The Winter's Tale, Newby Hall, near Ripon, The Globe Touring Company

9:35am Tuesday 12th August 2008

The magnicent house and manicured gardens of Newby Hall provided a great backdrop to this accomplished company of Shakespearean players for the outdoor production.

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Review: The Taming Of The Shrew, The Pantaloons, Rowntree Park, York, 2.30pm today and tomorrow; admission free

12:52pm Saturday 9th August 2008

THE Pantaloons are a new addition to the outdoor theatre calendar in York, arriving from Canterbury on a mission to “champion a new type of playful Shakespearean performance”.

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Review: Bugsy Malone, Live Nation Stage Experience 2008, Grand Opera House, York, 7pm, August 8; 2pm and 7pm August 9

1:32pm Friday 8th August 2008

“WE could have been anything that we wanted to be,” goes the closing song of Bugsy Malone.

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Funky retelling of Wizard of Oz

1:05pm Friday 1st August 2008

YORK Stage Youth will join forces with York group Play On for the autumn production of The Wiz at the Grand Opera House, York.

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Preview: Life & Beth, Haunting Julia and Snake In The Grass, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, various dates until August 30

11:11am Friday 1st August 2008

Only one question for… Sir Alan Ayckbourn ... writer of three plays about ghosts that lurk in the dark corners of all our minds in his The Things That Go Bump summer season in Scarborough

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Review: Life & Beth, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, until August 30

1:45pm Saturday 26th July 2008

FROM the playwright with a fascination with the number three, this is the third drama from the supernatural side in Alan Ayckbourn’s The Things That Go Bump season.

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Autumn and winter programme at York Theatre Royal

12:25pm Friday 25th July 2008

GEORGE Costigan will play Willy Loman in Damian Cruden’s production of Arthur Miller’s Death Of A Salesman, the repertory centrepiece of the main-house autumn and winter programme at York Theatre Royal.

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Preview: Not About Heroes, Terrington Village Hall, July 29, then on tour until November 21

12:21pm Friday 25th July 2008

NORTH Yorkshire theatre company Clap Trap Productions will commemorate the 90th anniversary of the end of the First World War by touring Stephen MacDonald’s Not About Heroes.

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John goes through the wardrobe to return to his roots

12:18pm Friday 25th July 2008

JOHN Cooper will guest-direct the post-Christmas production of The Lion, The Witch And The Wardrobe at Upstage Centre Youth Theatre, 41 Monkgate, York.

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Preview: Awaking Beauty, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, December 11 to January 17

12:17pm Friday 25th July 2008

Alan Ayckbourn’s 72nd premiere and final new work as artistic director of the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, will be Awaking Beauty, his fourth musical collaboration with Denis King.

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Charles Hutchinson reviews As You Like It

10:30am Monday 21st July 2008

IRISH heavyweight champion George Bernard Shaw dismissed As You Like It as merely a crowd-pleaser.

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Charles Hutchinson reviews Romeo and Juliet

11:40am Friday 18th July 2008

SHAKESPEARE’S judgement of journey time may be as awry as our beloved railway timetables, but the “two tours’ traffick of our stage” announced in the Chorus’s prologue really is two hours’ traffic in Daniel Bye’s free-flowing production.

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