By Simone Mumford “That was absolutely joyous!” exclaimed the lovely lady sat to my right. I couldn’t help but wholeheartedly agree with...

By Ella McKeown On Tuesday, I was lucky enough to sit in on the dress rehearsal of Three Days in the Country, written by Patrick Marber...

Reviewers Ella McKeown and James Melville look at some of York Theatre Royal's most recent plays. The Same Rain that Falls on Me by Logan...

By Ella McKeown and James Melville Youthful imagination was used to create the glorious performance that was ‘What A Wonderful World’ by...

By Tala Pattinson It was the upper foyer of the York Theatre Royal, it was dark outside, the ceiling lights had been turned yellow and...

By Rose McKean Following a hugely successful run at The Kings Head Theatre in May last year, Laura McGrady and Sleepless Theatre brought...

By Ella McKeown As I walked into the auditorium of the York Theatre Royal, serenaded by the mellow electric guitars, the stage aglow with...

By Katie Marks The Accident Did Not Take Place is an hour-long expedition into the trials and tribulations of the technological age....

By Charlotte Holder Content Warning: Mentions of Sexual Assault and Rape. Following their successful run at Edinburgh Fringe in 2018,...

By Charlotte Holder Formed in 1981, Phoenix Dance Theatre is one of Britain’s longest standing and most influential Northern contemporary...

By Simone Mumford Boasting an elite cast and production team, York Theatre Royal introduces Juliet Forster’s heart-rending production of...

By Rose McKean “Imagine a world where (left to their own devices), people choose kindness” – Emma Rice This week, York Theatre Royal...

By Alfie Gerzimbke A paper handout given to me as I enter York Theatre Royal’s Studio informs me that the York Settlement Community...

By Katherine Baird According to its creator Jason Robert Brown, “this show is about one moment. It’s about hitting the wall and having to...

By Connie Blach Night two of SLAP Festival came to a rousing, emotional end with a performance of Softcore Boundaries, created and...

By James McCrea On Friday 22 February, the John Cooper Studio on Monkgate appeared less like a performance space and more like an...

By Katherine Baird Yorkshire based performance company Northern Rascals brings a local and distinctive offering to the SLAP Festival with...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy “A little nonsense now and then/ is relished by the wisest men.” The proverb actually predates Gilbert and...

By Aisling Lally ‘From the paths the Greek Gods led, to the noises made in bed…’ Seeds: The Round Shape of all things Red at the Arcola...

By Katherine Baird The performance festival SLAP is a brilliantly accessible opportunity to express new and exploratory art, and The Faun...

By Aisling Lally According to the show’s description, Ali Matthews (the solo performer and creator of The Ballad of Isosceles) “weaves...

By Malin Nilssen I enter the Drama Barn to the smell of smoke and the sound of a female rapper producing a chill ambience. As I round the...

By Chloe D’Arcy Polly Stenham’s That Face first hit the stage in 2007 to great acclaim,  especially impressive considering it was...

By Isabelle Lepore Make Believe is a bittersweet blend of comedy and regret, a bit like chomping on a sour Haribo: enjoying the sweet...

By Zara Stubbs Laura Wade’s Breathing Corpses opens in a hotel room, where a body is found tucked inside the bed. With the entrance of...

By Rose Mckean With Doll on the mic and Ted on backing vocals, Epic Love and Pop Songs tells the intertwined narrative of two lost...

By Heather Reeve Not a play for the faint of heart, this week’s Dramasoc production was as good as it was depressing. Death of a Salesman...

By Chloe D’Arcy Sophocles’ Antigone is one of the most well-known Greek tragedies. The play features the aftermath of the incestuous...

By Malin Nilssen Hekabe is Anne Carson’s translation of Euripides’ tragedy Hecuba, a story that takes place just after the Trojan War as...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy Bob (James Chetwood) and Jeff (Cullum Ball) are partners in both love and work. Problem: Jeff has no...

By Rose Mckean “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland These iconic...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy The old saying goes that hindsight is 20/20. In A Bright Room Called Day, this only makes the whole story more...

By Nayomi Karthigesu “Strangers on a Train” is an adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s first novel and thus my expectations of the play are...

This weekend’s DramaSoc offering is Alan Bennett’s wildly popular The History Boys, which follows a group of Sheffield schoolboys in...

By George Rayson Glyn Morrow’s hypnotic guitar lures us into Helen Wilson’s charming, funny, and poignant production of Chekhov’s ‘Uncle...

Chekhov’s masterpiece Uncle Vanya makes its way to the York Theatre Royal under the experienced hand of Helen Wilson. She has previously...

Central Hall Musical Society’s flagship February show is back at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre and this year they’re presenting the...

By Nayomi Karthigesu Without a word of warning, the piece by Fizz Margereson jumps straight into a performance about sexual harassment. A...

By Alexander Smith This compelling double bill in the Friargate Theatre brought the audience in close contact with the actors and...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy I’m not going to make any jokes about 2016 and 2017 being, shall we say, unusual years, politically. Such...

Sex is undisputably a political tool at the behest of men to denigrate, fetishise, and codify female bodies in order to put some double...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy As a second year student with deadlines ominously marching over the horizon, Sir Francis Walsingham’s vast...

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy Students make a lot of bad decisions, but Dr Faustus, a scholar at Wittenberg, really takes the biscuit. And...

By Bertie Ford To say that Will Adamsdale’s play is of the unconventional sort would be a gross understatement, but in adapting this...

By Nayomi Karthigesu Directed by Natalie Rose Quatermass, the York Shakespeare Project brings to stage Shakespeare’s 32nd play, A...

By Ellie Ward Halloween is nearly upon us. Pumpkins are waiting to be carved, daylight hours are diminishing with frightening frequency,...

‘About walls’ would be selling Amphibious a bit short on numerous levels. As part of TakeOver Festival 2017, it technically was about the...

By Lucia Rimini ‘Imagine rolling the dice 6,000 times’. This line, delivered by Marianne, one of the two central characters in Nick...

By Katie Sharp Renowned for being a script not touched with a bargepole by even the most experienced of directors, the announcement that...

By George Rayson After the storm brewed in the theatrical community due to recent comments made by Amol Rajan, Nikki Bedi and Giles...