What We're Watching - Elf
IT’S one of the most eagerly-awaited Christmas shows in years and the good news is that just like Santa when you’ve been good, Elf the...
What We're Watching - Around The World in 80 Days
All eight actors play over 125 characters. No easy task. Around the World in 80 Days is a fast-paced production, based on the classic...
Stone Cold Dead in Staffordshire
Gnawing reindeer, eggheads, sibling shenanigans, trousers down drunken Father Christmas’ and Clare with nice hair. Stone me, Laugh and...
What We're Watching - Man on the Moon
Keisha Thompson is an astonishing writer and performer. It’s not so much the poetic phrases and star-gazing metaphors that pepper her...
A Murderer Calls at Lodore Falls
Fantastic night last night at Lodore Falls Hotel in Keswick with A Twisted Christmas Carol (I know, it gets earlier every year doesn’t...
What We're Watching - A Judgement in Stone
After a decade producing stage versions of thrillers by the Queen of Crime The Agatha Christie Theatre Company has had a revamp to become...
Slay Bells Ring takes shape!
We had a hilarious morning, rehearsing for our brand new, never performed Christmas show, Slay Bells Ring, the story of warring...
What We're Watching - Jubilee, Royal Exchange
Derek Jarman’s gloriously imperfect film Jubilee divided opinion in 1978. Its harshest critics were the leaders of the punk movement it...
What We're Watching - Spamalot, Palace Theatre
Spamalot, the musical, lovingly ripped off from the 1975 film Monty Python and the Holy Grail, has returned to send a ripple of laughter...
What We're Watching - What Once Was Ours
Whatever you think about migration since Brexit (and perhaps for some time before) it has rarely been out of the media. What Once Was...