The Pirates Of Penzance, York Theatre Royal

9:30am Thursday 10th July 2008

GILBERT & Sullivan provide the songs but the Bev Jones-directed Northern Musical Theatre Company serve up the laughs in this reworking of The Pirates Of Penzance.

Eurobeat, Newcastle Theatre Royal

9:32am Thursday 10th July 2008

A EUROVISION song contest the UK actually stands a chance of winning! What an absolute gem.

Come On, Jeeves, Darlington Civic Theatre

9:52am Thursday 3rd July 2008

PG Wodehouse, the creator of Jeeves, wrote this play in the early 1950s with Guy Bolton.

Dick Barton- Special Agent, Harrogate Theatre

8:37am Tuesday 1st July 2008

THE evil Baron Scarface plans to hit the British where it hurts - in the teapot.

Twelfth Night, Ripley Castle, Harrogate

9:28am Friday 27th June 2008

SPRITE Productions may be tempting fate by staging the Shakespeare play containing a song about the rain falling every day, but wet or not - and it was a sunny, if windy, evening the night I saw the show - this is an exceptionally good production.

Daisy Pulls It Off, Darlington Civic Theatre

8:50am Thursday 26th June 2008

FOR any nostalgic schoolgirls wanting to recollect tales from their boarding school days, this seems the ideal play.

A Clockwork Orange, Belt Up Theatre Company, York Theatre Royal Studio

10:01am Tuesday 24th June 2008

THIS production carried a slew of warnings: violent and disturbing content, strobe lighting, nudity and, perhaps most shocking, audience participation.

Me & Cilla, Live Theatre, Newcastle

9:44am Thursday 19th June 2008

LIVE Theatre peels the wrappers off Tesco's best party food for the start of their summer season with Lee Mattinson's first play and the premiere of Me & Cilla.

Kiss Me Kate, Durham University Light Opera Group

9:47am Thursday 19th June 2008

COLE Porter's take on The Taming of the Shrew has not been tamed by time.

Shakespeare Al Fresco, Durham Arts Festival Fringe Durham

10:07am Tuesday 17th June 2008

THREE dry al fresco shows in a row and the first one on Friday 13th, the Fates must have been smiling on me, unlike old Caesar.

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