Cormac Richards has a sneak preview of a real theatre event
Category: Features
When the bough breaks the cradle will rock, and down will come...mother?
And now Hugo really is in panto; a review of the show by Rod Dungate
A quick look at 25 years of The Snowman on stage
Cormac Richards investigates a brand new theatre company based in Cornwall
Young actor, Hugo von Fragstein, continues to share with RG visitors, his pantomime learning curve.
Hugo's first week. Is it all a laugh?
RG Editor Rod Dungate introduces a series of pantomime features from young actor Hugo von Fragstein.
Three consecutive 5***** at RSC - What's going on?
A debutant actor makes his mark
A unique event in the City Centre
A triumphant renewal of a tired monument
Someone wants to challenge the concept of independent reviewing
The search is on for the next generation of Music Theatre writers.
Joan Littlewood 1950s theatre giant, now a protagonist in her own life story musical.
ReviewsGate editor, Rod Dungate, explored the origins and meanings of 'playwright', and why the playwright makes rather than writes.
Alan Geary, Top 3 from 2015: ONE MAN, TO GUVNORS, IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, EAST IS EAST.
Carole Woddis's Top 3 from 2015; three theatres-Soho, Royal Court Upstairs, Theatre 503.
William Russell’s Top 3 from 2015. CLARION, IN THE HEIGHTS, XANADU.
There have been excellent productions and outstanding performances. But I’d like to notice some of the theatres and Directors who maintain the energy of British theatre in difficult times. Sam Walters took Richmond’s Orange Tree theatre from a lunchtime pub operation in 1979 to a purpose-built auditorium with a year-round repertory of full-length evening shows, making him a hard act to follow. Harder when incoming Artistic Director Paul Miller was greeted last year by news the theatre’s Arts Council funding …