There was robust debate over a glass of pop following press night of Royal & Derngate's latest Made in Northampton play, on whether you had to have had kids to truly 'get' it.
Two of my fellow audience members,...
What I love most about Top Gs Like Me - a new piece of theatre created at Royal & Derngate and set in Northampton – is that there is nothing timid or apologetic about it.
It is a big brash...
My reference point for 2.22 a Ghost Story, currently running at Northampton's Royal and Derngate, came purely from Lily Allen's title track on her brilliantly brutal album West End Girl.
I'd read about how she'd been cast in the...
A small antidote to a rainy Sunday afternoon in the run up to Christmas was spent in the warm and cosy, phone-free stalls of the Royal Theatre, surrounded by pre-school and primary children.
OK, so add in a repetitively...
Panto has come a long way since I started reviewing back in the 1990s. No more shonky sets and wonky donkeys, it's all rather stylish on stage at the Royal and Derngate this Christmas. Just remember to take your...
It was St Valentine's night, 32 years and four children after our relationship's first St Valentine's night, and we were at Northampton's Royal & Derngate for a preview performance of (the) Woman by Jane Upton.
I know there are people...
I'll be up front - I went into this review thinking most musical theatre leaves me cold. Except The Book of Mormon of course. Oh, and Hamilton, Chicago and Matilda. Maybe The Sound of Music. Er...and West Side Story....
In these doom-laden days, there's a lot to be said for taking some time out to do something utterly detached from reality and away from phones, like taking in a show at the theatre. But that message hadn't got...
A melancholy and moving adaptation of the book by Kazuo Ishiguro - well-worth catching during its Northampton run this week.
Right then, if you haven't read the book, or watched the film, beware the gentle spoilers ahead. Despite having a...
Herman Melville's tale of a man's obsession starts its national tour as far from the sea as possible
It might be one of the most well-known stories we've never read, and here's yet another adaptation of Moby Dick, a...
