Greg Dallas shares his process creating a new play with Warts and All Theatre’s The Collective. Follow the action month by month with The NeneQuirer
When it comes to making a broth, you can, according to the idiom, have too...
Tickets go on sale today for the smash West End musical Kinky Boots which is coming to Royal & Derngate next year.
The story of how a Northamptonshire shoe firm found a fabulous new path to success is known around...
Tre Ventour reviews The Wizard of Oz at Royal & Derngate for half term this week...
Northampton Musical Theatre Company’s latest production The Wizard of Oz at Royal & Derngate is a knockout. In the past, the company have done productions...
Review by Emily Shears
Royal & Derngate’s latest production of Harold Pinter’s ‘The Caretaker’ provides a gateway to Pinter for a new generation of theatre visitors, through Christopher Haydon’s direction and the power of the themes from 1960 to the...
By Hilary Scott. @nosylocaljourno
Twenty years ago, in 1997, I interviewed the relatively unknown Tony Blair as he was campaigning in Northampton. It was just before the Labour landslide in May, and there were throngs of people following him and...
Steve Scoles delivers a self-absorbed musing upon the business of being in a play following his unexpected casting in Northampton Arts Lab's Lullaby of a Bottlecap Queen. For a full review and summary of the show NeneQuirer recommends the...
A drug that can selectively destroy bad memories and literally make you forget all your troubles?
What could go wrong?
That is the subject of the Northampton Arts Lab’s latest production, Lullaby of a Bottlecap Queen.
The original work features the writing...
Former Coronation Street star Nick Cochrane is back at The Deco Theatre this Christmas as one of the stars of the Peter Pan Panto. But more than that, this year he is directing the show, too.
Nick, who played Andy...
The. Best. Stage. Fight. Ever. Period. Maybe that sounds a bit over the top but know this: there is a stage fight in Rules for Living (at the Royal & Derngate, Northampton until the end of the month) that...
Following a smash-hit West End season, the tea-guzzling Tiger pounces into Northampton this Autumn in a truly magical Olivier Award-nominated production of The Tiger Who Came to Tea, which can be seen at Royal & Derngate from Friday 22...
