As part of its Made in Northampton season, Royal & Derngate Northampton is staging a world premiere of The Pope, which runs on the Royal stage until Saturday 22 June, Karin Johnstone reviews it here
We see an elderly Bavarian...
When it comes to character studies, one of the finest ever written is Shakespeare’s Richard III. Following Benedict Cumberbatch (The Hollow Crown) and Aneurin Barnard (The White Queen), seeing this character at the Royal & Derngate just oozes brilliance,...
What a night of degenerate filth. It was quite superb. The new Made in Northampton production at the Royal Theatre in Northampton is Ibsen's Ghosts.
It's first performance in Victorian London provoked extraordinary criticism. It was not even a...
If you fancy a quick situation report on how far we've come lately you could do worse than spending the evening on Avenue Q.
If you are not aware of this 16-year-old Broadway hit that is still touring for adoring...
The hilarious puppet musical that brought you songs such as The Internet is for Porn and Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist returns to Royal & Derngate on February 18.
Following five years in the West End, sell-out runs worldwide and...
A study commissioned by an online casino in March last year revealed the top 10 topics for conversations in pubs, writes Dan McGarry.
For those of you that remember the iconic scene in Trainspotting; “Whet are yous talken...
Tre Ventour reviews the Made In Northampton production Our Lady of Kibeho, staged for the first time in the UK at Royal & Derngate...
Photos by Manuel Harlan
Kibeho College, Rwanda, 1981: a young girl (Gabrielle Brooks) sparks scandal when she...
Royal & Derngate's latest Made in Northampton production has been taking advice from a magic consultant to tell a haunting story of visions and visitations.
Our Lady of Kibeho tells the story of three Rwandan schoolgirls who foresaw the country's...
The Stage has just released its list of the 100 most influential people in British entertainment and that included two people from Northampton's Royal & Derngate: Artistic Director James Dacre and new Chief Executive Jo Gordon.
It is James' second...
Review – The Worst Witch, Royal Theatre Northampton (show seen, Sunday Dec 9)
THEY are pretty tough to impress, ten-year-old girls. They’ve just reached that eye-rolling, arm-folding kind of age. Gone are the days when they’d fall about at a...
