Peter Pan starring Darren Day is the Northampton Royal & Derngate main pantomime and runs until Sunday December 30.
The atmosphere in the Derngate foyer before the Christmas panto is like no other show.
It's busier, noisier and buzzier. Yes there...
Tre Ventour reviews West Side Story which was at Royal & Derngate...
Adapted from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story takes place in America. Verona becomes New York City in the 1950s. The feuding families are displaced by warring gangs....
Northamptonshire's World War One heroes will be celebrated in a special concert at Royal & Derngate.
One of the largest amateur choirs ever assembled at the theatre will take part in Heroes for Peace: an armistice concert on Sunday November...
A dramatisation of the Challenger space shuttle disaster from Mad Men writer Jane Anderson is the new Masque Theatre production next week.
Defying Gravity is at The Playhouse Theatre, Clare Street, from Tuesday to Saturday.
It uses fictional characters to explore...
Karin Johnstone reviews Touching the Void which is at Royal & Derngate, Northampton
You are 19,000 feet up a mountain in hazardous icy conditions roped to your climbing partner. He falls over a precipice. You can’t see him but he...
Caroline Scattergood was devastated by criticism during a production at the Stratford East Theatre and then discovered Sir Michael Caine had a very similar experience...
“There’s no business like show business”... so the song goes... it should also say “There’s...
For a storyteller there can be no greater challenge than to stand in front of your own community and tell their stories back to them.
There might be Oscars, Emmys and Oliviers dished out if you are this season’s national...
A FULL evacuation of the theatre isn’t something you’d hope for on the Press Night of Kinky Boots, The Musical, which has opened its UK tour in its spiritual home of Northampton.
Despite a 20-minute interruption due to a fire...
Over 2000 people have been ushered out on to the streets of Northampton because Royal & Derngate Theatre has been evacuated.
The press night performance of Kinky Boots had reached its interval when the order to leave the building came.
Staff...
There was a moment as I sat with Darren Day at the Riverside Hub for Royal & Derngate’s panto launch that I realised we were two 50-year-old men in a room full of toadstool tables and chairs, one of...
