Would you cut the rope?
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 [...]
Royal & Derngate
60 Miles by Road or Rail – an incredible journey
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 [...]
Review: The show must go on – despite the excellent Kinky Boots’ unexpected evacuation
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 [...]
Royal & Derngate evacuated
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 [...]
Darren Day has gone baddie and is loving it
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 [...]
Kinky Boots cast visits Trickers to see where movie was filmed
Kinky Boots opened in Northampton on Wednesday night but in the final days of rehearsal the cast took a chance to drink in some of the town’s movie magic. The story of [...]
Carlsberg Food and Drink Awards special guest revealed
The team behind the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards is thrilled to announce that chef, writer, restaurateur and Masterchef winner Thomasina Miers is the [...]
The Lovely Bones is smart and bold
Writer, poet and journalist Tré Ventour unpicks The Lovely Bones at Royal & Derngate… After being brutally murdered, fourteen-year-old schoolgirl Susie Salmon [...]
Martin Sutherland: Why I am leaving Royal & Derngate and how the arts can save Northampton…
Over the past year a regiment of big hitters has left Northampton: chief executives, head coaches, MPs and council leaders. And just when you thought no more pieces could be [...]