Royal & Derngate

Full list of Carlsberg Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards winners

November 9, 2018 // 0 Comments

After much anticipation and a great deal of excitement, the winners in the Carlsberg UK Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards 2018/19 are finally celebrating being named the [...]

Northamptonshire’s food and drink Oscars have been decided

November 8, 2018 // 0 Comments

The best restaurants, chefs and produce from the county have been celebrated at the Northamptonshire Food and Drink Awards 2018/19. The Derngate auditorium at Royal & [...]

Praiseworthy interpretation of an American great

October 31, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Heroes for Peace concert marks a century since the end of World War One

October 30, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

Would you cut the rope?

October 12, 2018 // 1 Comment

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 [...]

60 Miles by Road or Rail – an incredible journey

September 29, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

September 26, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

September 25, 2018 // 0 Comments

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

September 22, 2018 // 0 Comments

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 [...]