Reviews
Two Noble Kinsmen – Review
| June 10, 2018
It’s crazy what we’ll do for love. In the lively Two Noble Kinsmen, just opened at Shakespeare’s Globe, two cousins are prepared to kill each other for it
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Michelle Terry announces her inaugural season at Shakespeare’s Globe
| January 4, 2018
Michelle Terry’s first season as artistic director at Shakespeare’s Globe has been announced and productions include Hamlet, As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter’s Tale,
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Barrie Rutter quits Northern Broadsides after 25 year run
| July 20, 2017
Northern Broadsides has announced today that their founder and artistic director Barrie Rutter is leaving after failing to secure increased Arts Council funding for his company.
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Love or Money. Blake Morrison Turcaret adaptation for Northern Broadsides tour
| June 14, 2017
Northern Broadsides and the playwright, poet and novelist Blake Morrison are set to join forces once again, this time to stage the world premiere of For Love
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Northern Broadsides gets hitched to York Theatre Royal for When We Are Married tour
| July 27, 2016
Northern Broadsides is again teaming up with Theatre Royal York for an autumn tour of JB Priestley’s comedy, When We Are Married. Set in the heart of Northern
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Northern Broadsides nets star-studded cast of patrons
| July 11, 2016
That powerhouse of talent, Northern Broadsides, has earned the patronage of some of Briatin’s top names in theatre, it has been announced. Lenny Henry, Tom Courtenay, Meera Syal,
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Regional
The Merry Wives – Review
| March 28, 2016
If Shakespeare had thought longer about the title of his lusty romp, The Merry Wives of Windsor, he’d have come to the conclusion that the geography was all
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Northern Broadsides announces Merry Wives tour
| January 4, 2016
It’s always special when Northern Broadsides announces a tour. The company has once again teamed up with the award-winning New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme, for a co-production of Shakespeare’s
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Honour for Northern Broadsides’ Barrie Rutter
| January 5, 2015
A fisherman’s son from Hull, who brought a northern voice to the theatre, is among those honoured by the Queen in the 2015. Barrie Rutter, artistic director of
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Northern Broadsides completes casting for King Lear
| December 8, 2014
Northern Broadsides has completed casting King Lear around its artistic director, Barrie Rutter, who will play royally harrassed and hen-pecked father-of-three. Directed by Jonathan Miller, Rutter will be
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Jonathan Miller to direct Northern Broadsides’ Lear
| November 12, 2014
Opera and theatre director Jonathan Miller is set to, once again, join forces with Northern Broadsides to direct Shakespeare’s King Lear in February. The production will open at
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Features
Playwright Deborah McAndrew talks about An August Bank Holiday Lark
| April 17, 2014
Deborah McAndrew‘s latest play, An August Bank Holiday Lark, comes to Watford Palace Theatre from May 6. Here the writer talks about the inspiration behind the drama. It
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