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Pepter Lunkuse (Marie-Clare), Michelle Asante (Sister Evangelique)

Our Lady of Kibeho

Katori Hall
Royal and Derngate
Royal and Derngate, Northampton
12 January to 2 February 2019

Carly Thoms as Miss Honey and Elliot Harper as Miss Trunchbull

Matilda The Musical

Roald Dahl
Royal Shakespeare Company
Theatre Royal Plymouth
15 January to 16 February 2019

Gentleman Jack

Ross McGregor
Arrows & Traps Theatre
The Jack Studio Theatre
15 January to 16 February 2019

Pinter at the Pinter Six: Party Time and Celebration

Harold Pinter
The Jamie Lloyd Company
Harold Pinter Theatre
20 December 2018 to 26 January 2019

A Modest Little Man

Francis Beckett
Labour England
The Bread and Roses Theatre
15 to 26 January 2019

A Night with Thick & Tight

Daniel Hay-Gordon and Eleanor Perry
Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells
17 to 19 January 2019

Alone it Stands

John Breen
Gyre and Gimble Productions
59E59, New York
10 to 27 January 2019

The Unreturning

Anna Jordan
Frantic Assembly and Theatre Royal Plymouth
Theatre Royal, Stratford East
16 January to 2 February 2019

Pinter at the Pinter Five: The Room, Victoria Station and Family Voices

Harold Pinter
The Jamie Lloyd Company
Harold Pinter Theatre
13 to 26 January 2019

Binge!

Lisa-Marie Hoctor and Samantha Edwards
Mighty Heart Theatre (PUSH Festival 2019)
HOME, Manchester
17 to 19 January 2019

The War of the Worlds

Isley Lynn
Rhum and Clay
New Diorama Theatre
8 January to 9 February 2019

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Theatre books from Amazon

London Theatres

Michael Coveney

Dramatic Exchanges: The Lives and Letters of the National Theatre

National Theatre Letters

National Theatre: All About Theatre

National Theatre

The Frantic Assembly Book of Devising Theatre

Scott Graham

The Time-Traveller's Guide to British Theatre: The First Four Hundred Years

Aleks Sierz, Lia Ghilardi

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Going to the Theatre (But Were Too Sloshed to Ask, Dear)

West End Producer

Musicals: The Definitive Illustrated Story

The Steam Whistle Theatre Company

Vivian French

The Director's Craft: A Handbook for the Theatre

Katie Mitchell

Puppetry in Theatre and Arts Education

Johanna Smith

Latest Theatre News

A superhero and Britain’s worst school

Mad Etiquette bring a show for kids and one for adults to Gosforth Civic Theatre, all in one day.

Matthew Broderick makes West End debut

Hollywood star Matthew Broderick will make his West End debut in May in The Starry Messenger by Kenneth Lonergan, the Academy Award-winning writer of Manchester By the Sea.

NW Productions

Round-up of regional productions week beginning Sunday January 20.

Olivia Sweeney (Gentlewoman), Kirsty Besterman (Lady Macbeth) and Reuben Johnson (Doctor) in Macbeth in the Theatre Royal, Nottingham

Midlands productions

Theatre productions in the Midlands for the week beginning Monday 21 January.

What's on in the North East

Professional theatre productions in the North East in the week beginning Monday 21 January 2019.

Holocaust Memorial Day performance from Skimstone Arts

A Newcastle performance for Holocaust Memorial Day inspired by stories of refugees and Holocaust survivors

The fourteen actors who will appear in the seven plays

Chesterfield Pomegranate celebrates 70 years with seven plays

Seven plays over seven weeks make up the 70th anniversary season at Chesterfield’s Pomegranate Theatre.

Stoke gets appetite for the arts for the next three years

An arts programme that aims to get more people to experience and be inspired by the arts in Stoke-on-Trent has been awarded a £500,000 Arts Council England grant to continue its work for three more years.

Bath night for Valentine's couple in Ancoats!

Wonderhouse Theatre Company offers a “more authentic” Valentine’s Day experience for its performance of Mydidae at Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre.

Second chance to catch McKellen in Lancaster

Owing to demand, Sir Ian McKellen will perform an extra show when he visits Lancaster’s Dukes theatre.

Abigail's Party date in Manchester

Jodie Prenger leads the cast in Abigail’s Party, Mike Leigh’s comedy classic, which arrives on the Opera House Manchester stage from April 8 to 13.

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London theatre charts

Top 5

Matilda the Musical
Cambridge Theatre
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The Play That Goes Wrong
Duchess Theatre
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Hamilton
Victoria Palace Theatre
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Sweat
Donmar Warehouse
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An Enemy of the People
Union Theatre
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Alternative Top 5

I'm Not Running
Lyttelton Theatre (National Theatre)
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Company
Gielgud Theatre
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Don Quixote
Garrick Theatre
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Fiddler on the Roof
Menier Chocolate Factory
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The Convert
Young Vic Theatre
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Latest Theatre Features

Julie Hesmondhalgh and Norah Lopez Holden in The Almighty Sometimes at the Royal Exchange Theatre

Review of the Year 2018 - The North West Stage

David Chadderton looks back on his 2018 in North West theatre.

Touring News – January 2019

Sandra Giorgetti looks at the tours that take to the road in January including solo shows The Shy Manifesto, Do You Think That’s Wise? The Life and Times of John Le Mesurier, and a double bill of East Belfast Boy and Every Day I Wake Up Hopeful, and an equal measure of thrillers, old and new.

North East theatre in 2018 - a review

NE editor Peter Lathan looks back over the year in theatre in the North East

Rosalie Craig in Company at the Gielgud Theatre

Our reviewers' picks of 2018

Some of our reviewers pick their top productions of the year.

The best of North East theatre in 2018 – according to me

NE editor Peter Lathan looks back at what was, for him, the pick of North East theatre in 2018.

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