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Katie Town, executive director of Theatre Royal Wakefield.

Theatre Royal Wakefield: Why panto helps the venue to take more risks

Just Stop Oil protesters rushed the stage of the Sondheim Theatre in London while a performance of Les Miserable was ongoing. (Credit: Just Stop Oil/PA Wire)

Just Stop Oil protesters disrupt Les Miserables West End performance

November 1989, East and West Germans stand on the Berlin Wall.

Leeds University students tell the story of the fall of the Berlin Wall in a new...

Life of Pi is being shown at Sheffield Crucible. Picture: Johan Persson

Bringing Life of Pi to stage in Sheffield for world premiere

Matthew Kelly plays W H Auden in Habit of Art, at the Theatre Royal, York, later this month.

Big interview: Matthew Kelly on swapping TV for the stage

Film Director Francis Lee. Picture by Simon Hulme.

My Yorkshire: Film director Francis Lee, Bafta nominated for God's Own Country, ...

In rehearsals for James Graham's new play The Culture: A Farce in Two Acts

Art mirrors life in James Graham's new comedy about Hull's year as UK City of Cu...

TRIPLE BILL: World class dance coming to Bradford Alhambra from November 15 - 17, including Ghost Dance. Photograph © Jane Hobson.

World class dance

Bridlington new Spa and opera house

Nostalgia on Tuesday: A spa is born

Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard, actor and playwright

Theatre's audience figures up a fifth in City of Culture

Miss Meena and the Masala Queens

Theatre for all

Simon Munnery.

Five events not to miss at the Great Yorkshire Fringe

Javaad Alipoor is appearing at the Transform 17 festival in Leeds this week.

Theatre-maker Javaad Alipoor's latest one-man show debuts in Leeds this week, ex...

Laura Aramayo as Anita and Aasiya Shas as Meena in Anita and Me.

Aasiya Shah: I never saw girls who looked like me on stage.

Polly Frame as Dr Victoria Frankenstein. Picture by Pamela Raith.

How Frankenstein got recast as a woman

A scene from Lizzie Nunnery's Narvik.

Play inspired by reality of serving in a real cold war

A family affair

Collective memory

Dramarama: Youngsters taking part in a drama worksop in Sheffield. Photo: Chris Etchells

Seeing stories on stage can help children to understand their own lives.

The Karaoke Theatre Comany. ©Tony Bartholomew/ Turnstone Media.

Review: Karaoke Theatre Company, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Alan Ayckbourn has written himself a little present.For his 80th play he has decided to see how far you can push an audience when it comes to participation. Turns out the answer is pretty far. In fact, you can push them all the way on to the actual stage and get them to perform.

The Stephen Joseph Theatres new Artistic Director Paul Robinson

Which way now?

Preview: Raz

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Nick Ahad: Why best critics really don't enjoy writing bad reviews

Simon Callow takes on Orson Welles

Ian Bell with his Hereford herd at Gillgate in Askrigg. Picture: Wayne Hutchinson

Theatre of whole ox approach to feeding the masses

Annabel Betts in Hull Truck's Sleeping Beauty.

Mike Kenny - the children’s playwright with a Midas touch

Clockwise Gary Barlow, Tim Firth, Karen West, Vivien Parry, Harriet Thorpe, Shirley Jameson, Claire Moore, Sara Kestelman, Debbie Chazen, Claire Machin and Joanna Riding in The Girls

Theatre: Girls’ night out

Weaving a tale: Selina Thompson is performing Dark and Lovely in Sheffield and Bradford this month.

Hair story

Philip Pullman, who has warned that obsession with league tables and examinations has left arts education in a "terrible state".

League tables and other dark materials have ruined arts education says Philip Pu...

The cast of Mikrons One of Each by Deborah McAndrew which begins its tour around the region tomorrow.

Coming soon to a fish and chip shop near you

Kully Thiarai.

Theatre: Director Kully Thiarai talks about Veil
Yvette Huddleston talks to director Kully Thiarai about Veil.

MESMERISING SHOW Vengeance and passion fuel The Crucible at the West Yorkshire Playhouse.

Theatre reivews: The Crucible and Regeneration

Jennifer Nevin and Mike Auger of Displace Yourself Theatre in Eden. Picture: Lizzie Coombes

Premiere of play that challenges social injustice

Alan Lane, director of Slung Low theatre company, onthe set of the forthcoming production, The White Whale.

Could Moby Dick save Leeds Dock?

York Theatre Royal. Picture: John Saunders

Theatre looks to its past and an exciting future

Nick Ahad: Arts View

Iain Bloomfield

Quirky venue that provides space for new work

Reherasals for 33 Hints to the Occupied.

Theatre that makes a difference to lives of the homeless

Theatre must be brought to book

Neve McIntosh and Rudi Dharmalingam

Play that explores aftermath of brutal events

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Theatre of dreams

Hester Evans-Ford

Theatre more than just walk in the park

The Count of Monte Cristo

Theatre’s innovative approach is paying dividends

Deal secures future of stage
legacy from student games

West Yorkshire Playhouse Artistic Director James Brining.

A theatre season to remember

Theatre makes a splash as Emma finally conquers her fears

Curtain up on six-week play at museum

Theatre bursts with youthful enthusiams

Playhouse appoints Leeds-born director hdyhdyhdysadfsadfs

Review: Etiquette of Grief ****

Business leaders back Royal Hall takeover plans

The big interview: Tim Pigott-Smith

Theatre ready to step in as rising costs threaten spa town’s iconic Royal Hall

Theatre and city to discuss new funding arrangements

Moving work that theatre company hopes will catch on

Theatre relents after bishop’s complaint over poster for ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore

Theatre sets stage for biggest ensemble cast in 250 years of treading the boards

Learning how to earn a living after Harry Potter ends

Review: Word Life ****