http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:26:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “I love the journey that Gerda goes on,” says Pamela Okoroafor. “She starts out as a very naïve little girl and by the end of the play she’s a woman, really, because even though she hasn’t grown that much in age, mentally and emotionally she has. A lot of her ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/18/pamela-okoroafor-and-duncan-barton-on-the-snow-queen/ David Nixon is convinced that Northern Ballet Theatre chose the ideal time to produce The Nutcracker. “The Nutcracker is a celebration of classical ballet technique,” reasons the company’s artistic director. “The technical ability of our dancers has evolved and we possess a company that makes this production something really special.” ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/13/interview-david-nixon-on-the-nutcracker/ Northern Ballet Theatre has been nominated for the 2008 Manchester Evening News Dance Award for performances in the city. The Leeds-based company has earned the nomination for performances of NBT artistic director David Nixon and Patricia Doyle’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Manchester’s Palace Theatre between 14th and 17th May. After ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/13/nbt-nominated-for-men-award/ Leeds-based Opera North has won the 2008 Theatrical Management Association (TMA) Award for Achievement in Opera for the second consecutive year. The company was given the honour for its Shakespeare Resounding season, which featured lauded productions of Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo et Juliette. After winning the award last ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/09/opera-north-wins-tma-achievement-in-opera-award/ Date reviewed: 7th November 2008 Venue: The Lowry, Salford So it’s Obama for the White House! Not in the case of Opera North, where John P. Wintergreen is in occupation until at least March. Opera North’s celebration of the American election takes the form of a revival of the Gershwins’ political satire, ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/08/review-of-thee-i-sing-opera-north/ Date reviewed: 7th November 2008 Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse Having spent a month at The Lyric Hammersmith, the members of well-established comedy outfit Peepolykus (pronounced, they insist, “people-like-us”) have now brought their latest piece, Spyski! (or The Importance of Being Honest) to the West Yorkshire Playhouse's Courtyard theatre. A glance at the programme ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/07/review-spyski-or-the-importance-of-being-honest/ Date reviewed: 6th November 2008 Venue: York Theatre Royal Although it is easy to contrive reasons why there has never been a better time to perform a given play, there seem to be some quite sound ones in the case of Death of a Salesman. As I watch it, Barack Obama is ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/06/review-death-of-a-salesman/ To my slight embarrassment, I have to interview Peter Pan director Rachel Kavanaugh while she eats her lunch of jacket potato and tuna. The efficiency with which she manages to juggle the two tasks is precisely what I expect from her – if her artistic energy suffers from limits, no-one ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/11/03/rachel-kavanaugh-on-peter-pan/ Peter Pan West Yorkshire Playhouse 22 November - 31 January To mark the return of whatsonstage.com's Yorkshire site, we're running a competition with the West Yorkshire Playhouse to win two family tickets for a performance of seasonal classic Peter Pan. http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/10/28/win-a-family-ticket-for-peter-pan-at-the-west-yorkshire-playhouse/ Date reviewed: 23rd October 2008 Venue: West Yorkshire Playhouse Animal Farm isn’t a great book in spite of being a plain-speaking one; it’s a great book partly because it is so forthright and precise. From Orwell’s perspective, it would only have hindered his aim to have made his analogies opaque, while, from ... http://www.whatsonstage.com/blogs/yorkshire/2008/10/23/review-animal-farm/