David Chadderton

The National Lottery's Big Night of Musicals comes to the AO Arena in Manchester for the fifth year, again hosted by Jason Manford. There will be songs from Disney’s The Lion King, Cameron Mackintosh’s production of Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, Annie starring L... See more

Shelagh Stephenson's Olivier Award-winning comedy The Memory of Water, which premièred at Hampstead Theatre in 1996, is to be revived at the Octagon Theatre Bolton and Liverpool Everyman. Directed by Octagon Artistic Director Lotte Wakeham, the cast compr... See more

Following her appearance at the Royal Exchange Theatre in A Taste of Honey in 2024, Jill Halfpenny will return in March 2026 to play Amanda Prynne in Noël Coward's Private Lives. The new production will be directed by Blanche McIntyre, who directed Pinter... See more

Shakespeare North Playhouse will host a fundraising gala night for its development and participation programmes—its ORIGIN8 artist development programme and its Young—with an all-star line-up. The evening of Shakespeare's sonnets and music inspired by his... See more

Introduction In the following pages, some of our reviewers have described their theatrical highlights of the year, not necessarily ones that they have reviewed for us or that fall within their usual geographical or subject areas. Each writer has taken a d... See more