- More Things To Do in York and beyond Gary Oldman’s exit stage left, minus bananas. Hutch’s List No. 21, from The York Pressby Charles HutchinsonBull: “Reverse headlining” Sunday’s bill at the By The Blue Bridge Festival on the Arts Barge AS the Arts Barge launches a new season and Mikron head to an allotment, Charles Hutchinson welcomes signs of the summer season ahead. Festival of the week: By The Blue Bridge, Arts Barge, Foss Basin, York, today and tomorrow …
- REVIEW: Next Door But One in How To Be A Kid, next stop Friargate Theatre, York ****by Charles HutchinsonTucking into cake: Becky Heslop’s Molly, left, and Charlie Blanshard’s Joe with George Green’s Mum in Next Door But One’s How To Be A Kid. All pictures: James Drury YORK community arts collective Next Door But One has been touring How To Be A Kid to primary schools and Out Of Character at York St …
- Mikron Theatre Company must go down to the sea in Operation Beach Hut…at the Scarcroft Allotments on Sunday afternoonby Charles HutchinsonMikron Theatre Company actor-musicians Catherine Warnock, left, Georgina Liley, James McLean and Robert Took in Harvey Badger’s debut play Operation Beach Hut. Picture: Robling Photography MIKRON Theatre Company will tour to 138 venues by van and narrowboat in 2025, none more outdoor than Scarcroft Allotments, their regular fertile ground for quirky comedy, song and enlightenment …
- Jessa Liversidge to perform A Tapestry Of Life concert for Mental Health Awareness Week at The Courthouse, Thirsk, todayby Charles HutchinsonEasingwold singer and workshop leader Jessa Liversidge, left, with her poet sister Andrea Brown EASINGWOLD singer, songwriter and community singing workshop champion Jessa Liversidge will perform A Tapestry Of Life today (16/5/2025) as part of Rural Arts’ Mental Health Awareness Week at The Courthouse, Thirsk, at 6.30pm. Jessa’s 60-minute, one-woman musical performance, inspired by Carole …
- Strictly star Nikita Kuzmin rides into Grand Opera House in modern fairytale of star-crossed lovers Midnight Dancerby Charles HutchinsonNikita Kuzmin in his debut solo dance spectacular, Midnight Dancer, on tour at the Grand Opera House, York STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Ukrainian star dancer and choreographer Nikita Kuzmin leaps into the Grand Opera House, York, on May 20 in Midnight Dancer, his debut British and Irish solo tour. The Kyiv-born holder of six Italian Championship …
- Nun better as Hayley Bamford takes on Deloris’s role in Sister Act for York Musical Theatre Company at JoRo Theatreby Charles HutchinsonHayley Bamford, centre, in rehearsal for Sister Act The Musical with York Musical Theatre Company director Kathryn Addison, right YORK Musical Theatre Company will perform Sister Act The Musical at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre, York, next Wednesday to Saturday under the direction of Kathryn Addison with Hayley Bamford in the sassy role of “novice nun” …
- The Arts Barge returns for 2025 season of music, performance and art at Foss Basin. First up, By The Blue Bridge festivalby Charles HutchinsonKai West’s poster design for the By The Blue Bridge festival on the Arts Barge BULL bassist, illustrator and designer Kai West and Rowan & Friends curator and frontman Rowan Evans launch By The Blue Bridge, a new three-day festival of music and art, on the Arts Barge in York tomorrow. Moored in the Foss …
- REVIEW: Steve Crowther’s verdict on Gamelan Sekar Petak, Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall, University of York, May 7by Charles HutchinsonGamelan Sekar Petak in concert at the University of York AN introduction: “The University of York instruments – named ‘Sekar Petak’ (‘White Flower’) in honour of Yorkshire’s white rose symbol – was the first purpose-built Javanese gamelan in a British university. The instruments were first assembled and played in 1981, having been commissioned by the …
- What’s On in Ryedale, York and beyond. Hutch’s List No. 20, from Gazette & Heraldby Charles HutchinsonYork artist Jill Tattersall stands by her work Genesis, Exodus at the launch of her Finding The Way exhibition at Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York Charles Hutchinson finds the way through the human maze to recommend artistic riches aplenty. Exhibition of the week: Jill Tattersall, Finding The Way, The Human Maze, Bluebird Bakery, Acomb Road, Acomb, …
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- Pickering Musical Society’s final musical, Hello, Dolly!, will be ‘our most extravagant show ever’ says director Luke Arnoldby Charles HutchinsonHello, Dolly!, goodbye musicals: Rachel Anderson’s Dolly Levi and Tim Tubbs’s Horace Vandergelder promoting Pickering Musical Society’s summer show at Pickering Station. Picture: Robert David Photography THE buzz is building in Pickering as rehearsals intensify and preparations gather pace for Pickering Musical Society’s final musical, Hello, Dolly! Luke Arnold’s production of Jerry Herman’s Broadway classic …
- Question: Why will NE Theatre York shows no longer be reviewed? Here is the answerby Charles HutchinsonSteve Tearle’s cast for The Sound Of Music at the Joseph Rowntree Theatre: the last NE Theatre York show to be reviewed by CharlesHutchPress “OUR reason for going forward without professional reviews is simple really,” says NE Theatre York chairman, director and producer Steve Tearle. “As we are a diverse and inclusive company, we create …
- Next Door But One turn spotlight on young carers & mental health in How To Be A Kid, on tour in schools and theatre spacesby Charles HutchinsonGeorge Green, left, Charlie Blanshard and Becky Heslop in rehearsal for Next Door But One’s production of How To Be A Kid NEXT Door But One are teaming up with Our Time Charity to raise awareness of mental health, young carers and young people’s experience in care in this week’s tour of How To Be …
- Fiery Angel confirms Grand Opera House run for Agatha Christie’s Death On The Nile next March, directed by Lucy Baileyby Charles HutchinsonThe poster artwork for Death On The Nile, heading for the Grand Opera House, York next March DIRECTOR Lucy Bailey will complete her hat-trick of Agatha Christie thrillers at the Grand Opera House, York, with the European premiere tour of Death On The Nile, booked in for March 3 to 7 next year. After And …
- REVIEW: Martin Dreyer’s verdict on Opera North in Simon Boccanegra, St George’s Hall, Bradford, April 24; Hull City Hall, May 17by Charles HutchinsonAndrés Presno as Gabriele Adorno and Sara Cortolezzis as Amelia Grimaldi in Opera North’s Simon Boccanegra. Picture: James Glossop OPERA North did obeisance to Bradford’s status as UK City of Culture 2025 by opening its annual springtime concert staging there. And how. This thrilling P J Harris production was much more a staging than a …
- REVIEW: Martin Dreyer’s verdict on York Late Music, Freedom Dances, Unitarian Chapel, St Saviourgate, York, May 3by Charles HutchinsonNorthern School of Contemporary Dance dancer Antonio Bukhar Ssebuuma: Performed with Trio Agile at York Late Music’s Freedom Dances concert Trio Agile is as versatile as its name implies. Susie Hodder-Williams plays flute, alto flute or piccolo with Chris Caldwell concentrating on alto sax and bass clarinet, while Richard Horne handles all manner of percussion, …
- REVIEW: Neon Crypt Productions in Dracula: The Bloody Truth, Theatre@41, Monkgate, York ****by Charles HutchinsonLaura McKeller, left, Michael Cornell, Laura Castle and Jamie McKeller in Neon Crypt Productions’ debut show, Dracula:The Bloody Truth NEON Crypt Productions is the new theatre enterprise from Jamie and Laura McKeller, ghost-walk purveyors of the Deathly Dark Tour on York’s haunted streets. They are no stranger to theatrical performance, not least for the Rowntree …
- The Brook Street Band to lead workshops and perform at National Centre for Early Music Composers Award Day in Yorkby Charles HutchinsonThe Brook Street Band: Heading to York for the Early Music Composers Award Day workshops and concert on May 15 THE 2025 National Centre for Early Music Composers Award Day will be led by The Brook Street Band in the baroque instrumental group’s first engagement at the NCEM, York, on May 15. The annual competition …
- More Things To Do in York & beyond, when ‘finding the way through the human maze’. Hutch’s List No. 20, from The York Pressby Charles HutchinsonYork artist Jill Tattersall stands by her work Genesis, Exodus at Thursday’s launch of her Finding The Way exhibition at Bluebird Bakery, Acomb AS Gary Oldman’s banana-chomping turn in Krapp’s Last Tape enters its last week, Charles Hutchinson finds alternatives aplenty for entertainment and enlightenment. Exhibition opening of the week: Jill Tattersall, Finding The Way, …
- David Gedge marks 40 years of The Wedding Present with University of Leeds gig. Next up, Interzone at Scarborough Spaby Charles HutchinsonBack where it all began: David Gedge outside Leeds University Union, where The Wedding Present perform tonight DAVID Gedge returns to the University of Leeds tonight with The Wedding Present, playing Stylus to mark 40 years since he formed the band in his days of studying Mathematics on campus. Billed as “Back To Where It …
- What happens on one bad day in a troubled marriage? Find out in Black Sheep Theatre Productions’ premiere of The Inner Selvesby Charles HutchinsonJosh Woodgate, left, and Dan Poppitt rehearsing their roles as Henry’s Self and Henry in The Inner Selves. Picture: Matthew Peter Clare BLACK Sheep Theatre Productions director, musical director and producer Matthew Peter Clare will premiere his play The Inner Selves, at Theatre@41, Monkgate, York, from May 13 to 17. After staging such musical theatre …