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The Royal & Derngate saw over 30,000 people watch Cinderella this year [Pamela Raith] ... "Sales for our 2025 pantomime Peter Pan have already made a very strong start, which is a great way to ...
The Royal Theatre was the first building of what now exists as the Royal & Derngate complex. The Royal, then called the Theatre Royal and Opera House, was built for John Franklin by Henry Martin and designed by renowned Victorian theatre architect Charles J. Phipps with mural artist Henry Bird . [ 6 ]
Clifton has starred in several pantomimes, playing the father of Cinderella at the Hull New Theatre in 2018 and at Northampton's Royal & Derngate in 2019. [19] [20] He has also presented shows on BBC Radio Sheffield, [21] [22] and BBC Radio 4.
Originally called The Season, [5] Two Strangers was co-produced by the New Wolsey Theatre and Royal & Derngate, directed by Tim Jackson, and starred Tori Allen-Martin as Robin and Alex Cardall as Dougal. It ran in Ipswich from 5 to 16 November and Northampton from 19 to 30 November 2019. [6]
The Royal opened in 1884, followed 99 years later by the Derngate in 1983, which was built on the site of Northampton's former Derngate bus station. The two theatres merged as one organisation in 1999, closed in 2005 to undergo an 18-month £14.5m redevelopment, and re-opened as Royal & Derngate in 2006.
After many years of external pantomime productions from Crossroads Pantomimes, formerly Qdos Entertainment, the Grand decided to start once again produce their own in-house pantomimes, with the first being Cinderella for the 2021/22 season, starring AJ and Curtis Pritchard, Evie Pickerill, Tam Ryan and Ian Adams. The production was the first in ...
James Dacre was born in 1984, [2] the son of Paul Dacre, former editor of the Daily Mail. [3] He won a King's Scholarship to Eton [4] where he won the Newcastle Scholarship.He then studied Theology, Religion and Philosophy of Religion [5] at Jesus College, Cambridge [6] where he edited Varsity, the student newspaper [7] and directed at the ADC, taking several productions to the Edinburgh ...
In 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic the Grand Opera House announced that their annual pantomime would not take place and was rescheduled to the 2021/22 season. 2025/26: The Adventures of Pinocchio as Mrs Geppetto 2024/25: The Pantomime Adventures of Peter Pan as Mrs Smee 2023/24: Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs as May of The Mirror