Love Bites review – gleeful salute to theatre’s thrilling return

York Theatre RoyalA mix of music, dance, comedy and poetry delivers a bittersweet reminder of what lockdown deprived us of – and a joyous celebration of live performanceOn the screen at the back of the stage, familiar images flicker: the river, streets…

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Berwick Kaler: my 40 years as a panto dame – and Gary Oldman’s cat catastrophe

After four decades of festive fun in York, the actor and writer is hanging up his frock and hobnailed boots. He looks back at the Theatre Royal’s panto family‘I must say I never expected there to be quite this much fuss,” Berwick Kaler says, indicating…

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