Progress Theatre

It's that creative time of year again and local playwrights, are busy with pens, pencils, laptops

Arthur Burke, a long-standing member of Progress, recently watched Stones in his Pockets and sent us

Tony Travis fits kitchens for a living so spending the bank holiday weekend building the Killer Joe

When I visited a Talking Heads rehearsal last weekend their technical team were busy putting up

Animal Farm is a joint production with Progress Youth Theatre and the principle has been carried

In a previous Gaslight blog post I talked about the stove that had been found on a skip. This week I

A 'read through' of a play is just that - a group of people get together to read the play

Gaslight was written in 1938 but is actually set in late Victorian London around 1890. At Progress we

Any staging of The Three Musketeers is going to need swords and, of course, muskets. Kevin Copping (

Most theatre groups have more female than male actors and are constantly looking for plays that offer

Alex McCubbin is playing Lloyd Dallas, the director of the play-within-the-play in Noises Off. He

Noises Off is a difficult play for small non-professional theatres to put on. There are three acts,

Our 9th annual Writefest starts tonight (15th October) and runs until Saturday 18th you can now buy

The first in a series of blog posts from our members comes from Shona Pepper, our Graduate Intern

This year's open air Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost... And Won opened last Wednesday at

During the dress rehearsal for Roses of Eyam I went backstage to talk to some of the young actors. I

There are two Progress productions starting in mid-July. Next week I will find out what is happening

Anna Jennings' real love is musical theatre and she joined Progress to take part in Little Shop

I timed my visit to a recent God of Carnage rehearsal just right and was able to watch almost a whole

This is a tale of two chairs (well three to be precise...) The first is for stage manager Heather

A few weeks ago the Friends of the University ran an event to mark the 100th anniversary of the start

Elenor Porrill is in Reading doing a year's placement as part of her course at Bath University

The list of important jobs As a small volunteer run theatre we like to find ways to save money -

Progress Youth Theatre's next production is not at our own theatre but in the main hall at

Progress regulars will notice a few new faces in Trainspotting but in this post I am introducing

An important aspect of any show is making sure people know a) it is on and b) want to come and see it

When I arrived at the theatre to catch up with Bold Girls I had to feel my way to a seat. The

Bold Girls is a very emotional and funny play about the relationship between four women and the men

First the photo of the "Briskett" wig I promised in last week's blog. Geoff Dallimore

The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a story told by a group of children to each other. The set includes