Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have kicked off their summer season in the studio theatre with Charlotte Keatley’s highly acclaimed story of four generations of women. The most performed play by a female playwright and translated into 22 languages, ‘My […]
The contemporary ballet group, Phoenix Dance Theatre, performed ‘Left Unseen’ and Igor Stravinsky’s classic ‘The Rite of Spring’ at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake on Wednesday 8 May, and gave the audience a thing of beauty which was hard to […]
The Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) has begun 2019 with Strindberg’s ‘Creditors’, a play he considered his masterpiece. Produced by TBTL and Jermyn Street Theatre, the play pairs with ‘Miss Julie’, written the same year (1888), which was a hit […]
Willy Russell’s masterpiece needs little in the way of introduction to the older generation who will probably remember when it came to fame in the early 80s both on stage and in film. This new touring production, currently running at […]
Something is decaying badly at Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) and it is sinfully good. A co-production by Titled Wig Productions, Malvern Theatres and Churchill Theatre, Bromley, this new telling of Oscar Wilde’s classic gothic thriller is a wonderful […]
I’ll be blunt: ‘Heart of Darkness’ is one of the most excitingly innovative and challenging productions I’ve ever had the good fortune to watch. I can’t recommend it enough. The production is touring but currently on at Keswick’s Theatre by […]
It was a bold move by Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) to open their 2018 season with, effectively, a two-man mini-musical; all the more so when one character, The Pianist (played by Patrick Bridgman) doesn’t say anything at all. […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have a long-standing tradition of putting on a ‘non-pantomime’ production of the Christmas/Winter period. Over the years, audiences have been entertained with delights from exotic far eastern magical tales to last year’s retelling of […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) is coming to the end of the final production of the 2017 season with a few days left to see The Secret Garden – and what a beautiful production it is too. Taking something […]
The last production to come to Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) before the Christmas season is a powerful, thought-provoking story which presents dementia and which seeks to present the condition from the point of view of the sufferer rather […]
What a sumptuous romp is this adaptation by Jessica Swale of the classic Jane Austen novel. Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) is now running one of the final productions of their summer season and have ‘gone for glory’ with this […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have recently started a run of two short plays by Alan Bennett collectively called Single Spies – which gives you something of an idea of their subject matter. I recall when Alan Bennett’s An […]
Complementing their main stage hilarious farce, Jeeves & Wooster, opening the summer season, Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have also started with the much more serious (and world premiere) Rails in the intimate studio theatre. The play, by Simon […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) have taken us back to the late 80s and ‘The Troubles’ in Northern Ireland with this challenging play by Rona Munro. Centring around three women whose husbands or fathers have all been killed or […]
Keswick’s Theatre by the Lake (TBTL) has opened its new summer season of plays with a cracking farce which I predict may well be the smash hit of the year. The classic books by P.G. Wodehouse still remain firm favourites […]
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