THEATRE REVIEW | Fat Friends The Musical – Sheffield
★★★☆☆ | Fat Friends The Musical As her wedding day approaches, Kelly buys her dream wedding dress, even though it is two sizes too small for her. When Julia Fleshman, […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical – National Tour
★★★★☆ | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical During the 1960’s Carole King was part of one of the most successful songwriting partnerships of the era, writing hits for The Shirelles, […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Hairspray, Sheffield Theatres
★★★★☆ | Hairspray – Sheffield Theatres Set in Baltimore in 1962, Tracey Turnblad is a big girl with a big heart, big dreams and even bigger hair. Tracey (with her […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Mary Stuart, Duke of Yorks Theatre
★★★★★ | Mary Stuart, Duke of York’s Theatre Two queens fighting to the death. No, not Vauxhall on a Saturday but a fascinating slice of Elizabethan history. Mary Stuart seeks […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dietrich: Natural Duty
★★★★★ | Dietrich: Natural Duty Described as a one (wo)man show, Peter Groom’s take on legendary teutonic beauty Marlene Dietrich is literally breathtaking at points. There’s an uncanny likeness between him […]
Six things we loved about Oranges and Elephants, Hoxton Hall
★★★★☆ | Oranges And Elephants An all-female musical has opened in London, Oranges and Elephants 1) The story. Set in Victorian London and there’s a turf war between two all-female rival groups, […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Still Ill, New Diorama Theatre
Still Ill | ★★★ Sophie is a jobbing actress who’s working in a terrible soap opera, playing a surgeon with a brain tumour. She’s making up her income having endless neurological […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Strangers on a Train, Sheffield Lyceum
Strangers on a Train | ★★☆☆☆ During a chance encounter on a whiskey-soaked train journey, two strangers, Guy Haines, a respected architect and Charles Bruno, a drunken playboy, jokingly plot […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The Nutcracker, St Petersberg Ballet, Sheffield Lyceum
★★★☆☆ The Nutcracker | Sheffield Lyceum Formed in 1996, the St Petersberg Classic Ballet brings the classic ballet, The Nutcracker, to life with this traditional presentation. The ballet, set to the instantly recognisable […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Rent Party – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
★★★★★ | Rent Party – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield You are invited by Stuart, the fiercest, pony-tail-wearing, weave flailing diva this side of the breadline, to his Rent Party, where you […]
THEATRE REVIEW | La Bohéme – Trafalgar Studios, London
★★★★★ | La Bohéme La Bohéme, an opera in four acts, had its world premiere in 1896 in Turin, Italy. Since then, it’s been copied and re-interpreted in so many different ways […]