THEATRE REVIEW | Funny Girl, Palace Theatre, Manchester
★★★★ | Funny Girl, Palace Theatre Manchester In the opening lines of the show, Fanny Brice declares, ‘That’s where I live, on stage.’ In a rip-roaringly fantastic return to the […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The Wild Party
★★★★ | The Wild Party Have you ever been to one of those parties where the memory of it makes you shudder and sigh in equal measures? You know the […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Gaslight – Lyceum Theatre, Sheffield and National Tour
★★★|In an elegant townhouse in Victorian London, Bella Manningham is slowly losing her mind. Pictures keep disappearing, trinkets seem to move from place to place and items go missing without […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Cirque Berserk, Birmingham Rep
Dangerous, daring but a little spark-less ★★★ This is the second time that I have seen Cirque Berserk at the Birmingham Rep, and I have mixed feelings. Mostly, I really […]
THEATRE REVIEW | La Ronde
★★ | La Ronde Arthur Schnitzler’s turn of the century play ‘La Ronde’ is a frequently performed and adapted classic, partly because it’s an intriguing concept and also often because […]
THEATRE REVIEW | William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (Abridged)
Delightful, charming and uproariously funny. ★★★★★ Reduced Shakespeare Company put on a masterful performance combining Shakespeare’s most and least known plays and characters into a fiendish cauldron, summoning up hilarious […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Stories To Tell In The Middle Of The Night, Birmingham Rep
Stories To Tell In The Middle Of The Night written and performed by Francesca Millican-Slater was not what I expected. ★★ Its premise explores the many thoughts that people have before […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Crucible Theatre, Sheffield
Jamie is 16 and is not like his friends at school. His best friend wants to be a doctor, but he wants to be a drag queen. Raised by his […]
THEATRE REVIEW | The Boys in the Band, Vaudeville Theatre
★★★| The Boys in the Band A play that was originally produced off Broadway in 1968 has returned to the West End again, it’s the famous gay play ‘The Boys […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Ghost – The Musical – Sheffield Theatres & National Tour.
★★★| Based on the 1990 film of the same name, Ghost follows the story of Sam and Molly, whose life together is cut short when Sam is murdered in a […]
8 totally annoying things you’re doing in the theatre
Here in the UK, we are privileged to have a vast array of such wonderful theatres. We have the bright lights of the West End with its huge productions and […]