Tuesday, 18th March 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 1989 and a school reunion is taking place, with two BFFs parted by years and circumstances waiting for their own long overdue reunion. With past and present running side by side, Now That’s What I Call a Musical takes both the characters and... Continue Reading →
Sunday, 16th March 2025 at Theatre 41, Monkgate ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fluff is a pretty clever piece of storytelling in which one actor takes on various roles to gradually unravel the truth about our confused lead. It’s no spoiler to say that the show centres on dementia and Fluff’s relationship to it, but the story told delves... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 13th March 2025 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Staging George Orwell’s iconic Animal Farm is a daring move. It’s such a brilliant piece and its messages about power and exploitation are pretty perfect for staging right now (need I say more?). But almost every character is an animal - how do you stage such a... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 27th February 2025 at Union Theatre, Southwark ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes Almost 60 years on from the harrowing mining disaster, Mr Jones explores the unfathomable loss of the forever-altered Welsh village of Aberfan. On the morning of 21 October 1966, the last Friday before half term, a landslide of coal waste crashed into the... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 25th February 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House ⭐️⭐️⭐️ From the pens of Paul Whitehouse and Jim Sullivan comes the musicalised stage version of classic sitcom Only Fools and Horses: wise-crackingly, eyebrow-liftingly and elbow-nudgingly nostalgic and entertaining, but not necessarily a cracking musical. Caroline Jay Ranger directs, and it’s a likeable cast... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 18th February 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical is a show that lives up to its full and formal name; a proud romp through a cult classic set to a generous parade of ‘90s pop hits. Most impressive about this latest screen to stage adaptation is how... Continue Reading →
January 2025 2024 was an exciting year for theatre, with plenty of home grown and touring talent to enjoy - here’s the run-down of 2024’s five star hits according to Always Time for Theatre… Life of Pi The stage adaptation of Life of Pi is a stunning piece of theatre, a spectacle-driven piece which is as visually... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 17th December 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Charles Dickens’ classic tale of Christmastime redemption remains a steadfast feature of theatre programming each December. Northern Ballet take the tale and adapt it beautifully, bringing its messages and highlights to the fore with beauty, wit and a thrillingly dark edge. Directed and devised by Christopher... Continue Reading →
Thursday 12th December 2024 at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beauty and the Beast is of course a “tale as old as time”, but it gets quite a cheeky make-over in this panto production from the Grand Theatre and Opera House in York, offering plenty of laughs and a great night out... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 7th December 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Panto season has descended upon York once more, and York Theatre Royal’s offering this year is a bouncy production of Aladdin. Paul Hendy pens this version of the tale, with Juliet Forster directing. The whole thing is placed in central York, where Aladdin (Sario Solomon) seeks... Continue Reading →
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