2019 has been a fabulous year for theatre and it’s given me a grand total of 154 performances to enjoy - 147 of which have been reviewed here on the site. So what’s been seen in 2019 and what are my top picks I hear you ask? You can find both answers below! January took... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 18th December 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This is one of those relentlessly fabulous shows which leaves you smiling and giggling away to yourself long after the house lights come up. In A Night at the Musicals, we’re treated to a delicious feast of theatricality which delivers genuinely fantastic voices, sassy sardonic stand up... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 19th November 2019 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Toast is a coming of age tale with plenty of heart and...food. If the old adage about food being the key to many a heart is true, then this play shows us that process - and not just the positives either. Nigel Slater’s tale of growing... Continue Reading →
Monday 11th November 2019 at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ We Will Rock You celebrates the legendary music of Queen with maximum volume and plenty of energy - by the end of the show the audience are lapping it up with roars and footstomps. Set in a futuristic dystopian world in which... Continue Reading →
Monday 28th October 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood Brothers continues its triumphant circuit on our stages with Lyn Paul reinstated as Mrs Johnstone for one last time. Paul, voted ‘the definitive Mrs Johnstone’, proves wholeheartedly that the accolade is entirely deserved and then some. Joined by yet another cracking cast with... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 22nd October 2019 at York Theatre Royal (Studio). ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Daniel Kanaber takes on topical subject matter with an eye for authenticity and understated power in Under Three Moons. The play follows two comically mis-matched boys who become bickering men who become slightly older, more worldly men with disparate lives. Taking place across three nights... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 16th October 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Charley Miles’ There are No Beginnings is pretty stellar new work. Set in a time of apathetic approaches to women’s voices and performed in the era of #MeToo and the rising up of women across every industry and day to day experience, it makes for an incredibly... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 15th October 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Hanif Kureishi’s 1985 screenplay lands on stage as a story of youth, prejudice and gritty perseverance which feels as if it were written this year...an impression only dashed by the political figures, some Pet Shop Boy tunes and some very 80s fashion. Aside from those time markers,... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 9th October 2019 at The Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Family and friends come together for an evening of food, chat and liquor...what could possibly go wrong? A surprising and thoroughly entertaining array of things as it happens. Matthieu Delaporte and Alexander De La Patellière’s hit comedy (translated and adapted by Jeremy Sams) takes... Continue Reading →
