Tuesday, 15th October 2024 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The multi award-winning 1927 are back with a brand new show, and it’s another corker. Apparently based on a true story, Please Right Back follows a father - Mr E - who writes to his kids and tells them fantastical stories about where he is and why... Continue Reading →
Saturday 12th October 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️ A Midsummer Night’s Dream is undoubtedly one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. Inventive, playful and magical with a characteristically dark underbelly, the twisted tale of supernatural beings toying with amorous (or plain foolish) mortals is a real winner. Here, the tale takes shape as a three act... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 11th September 2024 at the Garrick Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes This big fancy new musical navigates the minefield of modern dating by dissecting the age-old question: Why Am I So Single? The much-anticipated musical from Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss (who also directs), the duo behind cult-favourite SIX, proves lightening can in... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 24th July 2024 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ In this take on Jules Verne’s book, Juliet Forster adapts (and directs) the tale to sneak in a second lead: Nellie Bly, real-life journo and adventurer who completed the same trip in 1889… and in less time than Verne’s character. Therein lies some of the best... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 23rd July 2024 at the Grand Opera House York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Another page to screen to stage number is back on stage: John Buchan’s 1915 novel, The 39 Steps. Picked up as a classic spy thriller in the 1930s by none other than Alfred Hitchcock, and more recently adapted into a farcical comedy by Patrick... Continue Reading →
July 2024 Around the World in 80 Days-ish will soon be playing at York Theatre Royal (18 July-3 August) and actor and acrobat Maria Gray’s trip around the world has not been without delays. But now third time lucky she’ll set off to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days. Or to be precise ‘80-ish’ days…... Continue Reading →
Monday, 3rd June 2024 at Southwark Playhouse, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ TW: Domestic violence Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes Unapologetic in its dark humour, The Bleeding Tree takes a unique look at the complex response to domestic violence and those who fall victim to it. Opening with a gunshot, a mother (Mariah Gale) and her two daughters (Elizabeth Dulau... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 14th May 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apparently, Pretty Woman the movie made $450 million at the box office back in the late eighties, and brought Gary Marshall and J.F. Lawton great acclaim. Seemingly having lost none of its appeal, the pair’s work is now strutting its stuff on stages as Pretty Woman... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 8th May 2024 at New Diorama Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman In the midst of the uncontrollable back and forth diss tracks between Drake and Kendrick Lamar, it's difficult to comprehend the world of Between the Lines-- a world of artistic censorship, spurring from deeply-rooted racial antagonism and ethnic stereotypes. In this two act... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 23rd April 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tilted Wig’s latest production takes R.B Sheridan’s 18th century comedy, The School for Scandal, and plants the story among London’s 1950’s bourgeoisie. While following one unlucky husband in particular, the play also introduces a social group who “murder characters to kill time” by delighting in wide-eyed... Continue Reading →
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