…escaping to new adventures at curtain up…
Monday 1st April 2019 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️ In Tom Stoppard’s comedy Rough Crossing we’re taken to sea with a sparse cast of actors playing a very sparse cast of inept actors rehearsing aboard a ship. Our cast have a tall order to deliver. Although the cast are a talented... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 5th March 2019 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A female Hamlet? A northern tragedy? Multiple gender switches? Leeds Playhouse’s latest Shakespeare offering is a finely tuned combination of exactly that. As Shakespeare’s longest play, Hamlet is in so many cases numbingly over-long and mercilessly dark, but thankfully, Amy Leach’s direction and approach to... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 6th February 2019 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In random, Debbie Tucker Green really gets to the heart of just how hard hitting unexpected tragedy is. On a random day which only shows sign of discord in the way the weather typically can’t make up its mind, lives change without an inkling if... Continue Reading →
My top theatre productions of 2018 are up! You can read them all here. But there’s more praise to go around when I look back at the performances and productions to have impressed over the last year. So, with no actual awards to deliver, here are my top cast and creatives of 2018, who shall... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 19th December 2018 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Shrek and the gang look pretty darn good on a stage folks. Thanks to stage wizardry, the beloved Dreamworks ogre treads the boards with the help of a little green paint and prosthetic assistance. The show has been delighting little ones up... Continue Reading →
Friday 23rd November 2018 at Leeds Playhouse (Pop Up Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Adapting something so extraordinarily brilliant as this Charles Dickens masterpiece is surely a tough gig. A Christmas Carol is so rich with insight and detail that to do it justice in a stage adaptation is to ask an awful lot of the adaptor. Deborah... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 21st November 2018 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ If there’s one thing Jersey Boys tells us, it’s that at whatever stage of reincarnation The Four Seasons were enjoying, Frankie Valli was always the star power. Each original and subsequent member has undeniable talent, but at the centre of it all and... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 7th November 2018 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ You’d be hard pressed to sit in the audience of Motown The Musical and not feel the music creep into your limbs and even more so, your mood. You’d be even more hard-pressed to sit there and not recognise a song, such... Continue Reading →
Monday 29th October 2018 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This stage adaptation of the hit Cruise-Hoffman tour de force film comes from Dan Gordon and sells itself on the dramatic tag line ‘Two Brothers. One Destiny.’ It’s very much a stage re-make of the original and there’s little in the way... Continue Reading →
