Thursday 3rd December 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Miss Saigon is celebrated as a modern classic, and with a powerful story of love, resilience, survival and inevitable tragedy at its core, it certainly carries a timeless quality. Set in wartime amidst conflict that tears lovers apart, the story is a stone’s throw from Romeo... Continue Reading →
Review: King for a Day – The Nat King Cole story
Monday 17th November 2025 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ King for a Day: The Nat King Cole Story is billed as a concert featuring live music, narration and archive footage of the icon himself to bring to life the story of a music legend. The honey-voiced Atila leads a band of talented musicians (not credited... Continue Reading →
Review: The Book of Mormon (Touring)
Wednesday 12th November 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Book of Mormon has enjoyed unwavering success since opening on Broadway in 2011, subsequently sweeping 9 Tony awards and entertaining huge audiences ever since. It’s a brave, razor-sharp show which ingeniously strikes a balance between satisfying musical spectacle and pretty outrageous punchlines and plot points.... Continue Reading →
Review: Kinky Boots (Touring)
Tuesday, 20th May 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Kinky Boots is back! This latest production from director Nikolai Foster delivers on all the fun-loving, sassy wholesomeness we’ve come to love about this show, and offers some refreshing takes on central characters. In brief: the show covers a failing small town shoe factory and a... Continue Reading →
Review: Calamity Jane (Touring)
Tuesday 29th May 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carrie Hope Fletcher stars as the wayward Calamity in this affectionate touring production of the classic musical. Adapted from James O’Hanlon’s screenplay by Charles K Freeman, the show, with Nikolai Foster directing (and Nick Winston co-directing and choreographing), takes an understated approach, bringing warmth... Continue Reading →
Review: Bat Out of Hell The Musical (Touring)
Tuesday 22nd April 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️ From “Bat Out of Hell” and “Dead Ringer for Love”, to “I’d do anything for love” and “It’s all coming back to me now”, Jim Steinman and Meat Loaf have some cracking hits to their names. In Bat Out of Hell, The Musical, those hits are... Continue Reading →
Review: Now That’s What I Call a Musical (Touring)
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 →
Review: Only Fools and Horses The Musical
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 →
Review: Cruel Intentions, The ‘90s Musical (Touring)
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 →
Review: Blood Brothers (Tour)
Tuesday, 3rd December 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Blood Brothers is out on the road again, and the latest cast bring Willy Russell’s wonderful, multi award-winning story to life with great energy, wit and heart. Directed by Bob Tomson and Bill Kenwright, the show follows the story of the Johnstone twins. Separated at birth... Continue Reading →