Tuesday 25th November 2019 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lions and tigers and bears? Witches and munchkins and ruby slippers? Oh my! Oz is well and truly back in town! When it comes to the highly anticipated show for the festive season, Leeds Playhouse likes to go BIG. This production of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard... 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 →
Thursday 31st October 2019 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Lincoln Center Theater production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I is really something wonderful to behold. Having secured glowing receptions in New York and London, this phenomenal production directed by Bartlett Sher is now touring, bringing a beloved classic to... Continue Reading →
Saturday 7th September 2019 at the Carriageworks Theatre, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s talent and then there’s Talent - Christina Bianco is and has the latter. Boasting hugely impressive pipes and a real star quality, First Impressions offers a few hours of fabulously full-on divalicious entertainment in which Bianco, joined by her brilliant band the Everyman Band,... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 28th August 2019 at the Charing Cross Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What happens when a woman goes above and beyond what others do in the same field, outshining the lot of them with an audaciously unwavering self-belief leading to unprecedented success? She doesn’t get what she’d hoped for, naturally! Such is the case in 1901 as... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 14th August 2019 at the Kiln Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read the marketing for Blues in the Night and you’ll find the following promise: ‘...a scorching compilation of 26 hot and torchy blues numbers that frame the lives and loves of four residents of a downtown hotel.’ It certainly delivers all that is promised, and does... Continue Reading →
Monday 8th July 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️ Thriller Live commendably tries a different tack when it comes to celebrating its source material. Thanks to creator and executive director Adrian Grant, this is no jukebox musical with loose narrative thrown in. Nor is it a jukebox musical with a whackily entertaining plot... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 26th June 2019 at The Grand Theatre and Opera House, Leeds. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Director Nikolai Foster brings a ‘new’ Grease to audiences with this production. That is, he’s returning the story to its roots, pre-Hollywood and pre-shiny-Hollywood-friendly edits. So we’re back to the original, slightly grittier source with Book, music and lyrics by Jim Jacobs... Continue Reading →
Wednesday 5th June 2019 at the Grand Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ The hit film hits the stage with Little Miss Sunshine: A Road Musical currently touring U.K. theatres in a production which jovially joins the adaptation craze with mixed results. Little Miss Sunshine is of course based on the runaway hit 2006 movie (written by... Continue Reading →
