When a company likens their style to South Park merged with Greek tragedy and offer advisories covering every kind of South Park-ian reference point, you know you’re about to see something a bit whacky. Featuring some choice pop culture references, plenty of bloodshed and a touch of anarchy, Pony Cam certainly seem to have hit... Continue Reading →
Review: Sweet Dreams, the Audio Play
Streaming online for June - July 2021. Mike Kenny’s 30 minute audio play follows little Ivy, whose working mum is off on a trip to outer space, leaving her to snuggle down and not worry about a thing. But beloved fluffy bunny “Bun Bun” and Ivy find themselves all alone on the moon and struggling... Continue Reading →
Review: Soviet Zion (Concept Album)
This new musical drama is one of epic proportions, with the concept album confidently putting forward just shy of three hours of original material. Soviet Zion seeks to take audiences into the heart of ‘Siberia's mysterious Yiddish Autonomous Region’, and, with generous musical accompaniment and a firm grasp on the dramatic potential of the premise,... Continue Reading →
Review: This is Not a Wedding
Tuesday 17th September at York Theatre Royal’s De Grey Rooms. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When you’re invited to a non-wedding promising a ‘radical and apocolyptic reimagining of some of our most recognisable ceremonies’ featuring a ‘concoction of wildly entertaining dance theatre’, it’s anyone’s guess as to what that will look like in a performance space. It’s certainly wildly... Continue Reading →
Review: Christina Bianco’s First Impressions
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 →
Review: Beyond the Barricade (Touring)
Thursday 5th September 2019 at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beyond the Barricade has been around since the late 90s, celebrating the music of stages in the West End and on Broadway for appreciative musical theatre loving audiences. David Fawcett, Andy Reiss, Poppy Tierney and Shona Lindsay have all been principal players... Continue Reading →
Review: Seth Rudetsky’s Deconstructing Broadway at the Crazy Coqs, London
Tuesday 16th April 2019 at the Crazy Coqs (Live at Zédel). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Musical theatre fans, gather round! Actually, music fans in general, get over here. If you’ve ever physically or facially reacted to a specific note, rewound a song to hear a riff again, or actively forced friends to listen to a particular part of... Continue Reading →
Review: Gabrielle’s Under My Skin Tour
Saturday 30th March 2019 at Leeds Town Hall. ‘Sunshine through my window, that’s what you are...’ sings the voice of my teens and along with a sold out audience, I’m in the best possible Saturday night mood. So Gabrielle is back, bodacious and brilliant. Her latest album Under My Skin shares the stage with her... Continue Reading →
Review: The Hallé’sThe Magical Music of Harry Potter
Saturday 23rd February 2019 at Leeds Town Hall. Ah, the swell of big, bold movie melodies, am I right? For me, the very best thing about adventure and fantasy films is the grand scores soaring above the action. Even if you’re not so sensitive to music in movies, there’s little to not enjoy about big... Continue Reading →
Review from the Movie Theatre: Mary Poppins Returns
Released December 2018. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The much awaited return of Mary Poppins has landed. Mary Poppins Returns takes a beloved old classic and gives it some modern aesthetics and new stomping grounds. It’s not so much about carrying on from or matching up to the original, it’s about finding a way to bring great characters back... Continue Reading →