Wednesday 8th December 2021 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Buoyant and basking in fairytale fixtures from the get-go, York Theatre Royal’s Panto from writer Paul Hendry and director Juliet Forster isn’t doing things be halves. This Cinderella has the all the comforting panto traditions paraded out in full force (who doesn’t love the Panto sing-along?),... Continue Reading →
Review: Wise Children’s Wuthering Heights (Touring)
*Spoiler alert: if you don’t know the fate of Brontë’s characters and you don’t want to know in advance, you may want to abandon ship now…* Wednesday 10th November 2021 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In Emma Rice’s adaptation of Emily Brontë’s gorgeous Wuthering Heights, we lose a housekeeper and gain a chorus: The Moor... Continue Reading →
Review: Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Touring)
Tuesday 2nd November 2021 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Based on the true story of Jamie Campbell, “Drag Queen at 16”, this bouncy, uplifting musical follows a young teenager navigating school life while nurturing aspirations of becoming a drag queen. From lived experience to BBC documentary (2011), from theatre production to West... Continue Reading →
Review: The Hound of the Baskervilles (Touring)
Tuesday 19th October 2021 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a comic adaptation as eccentric as it is frenetic, a cast of just three bring Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic thriller to the stage. Luckily, the trio are a real treat with their slick comic timing, great physical comedy and that unnameable twinkle in the... Continue Reading →
Review: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Touring)
Tuesday October 5th 2021 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️ Philip Meeks adapts Washington Irving’s Headless Horseman tale for the stage and in Tilted Wig’s production, ambition (and over-ambition) is at the centre of everything. The story follows a newcomer to the isolated village of Sleepy Hollow, where folk are living by their own rules and... Continue Reading →
Review: The Midnight Bell (Touring)
Thursday 30th September 2021 at York Theatre Royal. Matthew Bourne’s The Midnight Bell, based on the novels of Patrick Hamilton, takes us to 1930’s Soho. As liquor flows and glasses clink in the popular local tavern, lives are colliding and intertwining as time whispers onwards. Locals rub shoulders with prostitute, actor, spinster and cad alike.... Continue Reading →
Review: The Play That Goes Wrong (Touring)
Tuesday 28th September 2021 at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Mischief Comedy’s Olivier Award-winning show, The Play That Goes Wrong, is out on tour - and it’s certainly proving its position as an Olivier-winner. It’s farce at its best: a perfected illusion of spontaneous action which is as impressive in its precision... Continue Reading →
Review: Waitress (Touring)
Tuesday 14th September 2021 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ A good ol’ fashioned American diner sets the scene for baking and romance in this bubbly story of sisterhood, connection and standing on your own two feet. Briefly, waitress Jenna is stuck in a rut with her controlling slimeball husband Earl and hoping... Continue Reading →
Review: The Woman in Black (Touring)
Monday 13th September 2021 at the Grant Theatre and Opera House, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Woman in Black has returned to stages, and seems to have lost none of its ability to keep audiences on the edge of their seats… In Stephen Mallatratt’s 1989 adaptation of the Susan Hill novel, we are offered a play within... Continue Reading →
Review: A Little Night Music At Leeds Playhouse
Thursday July 1, 2021 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s always a thrill to see a celebrated giant of the musical theatre world for the first time, and this production does not disappoint. With a story inspired by an Ingmar Bergman film, book by by Hugh Wheeler and music and lyrics by the great Stephen Sondheim,... Continue Reading →