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: A Christmas Carol at Leeds Playhouse
Thursday 27th November 2025 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Leeds Playhouse have returned to the land of Ebeneezer Scrooge with their latest production of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol. This time, in Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation, the tale is set firmly in Yorkshire, with Scrooge as the clutching, covetous owner of a West Yorkshire woollen mill. ... 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: Lost Atoms (Touring)
Tuesday 7th October 2025 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Lost Atoms is the latest offering from Frantic Assembly, and it’s a pretty emotionally charged piece documenting the blossoming and decay of a passionate love. As an intensive two hander, it impresses both with memorable performances and striking, highly physical staging. Anna Jordan’s play sees Jess... Continue Reading →
Review: To Kill a Mockingbird (Touring)
Wednesday 17th September 2025 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird tops many a list of important classics, and with good reason. I remember falling in love with the charming ruffian nature of the Finch children and the admirable dignity of Atticus Finch as a teenager, and I have to say this... Continue Reading →
Review: Military Wives at York Theatre Royal
Tuesday 16th September 2025 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The story of the Military Wives choirs is a pretty inspiring one. Driven by a desire to connect and support one another in a distinctly challenging walk of life, the original wives brought the first choir together and found their project blossoming to 71 choirs with... Continue Reading →
Review: Consumed (Touring)
Wednesday 10th September 2025 at Leeds Playhouse Reviewer: Branagh O’Shaughnessy ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Karis Kelly’s Consumed promises hungry ghosts and skeletons, and I have to say it delivers, just not in the way you would expect. Four generations of women are reunited for Elieen's 90th birthday, set in a homely and somewhat cluttered kitchen in Bangor (set:... Continue Reading →
Review: Boys from the Blackstuff (Touring)
Tuesday 13th May 2025 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Alan Bleasdale’s Boys from the Blackstuff is a pretty dark look at the lacerating impact of unemployment in 1980s Liverpool. Based on the 1982 BBC drama (which I haven’t seen - I know, shocking really), this staging by James Graham follows the criss-crossing lives of out... Continue Reading →
Review: The Thankful Village (Touring)
Thursday 24th April 2025 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Badapple Theatre’s warm-hearted drama looks at the lives of women in war-time. When war hits and the men-folk of Thankful head off to do their duty, three women are left counting the days, scouring the news and navigating tensions in their own lives. The lofty Victoria... Continue Reading →
Review: Fluff (Touring)
Sunday, 16th March 2025 at Theatre 41, Monkgate ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fluff is a pretty clever piece of storytelling in which one actor takes on various roles to gradually unravel the truth about our confused lead. It’s no spoiler to say that the show centres on dementia and Fluff’s relationship to it, but the story told delves... Continue Reading →