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 →
Wednesday 29th September 2021 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bram Stoker’s “Dracula” gets a cinematic comic strip makeover in this bold adaptation from Imitating the Dog. It’s rare for a production to fulfil its descriptors to perfection, but this show is exactly as billed: “a live graphic novel”. This version of the Dracula tale is told... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Tuesday 31st August 2021 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Having originally taken to the stage in 1980, this fabulous Willy Russell comedy maintains its charm forty years on thanks to the winning pairing of Stephen Tompkinson and Jessica Johnson. Rita (Johnson) is a working class woman feeling boxed in by expectations of who she should... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 27th July 2021 at York Theatre Royal. T.S Eliot’s Four Quartets is an intensive rumination on the passage of time and all its complex workings. It sometimes feels like a sermon on life, or group therapy. At other times, it takes on the form of an authoritative academic lecture warning us about the perils... Continue Reading →
Monday 26 July 2021 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s no doubt that Edith Piaf’s life and talent were extraordinary. With such tragedy in her life, it makes perfect sense that such melancholy should have found its way under her skin and into her music, but this take on her life story from Pam Gems certainly... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
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