Saturday, 1st June 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The Animal Guyz’s Amazing Animals seeks to entertain as much as it educates, giving youngsters a parade of animals (puppets and costumes, not real animals!) to enjoy while offering a great number of fascinating facts along the way. The team are an enthusiastic bunch and they... Continue Reading →
Friday, 17th May 2024 at Leeds Playhouse ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ New musical Here You Come Again is a fabulous, funny and full-hearted show which celebrates both the icon that is Dolly Parton and the importance of making hard choices to secure your own happiness. Kevin (Steven Webb) is hunkering down in his parents’ attic following a break-up... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 14th May 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Apparently, Pretty Woman the movie made $450 million at the box office back in the late eighties, and brought Gary Marshall and J.F. Lawton great acclaim. Seemingly having lost none of its appeal, the pair’s work is now strutting its stuff on stages as Pretty Woman... Continue Reading →
Monday, 13th May 2024 at the Grand Opera House York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jury duty is a fascinating business. Throw complete strangers in a room and ask them to roll the dice on the fate of another stranger sitting in a cell somewhere. No professional training, just critical thinking and debate. Reginald Rose’s Twelve Angry Men taps... Continue Reading →
Friday, 10th May 2024 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ How do you turn just over 400 pages of dense, rich prose into two hours of theatre while preserving the heart and soul of the piece? Especially when a certain clutch of classics inspire such connection with their readers? This particular adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s incredibly... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 23rd April 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Tilted Wig’s latest production takes R.B Sheridan’s 18th century comedy, The School for Scandal, and plants the story among London’s 1950’s bourgeoisie. While following one unlucky husband in particular, the play also introduces a social group who “murder characters to kill time” by delighting in wide-eyed... Continue Reading →
Friday, 5th April 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️ John Godber’s Bouncers remains a show which brings in audiences time and again, with a fresh tour launching fairly regularly over the years. With its sharp observations of club culture, gender politics and dynamics within the meat market that is a night on the town, this... Continue Reading →
March 2024 Taking a chance – and having a chat – with actor Rachel Stockdale Rachel Stockdale is bringing her funny and politically powerful show, “Fat Chance”, to Leeds Playhouse next month (April 5-6). The show is a one woman play written and performed by Rachel - a 'fat, benefit class northern actor' - who explores... Continue Reading →
Friday, 22nd March 2024 at York Grand Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Five vivacious drag queens rule the roost in this lively and cheeky show with one clear intention: give the audience a top night out. Queenz - The Show with Balls, directed by David Griego and Kieran Powell, feels celebratory and uplifting, bringing the best of drag... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 16th March 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Jane Austen’s women are some of the most entertaining characters to be found within the pages of classic novels, and the wit and intelligence of her writing shines brightly in Dyad Productions’ Lady Susan. Drawing on key missives from Austen’s epistolary novel and playing every... Continue Reading →
