Tuesday 10th June 2025 at the Grand Opera House York The Last Laugh is a new play by Paul Hendy celebrating the legacy of three comedy legends: Eric Morecambe, Tommy Cooper and Bob Monkhouse. Hendy - a name locals will recognise from York Theatre Royal’s panto seasons - also directs, and there’s a definite sense of... Continue Reading →
Review: Murder, She Didn’t Write (touring)
Friday, 30th May 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This improv show created by Degrees of Error sees a brand new murder mystery spontaneously take shape each night. Taken from audience offerings, the cast piece together random details to deliver a pretty bonkers combination of events in an affectionate spoof of the whodunnit... Continue Reading →
Review: Calamity Jane (Touring)
Tuesday 29th May 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Carrie Hope Fletcher stars as the wayward Calamity in this affectionate touring production of the classic musical. Adapted from James O’Hanlon’s screenplay by Charles K Freeman, the show, with Nikolai Foster directing (and Nick Winston co-directing and choreographing), takes an understated approach, bringing warmth... Continue Reading →
Review: Now That’s What I Call a Musical (Touring)
Tuesday, 18th March 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 1989 and a school reunion is taking place, with two BFFs parted by years and circumstances waiting for their own long overdue reunion. With past and present running side by side, Now That’s What I Call a Musical takes both the characters and... Continue Reading →
Review: Cruel Intentions, The ‘90s Musical (Touring)
Tuesday, 18th February 2025 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cruel Intentions: The ‘90s Musical is a show that lives up to its full and formal name; a proud romp through a cult classic set to a generous parade of ‘90s pop hits. Most impressive about this latest screen to stage adaptation is how... Continue Reading →
Review: Beauty and the Beast at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, York
Thursday 12th December 2024 at the Grand Theatre and Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Beauty and the Beast is of course a “tale as old as time”, but it gets quite a cheeky make-over in this panto production from the Grand Theatre and Opera House in York, offering plenty of laughs and a great night out... Continue Reading →
Review: 101 Dalmatians (Touring)
Wednesday, 6th November 2024 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Based on Dodie Smith’s novel and stage adapatation by Zinnie Harris, this show takes on a much beloved story and delivers all kinds of charm and fun and loveliness. It’s all fast-paced adventure under direction of Bill Buckhurst, and as far as family shows... Continue Reading →
Review: Hairspray (Touring)
Monday, 28th October 2024 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ One of the most toe-tapping of all the touring musicals is back! Hairspray boasts a great story and great songs, and features lively music from Mark Shaiman and witty lyrics from Shaiman and Scott Wittman. With Book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, this... Continue Reading →
Review: The 39 Steps (Touring)
Tuesday, 23rd July 2024 at the Grand Opera House York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Another page to screen to stage number is back on stage: John Buchan’s 1915 novel, The 39 Steps. Picked up as a classic spy thriller in the 1930s by none other than Alfred Hitchcock, and more recently adapted into a farcical comedy by Patrick... Continue Reading →
Review: Unfortunate (Touring)
Tuesday, 11th June 2024 at the Grand Opera House, York ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ This musical parody is all kinds of fabulous and all kinds of bonkers, with the perfect descriptor coming from the script itself: “well, that was fucking mental”. Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch casts Ursula not as the evil villain, but... Continue Reading →