Review 4/44

Sam's no fool in lovely-jubbly stage role

Panto season brings with it a myriad magical lands inhabited by plucky princesses in peril, loyal but hapless sidekicks, boo-able baddies...

There are plenty of Aladdins on stages up and down the land this Christmas, but none, I suspect, are half as lavish as Disney’s musical...

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas – toys in every store, and a festive show on every stage. While there are big bad wolves on...

If you can win over an auditorium of sugar-fuelled schoolchildren, you know you’re doing something right. So chapeau to the cast of...

They may come from two different ‘Dream’ teams. But it seems the partnership between Domingo Hindoyan and pianist Simon Trpčeski is no...

Half-a-century after the Rocky Horror Show, Richard O’Brien’s love letter to his 50s cinema youth, first hit the stage it remains an...

Some people spent Covid lockdowns perfecting their sourdough or turning out endless tins of banana loaf. Others learned a new skill or...

Shakespeare North Playhouse looks once again to inspiration from a much-loved classic text for its third Christmas family show. In 2022...

Hair we go! Christmas is a-coming, and that means fairy lights, the mainlining of mince pies and the arrival of the Everyman Rock ‘n’...

Christmas is on the horizon now which means two things – panto season and the return of festive favourite It’s a Wonderful Life to the...