REVIEWS
Dear Evan Hansen – Storyhouse Chester
An Emotional Roller-Coaster - It’ll Make Your Spine Tingle! There’s no doubt that composers Benj Pasek and Justin Paul have…
Handbagged – The Lowry
Moira Buffini’s Handbagged has been revived and brought back to the stage and is currently at The Lowry as part…
Eliza Carthy and Jennifer Reid – Traverse Theatre
Jennifer Reid performs nineteenth-century Lancashire dialect and Victorian broadside ballads. She comes from Rochdale, “but I admit it”. Reid sings…
Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners – Usher Hall
Perfectly timed for St Patrick’s Day, ‘Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners’ stopped off at the Usher Hall…
The Flying Dutchman – The Lowry
I’m afraid this production of The Flying Dutchman, an opera about a man cursed to wander the oceans forever, was…
Wild Rose – Royal Lyceum Theatre
Rose-Lynn Harlan loves country music and is pretty good at singing it too. Her burning ambition is to sing at…
Chef – Traverse Theatre
Once again, The Traverse champions fresh, accessible writing; this time with Sabrina Mahfouz’s one-woman play Chef. Set in a prison…
The Land That Never Was – The Studio, Edinburgh
Starting life as an idea broached on a Scratch night for budding theatre makers a year ago, Liam Rees brings…
Animal Farm – Leeds Playhouse
People can be beasts so what better way to explore the mysteries of the human psyche than through a bunch…
The Magic Flute – The Lowry
The Magic Flute is arguably an opera that welcomes many newcomers to the world of an opera performance for the…