When a reviewer is compiling their list of 'Best Shows of the Year', it is advisable to wait until the…
Wow! For the awesome stage set and evocative costumes (such creativity from Lez Brotherton). Wow! For the hauntingly beautiful music…
Many musicals have now been inspired by Wicked - creating a spin-off of a well-known tale and flipping it on…
This musical adaptation of Erich Kästner’s novel ‘Lottie and Lisa’- more commonly known as ‘The Parent Trap’- will have you…
The multi award-winning musical phenomenon SIX, written by Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss, returns to The Lowry, Salford, next month.…
Blood Harmony (written by Matthew Bulgo, directed and choreographed by Jonnie Riordan and Jess Williams) is a melange of styles…
Melissa Johns is extraordinary. Although, not necessarily for the reasons you might think, and certainly not just because she was…
Reviewing 'Les Misérables' is in some ways a useless task. The show is entering its thirty seventh (!) year in…
Sheila’s Island is a sharp and charming new piece of comedy writing by Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, Kinky Boots) and…
Arthur Conan-Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories lend themselves to comedy because they are often quite fantastical. Over the years many a…