Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Thestival 2025 – 12 April 2025, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Review by Maisie Ellis. Night 2 of Butter Side Up’s Thestival 2025 was fantastic! Having never attended one of their performances before, I was pleased to find out that the aptly titled Stage Presence is a rapid-fire showcase of the company’s […]

Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Thestival 2025 – 11 April 2025, Lantern Theatre, Sheffield Review by Artisan Friendly. Thestival is back and what a brilliant showcase it is for new and upcoming writing, theatre and performance. Since its beginnings in 2013, it’s now been reinvented into a multi-day celebration of musicals, comedy, drama and creative […]

SUTCo’s It Came From The Ice – 4 April 2025, Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Sheffield University Theatre Company’s latest production, written and directed by Luke Hookham is a psychological cosmic horror that cleverly explores what happens when a crew of five are trapped in a research camp at the Antarctic, brilliantly examining the […]

SUTCo’s The Effect – 12 March 2025, University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. Sheffield University Theatre Company’s latest production is of Lucy Prebble’s powerful and intense post Covid set The Effect, an examination of both relationships, psychiatry, depression and drug trials. All four actors in this intelligent and intimate production held their own. The […]

SUTCo’s Accidental Death Of An Anarchist – 26 February 2025, University Drama Studio Review by Jacob Bush. As one of their semester two productions, Sheffield University Theatre Company take on the incredibly challenging yet very funny play Accidental Death of an Anarchist. Written by Dario Fo and adapted by Tim Supple and Alan Cumming, the […]

Midland Players’ Men At Arms – 19 February 2025, University Drama Studio Review by Peter Taranaski. It’s a quiet sort of evening as we make our way to the University of Sheffield Drama Studio. The quietness of the evening is about to be punctured by the kind of raucous, off-beat, and surreal world that is […]