Avenue Q – 23 October 2018, Theatre Deli, Sheffield ***** When one of Sheffield’s best amateur musical theatre company’s invited me to the opening night of their production of one of your favourite ever musicals, I had to be there, knowing I was guaranteed to have a great night of loveable puppets, laugh out loud comedy and […]
Category: Theatre
Ben Hur – 16 October 2018, Sheffield Library Theatre ***** When a theatre company promises to bring the greatest book ever penned to life on stage with a towering team of just four actors, and complete with a bona fide chariot race, with real chariots, an authentic sea battle, with real water, and a decadent […]
The Graduate – 11 October 2018, University of Sheffield Drama Studio ***** I own the soundtrack on vinyl and have read the book about the making of the film but have never in fact seen The Graduate, so was delighted to be in the audience for The Graduate, the first show of Sheffield University Theatre […]
Top five shows to see this October Along with our regular reviews from this month onwards we are also going to recommend in advance our top shows to see in Sheffield during the month ahead. So here goes, in date order, with October: Julie Murphy – 6 October 2018, Heeley Institute If we weren’t at a […]
Firsts – 28 September 2018, DINA, Sheffield Like M&Ms an evening of monologues and musicals comes with the possibility of being a perfect combination of Ms, especially with a focus on Firsts on close to the first anniversary of me seeing Butter Side Up Theatre Company perform for the first time. Firsts, is an original play, […]
Copacabana – 18 September 2018, Montgomery Theatre, Sheffield After winning our award for best musical (youth company) last year, I was delighted to be invited to the dress rehearsal of Splinters Theatre Group’s production of Copacabana. Featuring original songs by Barry Manilow, Copacabana is a tale of love and romance on the way to stardom […]