Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Green Day’s American Idiot – 14 July 2023, Leadmill Review by Claire Taranaski. It’s not often that I get blown away by a musical that I have not seen before but that is exactly what happened last night at the Leadmill (the queue in the rain that went all the […]
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Woodseats Musical Theatre Company’s Legally Blonde The Musical – 12 July 2023, Montgomery Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Woodseats Musical Theatre Company has a reputation for feel good musical theatre productions and their latest, perfectly timed for the Barbie movie and the third Legally Blonde movie both due out this year, maybe there best one […]
Tudor Players’ Carrie’s War – Library Theatre, 13 June 2023 Review by Claire Taranaski. Although Tudor Players is best known among its fans for bringing high quality comedy plays to the Library Theatre stage, I first fell in love with the company six years ago (thank you programme for reminding me) with their superb adaption […]
Denys Edwards Players’ Murdered to Death – Library Theatre, 11 May 2023 Review by Jacob Bush. Denys Edwards Players have long been a staple of the amateur dramatic scene in Sheffield, but somehow this was my first time seeing one of their productions. This week, they take to the intimate Library Theatre’s stage with Peter […]
SUPAS’ Sweeney Todd – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 26 April 2023 Review by Jacob Bush. Sweeney Todd, telling the story of the barber released from prison determined to seek revenge on the people who have taken his family from him, is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most challenging musicals musically, dramatically and with regards to staging. […]
Sheffield University Drama Society’s Romeo and Juliet – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 21 April 2023 Review by Jacob Bush. Celebrating 50 years of performing at the University Drama Studio, Sheffield University Drama Society (SUDS) takes to the stage, for the first time, with a production of Romeo and Juliet. SUDS present a fairly traditional take […]