Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Spring Awakening The Musical – 16 August 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. I came into this production with incredibly high expectations, firstly because the first time I saw Spring Awakening The Musical in 2018 it was the one of the first musicals to blow my expectations away […]
Denys Edwards Players’ Shakers – 2 August 2024, Dronfield Civic Hall Review by Sue Curr. For their latest offering Denys Edward Players chose to bring John Godber and Jane Thornton’s dynamic and extremely witty “Shakers” to life. And bring it to life they most certainly did in spades. Set in the lively environment of a […]
Footsteps Theatre’ Into The Woods – 19 July 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Jacob Bush. Into the Woods is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most well known and beloved musicals, taking fairytale characters and asking how far they’re willing to go to get what they wish for. It’s a notoriously challenging show, packed full of […]
Wales Community Theatre Players’ Show Stoppers – 11 July 2024, The Lyric, Dinnington Review by Peter Taranaski. There are few things as purely joyful as musical theatre. That unique mix of singing, dancing, comedic pauses and quiet tragedy speak to the questions with have in our hearts and minds. When local communities and amateur groups […]
Kindred Spirits Theatre Company’s Anne of Green Gables – 5 July 2024, Philadelphia Wesleyan Reform Church Review by Claire Taranaski. Sheffield’s newest youth theatre company may have only been going a year but they are already gaining a reputation from their audiences for bringing sweet versions of classic children’s stories to the stage and their […]
Imagine Theatre Academy’s Shrek The Musical Junior – 28 June 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. Imagine Theatre Academy’s production of Shrek The Musical Jr is a lovely family friendly musical that makes the prefect introduction to musical theatre for fans of the film and those who may get fidgety during a […]