Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Messina – Library Theatre, 12 December 2024 Review by Taylor J. Ellie Madeira’s ‘Messina’ is an unforgettable twist of Shakespeare’s dramatic tragicomedy and the soft yet powerful sensuality of Burlesque! The cast truly disappeared into their characters with the help of the incredible costume and makeup design, setting the scene […]

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 […]

Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s The King In Yellow – 8 March 2024, Theatre Deli Sheffield Review by Peter Taranaski. The Sheffield-based group return to the Theatre Deli and aim for the deep, deep stars with their latest play, “The King In Yellow”. “The King in Yellow” is a play adapted from a collection of […]

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 […]

Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Last Night of Freedom – 24 February 2023, Library Theatre Review by Jacob Bush. Last Night of Freedom is a new play written by Sian Meredith following the events of a stag do and hen night happening consecutively. Luke and Vicky, with their clipboards and detailed plans, work hard to […]

Butter Side Up’s Tick, Tick, Boom! – 1 October 2022, Victoria Centre, Sheffield Review by Jacob Bush. “Following a hugely successful film starring Andrew Garfield, Vanessa Hudgens and Joshua Henry being released late last year, Butter Side Up Theatre Company have taken on the somewhat obscure autobiographical Jonathan Larson musical as their first licensed musical, […]