W.E.A.D.S’s Aladdin – 21 February 2025, Walkley Ebenezer Methodist Church Review by Claire Taranaski. This is the second year I have reviewed W.E.A.D.S annual panto, although they have been going much longer celebrating their 40th birthday this year, and like last year they confirmed that we should all be supporting our local community pantos full […]

Wales Community Theatre Players’ Cinderella – 18 January 2025, Montgomery Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. My first review of 2025 was both a welcome return to The Montgomery Theatre after its refurbishment (brought up to date but still with the Monty feeling that regular attenders of the theatre know and love) and a welcome return […]

SUTCo’s The Importance of Being Earnest – 20 November 2024, Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Last night SUTCo confirmed their place as one of Sheffield’s finest student theatre companies with a production and performances all that would make Oscar Wilde proud and if you didn’t know differently would make you think you were seeing […]

Tudor Players’ Blackadder II – 15 October 2024, Library Theatre Tudor Players cunning plan to perform three episodes of Blackadder II on a cold dark October evening was a side-splitting success bringing the creation of Richard Curtis and Ben Elton to life and satisfying the itch of fans of the sitcom to see their favourite […]

Ellesmere Musical Theatre Company’s Young Frankenstein – 11 October 2024, Lyceum Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. In a year when many of our favourite Sheffield theatre companies shows have been moved or even sadly cancelled due to the renovations at the Montgomery Theatre (we can’t wait to see it when it re-opens) it feels only […]

Midland Players’ Treasure Island – 25 September 2024, University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novel is a pirate adventure book that we all feel we should have read when we were younger but many like me did not or will have heard of the pirate Long John Silver but not […]