W.E.A.D.S’s The Little Mermaid – Walkley Ebenezer Methodist Church, 15 February 2024 Review by Claire Taranaski. Having never reviewed W.E.A.D.S. before last night it was a lovely reminder that we should support community theatre companies and community pantos as not only are we likely to have a lovely evening but also discover some brilliant local […]

Tudor Players’ Home, I’m Darling! – 13 February 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. A few years ago when Laura Wade’s five times Laurence Olivier Award nominated play Home, I’m Darling! was all the rage I resisted with the hope that Tudor Players would one day be the right Sheffield company to pull […]

Splinters Theatre Group’s Six: Teen Edition – 7 February 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. It’s very rare that a musical completely blows me a way (the last time being the American Idiot musical last summer) but after seeing cast two (two casts are taking it in turns) perform Six: Teen Edition […]

Jingle Belles and Mistle-hoes – 15 December 2023, Theatre Deli, Sheffield Review by Claire Taranaski. As an audience member last night I felt like I was at an exclusive club that I probably shouldn’t have got into but never wanted to leave and was unable to take my eyes off the performers on stage, during […]

Sheffield University Theatre Company’s Lights Over Tesco Car Park – 15 November 2023, Raynor Lounge, Bar One Review by Claire Taranaski. SUTCO’s Latest production should also be the production they take up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as it would fit in perfectly to the annual festival from the minute I stepped into the room […]

Tudor Players’ A Christmas Carol – 17 October 2023, Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Yes we are mentioning the “C” word with over two months to go until Christmas but I knew that if anything was going to put me in the Christmas spirit (other than visits from the three spirits themselves) it was […]