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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tudor Players’ Shelia’s Island – 12 June 2024, Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Tudor Players are well known for their quality productions of comedy plays and their production of Shelia’s Island is no different and should not be missed by fans of the company, fans of the playwright Tim Firth (Calendar Girls, The Flint […]