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Arturo Brachetti – Change Reviewer: Evelyn DowningThere was an audible gasp from the audience as this show opened; the moment we witnessed the first instant transformation was stunning.Brachetti has taken what is essentially a very simple concept – changing costumes extremely fast – and turned it into an art form. He has a wonderful physicality [...]

Make-Believe by Sonia HughesReviewer: Katherine LunneyThis production does not shy away from questioning the very precepts of theatre; illusion and reality, acting and non-acting. In the words of the company “Make-believe shows us how all the pretense has been been put together and asks us to believe in it anyway”When entering the intimate studio theatre [...]

The Spanish TragedyWriter: Thomas KydDirector: Mitchell MorenoReviewer: Honour Bayes Suited and booted in dynamic Paul Smith tailoring this is a very English Spanish Tragedy; although even in the face of such stiff upper-lip gentility, it does pack a hefty emotional punch at its gory end. But whilst director Mitchell Moreno’s slick, sharp and smart aesthetic [...]

The Winter’s TaleWriter: William ShakespeareDirector:David Farr Reviewer:Ian Cain The RSC’s annual residency at Newcastle’s Theatre Royal is always eagerly anticipated and their productions are invariably sold-out weeks in advance of the actual performance dates. The second production of the season, following on from last week’s ‘As You Like It’, is the Bard’s story of jealousy, [...]

I Found My Horn Writer: Jonathan Guy Lewis and Jasper ReesDirector: Harry BurtonReviewer: Ann Bawtree Soon to be at the Hampstead Theatre, Swiss Cottage (November 10-28) this play based on a Radio 4 “Book of the Week” garnered a full house with queues for returns at Chichester’s Minerva Theatre. The audience was expecting a hilarious [...]

The Pitman PaintersWriter: Lee HallDirector: Max RobertsReviewer: John Roberts A group of miners set up an arts appreciation class, over the coming years they become world famous painters, and held as one of the singularly biggest movements in British art history. You would be forgiven if you thought it sounded like the world’s most boring [...]

Beauty and the Beast Music: Alan MenkenLyrics: Howard Ashman & Tim RiceBook: Linda WoolvertonDirector: Alison PollardChoreographer: Alison PollardReviewer: Ruth LovettHalf term would not be complete with out a trip to the theatre and this half term week sees the tried and tested Disney classic, Beauty and the Beast return to the Sheffield Lyceum. Ever popular [...]

The Fastest Clock in the UniverseWriter: Philip RidleyDirector: Edward Dick Reviewer: David NobleOne cannot fail to notice the Hitchcockian influence on The Fastest Clock in the Universe. Indeed, main protagonist Cougar Glass lives in a flat that contains a stuffed bird collection that Norman Bates would have envied. Yet these animals, rather than merely being [...]