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Choreography: Marcus Petipa & Peter Wright Reviewer: Iris Beaumont The Public Reviews Rating: Sleeping Beauty the well known and loved childrens fairy tale comes to life on the stage of The Lowry theatre thanks to The Birmingham Royal Ballet and what a tremendous performance it was. Having only seen amateur productions of Sleeping Beauty before, I have to [...]

Writer: Joan Littlewood Director: Erica Whyman & Sam Kenyon Reviewer: Stephanie Rowe The Public Reviews Rating: It is hard to know exactly where to begin when writing this review as it’s not what one would call a musical nor is it a play in the true sense of the word, it is more a compilation of First [...]

Writer: Lanford Wilson Director: Simon Curtis Reviewer: David Leith The Public Reviews Rating: Can there be a happy household when politics is involved? This question is at the forefront of the Donmar Warehouses production of Langford Wilsons Serenading Louie, currently showing at The Lowry. Alex (Jason Harner Butler) is a big shot Chicago lawyer close to becoming a [...]

Writers: Rodgers & Hammerstein Director: Julian Woolford Reviewer: Malcolm Wallace The Public Reviews Rating: Premiering in 1943, Oklahoma! is arguably the strongest and most fondly remembered of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s many musicals. Widely agreed to have changed the face of American musical theatre the show has been consistently in production by both professionals and amateurs during its 67-year [...]

Writer: Geoffrey Chaucer Adaptor: Mike Poulton Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: One of the most famous and enduring works of English literature, Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales is a fourteenth century collection of stories written in Middle-English verse. Mike Poulton has penned a stage version of the original and under the keen directorial eye of Conrad Nelson it [...]

Writer: James Sheldon Film Director: Adam Tyler Director: Blanche McIntyre Reviewer: Deborah Klayman The Public Reviews Rating: Well written, staged and acted, the world premiere of James Sheldon’s ‘A Model For Mankind’ is an intriguing, enjoyable piece of theatre. Set in 1979, and flashing back to the Stalinist Soviet Union, the play examines the life and legacy of [...]

Director and Choreographer: Alan Harding Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: You know you are on a loser when, thirty seconds in, you realise there is no live orchestra, the music is recorded, the 14 dancers on stage are all miming and the dance routines only link with the word ‘tight’ is budget based. The show features [...]

Writer: Henrik Ibsen Translator: Michael Meyer Director: Adrian Noble Reviewer: Mary Tapper The Public Reviews Rating: How fast can Hedda gabble? The play tells the story of Hedda Gabler, who Ibsen named deliberately by her maiden name as she was “her father’s daughter rather than her husband’s wife”. Hedda has married a man she does not love [...]