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Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: A new year often means a new show on the comedy circuit, January can often be a testing month for comedian and audience alike. As the first show of a national tour Wrigglesworth tests out his new material in a city he is familiar with. If the level of this first [...]

Writer: William Shakespeare Director: Edward Hall Reviewer: Sarah Lyth The Public Reviews Rating: The Comedy of Errors is commonly proclaimed to be Shakespeare’s most successful of comedies. Full of slapstick, puns and mistaken identities, The Comedy of Errors succeeds in beguiling its audience here in the Lyceum, as indeed it has over the centuries in theatre, opera and [...]

Writer: Giacomo Puccini Translator/Director: Robin Norton-Hale Musical Director: Andrew Charity Reviewer: Johnny Fox The Public Reviews Rating: A short sprint across Leicester Square, Jonathan Miller’s new and lavish production of ‘La Boheme’ is at the Coliseum, with a cast of 40 and a magnificent two-tier revolving set. When Dr Miller himself went to see OperaUpClose’s production above a ramshackle [...]

Writer: Alan Bennett Director: Christopher Luscombe Reviewer: Bill Avenell The Public Reviews Rating: It seemed appropriate that as we drove to the Festival Theatre last night the News should be full of the EMA and the National Curriculum debates. Alan Bennett’s renowned play about the value of education and the role of the charismatic teacher is indeed food [...]

January always starts with the lull after the busy Christmas season but Leicester’s Curve theatre is already urging people to buy tickets for this year’s winter classic – 42nd Street. Paul Kerryson, artistic director for the Leicester Theatre Trust, spoke to Jemma Crowston, about what’s coming up this season including the announcement of their Christmas gem. [...]

Music: Sergei Prokofiev Choreography: David Bintley Reviewer: Richard Hall The Public Reviews Rating: The Birmingham Royal Ballet and The Lowry are both currently celebrating significant anniversaries, founded in 1990; the BRB is twenty one years old this year and The Lowry ten. It seems fitting then, that to mark both occasions the BRB has brought its new [...]

Writers: Laura Lindow & Beccy Owen Director: Laura Lindow Reviewer: Steve Burbridge The Public Reviews Rating: Described in the theatre’s season brochure as ‘the story of 30-something Stella in her ultimate quest to make a change and reach the top’ this ‘heartfelt’ one-woman show, performed by Beccy Owen, is a bit of a hotch-potch affair that never [...]

Producers: PBR Comedy in Association with Rayguns Look Real Enough Reviewer: John Roberts The Public Reviews Rating: This night is not your standard comedy set up or for me as a reviewer something I was quite prepared for. There is an emcee, there were 2 stand ups, 1 musical stand up, 1 musical mash up duo followed by [...]