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Director & Choreographer: Mitch Sebastian Vocal & Musical Supervisor: Matthew Freeman Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: The glamour and glitz of Las Vegas comes to Leicester this week as the Rat Pack hits town. Curve is transformed into the chic Copa Room nightclub at the Sands Hotel in its 1960s heyday, when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin [...]

Writer: Richard Rogers & Oscar Hammerstein II Director: Paul Kerryson Reviewer: Vicki Goodwin The Public Reviews Rating: The King and I will be a familiar story to many theatre goers. After several iconic stage and screen performances, everyone has their view as to what will comprise the perfect production. Happily, Paul Kerryson’s adaptation of Rogers and Hammerstein’s [...]

Director: Olivia Jacobs Reviewer: Farhana Shaikh The Public Reviews Rating: An enchanting production brought to stage by the highly acclaimed, internationally touring Tall Stories Theatre Company. The children (and adults alike) sat with excited faces waiting for the story to start. After a short game of hide and seek which helped to get the audience involved and ready [...]

Author: Ken Kesey Stage Adaptation: Dale Wasserman Director: Michael Buffong Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: There can’t be too many people who aren’t familiar with One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, either through Ken Kesey’s original 1962 novel or more likely the multi Oscar winning 1975 film – but I confess that I am one. Somehow [...]

Writer: David Walliams Music: Matt Brind Director: Matthew White Reviewer: Paul Bannister The Public Reviews Rating: Sniff the air and follow your nose to the Lyceum this week to experience the second book by the now wildly famous David Walliams of Little Britain fame. After the success of the quirky and rather poignant ‘The Boy in the Dress’ [...]

Writer: J.B. Priestley Director: Stephen Daldrey Reviewer: Karen McCandless The Public Reviews Rating: An Inspector Calls, J.B. Priestley’s best-known and much-loved play, is a spooky tale of a well-to-do family that is visited out of the blue by the enigmatic Inspector Goole. All the action takes place one night in 1912 when Goole picks apart the Birling family’s [...]

Writer: Akram Khan Dance Company Music: Jocelyn Pook Reviewer: Farhana Shaikh The Public Reviews Rating: Desh, meaning homeland in Bengali, is a breathtaking solo performance by the Akram Khan Dance Company. Known for producing some of the finest collaborations, this piece brings together composer Jocelyn Pook and visual designer, Tim Yip. Desh, sees Akram Khan return to the [...]

Music: Leonard Bernstein Lyrics: Stephen Sondheim Book: Arthur Laurents Director: Paul Kerryson Reviewer: Angela Wilson The Public Reviews Rating: There’s something a bit different at Curve this week – the professionals have stepped to one side and amateurs are taking to the stage. This Curve Community production of West Side Story is certainly an ambitious concept. A couple [...]