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Director: Karen Bruce Musical Director: Jeff Leach Reviewer: Aisha Hutchinson The Public Reviews Rating: This inaugural show, which comes out of BBC1’s incredibly popular ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, enables some of the shows professional dancers to strut their stuff without being held back by celebrity learners! The 12 week tour showcases many new routines (to a live band) by [...]

Director: Brian Rogers Choreographer: Emma Rogers Reviewer: Ian Cain Star The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Strictly Tap Dance Fever’ is an exhilarating potted history of all that is, was and has been tap-danced in the wonderful world of showbiz. Beginning in the era of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and continuing throughout the heyday of the Hollywood musical, right [...]

Director: Karen Bruce Musical Director: Jeff Leach Reviewer: Rebecca Taylor The Public Reviews Rating: Glitz, glamour and glittery gowns galore! ‘Strictly come Dancing The Professionals’ is a true spectacle that will entertain all ages. The first stage show to come out of the latest season of the well known TV series ‘Strictly Come Dancing’, this is just what [...]

Choreographer: Michael Clark Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: The Michael Clark Company returns to the Lyceum, Sheffield as part of the Danceworks season with their latest work “come, been and gone”. Scottish born Clark, formerly a dancer with Ballet Rambert, launched his own contemporary dance company in 1984. This production takes its name from a phrase [...]

Writer: Richard Harris Director: Richard Baron Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: The award-winning comedy Stepping Out has been playing throughout the world for over a quarter of a century. It was famously made into a film in 1991 starring Liza Minnelli. This production is part of the 25th anniversary UK tour. Richard Harris has had a [...]

Composed: Bill Whelan Director: John McColgan Reviewer: Jim Nicholson The Public Reviews Rating: A 2010 cast of sheer quality means that, even 15 years on and slimmed down, Riverdance is still as spectacular and thoroughly entertaining as when it first hit the stage. Born out of the interval entertainment at the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest in Dublin, Bill [...]

Music: Sergei Prokoficv Choreographer: Michael Corder Conductor: Alex Ingram Reviewer: Emily Daughtery The Public Reviews Rating: I was particularly thrilled to be in the audience of the English National Ballet’s Cinderella because I last viewed it from the stage as I stood as the page boy in Act II ten years ago. Consequently I settled down with [...]

Script: Matthew David Scott Story Consultant: Mark Catley Music: Malcolm Newton (Composer) Choreographer: Lucy Hind and David Toole with Lucy Bennett Reviewer: Peter Jacobs The Public Reviews Rating: Extra-ordinary is a satirical dance piece by acclaimed dancer and actor David Toole and his number one fan Lucy Hind. Something extra-ordinary, created live, before your very eyes. Gauche, aspiring [...]