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Writer: Brett Goldstein Reviewer: Cherry See The Public Reviews Rating: I’m not sure some members of the audience at The Square Chapel Theatre were quite ready for the natural wit of funny-man Brett Goldstein. Growing up in a strip club turns out not to be the glam-Stringfellow-esque lifestyle you may at first imagine. Brett opened with an introduction [...]

Writer and director: Deborah Frances-White Reviewer: Cherry See The Public Reviews Rating: I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from a show entitled “How to Get Almost Anyone to Want to Sleep with You”. Could it be a modern and more open-minded Blind Date or would it be a self-help guide to single people to help them get [...]

In the fourth installment of this new series profiling the creatives behind the shows, Lucy Thackray meets Nicola Samer, director of new British musical Little Women. Nicola Samer is refreshingly upbeat. She is filled with enthusiasm for the subject of theatre, quick to praise her colleagues and, as she points out towards the end of [...]

In the second installment of this new series, Lucy Thackray meets Neil McPherson, artistic director of the Finborough Theatre. Neil McPherson is all about balance. He is refreshingly upfront about his limitations  – “I’ve tried directing and I have no interest in it whatsoever; I have an actor’s mind, so I sit there thinking ‘I [...]

Proving that bigger is not necessarily better, London’s Fringe theatres are defying economic decline by consistently producing some of this country’s most exciting, boundary pushing theatre. Venturing away from the bright lights of the West End, this week’s hot picks take in all the best of the capital’s Fringe productions, from verbatim investigation to musical [...]

Writer: Leo Butler Director: George Perrin Reviewer: Nathan Shreeve The Public Reviews Rating: Brilliantly witty, acerbic and dark, Juicy Fruits finishes the Paines Plough & Oran Mor’s Play, Pie, Pint initiative with style, going out with a bang. Butler’s script is superb, flashing from brilliant humour, to heart wrenching emotional breakdown, sometimes within seconds of each other, brilliantly [...]

Writer: David Watson Director: James Grieve Reviewer: Nathan Shreeve The Public Reviews Rating: This play was perhaps one of the most unusual theatrical experiences I have encountered in my time as a theatregoer in Manchester. Fragmented and often confusing, David Watson’s intriguing script takes us on a journey encountering ignorant radio DJs, familial relationships and disinterested nurses on [...]

Book and lyrics: Lee Wyatt-Buchan Music: Aldie Chalmers and Sandy Chalmers Director: Simon Grieff Reviewer: Ian Foster The Public Reviews Rating: Fringe musicals are notoriously fickle beasts: some adapt to the format extremely well to create moments of gloriously intense, theatrical wonder, others have their shortcomings cruelly exposed by the intimacy of such a small space. The Landor [...]