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In January 2012 Leeds will be jolted back in time thanks to Red Ladder’s most recent collaboration with Chumbawamba “Big Society! A Music Hall Comedy” starring Phill Jupitus. This is the perfect celebration of the reopening of the Leeds City Varieties later this year, the longest running music hall in Great Britain. ‘Big Society!’ follows [...]

Writer: Willy Russell Director: Bill Kenwright & Bob Tomson Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: “Did you ever hear the story of the Johnstone twins, As like each other as two new pins, How was one kept and one given away, How they were born, and they died on the self same day?” What is great about [...]

Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber Lyrics: Tim Rice Director: Bob Tomson & Bill Kenwright Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: The opening night of Evita at Leeds Grand Theatre was packed out with people eager to see the story of the dynamic, larger-than-life Eva Peron, the wife of former Argentinean dictator Juan Peron, from her young and ambitious [...]

Writer: Alan Kent Director: John Hoggarth Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: New Cornish company Bish Bash Bosh Productions have got together with Whitby based production company Iron Shoes to present this new play, which is touring the country throughout the Summer. Funded by bodies with an interest in developing Cornish tourism, a primary purpose of the [...]

Writer: William F. Brown Music & Lyrics: Charlie Smalls Director: Josette Bushell-Mingo Reviewer: Laura Stimpson The Public Reviews Rating: The Wiz, an African-American, soul inspired musical adapted from the classic tale the Wizard of Oz by Frank L Brown certainly made its mark on Broadway in the 1970’s when it won seven Tony Awards, and was later made [...]

Writer- Dean Pitchford Director – Karen Bruce Music -Tom Snow Reviewer – Rosie Revell The Public Reviews Rating: Imagine moving to a town where dancing and music have been banned. It’s almost unthinkable but that is the predicament our hero, Ren McCormack played by Adam C Booth, finds himself in when he and his mother move to the [...]

Curators: Alan Lane and Kully Thiarai Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: How often do you get the chance to go to the theatre for breakfast and stay till suppertime, sampling all the smorgasbord of theatrical experiences on offer? West Yorkshire Playhouse have created the programme ‘Transform’, an arts event which runs over two weeks, exploring different [...]

Writer: Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse Music and Lyrics: Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein Director: Jeremy Sams Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Really Useful Group is behind this spectacular production of the world’s best-loved musical, Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘The Sound of Music’. With choreography courtesy of Arlene Phillips and antipodean 1980′s teen heartthrob Jason [...]