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Music: Borut Krizisnik, Masaya Takashino, Street Furniture, Luke Harney Director: Sharon Watson Reviewer: Tiffany Shepherd The Public Reviews Rating: Contemporary Dance doesn’t have the best record for being a light night at the theatre, with a reputation for being complex, long, and frankly, very confusing. But, I have to admit I am impressed with Phoenix Dance Theatre and [...]

It’s something of a truism that Christmas is a time for family, so why not take your family out for a night at the theatre? The next in this series of special festive recommendations takes a look at the best of the bunch when it comes to shows that entertain both the young and the [...]

Writer: Thomas Meehan Music: Charles Strouse Lyrics: Martin Charnin Director: Nikolai Foster Reviewer: Audrey Pointer The Public Reviews Rating: Annie is a Broadway classic, translated into 25 languages since its unexpected arrival on the scene in 1977. It is an adaptation of the Little Orphan Annie comic strip originally created by Harold Gray. The 1982 film of Annie, [...]

Artistic Director: Mole Wetherell Company Producer: Steve Slater Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘An object never serves the same function as its image or its name.’ René Magritte (1898-1967) It was with great intrigue and wonder that I entered the auditorium at the West Yorkshire Playhouse to be a part of the re-staging of Schrödinger, [...]

Director: Emma Rice Music: Stu Barker Reviewer: Tony Oliver The Public Reviews Rating: The Wild Bride, performed by Kneehigh, is based on The Brother’s Grimm tale, The Handless Maiden, a dark tale of a Father selling his Daughter to the Devil. As I entered the West Yorkshire Playhouse I was greeted with birdsong and a complex mesh of [...]

Writer: Don Evans Music: Emma Laxton Director: Dawn Walton Reviewer: Tiffany Shepherd The Public Reviews Rating: ‘I’m just human!’ Cried the Preacher, agonisingly putting down his Bible and reaching for his son’s book, ‘The joys of Sex’ instead. This was the kind of hilarity which dispelled the myth that anyone can really be as respectable as the Harrison [...]

Music: Sumeet Chopra Lyrics: Dougal Irvine Writer & Director: Pravesh Kumar Reviewer: Nicola Harrison The Public Reviews Rating: ‘Aj Bhangra Paun Noo’n Jee Kardaa’ - ’Today I feel like doing Bhangra dance’ (Malkit Singh, 2001) ‘Britain’s got Bhangra’ was brought to the Yorkshire stage by Rifco Arts, a British Asian Theatre Company that aims to embrace the multicultural world in [...]

If all the world’s a stage, then theatre doesn’t have to be limited to the auditorium. These days, theatre-makers are increasingly thinking about the space in which performances take place and getting more and more experimental with where they stage their productions. This week it’s all about location, location, location, as the Bush Theatre takes [...]