Category: Theatre & Entertainment Reviews

The Viennese Strauss Christmas Gala at the Playhouse Theatre is always our go-to official start to Christmas. And what a glorious start it is. This year’s show had a beautifully revamped set positively alive and sparkling with so many twinkly lights Santa’s grotto couldn’t compete. Much Loved Productions headed by director, melodious baritone, and all […]

Bonfire night has been and gone, Christmas lights are being strung across the high street and to make you embrace the festive mood even more, be lucky enough to see the Crown Ballet’s superb performance of The Nutcracker. A ballet set to Tchaikovsky’s enchanting music full of refrains we know so well, it’s beautifully costumed […]

Emerald Storm, a toe-tapping spectacular that combines not only Irish dance as we know it but ballet, modern, and jazz dancing certainly kept us on our toes with an everchanging panoply of visual and musical scenes. The story revolves around Emerald Storm, a club famous for Irish dancing that is doing fine until a troupe […]

The classic film Roman Holiday which made an international star of Audrey Hepburn has been newly adapted for the stage and takes to the boards as a dazzling musical with a cast of eighteen. The story is charming; Ann, a young princess, visiting Rome gives her chaperone the slip and meets Joe, an American journalist […]

This show was a cracking way to spend a couple of hours going down memory lane and reliving your best life in the 60s and 70s through the marvellous music created back then, and still going strong today. Short skirts, long hair, tight trousers; they were the order of the day along with a charming […]