Calendar Girls was reviewed at Theatre by the Lake, Keswick where it continues until 5 September 2026. The tour continues until 31 October 2026. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Empowering, uplifting with tears and belly laughs abounding.
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Brief Encounter – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
Brief Encounter continues at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough until 27 August 2022. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ For someone like me, whose creativity is challenged by rearranging family photographs on the mantelpiece, turning the Noel Coward/David Lean classic into a musical seems like an Everest of a project. How do you get […]
Clive Rowe stars in new musical Cells from Metta Theatre
Leading independent theatre production company Metta Theatre will unveil a new lockdown-written, developed and recorded musical online next month. Starring Metta’s new patron, Olivier Award winner Clive Rowe (In The Willows, Guys and Dolls) and rising star Lem Knights (School of Rock, Billionaire Boy), Cells will be released in episodic form daily from 19 April […]
Janie Dee – Live at Zédel
Janie Dee continues at Live at Zédel, London on 16 and 17 March 2018. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Janie Dee returns to cabaret after her sensational performance in the National Theatre’s production of Follies. After the ice cold Phyllis, Dee transforms herself into a sultry piece of mischief, sweeping into the room and […]
Janie Dee at the BBC – album launch – Live At Zédel
Janie Dee at the BBC – album launch – Live At Zédel, London. Star rating: five stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ As if currently scaling the heights in Follies at the National Theatre wasn’t arduous enough for Janie Dee, she chose to use her week’s break from the production to perform in cabaret. Not […]
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice – Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice continues at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough until 19 August (in rep). Star rating: four stars ★ ★ ★ ★ ✩ Despite the disappointments of the all-star, 1998 film, the stage version of Jim Cartwright’s Little Voice continues to beguile the British public. The latest rendering, at the Stephen […]
