Butter Side Up Theatre Company’s Green Day’s American Idiot – 14 July 2023, Leadmill Review by Claire Taranaski. It’s not often that I get blown away by a musical that I have not seen before but that is exactly what happened last night at the Leadmill (the queue in the rain that went all the […]
Category: Musical Theatre
Woodseats Musical Theatre Company’s Legally Blonde The Musical – 12 July 2023, Montgomery Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. Woodseats Musical Theatre Company has a reputation for feel good musical theatre productions and their latest, perfectly timed for the Barbie movie and the third Legally Blonde movie both due out this year, maybe there best one […]
SUPAS’ Sweeney Todd – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 26 April 2023 Review by Jacob Bush. Sweeney Todd, telling the story of the barber released from prison determined to seek revenge on the people who have taken his family from him, is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most challenging musicals musically, dramatically and with regards to staging. […]
STOS Theatre Company’s Sunshine On Leith – 15 November 2022, Lyceum Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. I’m starting this review with a confession, I’m a huge fan of The Proclaimers, the film version of Sunshine On Leith and Edinburgh (where I have previously seen the musical performed) so I came to the opening night with […]
Splinters Theatre Group’s High School Musical – 20 October 2022, Montgomery Theatre Review by Jacob Bush. High School Musical first burst onto our TV screens on the Disney Channel on 2006. Following two sequels, stage adaptations of the first two films and the new Disney+ series High School Musical the Musical the Series, the franchise […]