Footsteps Theatre’ Into The Woods – 19 July 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Jacob Bush. Into the Woods is one of Stephen Sondheim’s most well known and beloved musicals, taking fairytale characters and asking how far they’re willing to go to get what they wish for. It’s a notoriously challenging show, packed full of […]

Message in a Bottle Monologues: Seven Deadly Sins – 22 February 2024, Theatre Deli, Sheffield  Review by Jacob Bush.  Message in a Bottle Monologues, an evening that is becoming a regular on the Sheffield theatre scene, returns to the Theatre Deli. As ever, this is a lovely showcase of talented local actors and writers. This […]

Midland Players’ Guards! Guards! – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 15 February 2024  Review by Jacob Bush.Midland Players, never one to avoid a challenge, have chosen to stage Terry Pratchett’s Guards! Guards! as their spring production this year. The company have done a good job at bringing to life what could be an epic fantastic on […]

SUPAS’s Songs For A New World – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 23 November 2023  Review by Jacob Bush. Never one to hide away from a challenge, this semester, alongside The Addams Family which performs in early December, SUPAS have taken on Jason Robert Brown’s song cycle Songs For A New World. The series of songs […]

STOS Theatre Company’s Barnum – Sheffield Lyceum, 14 November 2023  Review by Jacob Bush. This year, STOS Theatre Company brings another ambitious musical to the Lyceum stage, packed full of circus tricks, colourful costumes and sets, fabulous dancing and a talented cast. Barnum tells the story of P.T. Barnum, the man who also lends his […]

Sheffield University Theatre Company’s Swap the Press – 26 October 2023, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Jacob Bush. In an exciting new venture, SUTCo have made the decision to stage a brand new play written by their own members Francesca Vercoe and Charles Wright. Swap the Press is set in a world where feminism […]