Croft House Theatre Company’s Sunset Boulevard – 19 March 2024, lyceum Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. I could easily make my review three words long “elegant musical perfection” and happily end it there, but if you have clicked through to read a review you want more than that. As a regular musical theatre attender I […]

Splinters Theatre Group’s Six: Teen Edition – 7 February 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. It’s very rare that a musical completely blows me a way (the last time being the American Idiot musical last summer) but after seeing cast two (two casts are taking it in turns) perform Six: Teen Edition […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]