Midland Players’ Guards! Guards! – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 15 February 2024

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 Continue Reading

Tudor Players’ Home, I’m Darling! – 13 February 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre

Tudor Players’ Home, I’m Darling! – 13 February 2024, Sheffield Library Theatre Review by Claire Taranaski. A few years ago when Laura Wade’s five times Laurence Olivier Award nominated play Home, I’m Darling! was all the rage I resisted with the hope that Tudor Players would one day be the Continue Reading

Splinters Theatre Group’s Six: Teen Edition – 7 February 2024, Sheffield University Drama Studio

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 Continue Reading

Jingle Belles and Mistle-hoes – 15 December 2023, Theatre Deli, Sheffield

Jingle Belles and Mistle-hoes – 15 December 2023, Theatre Deli, Sheffield Review by Claire Taranaski. As an audience member last night I felt like I was at an exclusive club that I probably shouldn’t have got into but never wanted to leave and was unable to take my eyes off Continue Reading

SUPAS’s Songs For A New World – Sheffield University Drama Studio, 23 November 2023 

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 Continue Reading

STOS Theatre Company’s Barnum – Sheffield Lyceum, 14 November 2023

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 Continue Reading