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 […]

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. […]

Supas’ 9 to 5 – 8 December 2022, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Claire Taranaski. It’s been nearly four years since I last reviewed SUPAS and have been at the Drama Studio and this musical, probably twice as old as many if not all of the cast, reminded me what I was missing and […]

SUPAS’ Curtains – 27 April 2022, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Heather Reynolds. “Curtains” returned to Sheffield this week with the most recent offering from SUPAS at the Drama Studio. I was delighted to be able to attend the opening performance, particularly after seeing it a few years ago when the UK tour came […]

SUPAS’ Rent – 8 December 2021, Sheffield University Drama Studio Review by Daniel O’Key. 25 years ago, bohemians and theatre kids’ lives were changed forever more by the debut of Jonathan Larsson’s rock musical Rent. And like gingerbread lattes, The Pogues and dreadful gift-wrapping, Sheffield University Performing Arts Society (SUPAS) brought Larsson’s classic to the […]

SUPAS’ Sister Act – 25 November 2021, Sheffield University Theatre Studio Review by Jacob Bush. Sister Act is a hugely popular musical for amateur theatre companies to perform and has been performed several companies in recent years in Sheffield, including Croft House Theatre Company in 2015, Easy Street Theatre Company in 2017 (in which I […]