I aren’t typically a fan of book to film adaptations (think One Day in particular) and from previous experiences I haven’t always been the biggest fan of taking a film and putting it on stage. Grease the Musical left me massively underwhelmed and I’m pretty sure it’s...
My plus one for the evening, a hardcore Evita fan who cites the 1996 film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas as one of her favourite films ("of all time") assured me I was in for a treat but aside from being able to warble a version of the iconic "Don't Cry For Me...
After growing up with the songs of The Commitments, Jimmy Rabbite and drunken Christmas performances of Mustang Sally, when I heard Caroline Ranger and co had created a West End production of the much love working class film I was off on the train down to London,...
I always thought that a night out to the theatre as an option for a girls night out sounded like snoozeville. Spending the night in silence with a bunch of oldies trying not to fall asleep after 9pm and drinking over priced glasses of wine? No thank you. At the age...
Mentioning The Woman in Black is like regaling a ghost story that you’d heard as a child. Most people will have heard it, those that have heard are scared of it and those that haven’t will listen wide eyed as you recount the tale of Mrs Drablow and The Woman in...
According to my theatre friend, there is a thing one can experience at the theatre known as a theatregasm which is a taken from the derivative of the original word/act (I don't really need to explain this further do I?). In hindsight I think I may have experienced...
Hanley Forest Park has seen many a fun fair or big top circus take to its grassy fields and I’ve been in attendance, eaten my weight in food from a fast food van and cop a squat on the grass to soak in the atmosphere whilst chowing down a burger. This weekend, the...
It's just a jump to the left, and then a step to the wonderfully weird. To say you've never seen The Rocky Horror Show is akin to some as saying you've never seen Dirty Dancing. As a show which has truly reached cult status be prepared to be greeted by aghast faces...
If there's one thing which will make me screech with laughter in the foyer of a theatre and implore that you ABSOLUTELY MUST go and watch it, it's Puppetry of the Penis. Yes, that's right. Penises. Penises and Puppetry. Puppet Penises some might say. Others might say...
When the curtain came up on the opening night of Hairspray UK Tour at the Regent Theatre in Hanley to Tracy Tumblad's (Freya Sutton) performing the opening number Good Morning Baltimore, I was sure I was the only person in the auditorium who had no clue what this,...