142 stories by "Adam Bruce"
Simon and Garfunkel’s music has been celebrated all over the world. Throughout the 60s, they became a prominent duo and icon of youth counterculture and properly popularised folk rock.…
As their season is coming to a close, it looks as though the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds is determined to end it with a bang. There's been a whole host of marvellous shows on offer thi…
I haven’t reviewed any dance theatre since Phoenix Dance was at York Theatre Royal’s TakeOver Festival last year. Luckily for me, Rosie Kay Dance Company has brought its lates…
My first year here at York is coming to an end, but that's not the only exciting thing happening " it's the York International Shakespeare Festival! Over the course of the festival, loads of…
I'm always excited to see the work of established theatre companies and directors to see how they can set the theatrical benchmark for other companies. Lucky for me, then, to get the chance …
There's nothing like a nice evening out watching a show-stopping, eye-catching piece of theatre, whether it be a cutting-edge play or an energetic musical. This review's all about the latter…
The current season at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds is shaping up to be brilliant. There's all sorts on offer, and if you pop down the stairs to the Playhouse's Courtyard Theatre you…
While the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds, creates some brilliant new work and adaptations of classics (their most recent production of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya standing testament to my state…
Since I first heard of the National Theatre’s production of Richard Bean’s farcical masterpiece One Man, Two Guvnors, based on Carlo Goldoni’s classic The Servant of Two Ma…
After months of preparation, creating and rehearsing, the third year Writing, Directing and Performance students here at York were ready to unleash their new productions of French playwright…
I’m always excited to see a show at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds. This is because they have a knack for creating some fantastic productions, whether they’re bits of new …
The awesome thing about Shakespeare is the fact that you can use his plays as blank canvasses to paint on your directorial concept. They contain great, timeless stories that often work in ju…
Theatre is so wonderfully versatile, and it’s brilliant to see so many different types of productions and performers gracing the stages across the country. These range from professiona…
In their third and final year at the University of York, the students on its Writing, Directing and Performance course put on a series of shows that they're assessed on. These include two mo…
After their brilliant production of Alan Ayckbourn's Woman in Mind last week, I was very excited to see what York DramaSoc were going to do next, and to see whether the quality of their prod…
Here at York, the courses within the Department of Theatre, Film and Television love to collaborate with one another. The department’s student theatre company Platform has joined force…
The University of York's drama society is one of the oldest and most prolific in the country, producing over eight plays a term. These are either existing plays or newly written ones, so the…
There's no disputing that Roald Dahl has written some absolutely brilliant children's books, bringing to life fantastic adventures that children and adults alike can indulge in. It's been ov…
It’s Christmas! And what better way to celebrate it than by going to see a good old Christmas musical to bring everyone together? The West Yorkshire Playhouse in Leeds has brought to l…
Northern Broadsides are acclaimed for injecting their unique sense of wit and energy into classical texts, and they continue this trend with Oliver Goldsmith's well-known play She Stoops to …
For those of you that read my review of the third year Writing, Directing and Performance students' staging of Bryony Lavery's play Nothing Compares to You, you'll know that they did so as p…
Bryony Lavery is a prolific playwright, and has written some well-known, cracking plays that are lyrical and evocative. Her play Nothing Compares to You, however, isn’t that well known…
It's always great to see classic stories being brought to life in a new way, and that's exactly what Two Bit Classics do with their new adaptation of Jane Austen's timeless story Pride and P…
York Theatre Royal's TakeOver Festival has been bringing some exciting new work to the theatre's studio venue, and Metal Rabbit's Johnny Got His Gun is no exception. Amidst the awesome creat…
Susan Hill's novel The Woman in Black has sparked interest for years, and this interest has only grown since its adaptation into a stage play and a film. The former has been called one of th…
