142 stories by "Adam Bruce"
Theatre brings to us a multitude of ways to tell stories to an audience. It can be used as a way to create entirely new narratives or adapt existing ones to bring them to life in a un…
We've all had our fair share of heartbreaks in our time, and there's still a fair few of us who are in those awkward teenage years experimenting with love. It's a subject that's been widely …
The West Yorkshire Playhouse continues into the Christmas season with yet another spellbinding production, coming in the form of Rosanna Lowe’s new adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's clas…
 George Orwell's novel 1984 has been regarded as one of the greatest dystopian fiction novels ever written, setting the benchmark for the rest of its genre. Now, Orwell's haunting vision…
The last time I saw Unlimited Theatre Company at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, it presented an interactive game show focusing on money, economic downfall and obsession. After reading …
Theatre is often at its most interesting when it has something to say about the world we live in today. The West Yorkshire Playhouse seems to be on a winning streak with this idea, as many o…
 Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a musical that you just can't get enough of, no matter how many times you've seen it. Every company does it differen…
Everybody knows the legend that is Buddy Holly, and if they don't, then the best way to find out is by experiencing the rock’n'roll musical Buddy " The Buddy Holly Story. Telling the s…
For me, theatre is all about presenting to the audience something weird, wonderful and immersive. Armed with its new production, The Ugly Sisters, produced at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, t…
I've never had the opportunity to see a ballet production until now, and I'm extremely pleased to say that Northern Ballet's A Midsummer Night's Dream has been my first. I'd been intrigued i…
It's always exciting to see young people across the country perform, especially when it is in new work by upcoming writers. Canadian writer Evan Placey's new play Girls Like That is no excep…
 It's always nice to see some warm and light-hearted storytelling. In this case, it comes in the form of theatre company Complicite's adaptation of Zizou Corder's Lionboy trilogy. Upo…
Kneehigh Theatre Company's shows have all been met with critical acclaim, both around the United Kingdom and internationally. Its dark and comic approach to rich storytelling sets it apart f…
Curious Directive's After the Rainfall, currently playing at the West Yorkshire Playhouse, Leeds, was a bit of a weird one. Even though the technology used within, such as the projections of…
Since Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing first opened in 1993, audiences worldwide have been captivated by its rich characters and coming of age story. In the twentieth anniversary production…
Dolly Parton's acclaimed musical 9 to 5 at the Leeds Grand Theatre serves up a dish of energy, music and 1980s feminism in a way that no other piece of art could. With music and lyrics by Pa…
Everyone knows that Sherlock Holmes is the greatest detective ever. And what better way to acknowledge this than to see him in a brand new play, written by Mark Catley and directed by Nikola…
