Entertainment

Review: Miss Nightingale

02/04/2014

Miss Nightingale has returned to the New Wolsey Theatre this Spring, with a few script rewrites and a couple of cast changes, this war time musical still retains it’s magic. It’s 1942 and the country is in the grip of war. Nurse Maggie Brown dreams of becoming a star of the stage, and, with the…

Review: Betty Blue Eyes

24/03/2014

It’s post war Britain, and although the war may be over, food is still being rationed and meet is scarce. So when the members of the Town Council of the little town of Shepardsford decide to hold a private function to mark the forthcoming marriage of Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip, there one big problem…

Review: Cinderella, Deben Players

31/12/2013

The Deben Players have brought lots of pantomime fun to the stage at the Seckford Theatre. Woodbridge this Christmas with their production of Cinderella. Written and directed by the talented Andy Kimber, this show features many original musical numbers and is full of fun and frolics from the start. Everyone is familiar with the story…

Review: Peter Pan – Ipswich Regent

23/12/2013

The festive panto offering at the Ipswich Regent this year is Peter Pan, JM Barrie’s tale of the boy who never grew up. In recent year’s the Regent productions have featured stars of the small screen and this year is no exeception with Pan, played by Disney Art Attack presenter Lloyd Warbey, former star of…

Review: Little Match Girl

16/12/2013

The Christmas offering from DanceEast this year is the Little Match Girl. Directed and choreographed by Arthur Pita, this show is truly magical. Fiammetta is desperately trying to sell her matches hoping to earn enough money for a much needed meal. It’s a freezing cold Christmas Eve and she encounters many characters on her journey…

Review: Sleeping Beauty, Mercury Theatre

09/12/2013

Sleeping Beauty is the panto of choice for the Mercury Theatre this year bringing a little bit of fairy magic to Colchester. Everyone knows this well told tale of a baby princess that is cursed by an old woman, before she reaches her sixteenth birthday she will pick her finger and die… The baby’s fairy…

Review: The Brontës of Dunwich

If you are looking for a show this Christmas that is a little bit different from the norm, then Eastern Angles production of The Brontës of Dunwich Heath… and Cliff is the show for you. The Eastern Angles madcap Christmas show has now become a firm favourite with many a theatre-goer and this year’s offering…

Review: Dick Whittington, New Wolsey

28/11/2013

Classic rock n roll hits coupled with a Dame, ‘with considerably big buns’, can only mean one thing…Yes, it’s Wolsey panto Time! This year the theatre add their rock n roll panto magic to the classic tale of Dick Whittington. London is looking for a new Mayor, and it’s looking like the evil King Rat…

Review: The Grim Tales, Wolsey Studio

25/10/2013

If you go down to the woods today you’re sure of a big surprise… And, this certainly is the case with the latest offering from the New Wolsey Youth Theatre. The Grim Tales brings seven classic stories by the Brothers Grimm, including Hansel & Gretel, Ashputtel, The Lady and The Lion, Rumpelstiltskin and Little Red…

Review: Stags and Hens

18/10/2013

Willy Russell’s Stags and Hens is the latest production by am-dram group The Two Rivers Theatre Company and well worth seeing.