Reviews

Jimmy's Farm The story of Romeo and Juliet has probably been performed a thousand different ways (probably…

There is something nerve racking about a new festival, and I'm not the one running it! It's 5:30pm and the stage is…

Another summer evening down by the seaside, the cool breeze from the sea a welcome relief from the days’ heat…

John Peel Centre I must come clean, neither performance poetry or stand up comedy, nor indeed any combination of…

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Ipswich Regent Everyone must have seen this musical once in their…

Ipswich Jazz Festival 2019 St Peter’s by the Waterfront The Brass Funkeys are a London-based group of young…

Norwich Theatre Royal Having had the pleasure of talking to the show’s creator, Jeff Parry, and having been…

Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra took the Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe by…

Spa Pavilion, Felixstowe Were an orchestra to grace the stage and perform La Traviata you would not call them a…

Ipswich Regent As part of her ‘Guiding Light’ Tour to promote her album of the same name, Katherine Jenkins comes…

Written with the help of Hayley Goldsmith Based on the cult Oscar-winning  film of the same name, Little Miss…

Connor Adams Greshams, Ipswich Connor Adams has been touring the UK with his new EP and was back in his hometown…

Janette Manrara and Aljaz Skorjanec promised us a show to ‘Remember the Movies’, and we were certainly treated to a…

New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Carl Giles was a cartoonist who moved to Ipswich in the 40s and his cartoons became…

Regent Theatre, Ipswich That Avenue Q is a parody of Sesame Street is obvious the minute you walk into the…

As concert encores go, Peter Hepworth’s was quite special.  “I have three more songs! He told us, as the evening…

The 39 Steps is a play, which is a parody adapted from the 1915 novel by John Buchan and the 1935 film by Alfred…

Bringing an American dance troupe of fourteen and an eight-piece band on tour to the UK & Ireland is not…

Wind in the Willows Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds Bury St Edmunds Young Company An enthusiastic, inquisitive…

Dirty Dancing The Ipswich Regent There can’t be many people over 40 who do not know this story, in fact I would…

The Picture of Dorian Gray The New Wolsey Theatre This is based on the Oscar Wilde’s book written in 1890 which…

Adam Kay: This is Going to Hurt Ipswich Regent Having read the hugely successful book of the same title in two…

Written in four days, Noel Coward’s farce Private Lives is a theatre classic.  It is regularly revived on Broadway,…

The Mercury Theatre transformed into a 1930’s speakeasy with the gloss covered floor of the stage protruding into…

It is a testament to Andrea Dunbar’s skills as a writer that she makes a collection of genuinely unlikeable…

It was a beautiful blast from the past on Saturday night at St Peter’s by the Waterfront in Ipswich, as I watched…

Shakin’ Stevens Cambridge Corn Exchange Shakin’ Stevens is on his 40th Anniversary Tour and it is hard to believe…

The Smokehouse in the heart of Ipswich was the venue for Charlie Law’s triumphant return to Suffolk after his…

Kiss Me Quickstep The New Wolsey Theatre What does it take to fulfil your dreams? Is passion and talent enough?…

Regent Theatre Ipswich The classic story of a country girl Sherrie (Jodie Steele) moving to the big…

Mercury Theatre Colchester Both captivating and entertaining, this morality play adapted from the book by Malorie…

New Wolsey Studio Eden Harbud brought his one-man puppetry show as part of the Pulse Festival.  This 50-minute…

Cambridge Chorale’s concert ‘A Sense of the Divine’ Chapel, Ely Cathedral by Rosemary Westwell The title of this…

The Mousetrap Mercury Theatre, Colchester The Mousetrap is a theatrical enigma.  It has run continuously since it…

The year is 1992, and we start by meeting five 16-year-old girls who are transfixed by ‘the band’. Young and…

My Mother Said I Never Should New Wolsey Theatre A story of four generations of women, of the same family, and…

Arkansas Dave The Pennoyer Centre, Pulham St Mary Review by: Oliver Scanlan The talented, rising stars Arkansas…

Separate Tables Methodist Church, Soham Viva Theatre’s production of ‘Separate Tables’ by Terence Rattigan was…

This play is thought provoking, but not in a dry, morose way.  It is hilariously funny, but not a comedy.

The New Purple Celebration – The Music of Prince The Ipswich Corn Exchange www.newpurplecelebration.com They…