Reviews

Lucy Spraggan has five albums under her belt and her 2019 UK & Ireland Tour came to the John Peel Centre. …

Regular readers will know that I am a great advocate of both supporting local venues and seeing new bands.  My…

Corn Exchange, Ipswich This was ‘Midge Ure – The 1980 Tour’ - playing Visage highlights and Vienna album in…

Tim Firth wrote the film and the play of ‘The Calendar Girls’ based on the true story of 12 members of the…

I came down to the kitchen this morning, opened the fridge and stood in wonder. I had forgotten what I was…

The New Wolsey Young Company Presented 'The Laramie Project' at The New Wolsey Studio. A heavy hitting…

This performance is an English Touring Theatre and Royal & Derngate, Northampton co-production of August…

Oliver! is one of those musicals that everyone thinks they know. We may have seen the 1968 film adaptation…

The Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich The Original Theatre Company and York Theatre Royal present the stage adaptation of…

Regent Theatre, Ipswich It was a long-running musical in the West End and now the Touring Production of We Will…

Kicking off the New Wolsey Theatre's Autumn Season is their co-production with Nuffield Southampton Theatres of…

Eastern Angles Theatre Company Sir John Mills Theatre You can always expect something a little different…

To a born and bred Dubliner like myself, the cult movie The Commitments was something very special. It…

I’m not the typical festival goer: not over-keen on tents, queues for brewing Porta-Loos & over-priced…

Live at Little Rabbit Barn, two of the best Americana / Country acts in the region. Now that I am curating the…

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…