theatre royal

The Theatre Royal hosted the Royal Shakespeare Company’s recent adaptation of William Shakespeare’s timeless love story Romeo and Juliet. Despite being more than 400 years old, Director Erica Whyman has managed to transform this classic into a fresh and engaging play about our world today. From the set, music,...

Having heard rave reviews of Blood Brothers from my aunt a few years ago, I jumped at the chance to see the show for myself and was lucky enough to be able to review it. Knowing only a very basic plot line, this adaptation of the 1983 musical lived up...

The grandiosity of the architecture at the Royal Theatre in Nottingham parallels the middle-class pomposity Sandi Toksvig embodies throughout her ‘National Trevor’ show. The two-hour long performance, or ‘conversation’ as Toksvig defines it, is inundated with references to pinnacles of middle class existence from golf lessons to discussions of...

Peter James’ The House On Cold Hill, starring Joe McFadden and Rita Simons, opened its run at the Theatre Royal on Monday 28th to an audience of mixed reception. To some, a compelling blend of drama, thriller, horror, and comedy, and to others, a drama lacking in the scare-factor...

Rebirthing Tchaikovsky’s classic, The Sleeping Beauty was a charming, magical and sleek performance from Saint Petersburg Ballet. Combining graceful choreography, excellent music and a well-loved story, the audience were swept away from the beginning. The christening of Princess Aurora (played by Margarita Demjanoka-Skutelska) in the Royal Palace descends into...

The Peter Pan pantomime performance at the Theatre Royal in Nottingham was a feel-good, farcical, masterpiece. Director and Choreographer Jonny Bowles took hold of the classic Peter Pan story and flung it into the shimmering spotlight of the 21st Century. Peter Pan (Jack McNeill) and Wendy (Rosie O’Hare) were...

With plenty of energy to keep you on their toes, this comedy duo didn’t fail to keep a smile on their audience’s faces from start to finish. The “hysterical blend of music, mayhem and murder” of a musical follows two actors who play 13 characters between the two of them,...