REVIEW: Around The World In Eighty Days, Leeds Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
Jonathan Hall reviews Toby Hulse’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around The World In Eighty Days now playing at the Leeds Playhouse.
Jonathan Hall reviews Toby Hulse’s adaptation of Jules Verne’s Around The World In Eighty Days now playing at the Leeds Playhouse.
Jonathan Hall reviews Amy Letman’s production Wiliam Shakespeare’s Hamlet at Leeds Playhouse.
Jonathan Hall reviews Debbie Tucker Green’s play Random 7.37 starring Kiza Deen now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
Jonathan Hall reviews Kes by Robert Alan Evans based on the novel by Barry Hines now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
Mark Ludmon continues his look at theatrical highlights outside of London in 2019. Birmingham Hippodrome is collaborating with Curve in Leicester on a new production of the musical, The Color Purple, based on the book by Alice Walker. It tells the turbulent life story of an African-American woman in America’s South, with a score by Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray that draws on jazz, ragtime, gospel and blues. Directed by Tinuke Craig, it will be at Curve from 28 June to 13 July and at Birmingham Hippodrome from 16 to 20 July. Nottingham Playhouse will stage One Night In Miami… (7 to 22 June), Kemp Powers’ in-your-face imagined account of what happened in 1964 when four legendary figures came together in a motel room: heavyweight champion Cassius Clay, activist Malcolm X, American football icon Jim Brown and soul star Sam Cooke. First performed at the Donmar Warehouse in … Read more
Jonathan Hall reviews Deborah MacAndrew’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
Jonathan Hall reviews The Things That We Wouldn’t Otherwise Find at Leeds Library.