Cast: (l to r) George, Nick, Myrtle, Jordan, Tom, Daisy, Gatsby. Source: https://www.visityork.org/whats-on/the-great-gatsby-immersive-experience-p836271

Review: The Great Gatsby at Castle Howard

August 5, 2018August 5, 2018 Ben Reid

If personality is a series of incredible rooms, well-placed scenes and good performers, then there was something gorgeous about this production. The immersive Great Gatsby at Castle Howard by Alexander Flanagan […]

Image: 'Birdsong' Madeleine Knight (Isabelle Azaire) & Tom Kay (Stephen Wraysford), Credit Jack Ladenburg

Review: Birdsong – York Theatre Royal

June 7, 2018 Frances Younger

There have been a wide variety of artistic performances marking the centenary of the First World War in recent years. They all remember the horrors that young men […]

Review: The Importance of Being Earnest

April 24, 2018May 1, 2018 Ben Reid

Alastair Whately directs Oscar Wilde’s superb crown jewel: The Importance of Being Earnest. The three-act play is revived at York Theatre Royal, retelling the excellent combo of love, society and […]

Review: Dracula, John Cooper Studio Theatre

November 2, 2017November 3, 2017 Violet Daniels

“Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.” A crowd of people are summoned into a dark room. The only form of […]

Review: Wonderland

March 7, 2017March 9, 2017 Frances Younger

Alice in Wonderland has been a part of our collective consciousness since the book’s original release in 1865. Iconic characters like the Mad Hatter, the Queen of Hearts, and […]

Nichola McAuliffe as Agatha Christie (left) and Susie Blake as Margaret Rutherford (right) had fantastic chemistry. Photo Credit: Anthony Robling.

Review: Murder, Margaret and Me – York Theatre Royale

February 26, 2017March 24, 2017 Ben Reid

Philip Meeks’s play about an against-odds friendship between the Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie, and the actress who performed Miss Marple’s first appearance on-screen, Margaret Rutherford, is a warm delight. […]

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Review: Omid Djalili: Shmuck for a Night

February 12, 2017March 1, 2017 Lauren Steele

Omid Djalili’s newest stand up show, ‘Shmuck for a Night’, came to York for one night only last week. Playing to a nearly full York Royal Opera House, the show […]

Review: The Great Gatsby

January 3, 2017January 3, 2017 Meg Bowen

Don your feather boa, grab your martini and let the Guild of Misrule’s immersive adaption of Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby transport you into a world of jazz and debauchery. […]

Review: Mary Shelley’s ‘Frankenstein’

December 4, 2016December 4, 2016 Kate Brennan

“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.” Mary Shelley’s classic Gothic novel, ‘Frankenstein’ was brought to life by The Flanagan Collective […]