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Grease – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, November 2024 Just where do the assembled cast of Nikolai Foster’s 2022 revival of the high-school musical ... -
Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister by Marc Kristal – Review
By Clare Jenkins There’s a fascinating BBC Monitor film, dating from 1962 and directed by Ken Russell, called Pop Goes ... -
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 – Review
By Clare Jenkins Artemisia Gentileschi’s Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting shows a woman at an artist’s easel, brown apron ... -
A Christmas Carol [Northern Ballet] – Review – Sheffield Lyceum
By Clare Jenkins, November 2024 It may be rather early for mulled wine, plum pudding, roast goose and cranberry sauce, ... -
Hairspray – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, October 2024 I knew I should have taken earplugs. From its opening bars, Hairspray is turbocharged and ... -
Bishop Auckland and The Park Head Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, October 2024 I’m in a gallery surrounded by great works of art from the Spanish Golden Age. ... -
A Doll’s House – Review – Sheffield Crucible
By Clare Jenkins, September 2024 When A Doll’s House was premiered in Copenhagen in 1879, it caused a sensation with ... -
Trelawny’s Cornwall by Petroc Trelawny – Review
By Clare Jenkins Petroc Trelawny is a hero in our house. Presenter of Radio 3’s Breakfast show, his was the ... -
Sheffield, and Radisson Blu Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, August 2024 According to Marcel Proust, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, ... -
Norwich, and Dunston Hall Hotel, Spa & Golf Resort – Review
By Clare Jenkins, August 2024 In the porch of Boston’s St Botolph’s parish church, there’s a list of officials, together ... -
Folkestone, Hastings & the Grand Burstin Hotel – Travel Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2024 Half a mile out of Hastings town centre, we suddenly found ourselves in India. Or, ... -
The Halyard, Liverpool – Hotel Review
By Clare Jenkins, June 2024 We weren’t altogether prepared for Liverpool on a Friday night. Not prepared for quite so ...