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London Docklands and Crowne Plaza Hotel – Review
By Clare Jenkins, December 2024 Charles Dickens found London’s Docklands fascinating. He knew the area well, with its hustle and ... -
Snow White – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, December 2024 This year’s annual Sheffield dose of ‘He’s behind you!’ isn’t so much a pantomime as ... -
Expressionists: Kandinsky, Münter and the Blue Rider – Review
By Clare Jenkins The front cover of Expressionists shows a mustard-coloured tiger looking warily over its shoulder at us, amid ... -
Little Shop of Horrors – Review – Sheffield Crucible Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, December 2024 Sheffield Crucible’s Christmas offering, in the form of the camp Little Shop of Horrors, comes ... -
The Rocky Horror Show – Review – Sheffield Lyceum Theatre
By Clare Jenkins, November 2024 If, like me, you’ve never seen The Rocky Horror Show before, you’ll know just how ... -
How The Beatles Rocked the World by Stephen F. Kelly – Review
By Clare Jenkins The old saying is ‘If you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t there’. Stephen F. Kelly remembers ... -
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. ...