Theatre and Comedy

It's back for one last bite and we have three family tickets to be won to see Walking With Dinosaurs The Arena Spectacular, based on the award-winning BBC Television Series, at Sheffield FlyDSA Arena.

So here we are. And audience of at least 90% a certain age lapping up the Four Seasons songbook like Spring chickens at a midsummer party. But this is much more than a nostalgia-fest of Frankie Valli greatest hits. The everyday story of a dysfunctional foursome is told retrospectively from four different points of view and often emphasising a dark side away from the spotlight of glitz and glamour.

Inevitably the first consideration on press night was how the late replacement as Nurse Ratched, Jenny Livsey, would cope after only a couple of days notice. The answer is she fitted seamlessly into a first-rate ensemble and you hardly noticed she was still on the book. It helps that a nurse carrying a folder of notes looks quite natural.

The music of the Four Seasons was huge in the Sixties and Seventies but at the time very little was known about them as individuals.

Europe's leading learning disability theatre company is gearing up for a stellar year of performances and new productions in celebration of its 30th year.

The show goes on! Actress Jenny Livsey stepped in at the last minute at Sheffield's CrucibleTheatre when a star of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest was injured.

There must have been few, if any, Lyceum Theatregoers at Monday’s opening performance of An Officer and a Gentleman the musical who were unfamiliar with the iconic film, first screened in 1982.

Spend Spend Spend, the musical based on the extraordinary life of pools winner Viv Nicholson is being revived by Handsworth and Hallam Theatre Company next week.

Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is regarded as a cult-classic largely on the basis of the 1975 film starring Jack Nicholson.

With its soundtrack of hit songs, An Officer and a Gentleman was a natural to fit the vogue for turning movies into stage jukebox musicals.

The government is in turmoil. Political shenanigans are at an all-time high. Can the ruling party survive? Sounds familiar?

The stage version of  Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s BAFTA award-winning BBC series, Fleabag, is coming to the Crucible Studio next week.

This House, set in the 1970s and showing a government hanging on with a threadbare majority, seems extraordinarily prescient in the current political climate.

Unlike many current shows based on Hollywood movies Titanic the Musical is nothing to do with the 1997 film so don’t expect to see two young lovers embracing on the ship’s prow to the strains of My Heart Will Go On.

After last year’s success with a brand new ballet, Red Shoes, New Adventures are back in Sheffield next week with one of their greatest hits, Matthew Bourne’s Cinderella.

Our Country’s Good, based on the true story of a group of convicts rehearsing and performing a play in the early settlement of Australia, is ideal for the Ramps on the Moon project, according to director Fiona BuffIni.