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Reviewed: The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Curve
A star-studded show, just like the film. Hayley Mills is in Leicester this week starring in The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel at Curve. As a...
Nov 4, 20224 min read


Reviewed: Sister Act at Curve
Bless this show, bless this review, bless it all. A wannabe nightclub singer, Deloris Van Cartier, witnesses her married, mobster lover...
Oct 21, 20224 min read


Reviewed: The Shawshank Redemption at Curve
It's time to get busy livin' or get busy dyin'. Contains spoilers! This freshly rewritten adaptation of Steven King's novella comes to...
Oct 11, 20223 min read


Reviewed: Bugsy Malone at Curve
The touring production could've been anything that it wanted to be... There's a real risk of my sounding like a broken record in this...
Oct 5, 20224 min read


Reviewed: Othello at Curve
The use of set was ingenious. We all know Shakespeare’s plays. Othello, perhaps slightly lesser-known, is a tragedy set in Cyprus during...
Sep 21, 20224 min read


Reviewed: Mamma Mia! at Curve
It’s time to lay all your love on the ninth longest-running show in Broadway history. ABBA is always guaranteed to fill a dance floor,...
Sep 16, 20222 min read


Reviewed: Bongo's Bingo XL at Leicester's Morningside Arena
Covered in Coco Pops, we went back to the 80s. Famous (or infamous) for crazy prizes and riotous fun, Bongo's Bingo came to Morningside...
Sep 8, 20225 min read


Leicester Theatre Group to stage Urinetown: The Musical
A side-splitting send-up of greed, love, revolution (and musicals!), in a time when water is worth its weight in gold. Following their...
Sep 5, 20221 min read


The Little Theatre announces its new autumn/winter season
Five in-house plays, the annual pantomime, three musicals, and some fantastic one-offs round out the new lineup for Leicester's home of...
Aug 22, 20225 min read


Back to the 80s with Bongo's Bingo this August
Bongo's Bingo is back! To the 80s! For those who enjoy a bit of bingo, a dance off now and then, and the odd rave here and there, we have...
Jul 29, 20222 min read


Reviewed: Billy Elliot the Musical at Curve
The new UK production of Billy Elliot the Musical is in full swing in Leicester. Directed by Nikolai Foster, the Made at Curve musical...
Jul 21, 20222 min read


Reviewed: School of Rock at Curve
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s musical adaption of the Jack Black movie is currently at Curve. Rock music. Children singing. A theatre in...
Jun 1, 20224 min read


Much-anticipated Sister Act The Musical opens at The Little Theatre tonight
It can cost up to £30,000 to put on an amateur performance. A local theatre society is performing Sister Act The Musical this week at The...
May 24, 20222 min read


Geoff Rowe to step down from Leicester Comedy Festival after 30 years
Leicester Comedy Festival has been going since 1994. Big Difference Company has today announced that Geoff Rowe, the Founding Director of...
Apr 28, 20223 min read


Kae Tempest to perform at Leicester’s 02
Writer and musician to release fourth studio album. Critically acclaimed musician Kae Tempest stops here in Leicester on her UK tour....
Apr 25, 20225 min read


Gassed about the past: a look around Leicester’s National Gas Museum
From mini ovens to motor engines, experience life from a time when energy was all about gas. Leicester is home to a fair few highly...
Mar 17, 20222 min read
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