Man of the Moment appears on the surface to be nothing more than a comfortable middle-of-the-road comedy but like much of Alan Ayckbourne’s work, the…
Image courtesy: Pamela Raith As a single line of slamming t-bar tap shoes is revealed by the rising stage curtain, Curve plops you straight into…
Image courtesy: Johan Persson Sam Shepard’s Buried Child is equal parts dark-humoured and despondent. Set in Illinois 1978 and inspired by the collapse of the…
In the late 1500’s when William Shakespeare was writing ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’, I don’t think he would have ever imaged anything as fun and…
Photo by: Jonathan Keenan Lights out at the Curve, for the production of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, offers brief respite from a spectacular…
If the mark of a successful musical is heading home with a spring in your step and a mantra running around your head, Britain’s Got…
It is exhilarating to see the best of anything. For many Leicester schoolchildren the National Theatre’s award-winning production of J B Priestley’s An Inspector Calls…
The Curve’s West Side Story is billed as an amateur production but it showcases a gangful of professional performances from its young cast. They bring…

