26 stories by "Jonathan Hall"
By Jonathan Hall
Jonathan Hall reviews The Wizard Of Oz this year's family festive treat from the Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews There Are No Beginnings, a new play by Charley Miles now playing at the Leeds Playhouse until 2 November 2019.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Lung Theatre Company's production Trojan Horse which was chosen to re-open the Leeds Playhouse after its renovation.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Toby Hulse's adaptation of Jules Verne's Around The World In Eighty Days now playing at the Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Debbie Tucker Green’s play Random 7.37 starring Kiza Deen now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Kes by Robert Alan Evans based on the novel by Barry Hines now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Deborah MacAndrew’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews The Things That We Wouldn’t Otherwise Find at Leeds Library.
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Jonathan Hall reviews Partition at the Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews David Greig’s play Europe now playing at Leeds Playhouse.
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Jonathan Hall reviews The Girl On The Train at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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Sunshine on Leith, the jukebox musical featuring the songs of the Proclaimers, is a foot stamping, hand-clapping barnstormer of a show that by the end had the audience up on…
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Jonathan Hall reviews Timberlake Wertenbaker's adaptation of Thomas Keneally's novel Our Country’s Good at West Yorkshire Playhouse.
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James Graham's This House is served well by a strong " and in these days of austerity, refreshingly large- cast playing multiple roles
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By Jonathan Hall
James Graham’s This House is served well by a strong " and in these days of austerity, refreshingly large- cast playing multiple roles
This post REVIEW: This House Wes…
By Jonathan Hall
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe West Yorkshire Playhouse Five Stars Book Now Part of the magic of Christmas is about the telling of stories, from Scrooge and 'It's a wo…
By Jonathan Hall
The Tin Drum West Yorkshire Playhouse 4 Stars Tour Info On one level the story can seem simple, almost childish, with Nursery Rhyme overtones of drums and toy shops – …
By Jonathan Hall
(the fall of) The Master Builder West Yorkshire Playhouse Four stars Book Tickets 'The Master builder', Henrik Ibsen's play from 1893 is a masterly study of an ageing artist…
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So stark was the story that I left the theatre wondering why I'd never heard of it before and why it wasn't in these days of multi cultural Britain a part of the school's sy…
By Jonathan Hall
Having seen to what brilliant effect such a cast can be used in the recent production of 'Romeo and Juliet' it was a shame to see a similar cast, so underutilised in The Gra…
By Jonathan Hall
Seeing Terry Johnson's stage adaptation of The Graduate, I find that thirty plus years have put me entirely on the side of Mrs. Robinson
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Perhaps the greatest testament to the spell cast by Lifeboat came from the audience of children sat crossed in two rows either side of the performance space, cross-legged, u…
By Jonathan Hall
It was fitting that at the end that Oona the elephant took her own curtain call; it was exactly right for a production that takes that imaginative part of our minds and dire…
By Jonathan Hall
The concluding moments of 'The Full Monty' summed up the whole show: energetic triumphant dancing, dazzling lights, pumping music all received by enthusiastic standing ovati…
By Jonathan Hall
At the interval and the end- especially at the end- the audience, which included a large element of young people, erupted with a spontaneous cheering, whooping enthusiasm- i…
