Tag: Shropshire Local Reviewers

Would you like to go to theatre shows, festivals or music events - for FREE? If you're interested in film, TV, podcasting, creative media and reviewing in arts and culture then get in touch!
We have four new sessions happening on 7th & 21st May and 4th & 18th June 2025 at Theatre Severn in Shrewsbury.
If you're aged 16 – 25 years and live in Shropshire you can become a local reviewer and learn from professionals, access events, training and opportunities and develop your own opinion pieces with Voice. Either turn up on the first session or contact Judy to find out more!
We're also working with Ludlow Assembly Rooms and Arts Alive in Shropshire and meet monthly, you're welcome to come along and meet like minded people.
You don’t have to know about the local arts scene or how to review - just register your interest or email [email protected] to find out more.
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25 June 2023
Curtain Call's The Wedding Singer: ‘A delight’
Curtain Call hits the stage with this iconic, sexy, laugh-out-loud love story. Robbie and Julia: destined to be together. There’s just the small matter of their fiancés… Chaos strikes the altar in this hilariously messy romcom.
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12 May 2023
Wish You Were Dead: Highly entertaining. I loved it.
Devoted yet officially “off-duty” detective Roy Grace played by Casualty star George Rainsford, dredges up deadly secrets and doggedly pursues justice but at what price, when the past crawls back to haunt him in this lively production.
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22 April 2023
Lady Moon album review
The eponymous debut album from Colorado folk musician Lady Moon (Eva Holbrook) wraps ethereal vocals and lyrical sensitivity around intricately finger-picked mandolin rhythms
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20 March 2023
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel: Mamma Mia for pensioners...?
Inspired by the award winning film, this inspiring tale of friendship, family and romance proves it’s never too late to take the leap and break free from the confines of a lifelong comfort zone.
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16 March 2023
Too Much World At Once: An underrated triumph of theatre
Surly, guarded Noble attempts to navigate the treacherous waters of youth and coming of age whilst trying to uphold his crumbling family in this achingly real yet charmingly surreal production.
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9 March 2023
The Rocky Horror Show: Unapologetically outlandish
Two cookie-cutter college kids are in for the craziest night EVER of dancing, aliens, sex and time warps after a chance encounter with the saucy corset-wearing, chainsaw-bearing Dr Frank-N-Furter…
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8 March 2023
Embracing the power of femininity
For years we have been told to suppress our femininity to pursue power, but isn't it time we changed the narrative and realised the true power femininity holds and how embracing that power can help us survive the future?
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1 March 2023
How To Kill Your Family: Witty, modern, and hilariously sarcastic
Follows fiction’s funniest serial killer as she seeks out salacious sex parties, plays with frog poison and seduces unwitting millionaires, all for one purpose. Murder.
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7 February 2023
Wodehouse In Wonderland review: Comedy? Musical? Tragedy? Children’s programme?
Showered with light-hearted humour, this witty dramatisation of Wodehouse’s life jumbles together literature, theatre and a dash of musicality whilst being sneakily educational.
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7 February 2023
Science fiction or science future? How technology could shape the future of youth culture
Modern science fiction offers many fantastical visions of the future, but could current advances in technology revolutionise youth culture even more than we imagined?
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31 January 2023
Empire of Light Review: Sex, thugs and loss of control
Barricaded behind the grand, glass doors of the Empire Cinema on a quaint, British seafront, yearning, curiosity, hope and torment intertwine in Sam Mendes’ latest work of art.
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27 January 2023
‘Howerd’s End’ Review: To laugh or not to laugh? That is the question...
Despite delving into sombre themes, this unique two-man show brims with drama, love, intimacy and, of course, humour.
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24 January 2023
Whitney Houston: I Wanna Dance With Somebody – Class, glamour and hard-hitting reality.
Rippling with emotion, humour and charisma, this film will drag you through the glitzy façade and into the seedy side-streets of stardom.
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22 December 2022
Matilda the Musical film Review: technicolour eye-candy alongside the smash-hit soundtrack
Refreshingly modern and delightfully mischievous, this enjoyable family film will entertain those of all ages, especially musical lovers.
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5 December 2022
Shrewsbury Theatre Severn Pantomime: Utterly Unmissable
A smashing show ‘Fitt’ for the West End. Watch out Shrewsbury, Brad is back! ‘The perfect anecdote to everything going wrong in the year’ - David Jack, Theatre manager.
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25 November 2022
Shrewsbury Lights Review: Absolutely heaving with people… and festive cheer!
All singing-all dancing, this traditional event is bound to open the floodgates to the anticipation and excitement of Christmas! However steer clear if you can't handle crowds...
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22 November 2022
COP 27 Roundup
A look at the key achievements and agreements from this year’s climate conference in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.
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5 November 2022
COP 27: is it too little too late?
Ahead of COP 27, I ask whether political summits are as effective as we need them to be, and look at the goals for this year’s summit in Egypt.