Tonight was the first amateur performance of this musical I had the pleasure to see and it was a top-class evening’s entertainment. From the very start we w...

Guest Reviewer - Christine Adams Davidson ‘Legally Blonde’ is an award winning musical with lyrics and music by Neil Benjamin and Laurence O Keefe. The book ...

Guest Reviewer: Christine Adams-Davidson Written in 1976 and first produced as a BBC1 Play for Today in 1977, this cult classic definitely stands the test of...

Known as probably Oscar Wildes finest work, the popularity of this play rarely seems to have dwindled. It has been re-imagined in many ways but this CTW prod...

The Producers is a musical based on the film by Mel Brooks with much of the Lyrics and book written by Brooks and with a film version starring Nathan Lane an...

This was our last panto of this season and as always, we were made to feel extremely welcome by the Blackmore Players as we arrived at the production. This w...

Guest Reviewer : Michelle Jacobs Who doesn’t love a traditional school nativity play at Christmas? Chelmsford Theatre Workshop certainly get top marks for th...

Guest Reviewer: Philip Spurgeon Dick Whittington is the only pantomime based on a true subject - oh yes it is! Richard Whittington (unlike his panto ego) was...

The Mercury always gives a first class pantomime but this year in a tent, we really weren’t sure that they would be able to pull it off. How wrong we were. T...

Photography by Mark Sepple On entering the auditorium at the start of the evening we were immediately impressed by the Lincoln green set in front of us and l...

Guest Reviewer - Corrina Wilson Rent, a 90’s rock musical loosely based on Puccini’s opera La Boheme, by Jonathan Larson tells the story of a group of impove...

Tim Firth's 2006 stage version of the Flint Street Nativity is based up on the 1999 television comedy and this was a very appropriate choice for CADS with ma...

Bonnie and Clyde comes from the world of modern musicals and debuted on Broadway in December 2011 – so in Musical Theatre history – still a newbie! Sadly des...

Guest Reviewer : Gerald Hines “Cinderella” is a lesser known musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein. Derived from a tv film which originally starred Julie Andrew...

What an exuberant and energetic performance we saw tonight at the opening night of Chelmsford Young Generations production of 42nd Street. From the moment th...

Disco Inferno is a jukebox musical which is based loosely upon the tale of Faust. It's an opportunity to relish the retro and dive right into the delicious s...

Guest Reviewer: Christine Davidson In these difficult times it so good to be able to go and see such an uplifting show as Sister Act. Witham Amateur Operatic...

Guest Reviewer - Michelle Jacobs From the moment one enters the auditorium, bedecked in trailing ivy leaves, bathed in a verdant light and with botanically t...

Guest Reviewer: Michelle Jacobs Hornchurch and Derby Theatre co-production of One Man, Two Guvnors is for the cast and audience to appear to be as one. His f...

This Richard Bean comedy is a firm favourite with amateur and professional groups alike. With a large cast of characters and a huge part of the show relying ...