Grace Creaton-Barber, Author at Plays To See

Breaking into Song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals

04/09/2021

I was so excited to read this book and to come away fully equipped with the verbal ammunition I need for the defence of my biggest passion, musical th...

5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Hymn

Grace Creaton-Barber

30/07/2021

This show effervesces with life: heart-warming, hilarious yet painfully realistic throughout… Hymn is a recreation of reality. Hymn follows the sto...

5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Heathers

Grace Creaton-Barber

08/07/2021

“Freak!” Heathers unapologetically takes the High School Musical out of high school musicals. This is a relentlessly real, uncomfortably confron...

4.0★ ★ ★ ★

Starting Here, Starting Now

Grace Creaton-Barber

03/07/2021

Starting Here, Starting Now is a no holds barred exploration of love. Love in all of its glory (and un-glory), in what is a delightfully wry yet delig...

5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★

Here Come the Boys

Grace Creaton-Barber

29/05/2021

An electric evening of high-energy, high-impact, high-calibre dance. To summarise: fab-u-lous! A view that I’m sure may be shared by a handful of p...

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Grace Creaton-Barber

28/02/2021

As George Orwell once wrote, ‘the Northerner has “grit”, he is … democratic; the Southerner is snobbish, effeminate and lazy’. Whilst nuanced here, th...

Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown

Grace Creaton-Barber

20/12/2020

This is certainly up there as one of the top ten performances I’ve seen this year – but, seeing as it is 2020, make of that what you will! I am per...

The Theatre Channel: Episode 1

Grace Creaton-Barber

02/10/2020

Not replacing live theatre, but reinventing it! The Theatre Channel undoubtedly fills the void that has been ever-growing since March this year. It is...

The Prince of Egypt

Grace Creaton-Barber

28/02/2020

From the first crack of the whip you are hooked. The Prince of Egypt is an absolute extravaganza - lavish costumes, acrobatic physical theatre, innova...

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

Grace Creaton-Barber

06/02/2020

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground saps the wonder out of Wonderland. In striving to produce a frenzied and maddening performance that matches the imp...

Macbeth

Romeo & Juliet

Thrill Me: The Leopold & Loeb Story

Bat Out of Hell

A Critic's Advice on Reviewing

Under the Radar
The Public Theater’s Under the Radar Festival

She NYC Arts Festival

Between the Seas: Mediterranean Performing Arts in NYC

Breaking into Song: why you shouldn’t hate musicals

Hymn

Heathers

Starting Here, Starting Now

Here Come the Boys

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice

Snow White in the Seven Months of Lockdown

The Theatre Channel: Episode 1

The Prince of Egypt

Alice’s Adventures Under Ground

Author Grace Creaton-Barber