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Our Favourite Shows of 2022

22/12/2022 editorial

Each year, we keep a running list of our favorite shows or events.

Now it’s nearing the end of December, these are the shows we’ve loved the most. We usually do a top five or top ten, but this year it was so hard to narrow it down so we’ve gone with categories instead.

Our Favourite shows, theatre or arts events in 2022

Fringe
How to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical ‘cats’ – Alma Theatre
Sugar – Suspension Theatre at the Wardrobe Theatre
Diana: The Untold, Untrue Story – Alma Tavern Theatre

Biopic
Suggs: A Life in the Realm of Madness – Redgrave Theatre
An Audience with Christopher Eccleston – Redgrave Theatre
Dom Joly’s Holiday Snaps – Travel and Comedy In The Danger Zone

Musicals
Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Bristol Hippodrome

Plays
Revealed – Tobacco Factory Theatres
Animal Farm – Theatre Royal Bath
A Christmas Carol – Red Rope Theatre at Arnos Vale Cemetery

Amateur Production
The Wedding Singer – Bristol Musical Theatre

Children’s Theatre
Belle and Sebastien – The Weston Theatre Bristol Old Vic
The Midnight Mission – The Wardrobe Theatre
Kid Carpet and the Noisy Nativity – Bristol Spiegeltent

Music
Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds – Cardiff Motorpoint Arena

Immersive
Jeff Wayne’s The War of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience – London

London
Good – Harold Pinter Theatre

In no particular order, here’s the shows we’ve loved the most throughout 2022

How to live a jellicle life: life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical ‘cats’ – Alma Theatre

Dreamgirls – Bristol Hippodrome

Suggs: A Life in the Realm of Madness – Redgrave Theatre

Bedknobs and Broomsticks – Bristol Hippodrome

Waitress – Bristol Hippodrome

The Lion King – Bristol Hippodrome

An Audience with Christopher Eccleston – Redgrave Theatre

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