Our Favourite Shows of 2022

19/03/2022 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

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

Bristol Light Festival