Theatre: A Christmas Carol (or two) Leeds Playhouse, ...

Review of reviews: Drama

Directed by Rachel Grady and Heidi Ewing (in UK cinemas and on digital platforms from 5 December 2025)

Paddington is alive. He’s walking, talking – and singing and dancing – in a musical adaptation of his story. Almost seven decades after he first appeared in Michael Bond’s A Bear Called Paddington in

IT’S A FUNNY OLD WORLD

Stephen Sondheim’s resonant, melancholy musicals