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Dance Consortium - Michael Keegan-Dolan's MÁM, photo - Ros Kavanagh

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Michael Keegan-Dolan – ‘If what you feel is really strange… that’s really exciting for me’

Michael Keegan-Dolan’s dizzying gateway between modern dance and the ancient heartbeat of Ireland, MÁM, comes to Lowry, Salford By Diane Parkes When choreographer and dancer Michael Keegan-Dolan was...

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Sadiq Ali on using circus to challenge outdated beliefs about HIV

When Sadiq Ali was diagnosed HIV+ during his circus training at NCCA, he witnessed the fear and ignorance that still surrounds the virus. He talks to Leslie Kerwin about his new work, ‘Tell...

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David Hockney - Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away) - Lightroom - credit Justin Sutcliffe

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David Hockney: Bigger & Closer (Not Smaller & Further Away) – Review

David Hockney is one of the most influential and renowned British artists of all time – ‘Bigger & Closer (not smaller & further away)’ is an immersive exhibit taking on the...

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The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks. Credit: Justin Sutcliffe

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The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks – Review

As a teenager I watched in awe as the Apollo Mission began, I remember thinking that the world as we knew it would never be the same again. As an animal lover I recall being delighted that...

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VOGUE: Inventing the Runway. Credit: Courtesy Factory International

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Vogue: Inventing the Runway – Review

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Vogue was founded in New York on December 17, 1892, by Arthur Turnure as a weekly newspaper covering high society, before global media company Condé Nast bought it in 1909 and transformed it into the iconic monthly fashion magazine we know today...

Shaun the Sheep's Circus Show. Credit Prudence Upton

Family Reviews Theatre

Shaun the Sheep’s Circus Show: Review

Leslie James Kerwin

Jason Manford and ensemble in Robin Hood

Family Reviews Theatre

Robin Hood with Jason Manford: Review

Carmel Thomason

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The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe company. Photo by Brinkhoff-Moegenburg

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The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe: Review

Carmel Thomason

Aslan returns to Lowry, Salford in the 75th anniversary of C.S. Lewis’ spellbinding children’s tale. And what a magnificent return it is, capturing all the emotion, thrill and excitement of the story in a roller-coaster two hours that leaves us...

TINA - THE TINA TURNER MUSICAL. Jochebel Ohene MacCarthy (Tina Turner) and Company. Photo by Johan Persson

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Tina – The Tina Turner Musical: Review

Carmel Thomason

My first ever stadium gig as a child was watching the late Tina Turner at Gateshead International Stadium in 1990. It was billed as a farewell tour – which of course it wasn’t. Much to the delight of her fans, this born performer was back at the...

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Robin Hood with Jason Manford: Review

Carmel Thomason

Whoever said you can get too much of a good thing never saw Jason Manford in pantomime. The Salford-born comedian takes the lead at Manchester Opera House for the fourth consecutive Christmas alongside his popular panto sidekick and Britain’s Got...

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Aladdin at Stockport Plaza: Review

Leslie James Kerwin

In the sparkling thrill of the pantomime, fantasy becomes everyday and the everyday fantastical, and the latest treasure to surface at Stockport Plaza is no exception. The first lesson of the panto is that anything goes, and with a trill of the...

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‘If Tarantino was to write a play, this would be it’ – Jason Durr

Carmel Thomason

Actor Jason Durr talks to Quays Life about his role in Murder at Midnight, a brand-new comedy thriller from Torben Betts, writer of smash-hit Murder in the Dark. Could you introduce us to Murder at Midnight? Jason: “It’s a brand new comedy...

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Climate change, AI and finding hope in artistic activism

Leslie James Kerwin

AI meets nature in a new interdisciplinary exhibition at Lowry from January which sees artists, John-Paul Brown and Sophy King, look beyond climate grief into a future of possibilities. It is 2076 – the climate crisis is fading, the Earth is...