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Max Bowden, Jason Durr, Susie Blake in Murder at Midnight. Credit Pamela Raith Photography

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Murder at Midnight: Review

Murder at Midnight is Torben Betts’ follow-up to his highly successful Murder in the Dark. In the programme notes he tells how the idea emerged after producers at Original Theatre company asked him...

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Sidonie Smith, Adam Garcia and Cast. Credit Paul Coltas

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The Bodyguard: Review

The new tour of The Bodyguard explodes onto the stage at Manchester’s Palace Theatre, with a start that needs no phones-away announcement. The echo of a gunshot does that job – now everyone is paying...

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Sadiq Ali: Tell Me Credit Alberto Santos Bellido

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Sadiq Ali: Tell Me – Review

“Victims are male homosexuals and drug users who use needles… any of them could have contracted the Aids virus, and any of them could pass it on.” A tinny radio blares across a dimly-lit haze...

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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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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

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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 ambitious task of telling the story of his...

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

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The Moonwalkers: A Journey With Tom Hanks – Review

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

VOGUE: Inventing the Runway. Credit: Courtesy Factory International

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Vogue: Inventing the Runway – Review

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

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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...

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

Diane Parkes

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 creating his production MÁM, he turned to the...

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The only swing bridge aqueduct in the world

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

Lorraine Worsley-Carter stumbles upon a unique wonder of the canal age in Salford After taking a short cut to our favourite Trafford DIY store, our sat-nav suggested a route which took us over an old bridge which we had not traversed before...

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Sadiq Ali on using circus to challenge outdated beliefs about HIV

Leslie James Kerwin

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 Me’, created in consultation with HIV...

Wintering with Samantha Fernando © Mike Skelton

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Samantha Fernando’s music is balm for winter’s long, cold nights

Leslie James Kerwin

Amid a blizzard of Christmas markets, holiday shoppers, and one of the coldest Novembers in years, composer Samantha Fernando is stepping out to bring a moment of calm to Manchester this winter. Her latest orchestral piece, Wintering, asks: what if...