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Mark Moraghan talks new musical Little Miss Sunshine

Carmel Thomason

‘Little Miss Sunshine’ is a new musical comedy from Tony Award-winners James Lapine and William Finn, based on the Oscar-winning film of the same name. Quays Life catches-up with actor, Mark Moraghan, who plays Grandpa in the show. Mark...

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Rare Lowry painting on display for a limited five days

Carmel Thomason

It’s almost 25 years since Lowry’s painting A Cricket Match was last seen on public display. At that time, it was part of a pre-auction display at Sotheby’s, where it was sold for £282,000 – then a record price for one of Lowry’s works. Before its...

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Silent Lines -Alethia Antonia; Will Thompson; Edd Arnold; Grace Jabbari; Moronfoluwa Odimayo ©Martin Collin

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Russell Maliphant on his dream-like new show Silent Lines

Carmel Thomason

Multi-award-winning choreographer, Russell Maliphant talks to Quays Life about Silent Lines, a ground-breaking new dance production with video artist, Panagiotis Tomaras. Can you tell us a bit about your new work Silent Lines? Silent Lines is a work...

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Dr David Pye Scientific Director of Kidscan with representatives from Squires Patten Boggs

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Kidscan – Salford’s ground-breaking cancer research charity

Carmel Thomason

Kidscan is a national charity based at Salford University. Quays Life meets its Chief Executive, Bob Carter to find out more about its work promoting research into new and improved treatments for children with cancer. What is the work of Kidscan...

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Strangers on a Train Set, LipService Theatre Review

Carmel Thomason

LipService duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, are masters of the literary spoof. Since 1985 the Chorlton-based comics have produced no fewer than 20 stage shows, turning their unique surreal gaze on genres ranging from James Bond to Norwegian crime...

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THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL Persephone Swales-Dawson, Joe McFadden, Rita Simons ©Helen Maybanks

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The House on Cold Hill, Theatre Review at Opera House Manchester

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Gothic haunted house meets 21st century technology in this spooky adaption of Peter James’ best selling novel. Be careful what you ask Alexa for, because you never know who is listening! THE HOUSE ON COLD HILL – Joe McFadden ©Helen...

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The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, Theatre Review

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

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Northern Ballet’s The Great Gatsby Dance Review

Liz Ratcliffe

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Art Salford Quays To do & see

Rare Lowry painting on display for a limited five days

Carmel Thomason

It’s almost 25 years since Lowry’s painting A Cricket Match was last seen on public display. At that time, it was part of a pre-auction display at Sotheby’s, where it was sold for £282,000 – then a record price for one of Lowry’s works. Before its...

Salford Quays To do & see

Our First Lowry offers free theatre tickets for Salford families

Carmel Thomason

The Lowry is offering free and discounted theatre tickets for Salford families. If you have children under the age of 5, live in Salford and have never been to a theatre show at The Lowry as a family before, then you can join the ‘Our First Lowry’...

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‘Cancer does not make you look at death but at the life you are living,’ Zoë Law

Carmel Thomason

‘Above all what matters is not to lose the joy of living in the fear of dying,’ said Maggie Keswick Jencks, on hearing that her breast cancer had returned in May 1993. Maggie went on to live with advanced cancer for two years and during that time...

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Dream-like luminarium experience at Salford Quays

Carmel Thomason

A dream-like luminarium is heading to MediaCityUK as part of a dazzling four-day festival culminating in a breath-taking high-wire performance across the Quays. ARBORIA Photo Alan Parkinson Architects of Air’s luminariums are inhabited sculptures...

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ColetivA Ocupação When it Breaks it Burns

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When it Breaks it Burns – ColetivA Ocupação’s true story of school protests

Carmel Thomason

Activist and performer, Lilith Cristina and producer Lowri Evans, talk about When it Breaks it Burns, the true story of high school protests in Brazil. When it Breaks it Burns tells the extraordinary true story of the high school occupations of 2015...

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The Bay’s Ciarán Griffiths talks 60s illegal love

Carmel Thomason

Star of ITV’s The Bay, Ciarán Griffiths is reprising his role as gay man, Bobby on the Canal Street underground scene, in Katherine Smith’s award-winning play, All I See Is You. The play, written as a response to the 50th anniversary of the partial...