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Pete Townshend's Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet Credit: Johan Persson

Dance Reviews

Pete Townshend’s Quadrophenia, A Mod Ballet: Review

To begin at the ending. The audience loved it. Sadler’s Wells’ take on the 1979 film, based on The Who’s 1973 album, Quadrophenia, choreographed by Paul Roberts and directed by Rob Ashford, has a...

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Liberation L-R Eamonn Walker (George Padmore) & Nicola Stephenson (Dorothy Pizer). Image Isha Shah Photography

Festival Reviews Theatre

Liberation: Review

In 1945, a week-long series of meetings took place in Manchester which was to change the course of history in Africa. Several of the attendees went on to become presidents of African nations and it...

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Matthew Bourne's The Midnight Bell. Credit: Johan Persson

Dance Reviews

Matthew Bourne’s the Midnight Bell: Review

Matthew Bourne’s New Adventures has grown a strong following at Lowry with innovative takes on classics like Swan Lake, Nutcracker, Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella. The company’s latest production the...

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Dog's Life Travel

Life as a well-travelled pooch

Take a stroll down any high street in the UK or across Europe, and it’s clear that the pet dog population has boomed since the pandemic. With more people welcoming a furry friend into the family...

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Reviews Theatre

Ockham’s Razor TESS: Review

Martin ThomassonAdd comment

Theatrical experiences are rarely all good or all bad. Sometimes a reviewer wants to rave about certain aspects of a production, while other features leave him cold. So it is for me with this physical theatre adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s 1891...

Jena Pandya and Ashley Day in Come Fall in Love the DDLJ Musical Credit: Johan Persson

Reviews Theatre

Come Fall in Love the DDLJ Musical: Review

Carmel Thomason

Josh Barrow (Jordan Pickford) in Dear England (2025) at the National Theatre (c) Marc Brenner

Reviews Theatre

Dear England: Review

Martin Thomasson

To do & see

Imran Perretta A Riot in Three Acts - (credit Michael Pollard)

Art Art Reviews

Imran Perretta: A Riot In Three Acts – Review

Martin Thomasson

On 4 August, 2011, a 29-year-old black man, Mark Duggan, was shot dead by police in Tottenham, London. Duggan’s death sparked a series of riots, beginning in Tottenham, spreading across London and on to other cities in England. From where he was...

Tyson Fury (right) is England Manager and Wayne Rooney is Player-Manager (left) for UNICEF 2025, which takes place on Sunday 15th of June at Old Trafford, Manchester. Photographed by Daniel Hambury for UNICEF UK and Soccer Aid Productions. ©UNICEF/Soccer Aid Productions/Stella Pictures

Greater Manchester To do & see

Tyson Fury and Wayne Rooney to form knockout team

Carmel Thomason

It’s a knockout line-up for this year’s Soccer Aid for Unicef at Old Trafford as former world heavyweight champion Tyson Fury teams up with Manchester United’s all-time record goal-scorer, Wayne Rooney. The pair will co-manage England who take on...

Artist Bobby Baker An Edible Family in a Mobile Home at The Tate 2023 © Hugo Glendenning

People

Artist Bobby Baker talks feminism, family and edible art

Verity Marchant

Whitworth Art Gallery is currently home to an installation quite literally good enough to eat. Artist Bobby Baker has recreated her An Edible Family in a Mobile Home (1976, 2023) enlisting the help of Long Boi’s Bakehouse to make the edible family...

To do & see Travel

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...

People

People Salford Quays To do & see

“I want no other theatrical experience to ever live up to it!” – Tom Fletcher

Lucy Tobin

“I’m hoping for absolute chaos!” It’s an unusual aspiration for the creative behind a brand-new musical to want from his audience reaction – especially when he adds that he wants the audience to be “shouting out and jumping up and down and...

The cast of Dear England (2025) at the National Theatre (c) Marc Brenner

People Salford Quays To do & see Uncategorized

Dear England cast reveal their approach to playing well known faces on stage

Carmel Thomason

Dear England, the hit Olivier Award-winning play by James Graham, comes to Lowry, Salford direct from a 10-week run at the National Theatre in London. After scooping the award for Best New Play In 2024 the production has been updated following last...