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The Choir of Man 2026 Tour. Photo by Mark Senior

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The Choir of Man: Review

Could theatre get any more welcoming than inviting its audience on stage and handing out free beer? No wonder The Choir of Man has been winning fans in venues across the globe. The original idea from...

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David Threlfall (King Lear) in King Lear at the Royal Exchange Theatre. Photo by Helen Murray

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King Lear Royal Exchange 50th anniversary production: Review

Is Lear mad? Or is he driven mad? The genius of Shakespeare is that he leaves this question open for us to decide. Lear may be as ‘mad as the vexed sea’, or it may simply be senescence or the onset...

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The Silence of the Lambs: Theatre Review

When you think about it, within the story of The Silence of the Lambs, grotesque as it is, both serial killer’s Hannibal Lecter and Buffalo Bill are successful in implementing the ‘nose to tail’...

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Art with Heart Banner. Photo by Breige Cobane

Art Reviews

Art with Heart’s banners take Salford’s story on tour

Salford’s community has created a set of banners celebrating the city, and they are now touring the places where the people live who created and inspired them. The Salford Voices Banner...

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Othello directed by Anthony Almeida: Review

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“How easily the worlds we build together can be sustained, or quietly undone,” says director Anthony Almeida in the programme notes to his new production of Othello. This new co-production between HOME, Northern Stage, the Citizens Theatre, and in...

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High Society: Review

Steve Timms

Mythic Reinvention: 50 Years of Costume, Craft and Performance. Gypsy Directed by Jo Davies Designed by Gabrielle Dalton Photography Ros Kavanagh

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Mythic Reinvention: 50 years of Costume and Craft - Review

Amy Corringham

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The Brown Suite (c) Viktor Erik Emanuel - Fundamentally Dance

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Inside The Brown Suite: BlacBrik’s Nahum McLean and Darius Drooh on James Brown, friendship and the power of social spaces

Carmel Thomason

Six friends, one night in 1970s New York, and a soundtrack built from James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke — that’s the world at the centre of ‘The Brown Suite’, a full-length dance-theatre show from choreographic duo BlacBrik...

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Mythic Reinvention: 50 years of Costume and Craft - Review

Amy Corringham

In celebration of 50 years of the Royal Exchange theatre in Manchester, a free exhibition invites audiences to explore how history can be reimagined through storytelling in costume and craft. Mythic Reinvention: 50...

Nya, TPE's Pets as Therapy Dog. Photo courtesy of Transpennine Express

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The dog taking the stress out of train journeys

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

One of my dear friends is Chaplain, Reverend Mike Roberts, Rail Industry and British Transport Police Chaplain whom I have featured in QuaysLife in the past. Earlier in the year, Mike included me in the following email. “Hi Lorraine Meet Steve...

Dean Kirby's walking tour of Angel Meadow. Photo by Dave Porter

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Angel Meadow walking tour: Manchester’s forgotten slum where kids played football with skulls

Dave Porter

Think you know Manchester pretty well? It may be time to have a rethink. On hand to help adjust your frame of reference is former journalist Dean Kirby and his walking tours of Angel Meadow. Now a local historian and author, Dean’s tours poke around...

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High Society UK tour. Credit: Pamela Raith Photography

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Helen George on why High Society is the tonic we need right now

Simon Button

Call the Midwife star Helen George talks Cole Porter, corsets and following Grace Kelly as Tracy Lord in High Society, which arrives at the Lowry, Salford, for two weeks from 22 September. Starring in a splashy new production of the classic Cole...

MBE Insignia Photo courtesy of Elaine Edwards

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Bolton mum’s MBE journey: how Families and Babies grew from one woman’s struggle into a national charity

Lorraine Worsley-Carter

If someone had told Elaine Edwards back in 2004 — during the sleepless nights and uncertainty of new motherhood — that one day she would receive an MBE at Windsor Castle from HRH The Prince of Wales and see her story featured in a best-selling book...