Ahead of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts coming to Lowry in April, Quays Life talks to actors Tom Chambers and Tachia Newall about bringing the iconic detective duo Morse and Lewis to the stage. Taking on the iconic role of the titular crime-solver...
One side are ‘badger-stranglers’ from Gunchester. The other eat ‘rice with Bovril’. It’s summer 1995, and in the greatest battle between bands in 30 years, Oasis and Blur are in a race to the top for UK Number One Single. In a technicolour bombshell...
Playwright Laura Wade has performed CPR on a Somerset Maugham play many would think not worth bringing back from the dead. It’s easy to see the attraction of adapting The Constant Wife, with its garrulous talk, witty asides and...
Jonty Stephens and Ian Ashpitel talk to Leslie Kerwin about reliving the magic of Morecambe and Wise on stage. “Every year we did a show for the Stage Golfing Society. They did a ‘70s variety show and asked if I would do Eric Morecambe,” Jonty...
Benjamin Britten knew what it was like to live as an outsider, and his Suffolk roots meant he had an instinctual understanding of the rhythms and power of the sea. Both are brought to the fore in his first opera, ‘Peter Grimes’. Written just after...
Before the curtain rises on this new production of The Marriage of Figaro at Lowry, we’re told the show has already been seen by more than 3,500 first time opera goers since premiering at Leeds in January. The Company is actively making its work...
The fight that took place in the long hot summer of 1995 wasn’t on the beaches, in the fields or in the streets, but rather on the airwaves, in record shops and across the front pages. Now arguably the biggest showdown in pop history has opened a...
For people of a certain vintage (your reviewer, for one), Brookside holds a special place in their heart. So it’s apt that the new production of Two at Shakespeare North should feature two of the show’s stars, Michael Starke (Sinbad) and Sarah White...
Born in Salford and having lived elsewhere, Emily Simpson is used to the city’s reputation as Manchester’s indignant shadow. “Salford is always the other city,” she says. “It has a confusing, complex identity that is often squashed...
Eurovision winner and national treasure Cheryl Baker is celebrating her 50+ years in showbiz by invitng audiences to ask her anything they want to know in an evening of music and chat at Lowry, Salford. Alex Price meets her to find out more. “I’ve...
Carmel Thomason
Leslie James Kerwin
Dave Porter
Catherine Jones
Alex Price