Carmel ThomasonSounds of Nature, a new programme of music at Stoller Hall, is helping to fund a ring of forests around the M60 motorway.The year-long programme celebrates the natural world through music, exploring how music can help audiences connect with the...
Alexandria SlaterBritish Gothic horror, Shepherd is as eerie and unsettling as the desolate island where the film takes place. Set on a remote island, with only the protagonist’s dog and thoughts to keep him company, Russell Owen’s horror is an unsettling...
Niamh MelodyNiamh Melody goes to the launch of Moxy, Manchester’s newest hotel, to find out more about this brand-new Marriott concept from KE Hotels Bright pink and purple lights flood the main entrance to Moxy Manchester City, Manchester’s...
Georgina WellsBlood Brothers continues to live up to its reputation as the “standing ovation musical,” finds Georgina Wells Blood Brothers tours the UK once again – stopping at the Palace Theatre for 12 nights – it is easy to see why Willy Russell’s...
The world needs more people like Nigel Havers. After a long and successful career on stage and screen the actor is still taking risks, setting up a theatre company in the middle of a pandemic and launching it with a play and a role familiar to many...
Gate-crashing a tea break during rehearsals to chat to Patricia Hodge and Nigel Havers, Vicky Edwards finds out more about a brand new touring production of one of Noel Coward’s most effervescent and enduring comedies… Reviews for the original...
Three actresses, three children’s rooms, 10 days and 2,458 sexual predators. Documentary film, Caught In The Net approaches the abuse of children on the internet with an intricately calculated hoax. The result is terrifying and intense to watch, but...
Suzan Holder’s debut novel ‘Shake it up, Beverley’ is a modern love story – a romantic comedy with a musical twist. She talks to Quays Life about her inspiration for the book that draws on her years of experience as a...
Simon A. MorrisonWe take our seats for the second act of The Hound of the Baskervilles (hereafter … Hound) and Jake Ferretti, playing Holmes (alongside a mélange of other characters) berates the audience for a Tweet he claims to have seen during the interval, from...
Comedy is all about timing and it feels like ‘The Play What I Wrote’ has chosen the perfect moment to land at The Lowry. Not only are we waving goodbye to January – statistically the most depressing month – but for the first time it...