As the first real frost of winter sets in, it feels like even the weather has aligned to create the perfect setting for the enchanting return of Edward Scissorhands. In this dance version, Matthew Bourne’s New Adventure’s company takes the 1990 Tim...
Seeta Patel is surely the UK’s prime proponent of Bharatanatyam, the classical south Asian dance form. Whilst it is still the case that this form is less well known in this country than Kathak, that is in the process of changing, due in large part...
Following its 2020 online festive show, Humbug and 2021 Christmas show, Not So Ugly Sisters, Wrongsemble Theatre Company return to Waterside, Sale with a musical re-imagining of Snow Queen. Writer and director, Elvi Piper tells us about staging a...
La rondine (The swallow) brings Opera North’s autumn tour to a glamourous close at The Lowry. It is the third production from the company performed at Salford this week as part of its Green Season. This means all aspects of the shows have been...
One reviewer described this show as ‘brilliantly bonkers.’ I shall strive to be similarly generous, but I give you fair warning: I expect to fall some way short. To begin at the beginning… We are gathered to witness the birth of Diktat, a strongman...
Prism is a new three-day, winter festival set to illuminate Sale Town Centre. The festival includes a light trail throughout the town and combined arts performances including Surge 360, an indoor immersive dance piece where artist Tom Dale brings to...
In case you’re so pressure-cooker busy you don’t have time to read the rest of this review (cue scream-face emoji), I’ll come straight to the point: This Opera North production of Verdi’s “Falstaff” is simply splendid. Shakespeare’s Sir John...
If you happened to be listening to a radio in the mid-to late-1980s there was no escaping the sounds of Stock Aitken Waterman. You knew instantly when one of their records came on. The trio and their Hit Factory were famous for their driving beats...
Kalabanté Productions, in collaboration with The Welcome and Factory Assembly, officially opened Manchester’s new Aviva Studios with a spectacular performance that transcends borders and cultures. This multi-sensory extravaganza, titled...
In 2019, when actor, writer and director Fraser Ayres suggested to Scott Graham, the artistic director of Frantic Assembly – one of the most iconic and collaborative British theatre companies of the last 30 years – that he might like to...