Fresh from a totally sold-out, critically acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, Suzi Ruffell hits the road with another show that proves she’s a stand-up rapidly becoming a household name. With Dance Like Everyone’s Watching, this self-titled...
Love to sing? Sing ON is a chance to learn from the best, at an afternoon workshop with the critically-acclaimed Chorus of Opera North at The Lowry. The event is suitable for adult singers of all abilities, with no requirement to read music or to...
Writer and director, Greg Mosse talks about his new show Lady of Jazz coming to Hope Mill Theatre, Manchester. What is Lady of Jazz about? Lady of Jazz is about a poor girl with mixed-race parentage who, in the 1920s in New Orleans, grows up to be a...
The Rambert brings a triple bill to the Lowry, a mix of two well established favourites and one new piece of work. PreSentient by McGregor, Choreographer – Wayne McGregor, Music – Steve Reich, Lighting – Lucy Carter, Design –...
Dorian is a modern re-telling of the Oscar Wilde’s only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. The play’s opening scene sets the tone. We’re invited to peer in as Dorian is seen recording and posting a video message for an on-line dating...
It’s Halloween week so what could be better than to be the onlookers on Kill the Beast’s newest innovation, their unapologetically comic horror, Director’s Cut. It’s the 1970’s and work is underway on, thankfully, the final scene of a satanic scary...
Recalling his first meeting with Sarah Frankcom, almost 20 years ago, playwright Simon Stephens reveals he felt the then literary manager for the Royal Exchange was setting him a challenge, daring him almost, to fall in love with the exposing, in...
‘I’ve never known anyone in my life who was so easily wounded’, wrote novelist Doris Lessing about Playwright and occasional actor John Osborne. Like a 1950’s version of Morrissey, Osborne was bitter, resentful and had a tendency to nurse grudges...
After waking up to the first day of frost the Miami heat of ‘On Your Feet’ is welcomed like a burst of sunshine. The musical, on its first UK tour, arrives at Manchester’s Palace Theatre with a top-notch, West End cast and terrific 7-piece band, led...
Abigoliah Schauman high kicks the air and jokes she should have brought her tap shoes. For a comic transitioning from comedy clubs to theatre spaces, the Lowry Studio is a big stage. Abigoliah is quick to claim it: ‘I’m so American I don’t need a...
Brian Donaldson
Carmel Thomason
Moses Kabunga
Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Steve Timms