Carmel ThomasonLightwaves, a free festival of light, returns to illuminate MediaCityUK in December. Last year’s festival saw 19 installations, including interactive art works using voice and body movements to create light changes. Indoors the nearby Lowry...
Lorraine Worsley-CarterA weekend in Barcelona usually guarantees a further future weekend will be planned – it is impossible to drink in the sights, tastes and culture of the cosmopolitan capital of Spain’s Catalonia region in just 48 hours. Freixenet Cava House...
Martin ThomassonFlo, the most junior of doctors, wearing her scrubs, already weary, stressed, overloaded with information and feeling out of her depth, excluded from case conferences by her white-coated seniors, is in need of a night’s rest, to take it all in, to...
Liz RatcliffeThe Lowry saw the transformation into the present day of a truly great female character in Cordelia Lynn’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s play Hedda Gabler. This play asks what we inherit, what we endure and how we carry our history. Holly Race...
Comedian and musical star, Jason Manford comes to Manchester’s Palace Theatre in a brand-new UK Tour of the Tony Award winning musical Curtains. We caught up with Jason to chat about the show, and how he finds life in musical theatre compared to his...
Georgina WellsLondon-based Theatre Company of Sanctuary, Phosphoros Theatre, depict autobiographical stories of migration and cultural integration in ‘Pizza Shop Heroes’, on at HOME as part of Orbit Festival. A cast of four male refugee actors (and one female...
Elysium Theatre return to the north west with the Northern premiere of their production of Athol Fugard’s Playland, set in South Africa under the Apartheid regime. Carmel Thomason talks to co-founder and actor, Danny Solomon What is the story of...
Moses KabungaQueens of Sheba is a tour de force. Four female actors play a multitude of characters that transport us to a world of fun, hope, observation and yearning. Tosin Alabi, Eshe Asante, Kokoma (koko) Kwaku and Elisha Robin thoroughly deserve that extra...
& Juliet is the cheeky, bold and exuberant story of what would happen if William Shakespeare’s Juliet had been penned not only by the bard himself, but with heaps of help and harassment from his wife, Anne Hathaway. Directed by Luke Sheppard (In...
Imagine being in a room. The room is filled with your peers. Broadly speaking you don’t know them. Instructions in an envelope explain that you’re now a Game Show. You’re either the Host, a Team Captain, the Stage Manager or a contestant. This was...