Home, I’m Darling arrives at the Lowry fresh from its Best New Comedy win at this year’s Olivier Awards. Not that it needs any formal accolades to put bums on seats. Laura Wade’s new play was managing to do that nicely already, with sell-out runs at...
Oldham born actor, Norah Lopez Holden is playing Jill, in Ned Bennett’s bold new production of Peter Shaffer’s critically-acclaimed classic, psychological thriller ‘Equus’. She talks to Quays Life about mental health, being a horse and creating the...
It’s pantomime season again. Oh no it isn’t! Oh, yes, it is! Easter pantomimes are becoming increasingly popular and this bank holiday weekend Beauty and the Beast is entertaining children and adults alike at Stockport Plaza. Beauty and the Beast...
Robin Herford’s production of The Woman in Black has been terrifying audiences in London’s West End for 30 years. But while its success has led to high demand as a theatre director, its left Robin little opportunity to return to his first love...
‘Above all what matters is not to lose the joy of living in the fear of dying,’ said Maggie Keswick Jencks, on hearing that her breast cancer had returned in May 1993. Maggie went on to live with advanced cancer for two years and during that time...
The House on Cold Hill is a new modern-day supernatural thriller from author Peter James which promises to send shivers down your spine and make you think twice about returning home to a dark, empty house after the show. The ghostly story follows...
It’s 30 years since Patrick Swayze and Demi Moore ensured we’d never view a potter’s wheel the same again in Oscar-winning film, Ghost. As Ghost the Musical returns to the Palace Theatre, Manchester, we talk to stars: Niall Sheehy...
Only Fools and Horses’ actor, Gwyneth Strong talks to Quays Life about going on the road as Mrs Boyle in the latest UK tour of Agatha Christie’s legendary whodunnit, The Mousetrap. How do you feel to be performing in the new UK tour of The Mousetrap...
Agatha Christie’s record-breaking murder mystery ‘The Mousetrap’ has delighted theatregoers for 67 years and counting. As this timeless thriller takes to the road again Agatha Christie’s grandson, Mathew Prichard looks back on the Queen of Crime and...
West Side Story, loosely based on Romeo and Juliet, has been among the greatest musicals for more than 60 years. But while Shakespeare’s original is constantly re-imagined, in all this time, no-one has tinkered with Jerome Robbins’ choreography –...
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