Interviews
Not a man to needlessly set about causing divisions in his audience, the very funny Stephen K Amos has always been an everyman comedian. Fitting then, that his brand spanking new UK tour should be called Everyman. But in his typically open and non...
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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...
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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...
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South African choreographer Dada Masilo’s Giselle brings the ballet into the 21st century. The Soweto-born choreographer and dancer has taken the classic favourite and thoroughly shaken it up so audiences can anticipate the unexpected. The original...
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Following his return to the Edinburgh Fringe after six long years, comedian Nick Helm is back on tour to remind the world of what they’ve been missing. He talks to Brian Donaldson: Always a man who likes an incendiary show title, Phoenix From The...
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Canadian stand-up Stewart Francis has embarked on an epic tour of the UK and Ireland. But this is no ordinary tour, for it is, sadly, his very last – well, as a stand-up comedian anyway. He talks to Brian Donaldson: First the sad news. Into The...
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‘Oh, that’s like me!’ Playwright, Henry Filloux-Bennett, now Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield, talks about his previous life as a chef and his inspiration and determination to bring Nigel Slater’s...
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As part of English National Ballet’s 70th anniversary season the company is bringing to Manchester’s Palace Theatre the proscenium arch version of Christopher Wheeldon’s inventive restaging of Cinderella. Quays Life meets People’s Choice Emerging...
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Comedian, Abigoliah Schamaun grew up in mid-West America before moving to New York and then London. Her intelligent, topical and thought-provoking show, Do You Know Who I Think I Am? looks at the differences between how American’s ask for things (‘I...
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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...
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Brian Donaldson
Carmel Thomason
Diane Parkes