Carmel ThomasonTheatre returns to Salford Quays in May with an immersive outdoor production, ‘C-o-n-t-a-c-t’. The show premiered in Paris under social distancing conditions last summer and comes to Salford Quays and Central Manchester for a 6-week run in a...
Following a sell-out debut tour in 2019, Britain’s Got Talent winner, Lee Ridley – aka Lost Voice Guy – has a brand new show for 2021, Cerebral LOL-sy. He talks to Carmel Thomason about life during Covid and looking forward to...
Georgina WellsAfter seven months with no live theatre, it felt like a miracle to be part of the audience that gathered outside The Lowry on a dark October evening to watch Dr Blood’s Old Travelling Show. Imitating the Dog’s new touring work – created with the...
Lorraine Worsley-CarterIt’s Figaro’s wedding day – or is it? Poor, honest to the core, Figaro, is as a happy man, as any prospective groom would expect to be on his wedding day. That is, until he realises his master, Count Almaviva, to whom he is deeply loyal, holds...
Songs of Arrival is a performance of songs based on the stories of Jewish refugees arriving in Cheetham from Manchester Jewish Museum’s oral history collection as well as contemporary stories of migration to Manchester. Carmel Thomason talks to...
It’s a little-known fact that Quality Street chocolates – that staple of Christmas in the UK – is named after J.M. Barrie’s play from 1901 (before he wrote Peter Pan). A comical tale of love, identity and misunderstanding set during the Regency...
Comedian Paul McCaffrey self-depreciatingly describes himself as ‘an absolute lemon’. He is also very funny. He talks to Bruce Dessau about his new show, ‘Lemon’ in which he struggles to get to grips with being spied on by the Chinese through his...
Moses KabungaSoulPay is a Manchester-based collective of creatives from Nigerian and Ghanaian British descent, who seek to provide, through theatre and the arts, an alternative view of what it’s like growing up African in the UK. The evening’s performance is set...
Comedian Sam Avery aka The Learner Parent and dad of twins talks to Quays Life about his new show Toddlergeddon. Tell us a bit about your new show, Toddlergeddon. What’s it about and how did you go about writing it?Sam: “It’s 90 mins of...
We are giving away a pair of tickets to see Berlin’s Max Raabe & Palast Orchester at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on Friday 6 March 2020. In just three weeks, million selling crooner Max Raabe and the hugely talented Palast Orchester...