Paul ThomasonThe Jules Verne classic novel, ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ is so well known that it’s only after reading the title of this new show multiple times you eventually realise something isn’t quite as expected. The addition of what appears at first...
Carmel ThomasonFew French films have truly captured the imagination of a mainstream British audience on the scale Amélie did in 2001. The critics loved it too, showering it with 9 BAFTA nominations and awards for Best Original Screenplay and Best Production Design...
Early Doors, the stage show of the BBC2 pub sitcom, returns to the Lowry for a limited run, and even the hottest day of the year can’t keep its punters away. The theatre is packed to the top, and it’s no surprise given the size of the Arena venues...
Liz RatcliffeSo, burn me at the stake but I was completely bewitched by Joan – part compelling theatre, part horrible-histories, part drag act and all hugely entertaining. The basic set comprises four mirrors and four crates forming a cross in the centre of the...
We are giving away two tickets to see Claire Gaydon’s weird and wonderful one-woman show, See Through that takes a humourous look at identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. A must for YouTubers, their followers and...
Lorraine Worsley-CarterBryony Buckle is an average, slightly nerdy girl, working in an office, executing boring administration, her mind flitting between her stomach – lunch and her IBS – and her hungering for Orson Bloom from IT. Following a heady mix of a lightning-bolt...
With comedy stars a-plenty in the likes of Caroline Quentin, Rufus Hound and Les Dennis, a theatre-goer could be forgiven for expecting an hilarious restoration comedy in John Vanbrugh’s The Provoked Wife. However, although plenty of laughs...
If you haven’t heard already, the outrageous musical comedy that is The Book of Mormon has arrived in Manchester on its first UK tour. To give you an idea of what to expect, it’s written by Trey Parker and Matt Stone (creators of South Park ) and...
It’s New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally plucked up the courage to email her parents and tell them she’s gay. But before she can hit send, her girlfriend Fiona reveals that he has always identified as male and now wants to...
Martin ThomassonThe comedic trope of the domineering father, who needs to learn that times have moved on and the world is no longer his to command, served two Lancashire writers –Bolton’s Bill Naughton and Eccles’s Harold Brighouse – well in the 20th century...