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...
The Lowry arts centre in Salford Quays has launched a new fund to help the organisation through the current Coronavirus crisis. The Futures Fund aims to ensure the venue’s financial stability and enable it to continue to support the local...
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...
Georgina WellsBirmingham Royal Ballet’s Swan Lake – conceived by Sir Peter Wright and Galina Samsova – first premiered at the Palace Theatre back in 1981, but this is not a production that looks nearly 40-years-old. The curtain rises on a striking funeral scene...
From the moment that the audience sets foot in the Quays Theatre, it’s clear that Kneehigh’s Ubu! will not be an ordinary night at the theatre. All the seats are removed to make space for a circular stage, pop up bars, and floor space for the...
A musical doesn’t get to celebrate its 30th anniversary unless it is something special.And that something is the music of Buddy Holly. In a whirlwind 18-months this young musician from Texas took the music world by storm, writing the soundtrack of a...
Moses KabungaSet in the mid 1980s, Kevin Elyot’s My Night with Reg tells interacting stories of six gay men living in London. The play was first produced a decade later and thanks to the Green Carnation Company is now enjoying a revival. The entire play is set...
There is nothing quite like watching a master at work. No matter what that work may be, when someone who loves what they are doing so completely it’s hard not to be captivated by their enthusiasm. Wes Peden is a master juggler. He holds a degree in...
Seemingly uncomplicated, Sarah, who is living at home, is used to having an arm’s length relationship with her mum, Helen. She even accepts her mum’s decision to give her bedroom over solely to the new cat. But when faced with the prospect of...
Martin Thomasson“And I tell you that the time will soon come when, if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish.” An Inspector Calls. Photo by Tristram Kenton It’s quite often overlooked that, as well as an...