The Lowry is offering free and discounted theatre tickets for Salford families. If you have children under the age of 5, live in Salford and have never been to a theatre show at The Lowry as a family before, then you can join the ‘Our First Lowry’...
It is a rare show that can bring an audience to its feet in spontaneous applause night after night. For Blood Brothers to do this for 35 years without any major production changes makes us think creator Willy Russell must have sifted some secret...
The Beatles fanbase is still a powerful springboard from which to launch a new show. But as New York choreographer, Mark Morris says of Pepperland: “If you are going for a tribute show with a cover band playing Beatles hits that you can sing along...
Laura Wade’s comedy Home, I’m Darling is about one woman’s quest to live like the like perfect 1950’s housewife in 2019. But behind the gingham curtains, things start to unravel, and being a domestic goddess is not as easy as it seems. Quays Life...
“There’s no problem on earth can’t be solved between two people by 15 minutes of considered chat – that goes for marriage, Brexit, or the Middle East” – Quays Life meets brutally honest comedian, Reginald D Hunter, whose 20th anniversary tour Facing...
Opera North may have found the perfect cultural response for our fast-paced digital age – ballet and opera in one evening. The pairing of Stravinsky’s ballet The Rite of Spring with Puccini’s one-act opera, Gianni Schicchi at first seems an unusual...
We expected something different from Opera North’s new production of The Magic Flute after director, James Brining described it during our interview as a ‘mash-up of The Handmaid’s Tale, Black Mirror and Dr Who’. ‘The Magic Flute’ Opera...
James Brining can usually be found in the director’s chair at the Leeds Playhouse where he’s been Artistic Director for the last six years. This month, however, sees him take the plunge into the world of opera, directing The Magic Flute in a...
Actor David Tomlinson is recognised around the world as the classic English gent. His meeting with Walt Disney led to immortalising roles as Mr Banks in ‘Mary Poppins’ and Professor Emelius Browne in ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’. But for Tomlinson the...
After 17 months on the road The Band Musical, winds its way back to the north west where it premiered with all the pizzazz of showbiz royalty at Manchester Opera House. At the curtain call, Take That’s Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen, the...
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