Six the Musical makes history again as it becomes the first West End musical to resume performances since lockdown. Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’s histore-mix look at Henry VIII’s wives has become a global phenomenon since its early days as a student...
Kurt Weil’s dramatic opera, Street Scene was awarded the inaugural Tony Award for Best Original Score in 1947. It’s based on a play by Elmer Rice and charts the events that take place over two days in the slums of a New York district. Trailer The...
The night of Opera North’s performance of The Turn of the Screw at The Lowry was a dark and stormy one, fitting weather conditions for the Benjamin Britten opera based on Henry James’ ghostly short story. The set up is, to an extent, familiar: a...
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of the most unsettling ghost stories ever written. And Benjamin Britten’s operatic version as part of Opera North’s new season at The Lowry is equally chilling. When a governess agrees to take care...
Alex Wheatle MBE’s award-winning young adult novel, ‘Crongton Knights’ has been adapted for the stage by Emteaz Hussain and is on its first UK tour. He talks to Carmel Thomason about life on the fictional Crongton Estate, bringing...
Like the yew tree at its centre, A Monster Calls is a story that twists and turns, with multiple layers of fantasy and reality; its roots stretching deep into the pain of grief. The original idea came from author, Siobhan Dowd who died from breast...
When ballet superstar Carlos Acosta was planning the new show for his company Acosta Danza there was only one possible name. He called it Evolution because he believes it will show audiences just how much his company has grown since he founded it...
Ghost Stories is that rare thing that comes along every so often and rewrites the rule book. In this instance it delivers on all counts. This international, cult, success is rightly enjoying a revival 10 years after its opening night at the...
Fresh from a successful Edinburgh Fringe run – in which he earned a nomination for Best Show and made Dave’s top – 10 list for Best Joke – Ivo Graham talks to Quays Life about taking The Game of Life on the road in 2020. Ivo Graham Ivo Graham...
She’s been dubbed the ‘godmother of Scottish comedy’ and numbers Billy Connolly among her fans. Now, Janey Godley is set to spread her appeal across the nation as this quintessentially Glaswegian comic takes the Soup Pot Tour over the border and...
Carmel Thomason
Moses Kabunga
Georgina Wells
Diane Parkes
Veronica Lee
Brian Donaldson