Carmel ThomasonDirector, Philip Franks talks about bringing the first revival of Alan Bennett’s 2009 play, Habit of Art to the stage. How did you get involved with this project? Through Alistair Whatley and Tom Hackney who are Original Theatre. I was in a...
Class conflict, sexual identity and political outcasts collide in Jean Genet’s explosive play, The Maids on stage at Home in November. Quays Life caught-up with lead actor, Jake Fairbrother to find out what audiences can expect from this radical...
Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize winning play, Death of a Salesman is a great play because, like Shakespeare, it captured something universal in the human condition. When staged 70 years later it still feels piercingly relevant, but sadly this is...
Life is a Dream is a departure from the Rambert’s usual touring programme of three pieces, often including at the Lowry a premiered work. This season the contemporary dance company brings its first full-length narrative dance work in almost 40 years...
Unimited Theatre’s Artistic Director, Jon Spooner talks to us about his eye-opening new show Future Bodies premiering at Home as part of the Manchester Science Festival, which asks, as we increasingly fuse our brains with technology, at what point...
In a social media driven world people are increasingly divided into more and more unpleasant categories of evil – Snowflake, Nazi, Remoaner, Trot, Libtard, Brextremist, Feminazi, Piers Morgan… But is life really that bad? Marcus Brigstocke is...
How did Hollywood’s Alec Baldwin find himself in the same casting bracket as Coronation Street’s Curly Watts? It’s a question those who’ve seen the 2012 movie Rock of Ages might well ask on seeing the cast list for the stage musical’s UK tour. It’s...
A Comedy About A Bank Robbery arrives at The Lowry on the second stop of 24, in the show’s first UK tour that runs til June 2019. The packed auditorium gives some indication of the anticipation for this latest stage show from Mischief Theatre – the...
In Island Town we meet three teenage friends: Kate, Sam and Pete, who like nothing better than to hang out in the park getting off their faces on cheap cider. They live in a nameless town, enclosed by a ring-road surrounded by fields. The idea is...
Award-winning pop-up theatre, Roundabout returns to Salford for a fourth year, this time making its home in Ordsall Park. Over four days the travelling venue will showcase three plays from Paines Plough, as well as hosting comedy from Barbara Nice...