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...
X-Factor winner 2016, Matt Terry is king of the jungle. This isn’t the Australian celebrity kind you might expect. Rather fame has catapulted the singer, not to further reality TV stardom but into the leading role of a new family stage show...
Ever since the colourful promotional posters went up in The Lowry, my 6-year-old nephew has been itching to see What the Ladybird Heard live. We’ve been months in the waiting – The Lowry is the final stop on a tour running since January. However...
School’s out for summer. The school should be empty. A desolate prison. No more rules. But wait, what’s that on the CCTV? A person, a spirit, a mystical creation? Something strange is happening at Abraham Moss School. Rules are broken, souls are...
Oliva Tweest was ground-breaking when it debuted as the UKs first Afrobeats musical in 2013. Since then the African-born, global genre has grown in popularity to become increasingly more known on the mainstream, being hailed by BBC Radio as the...
Growing up in a north east mining village I know all too well the part miners’ wives played in supporting the miner’s strike of 1984-85. Their protests were often ones of survival; sitting for hours on the cold city streets, raising awareness of the...
It’s pink, fluffy and even has two puppies – Legally Blonde is as sweet and light as candy-floss, and OMG, you guys, this is the last week of the tour! It’s 11 years since we first met Elle Wood, the pink princess turned legal eagle, in the 2007...
When we meet Noel Lynch he looks like your average 50-something man, but like novelist, Maeve Binchy who created him, he’s a born storyteller. And as he takes us back 25 years, we are about to find out, all is not always as it seems. Noel rewinds to...
Carmel Thomason