“I’m hoping for absolute chaos!” It’s an unusual aspiration for the creative behind a brand-new musical to want from his audience reaction – especially when he adds that he wants the audience to be “shouting out and jumping up and down and...
It’s been a long time coming. Ever since Yosser Hughes strode onto the screen in 1982 and into television drama history, with his brilliant, heartbreaking catchphrase “Gizza job”, people have been urging Alan Bleasdale to bring Boys from the...
Following its sell-out debut at HOME, Manchester in 2023, actor, writer and HIV activist Nathaniel J Hall is taking his critically acclaimed second play, Toxic on tour, arriving at Lowry, Salford on April 16. He talks to Amy Corringham about the...
Floella Benjamin talks to Quays Life about the stage adaptation of her autobiographical book Coming to England as a vibrant new play with music, which arrives at Lowry, Salford on 5 February as part of a UK tour. Could you tell us about Coming to...
Tricia Paoluccio plays Dolly Parton in a new musical Here You Come Again, which she co-wrote with Bruce Vilanch and Gabriel Barre. The show has been fully authorised by the real Dolly herself, with the UK version including some additional scripting...
Following its 2020 online festive show, Humbug and 2021 Christmas show, Not So Ugly Sisters, Wrongsemble Theatre Company return to Waterside, Sale with a musical re-imagining of Snow Queen. Writer and director, Elvi Piper tells us about staging a...
Natasha Tripney talks to author, Malorie Blackman and director, Esther Richardson about The Pilot Theatre’s new stage adaptation of Noughts and Crosses coming to The Lowry. What inspired you to create the Noughts and Crosses series? Malorie...
It is 17 years since Deborah Moggach’s novel These Foolish Things introduced us to an eclectic bunch of pensioners finding a new lease of life on a journey to India. The best-selling book became a hit film under new name The Best Exotic...
The multi-award winning musical, Girl from North Country, with music and lyrics by Bob Dylan, arrives at The Lowry in September on its first UK tour. On his collaboration with Dublin playwright, Conor McPherson, Dylan said: “To be associated...
Tim Foley won the 2017 Bruntwood Prize Judges’ Award with his sci-fi comedy, Electric Rosary. Ahead of the play’s world premiere on the Royal Exchange main stage he talks to Carmel Thomason about writing, coffee and robotic nuns Writer Tim...
Lucy Tobin
Sarah Hemming
Amy Corringham
Carmel Thomason