Claudia Shnier’s one-woman show ‘Split Ends’ is an autobiographical tragi-comedy exploring abusive relationships, coercive control, and our tendencies to cling to the things that hurt us most. Since debuting at the 2025 Brighton Fringe, the show has...
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Bank of Dave is a real life story that became a best-selling book, then a BAFTA award-winning documentary, and a global Netflix film sensation. Now the feel-good tale of people’s champion Dave Fishwick is taking to the stage as a brand new...
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Former Coronation Street favourite and comic, Les Dennis returns to Manchester as diner and pie shop owner, Old Joe alongside Carrie Hope Fletcher as his employee Jenna in the 10th anniversary production of musical Waitress. He talks to Quays Life...
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The Old Vic’s Tony Award-winning ‘A Christmas Carol’, is coming to Lowry, Salford this December. The Company in A Christmas Carol at The Old Vic (2024). Photo by Manuel Harlan Since its world premiere in 2017 the show, by The Old Vic’s Artistic...
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Just Enough Madness is Payal Ramchandani’s powerful new solo piece featuring live music and Kuchipudi (an Indian dance drama form used to convey emotions that words can’t always grasp) to offer an unflinching glimpse into miscarriage and the...
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After a critically acclaimed and sold-out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, comedian, Joz Norris is taking his thought-provoking one-man show: ‘You Wait. Time Passes’ on the road, stopping at Lowry, Salford in April. Blending...
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Ahead of Inspector Morse: House of Ghosts coming to Lowry in April, Quays Life talks to actors Tom Chambers and Tachia Newall about bringing the iconic detective duo Morse and Lewis to the stage. Taking on the iconic role of the titular crime-solver...
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Jonty Stephens and Ian Ashpitel talk to Leslie Kerwin about reliving the magic of Morecambe and Wise on stage. “Every year we did a show for the Stage Golfing Society. They did a ‘70s variety show and asked if I would do Eric Morecambe,” Jonty...
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The fight that took place in the long hot summer of 1995 wasn’t on the beaches, in the fields or in the streets, but rather on the airwaves, in record shops and across the front pages. Now arguably the biggest showdown in pop history has opened a...
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Born in Salford and having lived elsewhere, Emily Simpson is used to the city’s reputation as Manchester’s indignant shadow. “Salford is always the other city,” she says. “It has a confusing, complex identity that is often squashed...
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