Lightwaves 2019 is lighting up Salford Quays and if you have been eagerly awaiting its return or you are visiting this free interactive light festival for the first time, this year’s public art will not disappoint. Public spaces around Salford Quays...
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Not a man to needlessly set about causing divisions in his audience, the very funny Stephen K Amos has always been an everyman comedian. Fitting then, that his brand spanking new UK tour should be called Everyman. But in his typically open and non...
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year – when Francis House’s Festival of Trees arrives at The Lowry Outlet Mall, making everyone’s visit to the Quays a little bit brighter. And it is all down to Mary and Alan Gillatt, who’ve been running the pop...
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Love to sing? Sing ON is a chance to learn from the best, at an afternoon workshop with the critically-acclaimed Chorus of Opera North at The Lowry. The event is suitable for adult singers of all abilities, with no requirement to read music or to...
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This Halloween HOME and Film4 are teaming up again for the fourth annual FilmFear season – bringing six days of horror, extreme cinema, cult favourites and special guests to Manchester. The Lighthouse A special preview of The Lighthouse, director...
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Canadian stand-up Stewart Francis has embarked on an epic tour of the UK and Ireland. But this is no ordinary tour, for it is, sadly, his very last – well, as a stand-up comedian anyway. He talks to Brian Donaldson: First the sad news. Into The...
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‘Oh, that’s like me!’ Playwright, Henry Filloux-Bennett, now Chief Executive and Artistic Director of Lawrence Batley Theatre in Huddersfield, talks about his previous life as a chef and his inspiration and determination to bring Nigel Slater’s...
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Comedian, Abigoliah Schamaun grew up in mid-West America before moving to New York and then London. Her intelligent, topical and thought-provoking show, Do You Know Who I Think I Am? looks at the differences between how American’s ask for things (‘I...
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Have you got a Big Imagination? That’s the question Big Imaginations, the North of England’s festival of theatre for families, is asking children this autumn. The festival sees a fantastic range of family-friendly theatre, storytelling, music and...
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Lightwaves, a free festival of light, returns to illuminate MediaCityUK in December. Last year’s festival saw 19 installations, including interactive art works using voice and body movements to create light changes. Indoors the nearby Lowry...
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Lorraine Worsley-Carter
Brian Donaldson
Carmel Thomason