What’s on in Greater Manchester
Yoko Ono, David Lynch and Idris Elba are among the artists commissioned to create new works to be premiered at Manchester International Festival 2019 in July. Over 18 extraordinary days, internationally-acclaimed artists from over 20 countries –...
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Hale Barns Carnival returns for its third year this July with a star-studded line-up and we’ve got a pair of tickets to giveaway. Saturday evening’s concert shines a spotlight on disco and soul spotlight with live performances from The Real Thing...
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Salford-born actor, Emmanuel Ighodaro is gearing up for the north west premiere of Inua Ellams’ critically acclaimed new play, Barber Shop Chronicles. Expect barbed comments, telling truths, pre-show haircuts, live DJs and a day trip around the...
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We’ve got a pair of weekend tickets to giveaway for Cheshire Fest, which returns to Cheadle Hulme this summer with a packed-programme of family entertainment, live music, food and drink. The two-day family-friendly festival is twice as big this...
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Manchester-based writer, performer and director, Jude Christian returns to the Royal Exchange Theatre, where she recently directed Parliament Square, with one-woman show, Nanjing. She talks to Quays Life about her personal response to the...
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Manchester-born teen, Yami Mirazi makes his professional stage debut in Motown The Musical. The show tells Berry Gordy’s story of how he founded Motown Records and the phenomenal artists he launched on it, and in it Yami takes on the parts of a...
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YouTube comedy favourites, Foil Arms & Hog met at University College Dublin while studying architecture, engineering and genetics. Then the financial crash led them to pursue the noble art of being downright silly. And it’s paying off...
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World-famous British ballerina and Strictly Come Dancing judge, Dame Darcy Bussell has become the first patron of acclaimed dance company, Company Chameleon. Dame Darcy was first introduced to the company last year as part of her BBC2 show Darcy...
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Can two men raised to fight ever learn to love? That’s the question asked by Gypsy Queen, an unconventional love story between two professional boxers who find each other in the most unlikely of worlds. The play, which was nominated for two...
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Nothing attracts like a dame, as popular joker, Richard J Fletcher gets ready to fill the high heels of Oldham Coliseum’s Fine Time Fontayne. After leading 11 Christmas shows at Oldham Coliseum, Fine Time Fontayne is hanging up his outrageous...
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Carmel Thomason