Carmel ThomasonThe Lowry arts centre in Salford Quays has launched a new fund to help the organisation through the current Coronavirus crisis. The Futures Fund aims to ensure the venue’s financial stability and enable it to continue to support the local...
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The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is one of the most unsettling ghost stories ever written. And Benjamin Britten’s operatic version as part of Opera North’s new season at The Lowry is equally chilling. When a governess agrees to take care...
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Moses KabungaAre you brave enough to endure the shock and tension of spooky stage hit, Ghost Stories? Moses Kabunga gets prepared by taking a spooky walk around the Quays. Picture a windswept evening on Salford Quays. This however isn’t any normal evening. On...
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Brian DonaldsonShe’s been dubbed the ‘godmother of Scottish comedy’ and numbers Billy Connolly among her fans. Now, Janey Godley is set to spread her appeal across the nation as this quintessentially Glaswegian comic takes the Soup Pot Tour over the border and...
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Lorraine Worsley-CarterLightwaves 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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Dorian is a modern re-telling of the Oscar Wilde’s only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’. The play’s opening scene sets the tone. We’re invited to peer in as Dorian is seen recording and posting a video message for an on-line dating...
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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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