Carmel ThomasonAny kid of the 1980s will have a story to tell about their response to ‘The Karate Kid’. It was the ultimate underdog hero movie capturing the same spirit Stallone brought to adults with Rocky. We remember the music too. Joe Esposito’s uplifting...
The story of how white van man, Dave Fishwick took on the banking establishment to become the people’s champion has become the stuff of legend. The Burnley businessman’s quest to open the first high street bank in 150 years has already been told as...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Benjamin Britten knew what it was like to live as an outsider, and his Suffolk roots meant he had an instinctual understanding of the rhythms and power of the sea. Both are brought to the fore in his first opera, ‘Peter Grimes’. Written just after...
Before the curtain rises on this new production of The Marriage of Figaro at Lowry, we’re told the show has already been seen by more than 3,500 first time opera goers since premiering at Leeds in January. The Company is actively making its work...
The 2022 premiere of Carlos Acosta’s production of Don Quixote for Birmingham Royal Ballet, although acclaimed for its authentic reimagining, was impacted negatively by the covid times in which it opened. Four years on, and this revival is firing on...
There is much to admire in this semi-staged version of Mozart’s Cosi Fan Tutte by English National Opera at Manchester’s Bridgewater Hall. Indeed, if we didn’t know the same performers had recently opened a much more lavish, circus-themed staging at...