Carmel ThomasonThe bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst in St Peter’s Square tells you something of the affection with which Mancunians hold the political activist who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win the right to vote. Perhaps...
First Soloist Daniel McCormick is performing his debut of Romeo during English National Ballet’s Manchester run of ‘Romeo and Juliet’ at the Palace Theatre. He talks to Carmel Thomason about preparing for the role, the...
Could theatre get any more welcoming than inviting its audience on stage and handing out free beer? No wonder The Choir of Man has been winning fans in venues across the globe. The original idea from creator, producer and director Nic Doodson was...
“How easily the worlds we build together can be sustained, or quietly undone,” says director Anthony Almeida in the programme notes to his new production of Othello. This new co-production between HOME, Northern Stage, the Citizens Theatre, and in...
When a show has been around for 20 years there are two things we know already: one, it’s an audience pleaser and two, it has a string of fans who’ve already seen it multiple times and still come back for more. I fall into that bracket. Jersey Boys...
Six friends, one night in 1970s New York, and a soundtrack built from James Brown, Etta James and Sam Cooke — that’s the world at the centre of ‘The Brown Suite’, a full-length dance-theatre show from choreographic duo BlacBrik...
Le Navet Bete is back with another larger-than-life comedy, this time taking on the wildly dysfunctional world of Greek mythology. When the stability of Olympus is threatened by the marriage of Zeus’ daughter Hebe to a mere mortal, the King of the...
For the first time, real-life mother and daughter Christine and Lois Mackie will share the stage in Rona Munro’s intense psychological prison drama ‘IRON’. Touring the North West with Best Girl Productions, the play explores the...
Jason Manford has become the golden ticket of the Opera House in recent years as the venue’s regular pantomime lead. And his latest vehicle ‘Something Rotten’ looks set to be as popular, if not more so, than Manchester’s festive favourite. There is...
It is doubtful that Matthew Bourne’s ‘The Car Man’ could have arrived at Lowry on a better week. For while you might get some respite from the current heat wave in the theatre’s air-conditioned auditorium, things are about to get much hotter on...