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...
Fifty years on, ‘The Rocky Horror Show’ is still the most riotous party in town. At its centre struts Frank-N-Furter, an outrageous role of glam-rock legend. Quays Life caught up with Tottenham’s Stephen Webb, the latest actor to...
Matthew Bourne’s award-winning dance thriller ‘The Car Man’ returns to Lowry, Salford as part of a new 2026 UK tour. Loosely based on Bizet’s ever-popular opera, ‘The Car Man’ has one of the most thrilling and instantly...
‘Sugar, butter, flour’ – these three comforting words become almost a mantra meditation in this story about the life of expert pie maker, Jenna. But don’t let Jenna’s sweet singing, about her mum’s homemade deep-dish pie, fool you into thinking this...
Daniel Casey has been promoted. After playing DS Gavin Troy on Midsomer Murders for a six-year stint, he’s now back in the UK’s most dangerous county (fictionally speaking, at least) as DCI Tom Barnaby in the stage play The Killings at...
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