âA bunch of clowns trying to do the impossible,â is how Dylan Emery describes Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. Itâs an insanely ambitious show he co-founded with Adam Megiddo in 2008, and soon became a must-see staple of the Edinburgh Fringe...
The Lowry Galleries are hosting a special display giving a peak behind the scenes of the new cinema biopic celebrating Lowryâs life. Mrs Lowry & Son stars Timothy Spall as artist LS Lowry and Vanessa Redgrave as his mother Elizabeth, with whom...
Nathaniel Hall contracted HIV when he lost his virginity aged 16. Fifteen years on heâs written a play, âFirst Timeâ about his experience. How did you find out you were HIV positive? I got ill while on holiday with my parents. I was 16-years-old and...
This summer Weâre Going on a Bear Hunt Live, based on the much-loved picture book by Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury, returns to the Lowry direct from Londonâs West End. We sat down with the cast â Tim Hibberd, Benjamin Hills, Hannah Donelon, and...
Is there anyone who hasnât wished for a different ending to Romeo and Juliet? Well, what if when Juliet wakes she decides there can be life after Romeo, and flees to Paris with Nurse on a whirlwind trip of self-discovery? Thatâs the premise of new...
Claire Gaydonâs See Through was voted by Time Out as one of the top 10 weirdest shows at Edinburgh Fringe. The one-woman show examines identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. Quays Life meets Claire ahead of her performance...
We are giving away two tickets to see Claire Gaydonâs weird and wonderful one-woman show, See Through that takes a humourous look at identity, validation and the cost of sharing in the digital age. A must for YouTubers, their followers and...
Manchester Jewish Museum in Cheetham Hill is housed in what was the cityâs oldest synagogue, a Grade II listed building built by Jewish textile merchants in 1874. To return the architecture to its original splendour the museum is closed for 18...
Yara Boustany is a talented young artist from Beirut whose performance crosses boundaries of dance, physical theatre, circus and visual arts. She arrives at The Lowry with ÄvolvĆ as part of the Shubbak festival, which celebrates Arab culture by...
Fifty years after the Apollo 11 moon landing, space travel is still the final frontier technology hasnât mastered. While the globe now feels a much smaller place, space is still the âouterâ world the vast majority of us will never get to visit. But...
Carmel Thomason