Carmel ThomasonThe struggle of the Luddites against mechanisation fuelling the Industrial Revolution is often used to teach us, change is inevitable and resistance to it is futile. Both statements have their truths. But is there another truth we still often...
Early Doors, the stage show of the BBC2 pub sitcom, returns to the Lowry for a limited run, and even the hottest day of the year can’t keep its punters away. The theatre is packed to the top, and it’s no surprise given the size of the Arena venues...
‘A bunch of clowns trying to do the impossible,’ is how Dylan Emery describes Showstopper! The Improvised Musical. It’s 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 Lowry’s 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 he’s written a play, ‘First Time’ 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 We’re 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 London’s West End. We sat down with the cast – Tim Hibberd, Benjamin Hills, Hannah Donelon, and...
Is there anyone who hasn’t 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? That’s the premise of new...
Claire Gaydon’s 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 Gaydon’s 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 city’s 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...