Carmel ThomasonLipService duo, Maggie Fox and Sue Ryding, are masters of the literary spoof. Since 1985 the Chorlton-based comics have produced no fewer than 20 stage shows, turning their unique surreal gaze on genres ranging from James Bond to Norwegian crime...
Pride in Trafford is a new five-day event featuring music, comedy, cabaret, film and community events celebrating and exploring LGBTQ+ culture and identity across the region. We caught up with Waterside Arts Centre manager, Darren Adams to find out...
BBC Young Dancer 2019 finalist, Matthew Rawcliffe is encouraging young people to follow in his footsteps by joining opening auditions for The Lowry Centre for Advanced Training in Dance (The Lowry CAT) where his career started. The Lowry CAT is the...
Activist and performer, Lilith Cristina and producer Lowri Evans, talk about When it Breaks it Burns, the true story of high school protests in Brazil. When it Breaks it Burns tells the extraordinary true story of the high school occupations of 2015...
If ever there was a musical fit for royalty, the Lincoln Center Theater’s production of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s ‘The King and I’ is it. To give you an idea of the lavishness of this production, the palace and its finery sparkles with almost 250...
Star of ITV’s The Bay, Ciarán Griffiths is reprising his role as gay man, Bobby on the Canal Street underground scene, in Katherine Smith’s award-winning play, All I See Is You. The play, written as a response to the 50th anniversary of the partial...
A dream-like luminarium is heading to MediaCityUK as part of a dazzling four-day festival culminating in a breath-taking high-wire performance across the Quays. ARBORIA Photo Alan Parkinson Architects of Air’s luminariums are inhabited sculptures...
In Woven, choreographer and dancer, Subhash Viman Gorania weaves an eclectic mix of dance styles in four contrasting pieces, playfully fusing Western and Eastern cultures, and traditional and modern moves. Morph Dance Company: Woven In the first...
Home, I’m Darling arrives at the Lowry fresh from its Best New Comedy win at this year’s Olivier Awards. Not that it needs any formal accolades to put bums on seats. Laura Wade’s new play was managing to do that nicely already, with sell-out runs at...
Oldham born actor, Norah Lopez Holden is playing Jill, in Ned Bennett’s bold new production of Peter Shaffer’s critically-acclaimed classic, psychological thriller ‘Equus’. She talks to Quays Life about mental health, being a horse and creating the...