Carmel ThomasonAdults become little and children become great in the interactive imaginary world of Curiouser, a new children’s dance show for three to six-year-olds at The Lowry. The adventure is a brand-new show from award-winning dance and digital artists...
Manchester-based writer, performer and director, Jude Christian returns to the Royal Exchange Theatre, where she recently directed Parliament Square, with one-woman show, Nanjing. She talks to Quays Life about her personal response to the...
Manchester-born teen, Yami Mirazi makes his professional stage debut in Motown The Musical. The show tells Berry Gordy’s story of how he founded Motown Records and the phenomenal artists he launched on it, and in it Yami takes on the parts of a...
The music of Tamla Motown needs no introduction. The American record label nurtured the careers of megastars like Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, The Temptations, The Four Tops, and Michael Jackson and...
YouTube comedy favourites, Foil Arms & Hog met at University College Dublin while studying architecture, engineering and genetics. Then the financial crash led them to pursue the noble art of being downright silly. And it’s paying off...
James Brining can usually be found in the director’s chair at the Leeds Playhouse where he’s been Artistic Director for the last six years. This month, however, sees him take the plunge into the world of opera, directing The Magic Flute in a...
World-famous British ballerina and Strictly Come Dancing judge, Dame Darcy Bussell has become the first patron of acclaimed dance company, Company Chameleon. Dame Darcy was first introduced to the company last year as part of her BBC2 show Darcy...
A new show celebrating the life and musical talent of legendary American singer songwriter Paul Simon heads to Bolton in April and we have a pair of tickets to giveaway to one lucky reader. In this poignant and critically acclaimed show, Liverpool...
After a sell-out run at 2018’s Edinburgh Fringe, Kieran Hodgson is taking his latest show ’75 on the road, which bravely shines a humorous light on the trickiest question of our time: Europe? Ahead of his gig at The Lowry he talks to Carmel Thomason...
Some lesser known works of famous writers can be delight when dusted-off and given fresh life on stage. And on the face of it, this revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1984 comedy, Rough Crossing has a lot to commend it. As a dramatic writer it seems there is...