Kara Lily Hayworth talks to Quays Life about playing a British entertainment icon in Cilla The Musical. What can you tell us about Cilla The Musical? In essence, it’s a beautiful love story. It follows Cilla Black’s rise to fame, but underneath it’s...
Critically-acclaimed Manchester dance company, Company Chameleon is giving home audiences a chance to view its new work, Amaranthine for free, in a trio of pop-up street performances in September. The company are known for combining a rich mix of...
Listeners to Phil Trow’s show on BBC Radio Manchester will know that outside radio, the Drivetime presenter has two main passions: Blackpool FC and his dogs. He talks to Quays Life about baking dog biscuits, diva doggy strops, and how his miniature...
X-Factor winner 2016, Matt Terry is king of the jungle. This isn’t the Australian celebrity kind you might expect. Rather fame has catapulted the singer, not to further reality TV stardom but into the leading role of a new family stage show...
Ever since the colourful promotional posters went up in The Lowry, my 6-year-old nephew has been itching to see What the Ladybird Heard live. We’ve been months in the waiting – The Lowry is the final stop on a tour running since January. However...
This August bank holiday will see a huge red and white Big Top erected on The Lowry Plaza as French contemporary circus company Circa Tsuica take residence at the Quays. Circa Tsuica is part of the Cheptel Aleȉkoum collective, around 20 circus...
School’s out for summer. The school should be empty. A desolate prison. No more rules. But wait, what’s that on the CCTV? A person, a spirit, a mystical creation? Something strange is happening at Abraham Moss School. Rules are broken, souls are...
TV presenter and naturalist Chris Packham is a passionate advocate of the benefits of getting out and about in the great outdoors. Living with autism he understands sometimes there can be barriers to accessibility that aren’t always obvious...
The Goose who thinks he’s a Swan The large brown Canadian Geese and graceful white swans have become a familiar sight on the Quays. But have you noticed a single white domestic goose among them? We don’t know how he arrived here...
Manchester-born, DJ Paulette has curated the latest of the Lowry’s Edit series of gallery projects, with a new art installation titled, Homebird. The name was chosen because although her music has taken her around the world, Manchester has a pull...
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