For one night only, the stunning Victoria Baths in Manchester is converted into the Messina Holiday Camp, as the Time…
The traditional view of that redoubtable British institution, The Women’s Institute (or WI to its friends), is one of middle-class…
After six decades of a career encompassing pop and film stardom, political activism and television success, it was a no-brainer…
We all know that Manchester has a reputation for enjoying a drop of rain and we've also been known to…
North Wales on an Easter Bank Holiday Monday conjures images of fish & chips by the sea, sandcastles on the…
Reviewing 'Les Misérables' is in some ways a useless task. The show is entering its thirty seventh (!) year in…
Musical theatre in Britain is currently heavily influenced by Disney, with three shows (The Lion King, Mary Poppins and Frozen)…
The most frequent responses to my reviewing this new adaptation of 'Kes' at the newly refurbished Octagon Theatre in Bolton…
Even though he resembled everyone's idea of a Victorian gentleman, Ibsen's radical 1879 study of a woman's place in a…
A successful west end musical can have the most unlikely source material. Who would have thought that the story of…