When a Hollywood studio arrives in the quiet, rural backwater of County Kerry in the west of Ireland to film…
The wedding caterers may not have turned up, but Bhangra beats, Snapchat and sabotage are still on the menu of…
The Octagon Theatre in Bolton resounds to the sound of beautiful Brass this Autumn as we open their new season…
Composer Alan Menken is best known nowadays as the man who, together with Writer Howard Ashman, revitalised the Walt Disney…
Since its debut at the 1977 Edinburgh Festival, Bouncers has enjoyed countless revivals and tours. To a first-time viewer, though,…
The first months of 2024 have brought a plethora of fresh writing to our region and following hot on the…
Corrie legend Julie Hesmondhalgh is performing her auto-biographical one-woman show These I Love at Bolton’s Octagon Theatre for a limited…
Around the World in 80 Days is a brand-new musical adaptation of the classic novel by Jules Verne, written by…
For many years a book that sat close to my bedside was a Jeeves Omnibus by the masterful Pelham Grenville…
It isn’t often that one goes to see a production and as the final ‘curtain’ falls the audience appear to…