In the same month that Something Rotten! delights audiences with its joyous Shakespearean irreverence at the Opera House, Manchester welcomes…
Set in 2000 and 2008, both ends of the Bush Presidency, Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize winning play Sweat depicts life…
In 1958, a 19-year-old Salford girl called Shelagh Delaney went to watch 'Variation on a Theme' by Terence Rattigan at…
Back in 2019, in those halcyon pre pandemic days, Phoebe Eclair-Powell won the biannual Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting and with…
Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 is undoubtedly one of the most famous pieces of music in cinematic history, the dark…
In over 40 years of watching and reviewing theatre, I've seen a lot of Shakespeare, some very good, some indifferent…
With three competing press nights in Manchester theatreland this evening, I chose the opportunity to visit the venerable old Royal…
There is an extremely fine line between success and failure when producing a farce. When done badly, it can quickly…
Director Roy Alexander Weise brings his bold and original vision of Tennessee Williams' 1955 Pulitzer Prize winning play to the…
A romantic comedy concerned with meeting and falling in love in a modern city, may conjure up images of Renee…