Thursday, March 5, 2020
As if events in the real world didn’t feel apocalyptic enough at the moment, this immersive theatre experience from the Manchester-based Box
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Those with a passing knowledge of the work of poet Murray Lachlan Young – whose best-known odes have such non-family-friendly titles as
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Before Peter Pan flew into the lives of the Darling children and indelibly cemented himself into the British consciousness, this spry Regency-set
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Painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti called Emily Brontë’s gothic masterpiece Wuthering Heights “a fiend of a book”. This full-throttled, unfettered and
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“I like change,” says Alexandra Faye Braithwaite. In a career spanning seven years as a sound designer and composer, the 29-year-old Lancastrian
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Kevin Elyot’s comedy about a close-knit group of gay male friends living their lives in the shadow of the Aids crisis in
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This musical adaptation of Dr Seuss’ festive classic wasn’t exactly greeted with Christmas cheer when it transferred to Broadway in 2006. But
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Qdos is known for pulling out all the stops with its pantos. Big names, sumptuous sets and spectacular stage effects have almost
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Lee Gower-Drinkwater has built a 22-year career in stage management, with half that time spent at Manchester’s Royal Exchange. He speaks to
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There aren’t many better roles in musical theatre than Gypsy’s indomitable Mama Rose. Any production of Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne and Stephen
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It’s ambitious enough to mount a new musical, let alone to revisit some of English literature’s best-loved characters and effectively pick up
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The Coliseum’s Christmas show traditionally heralds the start of panto season. But that’s where the traditions end. Because while this production has
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Curtains was the last show John Kander and Fred Ebb worked on together before Ebb’s death in 2007. The most notable thing
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It’s a bold move to revive a musical not seen on these shores for 50 years. But Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre has
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The durability of male friendship is explored to persuasive effect in this modest two-hander from Manchester-based new writing company Box of Tricks.
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Three years on from the Donmar’s all-female Shakespeare trilogy and five years after Maxine Peake became the latest in a long line
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It really should be 9 to 5’s moment. In the almost 40 years since the blockbuster comedy about three secretaries turning the
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It’s been almost three decades since The Jerry Springer Show first graced – or rather, disgraced – our TV screens and 16
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What stands out about this arresting retelling of a turbulent period in Manchester’s industrial history is the restraint in its staging. The
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This is the second time that Belgian site-specific specialist Studio ORKA has been invited to contribute to the Manchester International Festival. If
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There’s a point during Tao of Glass, Phelim McDermott’s heartfelt collaboration with Philip Glass, when the Improbable co-founder explains the Japanese art
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Rodgers and Hammerstein’s copper-bottomed audience pleaser, The King and I, stands as one of the best-loved but most problematic musicals of the
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First seen at London’s Arcola Theatre in 2014, Barney Norris’ play about a couple facing up to the fact that they can no
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Arranging West Side Story for Manchester Royal Exchange has been an emotional experience for Jason Carr, who learned piano playing Leonard Bernstein’s
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Three stories shedding light on various aspects of the British-Chinese experience are cleverly interwoven in this production that combines dining with verbatim
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On first impressions, this lesser-known Arthur Miller play from 1993 bears all the hallmarks of the dramatist’s greatest works. Centring on two
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He started out creating fireballs, now he’s designed a moving ice-cream van for Mother Courage. Royal Exchange props expert Andy Bubble tells
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This year’s Opera House pantomime is every bit as sumptuous looking as you’d expect a Qdos production to be. But, as with
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In some ways using the Royal Shakespeare Company’s oft-revived 1987 version of The Wizard of Oz, which matches the MGM classic virtually
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The popularity of L Frank Baum’s fantasy world shows no sign of waning, with at least three Oz adaptations being staged in
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Mel Brooks’ musical version of his 1967 film debut was such a success because it got so many things right. Its standout
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