Arts
Review: Romeo & Juliet, Heaton Park
Caroline Clegg has done it before. Although she enjoys a career in opera and music, she returns to Manchester’s Heaton Park every year and mounts a summer show.
“A factory worker with a cultural dream.” Director Sean McAllister talks about his new documentary
Brian W. Lavery talks to director Sean McAllister, the man behind a documentary revealing the flip side of his home town’s UK City of Culture year. A Northern Soul follows a factory worker’s struggle to pursue what seems like an impossible cultural dream.
Set on fire and fighting with Wonder Woman, it’s all in a day’s work for stunt coordinator Justin Pearson
There is footage of Justin Pearson jumping out of a window, covered in flames from head to foot and having a table kicked at him by Wonder Woman.
“Northern voices are always my go-to place.” Age Before Beauty and Poldark writer Debbie Horsfield talks to Northern Soul
You’d have to be allergic to magazine racks to miss the new series by Debbie Horsfield on BBC1.
Review: CBBC Summer Social, Croxteth Country Park, Liverpool
In the build-up to CBBC’s inaugural three-day Summer Social at Croxteth Country Park, much of the chatter on the local parental grapevine was about one subject: cost.
Theatre Review: Joking Apart, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
It seems a strange thing to do, on a boiling hot summer’s evening, to come in out of the bright day and ensconce oneself in a dark theatre, along with hundreds of other people, to watch a play set outside in a garden.
Theatre Review: Astley’s Astounding Adventures, New Vic Theatre, Stoke-on-Trent
“Bye ‘eck,” said the man sitting next to me. “Ah’ve seen some stuff ‘ere, but that were fantastic!”
What’s on in August: Comedy in Manchester
Though it may seem like it in Edinburgh, not all the nation’s comedy scene has travelled north of the border. It may be small but the line up this month in Manchester is exquisitely formed.
Theatre Review: Those Two Weeks, Gladstone Theatre, Port Sunlight
For people in tragedy’s shadow, ‘normal’ life can seem like an irrecoverable paradise.
Photo Gallery: I Also Paint, Gateway Gallery, Hale
Helen Clapcott can’t identify with the word ‘artist’. Mary Mabbutt has said more than once (in jest) that “Rembrandt didn’t have to put up with this”. Sarah Carvell sees the arrival of the occasional cup of tea to her studio as a significant achievement. Sue Howells describes herself as a housewife who picks up a brush every day.
The Northern Soul Awards 2018
Hurrah and huzzah! Entries for the 2018 Northern Soul Awards, to be held at Manchester Cathedral on November 15th, are now open. And it won’t cost you a penny. Click HERE to enter – or purchase tickets to this brilliant event.
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The Northern Soul Poll
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