Author: Alastair Michael
Oldham Coliseum’s Artistic Director Kevin Shaw talks to Northern Soul
“Leading a thriving arts organisation is always busy.”
Read the full story..Review: JB Shorts 13
Now in its 13th season, JB Shorts is firmly established as a cornerstone of Manchester’s independent theatre scene.
Read the full story..Theatre review: Where Do Little Birds Go?
In the 1960s, Lisa Prescott was kidnapped and held for more than four days in an East Ham flat by gangsters Ronnie and Reggie Kray. She was kept there as a sex slave for an escaped murderer, Frank ‘The Mad Axeman’ Mitchell.
Read the full story..Review: Light by Theatre Ad Infinitum, Salford
With the rapid rise of the surveillance state, our privacy is increasingly violated and our personal information exposed to a wider world. Or so the political jumping-off point for Theatre Ad Infinitum’s latest touring production, Light, would have us believe.
Read the full story..David Thacker, Artistic Director of Bolton Octagon, talks to Northern Soul
David Thacker cut his theatrical canines in the capital.
Read the full story..The Botanist
Down near the bottom of Manchester’s Market Street, deep in the midst of the hustle and the bustle of our urban sprawl, there is a garden.
Read the full story..Be My Baby at Greater Manchester Fringe Festival
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the 60s was a time of sexual liberation.
Read the full story..Rebecca Ryan: from Shameless to A Taste of Honey
Actress Rebecca Ryan is a Northern girl. She is Manchester born and bred.
Read the full story..Editor's Picks
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