Author: Andy Murray
Films: Northern Soul’s Comfort Viewing (Part Two)
With us all cooped up inside for the foreseeable future, there’s not a great deal to do except sit tight and watch stuff. But it might as well be good stuff.
Films: Northern Soul’s Comfort Viewing (Part One)
With us all cooped up inside for the foreseeable future, there’s not a great deal to do except sit tight and watch stuff. But it might as well be good stuff.
Theatre Review: Back to The Future – the Musical, Manchester Opera House
Somewhere far along the event horizon, every last hit 80s movie will have been adapted into a stage show – presumably the day they announce Police Academy: The Musical.
Theatre Review: Ghost Stories, The Lowry, Salford
The most important thing to say about Ghost Stories, currently at The Lowry, is that it’s a unique, memorable stage experience delivered with real intelligence, showmanship and skill.
Frissons of fear and jangling nerves: writer Jeremy Dyson talks about the return of Ghost Stories
Ten years ago, when the scarifying stage play Ghost Stories was set to make its debut at the Liverpool Playhouse, the show’s co-writers, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, announced to journalists that they couldn’t really tell them anything about it.
“Being a parent is the biggest thing that’s ever happened to me.” Comedian Josie Long talks to Northern Soul
The last time comedian and broadcaster Josie Long took a stand-up show out on tour, namely Something Better back in 2017, it looked at ways to actively improve our world during troubled times.
Use Hearing Protection: celebrating the early years of Factory Records
Jan Hicks has a particular, distinctive memory of growing up in the early 80s.
Film Review: The Personal History of David Copperfield
In recent years, having already established himself as godfather to a whole generation of British radio and TV comedy, Armando Iannucci has been branching out, creating Veep for American television and co-writing and directing the feature film The Death of Stalin.
British Screenwriters: the life and work of Robert Bolt
It wasn’t an ideal moment for Robert Bolt to be arrested.
Happiness and Tears: comedy historian Louis Barfe talks about his new biography of Ken Dodd
What springs to mind when you think of Ken Dodd?
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