Festive Review: Hansel & Gretel, Oldham Library
Every Christmas, a small theatrical miracle takes place in Oldham thanks to the local youth...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Dec 15, 2025 | Arts, Theatre
Every Christmas, a small theatrical miracle takes place in Oldham thanks to the local youth...
Read MorePosted by Chris Wallis | Nov 14, 2024 | Archives
If I said this was Sondheim for kids you’d probably run a mile. But stop! Be not afeared! This is a fine, almost sung-through version of the grisly memoir which entranced the audience of four-year-olds and up, not to mention...
Read MorePosted by Helen Nugent | Nov 9, 2024 | Archives
Northern Soul has teamed up with the Royal Northern College of Music to offer five readers the chance to win a pair of tickets to RNCM Opera’s latest production, Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel. Based on the magical and somewhat...
Read MorePosted by Chris Park | Jun 10, 2024 | Archives
What do you get if you take Craig Charles, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and Hansel and Gretel and shake them all up together? You get an invitation into the world of the Scary Fairy. On a cold winter’s night in mid-December we...
Read MorePosted by Jo Dearden | May 21, 2024 | Archives
Fairytales are everywhere at the moment – not that they’ve been away – but we’ve become rather obsessed of late. From Neil Gaiman’s retelling of Sleeping Beauty (The Sleeper And The Spindle) to Frank Cottrell Boyce’s recent Red...
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