First, the good news. Even though it’s yet another stage show based on an 80s hit film, Adrian Lyne’s glossy and controversial 1987 tale of an extra-marital affair gone horribly wrong hasn’t been inexplicably transformed into a...
Read MoreFew people have had as great an impact on Manchester’s cultural landscape, primarily through his stewardship of the Library Theatre for 27 crucial years, as Chris Honer, who died on November 3 at Wythenshawe Hospital from...
Read MoreManchester is set to become the centre of the international folk world at the end of October. Back in full swing after last year’s enforced hiatus, the 2021 Manchester Folk Festival, which runs from October 21 to 23 across five...
Read MoreSeeing half-remembered films from the 1980s turned into feel-good theatrical musicals has been a puzzling phenomenon of theatregoing in the past few years. But the transformation of 1989’s Heathers, a commercial flop of a film...
Read MoreSomehow, there are people still around who believe that ‘all folk music sounds the same’ or that it’s solely made by, and for, blokes with beards. Manchester Folk Festival is just the sort of event that these naysayers need to...
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