Articles relating to: Oldham Coliseum
Theatre Review: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Oldham Coliseum
The iPhone has a lot to answer for.
Theatre Review: Jack and the Beanstalk, Oldham Coliseum
Director Chris Lawson’s first panto at Oldham Coliseum is a belter. And it has the best pantomime cow I have ever seen, in any pantomime, anywhere.
“It’s about community and the people around you.” Playwright Chris Hoyle talks to Northern Soul
“Once I was sacked from Corrie, I had enough to probably buy a small terraced house,” says Chris Hoyle. “But instead I spent obscene amounts of money on designer clothes.”
Theatre Review: The Hired Man, Oldham Coliseum
Any work with the title The Hired Man has got to be a socialist polemic based on the Marxist contradiction between Capital and Labour, doesn’t it? Well, not exactly.
“People in Oldham should not have to go to Manchester to experience theatre.” Chris Lawson, acting artistic director of Oldham Coliseum
“Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them,” wrote the Bard, and so it is with Chris Lawson who, with the sudden departure of Kevin Shaw, has been catapulted into the role of acting artistic director at Oldham Coliseum.
Theatre Review: Handbagged, Oldham Coliseum
Well, that was odd. A comedy about Margaret Thatcher and the Queen and it’s very funny. Who’d have thought it?
Theatre Review: A Different Way Home, Oldham Coliseum
Kenneth Alan Taylor is a phenomenon. In fact, he’s a phenomenal phenomenon.
Theatre Review: Cinderella, Oldham Coliseum
The Oldham panto is a great tradition, stretching back to the days of Kenneth Alan Taylor and beyond.
Theatre Review: Dishoom! at Oldham Coliseum
Dishoom! is the sound of a punch or a bullet from 70s Bollywood films, much like ‘Kapow!’ from American comic books.
Theatre Review: Bread & Roses, Oldham Coliseum
“That’s the second time it’s made me cry,” said the man standing next to me at the urinal.
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