Suranne Jones, Sarah Lancashire and Jane Danson – all successful Northern actors and all alumni of Oldham Theatre Workshop. Launched in 1968 by David Johnson, OTW has been running youth theatre classes and...
Read MoreOld age is not for sissies, as Bette Davis famously said, but it was a relatively rare commodity until recently. My grandparents’ generation thought they were lucky to make it into their seventies, but my parents lived longer....
Read MoreRoger McGough, who’ll be introducing his new collection It Never Rains at this month’s Oldham’s Bookmark Festival, a week-long celebration of all things literary in the borough, admits to being surprised on discovering...
Read MoreThe movie of Bob Fosse’s Broadway epic Chicago picked up numerous Oscars and the live version has toured endlessly with, to my mind, a series of soap actors blunting its cynical edge. Now it is being revived for the first time...
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End of the World by Ella Lovelady is very funny. Mel and Em are 20-something women who share a...
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