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Theatre Review: Fatal Attraction, Opera House, Manchester
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 musical (although I can see the attractions of some sort of ‘bunny boiler’ singalong).
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Amélie The Musical, Opera House, Manchester
I’ve pondered before in these pages on the apparently insatiable appetite of musical theatre producers for hit films that can be transformed into stage hits.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Cinderella, Opera House, Manchester
These are tumultuous times for the Opera House pantomime.
Read the full story..Review: Manon, Manchester Opera House
Billed as a ‘lusty tale of doomed love’ we gather in the heavily gilded, Edwardian splendour of Manchester’s Opera House for English National Ballet’s revival of Kenneth MacMillan’s Manon.
Read the full story..Review: An Officer and a Gentleman: The Musical, Manchester Opera House
It may be more than 35-years-old but the sight of a young Richard Gere in an all-white naval officer’s uniform remains an iconic image and one, if we’re being honest, that still gets hearts-a-racing.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Bat out of Hell, Manchester Opera House
Part of the strange charm of the original Bat Out Of Hell recording has always been that it was unashamedly grandiose and knowingly absurd, and that, lyrically and presentation-wise, it was also pretty funny.
Read the full story..Review: Jackie The Musical, Opera House, Manchester
Jackie The Musical re-opens old wounds and places a plaster on your broken heart.
Read the full story..Review: Goodnight Mister Tom, Opera House, Manchester
As I wait in bar at the Opera House in Manchester, clutching my tiny bottle of wine and enjoying the novelty of attending the theatre alone, the thing that strikes me the most about the audience is its variety.
Read the full story..‘We are The Regiment of the Wounded’
The editor of Northern Soul talks to poet, novelist and scriptwriter Owen Sheers about his play, The Two Worlds of Charlie F.
Read the full story..Is this John Thomson? Oh yes it is!
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