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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).
Food Review: Supper Club, Butcher’s Quarter, Manchester
During the first lockdown, when the great and the good were allegedly being ambushed by cakes, I contented myself with a weekly bike ride to the Northern Quarter and Ancoats in Manchester.
Exhibition Review: Sit Down & Get Out!, The Portico Library, Manchester
On entering Manchester’s Portico Library, the strong presence of a figure catches the visitor’s gaze.
Opera Review: Ariadne auf Naxos by Richard Strauss / The Medium by Gian Carlo Menotti, Royal Northern College of Music
It was a lovely sunny Sunday afternoon as The Blonde and I walked down Oxford Road towards the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) to attend its reopening to the public.
Festive Theatre Review: The Pixie and the Pudding, Sheffield Crucible Studio
It’s such a pleasure to watch highly skilled performers at work, whether it’s Ian McDiarmid in his one-man show The Lemon Table or Ashleigh Cheadle and Sam Dutton in this adaptation of a Scandinavian folktale at the Sheffield Crucible Studio.
Review: Manchester Collective, Heavy Metal, The White Hotel, Salford
After what can only be described as a terrific year for Manchester Collective, the music organisation brings 2021 to a close with its Heavy Metal tour which, throughout December, has received rave reviews in London, Leeds and Bristol.
Review: Polish Wine Tasting, The Spärrows, Manchester
Everyone I mentioned this event to reacted with the same quizzical raised eyebrow. “Polish wines?” “Yes,” I said. “Polish wines”.
Exhibition Review: What Kind of City? by Suzanne Lacy, The Whitworth, Manchester
Major gallery exhibitions tend to have one artist’s name over the door. Right now, at The Whitworth in Manchester, that name is Suzanne Lacy.
Theatre Review: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, The Lowry, Salford
It was a beautiful moment. As Aslan the lion slowly padded onto the stage in the second half of The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe, the audience erupted into spontaneous applause.
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