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Theatre Review: Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World, Liverpool Playhouse
This could quite easily have been terrible.
Read the full story..Theatre Review: Beauty and the Beast, New Vic, Stoke-on-Trent
Eat your heart out Walt, director Theresa Heskins has made it real. Clever, funny, hilarious even, but never sentimental, the New Vic’s take on Beauty and the Beast is a joy from start to finish.
Read the full story..Music Review: Paul Weller, Liverpool Eventim Olympia
Let’s get one thing straight from the start. There’s no point in pretending that this is going to be a reasoned, impartial and unbiased review, because it’s not.
Read the full story..Review: The Lemon Table, HOME, Manchester
Ian McDiarmid is magnificent in the two pieces which make up The Lemon Table, taken from Julian Barnes’s 2004 collection of short stories of the same name.
Read the full story..Music Review: Stephen Fretwell, Gorilla, Manchester
Ducking beneath the rumbling railway arches and skulking down to the side door of Manchester’s Gorilla always brings with it a sneaking feeling of mystery.
Read the full story..Review: Manchester Folk Festival 2021
Somehow, 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.
Read the full story..Review: Inviolable – Joy as a form of resistance by Linnet Panashe Rubaya, Saul Hay Gallery, Manchester
It’s rare for me to visit a gallery and immediately think ‘oh, these are good’. More often, it’s ‘hmm’ or even ‘what?’.
Read the full story..Review: Leeds Lieder Festival 2021, Leeds Town Hall
It was the culmination of four days of exquisite musical offerings from this year’s Leeds Lieder Festival, with festival director Joseph Middleton joined on stage by soprano Carolyn Sampson and baritone Roderick Williams.
Read the full story..Food Review: Habas Restaurant and Bar, Manchester
Times are hard for restaurants.
Read the full story..Hotel Review: Qbic Hotel and Motley’s Restaurant, Deansgate, Manchester
It’s the first week of relaxed lockdown restrictions, according to Boris Johnson’s roadmap to freedom, and, despite the odd speed bump in Bolton and Blackburn, we’re allowed to eat indoors (with certain restrictions) and even stay in a hotel.
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