Festive Review: Spend Spend Spend, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Spend Spend Spend is an entertaining production of a musical about a woman who was arguably the...
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Theatre Review: Hobson’s Choice, Royal Exchange, Manchester
What an absolute delight. And how interesting that this story of three daughters who defy their domineering father could transfer its Victorian social mores from a Salford cobblers’ shop in 1880 to an Ugandan Asian...
Read MoreTheatre Review: West Side Story, Royal Exchange, Manchester
West Side Story, conceived and nursed through a troubled birth in the 1950s by the powerhouse team of Jerome Robbins, Arthur Laurents and Leonard Bernstein with a bit of help from a youthful Stephen Sondheim, changed the face of...
Read MoreTheatre Review: Barber Shop Chronicles, Royal Exchange, Manchester
Written by poet, playwright and performer Inua Ellams, Barber Shop Chronicles comes to Manchester’s Royal Exchange where it’s co-presented by Contact and credits Fuel, the National Theatre and Leeds Playhouse as...
Read MoreTheatre Review – Your Sexts Are Shit: Older Better Letters, Royal Exchange, Manchester
When I heard about writer and performer Rachel Mars’ one woman show, Your Sexts Are Shit: Older and Better Letters, I was expecting an hour of laughs and covering my mouth in mock horror. I wasn’t expecting to feel moved. The...
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