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 MoreWritten 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 MoreWhen 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...
Read MoreLet’s not even get started on the unlikely ‘film to stage’ saga of The Producers. Suffice to say the following: there have been a substantial number of successful incarnations of the show/film originally written by...
Read MoreWritten in 1949, Death of a Salesman remains as relevant and fresh as ever. There are hardly any travelling salesmen now, but we can all identify with Willy Loman, a man who has swallowed whole the American Dream but has no idea...
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