Articles relating to: theatre
“We believe that access to culture is a fundamental part of a happy life.” The Good Book, Slung Low
After relocating to the oldest working men’s club in Britain (The Holbeck in Leeds), the adventurous team at Slung Low established the Leeds People’s Theatre Company.
Theatre Review: The Talented Mr Ripley, Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough
There’s a challenge to taking a story as well-known as Patricia Highsmith’s The Talented Mr Ripley and making something fresh and new without losing the spark of the original.
Win a pair of tickets to One Good Night at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre
Win a pair of tickets to One Good Night at Manchester’s Hope Mill Theatre.
Frissons of fear and jangling nerves: writer Jeremy Dyson talks about the return of Ghost Stories
Ten years ago, when the scarifying stage play Ghost Stories was set to make its debut at the Liverpool Playhouse, the show’s co-writers, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman, announced to journalists that they couldn’t really tell them anything about it.
Theatre Review: Holocaust Brunch, Manchester Central Library
When I was boy in the 1960s (when people had to read real books), the racks of paperbacks outside newsagents often held two best-selling titles by Lord Russell of Liverpool – The Scourge of the Swastika: A Short History of Nazi War Crimes and The Knights of the Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes.
Theatre Review: Wuthering Heights, Royal Exchange, Manchester
There are more adaptations of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights than you can shake a stick at.
Theatre Review: Night Of The Living Dead – Remix, Courtyard Theatre, Leeds Playhouse
In 1968, an independent horror movie called Night Of The Living Dead not only irrevocably changed the horror movie genre, but has since proved massively influential.
Theatre Review: Dr Korczak’s Example, Leeds Playhouse
Since the recent multi-million pound transformation of Leeds Playhouse, there are a myriad of outstanding features and facilities ready to greet theatregoers at the iconic Quarry Hill site.
“We still have a long way to go.” Actress, presenter and mental health advocate Denise Welsh talks to Northern Soul
She is an accomplished stage and TV actress, a ‘loose’ woman, a mental health advocate and, most recently, a patron of Manchester’s award-winning Hope Mill Theatre.
Festive Theatre Review: Miracle on 34th Street, Playhouse, Liverpool
Miracle on 34th Street was always going to be a commercial banker for the Liverpool Playhouse.
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