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While suffering severe writer’s block I set myself a challenge: to write one thing a day, using a quirky book of writing prompts. For exam...

Being a Scouser in Manchester I have on occasion come into contact with the Liverpool v Manchester ideology. It is a rivalry that has been...

George Bernard Shaw said “no man will ever write a better tragedy than Lear,” These words reside in my thoughts upon leaving The Lowry, af...

“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” This humble quote from Socrates has...

The King's Arms is synonymous with theatre in Manchester (even though it is in Salford), and I have seen a number of small but brilliant...

Before we even had a chance to really contemplate the success of their Manchester Rep Season (a programme of four plays in four short weeks)...

Brink , the latest production by the Royal Exchange's Young Company, marks Associate Director Matthew Xia's directorial debut for th...

The gangs of Manchester have often been represented via artistic media, as exemplified recently by the Brothers’ Day film launched at Most...

I’m back again making myself at HOME for another segment of the ever impressive Re:play, and I am truly starting to appreciate why the fes...

A View From The Bridge , by Arthur Miller, is all about the destructive power of that oldest and ugliest of emotions: jealousy. Centred ar...

Re:play has returned to serve up seconds of 2014s most delicious pieces of fringe theatre and, with the four course banquet of JB Shorts ...

Mark Haddon's novel The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time received a lot of attention when it was published. This was par...

What do you think of when you think of Christmas - festive food? Merry music? Marley, Scrooge and Tiny Tim? Well if you do you'll be ...

What's that on the stage: is it a film? Is it a play? No, it's A Farewell To Arms , the latest production from mixed-media masters I...

Theatre is at its absolute best when it’s stripped back to the bare essentials, no fluff or extravagant sets, just expression and communic...

When a play by an established writer is performed in the fringe there is one key question that must be answered: does fringe bring anythin...

There is a rather pleasing disconnection in seeing Cat On A Hot Tin Roof , set in the sweltering deep south and with the word 'hot...

1956 theatre company have taken us on quite the journey over the past 4 weeks with their superb rep season. Starting in war time Britain, ...

The Picture of Doreen Grey is a wilfully jumbled tale of a media personality who has, by the harsh standards of celebrity, passed her se...