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Jay Darcy

Jay Darcy

Theatre Editor. Instagram & Twitter: @jaydarcy7. Email: [email protected].

The heat is on at Sheffield Crucible

The heat is on at Sheffield Crucible

Miss Saigon, perhaps the most racially problematic musical, has been revived, reimagined and reclaimed by a mostly Asian creative team at Sheffield Theatres
Review: R.O.S.E – Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar and Young with Ben UFO

Review: R.O.S.E – Sharon Eyal, Gai Behar and Young with Ben UFO

A collaboration between Israeli creatives and British musicians, R.O.S.E is a unique immersive experience that celebrates club culture
Review: Benji Reid’s – Find Your Eyes

Review: Benji Reid’s – Find Your Eyes

Benji Reid combines photography and choreography in a thrilling, chilling and unique piece of artistic theatre at Manchester’s International Festival 2023
Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet

Review: Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet

Matthew Bourne’s Romeo + Juliet is a radical, refreshing and roaring retelling of the most iconic love story of all time. Bourne ditches his usual splendour and creates a production that is minimal and clinical – but just as phenomenal.
Review: In Dreams

Review: In Dreams

In Dreams is an emotional, edifying musical that seamlessly weaves in Roy Orbison’s evocative music. Lena Hall makes the songs her own in a tour-de-force performance.
Bring your golden ticket to Palace Theatre Manchester and escape to a world of pure imagination

Bring your golden ticket to Palace Theatre Manchester and escape to a world of pure imagination

A decade after premiering on the West End, Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory visits Palace Theatre Manchester as part of its first ever UK tour.
Drive all night to Leeds Playhouse

Drive all night to Leeds Playhouse

In Dreams, a jukebox musical based on the music of Roy Orbison, is having its world premiere at Leeds Playhouse, ahead of a Canadian transfer.
The Chicks Live: Walking so others can run

The Chicks Live: Walking so others can run

Twenty years after facing perhaps the biggest blacklisting in music history, The (Dixie) Chicks have returned to the UK – and they are bigger, better, and badder than ever before.
Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard Live: A double bill of thrills

Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard Live: A double bill of thrills

Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard headlined the fifth and final day of Lytham Festival – and they went out with a bang!
Review: untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play

Review: untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play

untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play is a hilarious, hard-hitting middle-finger to a century of damaging East Asian narratives and stereotypes.
Titanic docks at Salford Quays for a trip to The Lowry

Titanic docks at Salford Quays for a trip to The Lowry

Titanic: The Musical visits The Lowry as part of its UK tour – which could not be more timely following recent events in the US.
Review: The F****ts and Their Friends Between Revolutions

Review: The F****ts and Their Friends Between Revolutions

The F****ts and Their Friends Between Revolutions is a riotous, fabulous and outrageous display of queer struggle, perseverance and celebration.
Cruise your way HOME

Cruise your way HOME

Cruise, an emotive and celebratory play based in the queer scene of the 1980s, is arriving in Manchester this summer – just in time for Pride!
Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom

Review: Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom

Baz Luhrmann’s Strictly Ballroom, starring Kevin Clifton and Faye Brookes, is by no means exceptional – but it is strictly good fun!
Kelis Live: An eclectic night of nostalgia

Kelis Live: An eclectic night of nostalgia

Kelis put on an electrifying, nostalgic show at Albert Hall – over three years after the pandemic forced her to cancel her show there
Andrew McMahon leaves the wild for Gorilla

Andrew McMahon leaves the wild for Gorilla

Andrew McMahon is performing at Gorilla as part of a hotly anticipated world tour
The heat is on at the Royal Exchange Theatre

The heat is on at the Royal Exchange Theatre

untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play, which was the Inaugural Winner of the International Award for the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, is having its world premiere at the Royal Exchange Theatre as part of Manchester International Festival
Musicals of Manchester: July

Musicals of Manchester: July

Find out what musicals are coming to Manchester this July!
Love is in the air at The Lowry

Love is in the air at The Lowry

Strictly Ballroom – a jukebox musical based on the Baz Luhrmann film of the same name and starring Kevin Clifton and Faye Brookes – is finally coming to The Lowry, after two covid-forced postponements
The Making of Frederick the Great: In conversation with Charlotte Kindred

The Making of Frederick the Great: In conversation with Charlotte Kindred

The Mancunion sits down with Charlotte Kindred, ahead of the world premiere of her debut play at The Cockpit as part of Camden Fringe