Gather your family and immerse yourself in the captivating world of Edward Scissorhands

Impactful, but a little underdeveloped. The Good Enough Mums Club handles challenging subject with crude humour

A musical delight that will transport you to a magical land and will make you feel like a kid again

The Mongol Khan is a bodacious production with beautiful design and break-taking choreography but the slim story and lack of substance are baffling, bemusing and bewildering

The National Theatre’s stage musical adaptation of The Witches is fun for all the family, or even childless millennials and zoomers who grew up with the book and/or the film

Bonnie & Clyde takes over Manchester’s SU, with thrilling and enchanting choreography and an engaged audience, UMMTS’s adaption is worth seeing

If you have a chance to see Hamilton, do not throw away your shot

Challenging the norms of classical dance since its inception

Tim Crouch’s Truths a Dog Must to Kennel breaks every convention and proclaims that theatre is dead

I Should Be So Lucky is a musical with a gorgeous set and fun musical takes, however it’s lacking when it comes to the script itself

The Mongol Khan is the first Mongolian play ever presented to a European audience

This rendition of Beautiful Thing is a successful revival – Jonathan Harvey’s story is wonderfully tender, certainly withstanding the test of time

2:22 is a chilling exploration of the existence of ghosts – but it is not everybody’s cup of poison

Ed Edwards’ poignant play follows Thatcher’s Great Britain, with a father and son struggling to get by as they go into business together. The glory days are over for Industrial England, and an uncertain future lies ahead

Nicholai La Barrie’s Romeo and Juliet, though unpolished, clearly claimed the heart of Manchester’s audience

To Wong Foo: The Musical is a drag-tastic sensation, where the performances are as fierce as the runway and the laughter reigns supreme

cheeky little brown gives an insightful view into the complexities of racialised relationships: from interacting with new hoity-toity white friends to adapting to the new changed version of an old familiar face.

Only with Akram Khan’s re-imagining of Giselle do we find the full emotional potential of the story laid bare before us.

This trailblazing, honest, beautiful piece of theatre discusses loaded themes: struggles with HIV stigma, racism, identity and shame surrounding queerness.

Ahead of its show dates at Salford’s The Lowry, The Mancunion sat down to speak to Tiajna Amayo, star of the new one-woman show, cheeky little brown.