Set in the 1930s, A Brief Encounter quickly enraptures the audience in the painful ill-fated love affair of Alec and Laura. An outstanding musical with phenomenal performances, live band accompaniment, and immersive, masterful set design

Life of Pi is the most eye-opening theatrical experience suitable for all ages, with a masterful use of lighting a puppetry

A new month and a new production for the University of Manchester’s Musical Theatre Society. This time, we’re swept away to Feel Good Club breathtaking and rich performances by the group’s young talented singers.

Stellar performances, dreamy jazz and great dance sequences, it’s a story that will definitely warm your heart and keep you from the winter cold!

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