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21st November 2014

Review: A Number

Churchill’s sobering play deals with delicate themes and achieves a rare harmony of almost all the theatrical aspects required for a production, writes Sam Ebner-Landy
21st November 2014

Review: Purgatory

Rob Paterson’s play The Purgatory delighted the audience with dark themes while questioning morality, reality and mortality, writes Allie Liu
11th November 2014

Review: Barnum

The circus musical is a theatrical experience different from many mainstream musicals, writes Matthew Gormley
6th November 2014

Review: Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense

Nicole Tamer reviews a hilarious evening of nostalgia at the Wooster and Jeeves performance at the Lowry
4th November 2014

Review: Madama Butterfly

All the beauty of Japan was made real on stage in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly at the Manchester Opera House, says Annabel Cartwright
4th November 2014

Interview: Jana Jana and Heidi

Jana, the junior half of quirky mother and daughter show Jana and Heidi answers questions about university life, starting a career in comedy and her performance at the Lowry
27th October 2014

Review: The Lodger

Tom Bruce was highly entertained by the screen-to-stage adaptation of Hitchcock’s The Lodger
24th October 2014

Review: Secret Theatre: A Series of Increasingly Impossible Acts

Benjamin Monk found Secret Theatre’s Edinburgh hit to be dizzying, life-affirming elation
24th October 2014

Review: The Events

In the final week of a globetrotting tour, The Events remains David Greig’s and Ramin Gray’s shattering masterpiece, writes Benjamin Monk
18th October 2014

Review: Best of BE Festival

Benjamin Monk feasts on the best of Birmingham’s European theatre festival at HOME

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17th October 2014

Review: Juke Box Baby

Get in the mood for Rock’n’Roll at Salford Arts Theatre and forget those dreary Autumn nights.
16th October 2014

Review: Amsterdam

Chanje Kunda excels in her one-woman show at the Contact Theatre
16th October 2014

Review: Lee Evans

Andy van den Bent-Kelly heads to the Phones 4u Arena to see if one of the country’s best-known comedians can still deliver with his new Monsters Tour
13th October 2014

Review: Early One Morning – The Octagon Theatre, Bolton

Luke Sharma attends a heart-rending production of Early One Morning at the Octagon Theatre, Bolton
7th October 2014

Review: Eric and Little Ern

Eric and Little Ern failed to bring sunshine to Benjamin Monk.
2nd October 2014

Chanje Kunda – the Renaissance Woman

Nicole Tamer interviews the talented poet, dancer and performer, Chanje Kunda.
25th September 2014

Are you afraid of the dark? Not I, Footfalls and Rockaby – a night at the theatre of Samuel Beckett

Caution: this is not for the faint-hearted. It’s not gruesome or terrifying, but Samuel Beckett’s trilogy of short plays on offer at The Lowry plunge you into the heart of Absurdism.
24th September 2014

Review: Romeo and Juliet

A story of more woe – Richard Smith reviews the first HOME production and old classic Romeo and Juliet.
13th September 2014

They might not be young, they might not be pretty!

But they offer the full package at Manchester Opera House, Nicole Tamer takes a glimpse at The Full Monty.
15th August 2014

Review: Edinburgh Fringe Festival – 2 Minute Reviews

Stephanie Scott reviews three comedy shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival