Theatre Archive
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: 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